Linux Jobs in Kingston Upon Thames

Linux
South London > Kingston Upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 38 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 -21 +25
Permanent jobs citing Linux 11 14 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 7.01% 3.89% 10.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.83% 48.28% 51.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile - £51,650 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +19.05% -38.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,813 £53,750
90th Percentile - £68,375 £57,500
South London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% +26.19% -28.81%

All Operating Systems
Kingston Upon Thames

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 Kingston Upon Thames.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 23 29 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 14.65% 8.06% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 22
10th Percentile £31,950 £29,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £56,688 £34,930 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £38,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.83% -26.67% +101.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £56,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £60,313 £67,500
South London median annual salary £45,000 £39,750 £42,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% -1.18%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Kingston Upon Thames

Linux
Salary Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Kingston Upon Thames.

Salary trend for Linux in Kingston Upon Thames

Linux
Salary Histogram in Kingston Upon Thames

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Kingston Upon Thames over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Kingston Upon Thames

Linux
Job Locations in Kingston Upon Thames

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Kingston Upon Thames region over the 6 months to 16 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
New Malden +7 5 £65,000 +4.00%
Surbiton +9 1 - -
Chessington - 1 - -
Linux
South London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames 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 3 (27.27%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Broadband
2 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (9.09%) Modbus
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
1 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 4 (36.36%) Team Leader
3 3 (27.27%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Control Systems Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (36.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Unix
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (27.27%) CentOS
3 3 (27.27%) Solaris
4 1 (9.09%) Windows
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) High Availability
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Budget Control
2 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (36.36%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) GitOps
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (36.36%) Product Management
2 4 (36.36%) Resource Management
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) Go
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) C++
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Argo
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Kustomize
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Red Hat
2 4 (36.36%) Google
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) Siemens
4 1 (9.09%) VMware