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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 40 35
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 +51
Permanent jobs citing Linux 6 50 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.86% 5.31% 5.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.62% 41.67% 23.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3 35 26
10th Percentile £37,800 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,375 £37,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.58% +26.47%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £64,688
90th Percentile - £75,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,754 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.35% +6.20% -

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 130 120 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 18.73% 12.75% 23.78%
Number of salaries quoted 117 58 117
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,025 £21,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £28,625 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% -12.14%
75th Percentile £45,000 £59,063 £54,822
90th Percentile £47,750 £73,250 £59,250
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -

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 7 November 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 7 November 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
Dartford - 2 £50,000 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
2 2 (33.33%) OVHcloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Presales
4 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Discovery
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Nagios
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
1 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 4 (66.67%) ZABBIX
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) VMware