Linux Job Trends in Kent

Linux
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 49 89
Rank change year-on-year -36 +40 -32
Permanent jobs citing Linux 11 11 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.74% 1.67% 1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.19% 6.88% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile - - £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £30,250 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £60,125 £51,875 £45,000
90th Percentile £67,588 £57,500 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
Kent

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 108 160 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 7.30% 24.24% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 85 154 155
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £34,988 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% +2.20% +15.38%
75th Percentile £53,750 £41,663 £45,000
90th Percentile - £45,000 £58,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -1.73%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Linux job vacancy trend in Kent

Linux
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Kent over the 6 months to 24 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Kent

Linux
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Kent region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Malling -11 1 £85,000 +54.55%
Rochester - 1 £55,000 -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (9.09%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (9.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 3 (27.27%) Nutanix
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) OCI
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) SAN
2 4 (36.36%) NAS
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) NetScaler
3 2 (18.18%) VSAN
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) IT Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) IT Support
2 4 (36.36%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (9.09%) IT Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) IT Systems Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
1 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
2 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Project Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Problem Management
3 4 (36.36%) Asset Management
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (36.36%) User Experience
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 3 (27.27%) Service Management
4 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
5 2 (18.18%) Converged Infrastructure
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) IT Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
5 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) SDLC
6 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
1 2 (18.18%) VxRail
2 1 (9.09%) CASB
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
1 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Facebook
2 4 (36.36%) Instagram
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) NetApp
3 2 (18.18%) Veeam
4 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) Siemens
4 1 (9.09%) Zscaler