Linux Jobs in Oxford

Linux
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 17 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 27 54 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 13.11% 8.05% 4.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.14% 60.00% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19 46 17
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,897 £25,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £37,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £73,750 £82,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +17.65% -14.14%

All Operating Systems
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 90 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 16.99% 13.41% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 23 80 45
10th Percentile £36,000 £26,043 £25,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,563 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £69,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,140
% change year-on-year -5.88% +11.43% -23.72%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Oxford

Linux
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Linux in Oxford

Linux
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Oxford over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Oxford

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.70%) npm
4 1 (3.70%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
1 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
1 4 (14.81%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (7.41%) DHCP
3 2 (7.41%) IP Telephony
3 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.41%) VLAN
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 2 (7.41%) Wireless
4 1 (3.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) MySQL
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.41%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Mocha
General
1 5 (18.52%) Retail
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Electronics
2 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.41%) Games
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Advertising
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Administrator
3 5 (18.52%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (18.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (18.52%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Junior
4 4 (14.81%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (14.81%) Junior Systems Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.41%) DBA
6 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior DBA
6 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Applications Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Web Services
2 6 (22.22%) CSS
2 6 (22.22%) HTML
2 6 (22.22%) Laravel
3 5 (18.52%) LAMP
4 1 (3.70%) gRPC
4 1 (3.70%) Jest
4 1 (3.70%) Playwright
4 1 (3.70%) Puppeteer
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) Svelte
4 1 (3.70%) SvelteKit
4 1 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (18.52%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.81%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (11.11%) IoT
3 3 (11.11%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (7.41%) Clustering
4 2 (7.41%) Online Games
4 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 2 (7.41%) Robotics
4 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) SUSE
2 5 (18.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (11.11%) Debian
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) High Availability
2 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
3 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
3 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
3 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
3 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (18.52%) MVC
3 5 (18.52%) OOP
4 3 (11.11%) Bioinformatics
4 3 (11.11%) Biology
4 3 (11.11%) Commercialisation
4 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (11.11%) Customer Analysis
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 3 (11.11%) Disruptive Innovation
4 3 (11.11%) Informatics
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) Open Source
4 3 (11.11%) Workflow
4 3 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Bash
3 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 6 (22.22%) PHP
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) SQL
6 1 (3.70%) C
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Master's Degree
2 4 (14.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (22.22%) Docker
3 5 (18.52%) NFS
4 3 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
5 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) ZENworks
3 1 (3.70%) HAProxy
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) VMware
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (7.41%) Aruba
4 2 (7.41%) Meraki
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
5 1 (3.70%) Veeam