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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 93 57
Rank change year-on-year +36 -36 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 14 17 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.74% 1.11% 3.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.43% 10.12% 22.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 37
10th Percentile - £26,250 -
25th Percentile £30,250 £29,063 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,800 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% +23.08% -14.47%
75th Percentile £51,875 £45,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 - £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 166 168 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 20.67% 10.94% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 154 157 123
10th Percentile £30,000 £23,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £34,988 £26,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £36,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +12.31% -19.75%
75th Percentile £41,663 £45,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £45,000 £58,750 £54,750
South East median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.58% -8.95%

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 28 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 28 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 - 4
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 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Broadband
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
1 3 (21.43%) VLAN
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
1 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jaeger
2 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.14%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 6 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) IT Support
1 3 (21.43%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Team Leader
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Junior
3 1 (7.14%) Junior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (21.43%) Node.js
1 3 (21.43%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (21.43%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) JSP
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Android
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Debian
3 2 (14.29%) SUSE
3 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 5 (35.71%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) OO
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Android Development
4 3 (21.43%) Budget Control
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Kanban
4 3 (21.43%) OOP
4 3 (21.43%) OWASP
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (21.43%) Product Management
4 3 (21.43%) Resource Management
4 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
4 3 (21.43%) Statistics
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Go
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Rust
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 3 (21.43%) C++
5 1 (7.14%) Ada
5 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
1 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Argo
2 3 (21.43%) FortiGate
2 3 (21.43%) Kustomize
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Aruba
2 3 (21.43%) Dell
2 3 (21.43%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) Zerto