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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 36 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Linux 8 13 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 6.35% 4.36% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 68.42% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £67,750 £52,013 -
25th Percentile £75,625 £54,281 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £58,625 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.46% - -
75th Percentile - £63,031 -
90th Percentile - £65,338 -
South London median annual salary £80,000 £66,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.75% -17.19% +23.08%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 19 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 12.70% 6.38% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 16
10th Percentile £52,550 £44,125 £29,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £52,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +85.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £60,313 -
South London median annual salary £42,250 £50,125 £41,000
% change year-on-year -15.71% +22.26% -8.89%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Kingston Upon Thames

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Kingston Upon Thames over the 6 months to 22 August 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
New Malden +10 2 £65,000 +10.87%
Surbiton +2 1 - -
Chessington - 1 - - 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 1 (12.50%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
1 4 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Unix
2 3 (37.50%) CentOS
2 3 (37.50%) Solaris
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Budget Control
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) GitOps
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (50.00%) Product Management
1 4 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Go
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (37.50%) RHCE
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Argo
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Siemens