Linux Jobs in Kent

Linux
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 92 55
Rank change year-on-year +36 -37 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 17 14 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.06% 0.93% 4.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.06% 8.38% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 40
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,250 -
25th Percentile £32,081 £31,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +23.08% -15.03%
75th Percentile £52,813 £45,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £58,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

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 169 167 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 20.46% 11.05% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 156 158 124
10th Percentile £30,000 £23,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £34,988 £26,063 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £35,750 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +10.00% -19.25%
75th Percentile £41,663 £45,000 £49,063
90th Percentile £45,000 £58,750 £53,675
South East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Kent

Linux
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Kent.

Salary trend for Linux in Kent

Linux
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Kent over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025. 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
Rochester - 1 £40,101 - 3
West Malling - 1 £55,000 -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Broadband
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
1 3 (17.65%) VLAN
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jaeger
2 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.88%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 6 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) IT Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Team Leader
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (17.65%) Node.js
1 3 (17.65%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (17.65%) Pandas
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) JSP
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.88%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.88%) FPGA
2 1 (5.88%) Verilog
2 1 (5.88%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Android
2 3 (17.65%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Debian
3 2 (11.76%) SUSE
3 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (5.88%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
1 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
1 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) High Availability
2 5 (29.41%) Mathematics
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 4 (23.53%) OO
3 4 (23.53%) Statistics
4 3 (17.65%) Android Development
4 3 (17.65%) Budget Control
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (17.65%) Kanban
4 3 (17.65%) Line Management
4 3 (17.65%) OOP
4 3 (17.65%) OWASP
4 3 (17.65%) Product Management
4 3 (17.65%) Resource Management
4 3 (17.65%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Go
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) Rust
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) C
7 1 (5.88%) Ada
7 1 (5.88%) C#
7 1 (5.88%) Embedded C
7 1 (5.88%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Argo
2 3 (17.65%) FortiGate
2 3 (17.65%) Kustomize
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Aruba
2 3 (17.65%) Dell
2 3 (17.65%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.88%) Veeam
4 1 (5.88%) Zerto