Linux Jobs in Oxfordshire

Linux
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -27
Permanent jobs citing Linux 50 119 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.19% 6.59% 6.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.50% 43.27% 45.21%
Number of salaries quoted 29 106 58
10th Percentile £39,750 £31,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £37,500 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% +18.82% -13.27%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £57,375
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 101 275 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 14.53% 15.24% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 74 254 159
10th Percentile £25,975 £26,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,520 £29,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £38,232
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +11.16% -23.54%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £45,409
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £57,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £44,700 £43,250
% change year-on-year -10.51% +3.35% -8.95%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Oxford +9 27 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Abingdon +15 2 £55,000 +84.81% 5
Kidlington +9 2 - - 3
Chinnor - 2 - -
Bicester +10 1 - - 2
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (2.00%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.00%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.00%) npm
5 1 (2.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) TCP/IP
2 10 (20.00%) VPN
3 9 (18.00%) Firewall
4 6 (12.00%) DNS
5 5 (10.00%) DHCP
5 5 (10.00%) WAN
5 5 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (6.00%) InfiniBand
6 3 (6.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.00%) IP Telephony
7 2 (4.00%) MQTT
7 2 (4.00%) SAN
7 2 (4.00%) VLAN
7 2 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) MySQL
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Cucumber
1 9 (18.00%) Git
1 9 (18.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.00%) CMake
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Mocha
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (18.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.00%) Retail
5 3 (6.00%) Electronics
5 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Advertising
6 2 (4.00%) Automotive
6 2 (4.00%) Games
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Senior
2 9 (18.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Test Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Administrator
4 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) Junior
6 4 (8.00%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) Junior Systems Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Help Desk Support
7 3 (6.00%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) IT Support
7 3 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) CSS
1 8 (16.00%) HTML
2 7 (14.00%) Web Services
3 6 (12.00%) Laravel
4 5 (10.00%) LAMP
5 2 (4.00%) gRPC
5 2 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (2.00%) .NET
6 1 (2.00%) Jest
6 1 (2.00%) Node.js
6 1 (2.00%) Pandas
6 1 (2.00%) Playwright
6 1 (2.00%) Puppeteer
6 1 (2.00%) React
6 1 (2.00%) REST
6 1 (2.00%) Svelte
6 1 (2.00%) SvelteKit
6 1 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.00%) IoT
2 5 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (8.00%) Self-Driving Car
4 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) Molecular Biology
4 3 (6.00%) Robotics
4 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.00%) Clustering
5 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Online Games
5 2 (4.00%) Replication
5 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Mac OS
3 5 (10.00%) SUSE
3 5 (10.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.00%) Unix
5 3 (6.00%) Debian
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.00%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (2.00%) Android
7 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 9 (18.00%) Coaching
4 9 (18.00%) DevOps
4 9 (18.00%) System Testing
4 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (18.00%) Test Management
5 8 (16.00%) High Availability
6 6 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (12.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (12.00%) OOP
6 6 (12.00%) Workflow
7 5 (10.00%) E-Commerce
7 5 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.00%) MVC
8 4 (8.00%) Information Security
8 4 (8.00%) Logistics
9 3 (6.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) Python
2 22 (44.00%) Bash
3 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (12.00%) PHP
5 6 (12.00%) SQL
6 3 (6.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) MATLAB
7 2 (4.00%) Perl
7 2 (4.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) Java
8 1 (2.00%) Rust
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) MCSE
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.00%) PhD
4 3 (6.00%) MCP
4 3 (6.00%) MCSA
5 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.00%) LPIC
5 2 (4.00%) RHCE
6 1 (2.00%) CCNA
6 1 (2.00%) CCNP
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.00%) NFS
3 7 (14.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
5 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.00%) GPFS
6 2 (4.00%) Lustre
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.00%) Squid
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.00%) PaperCut
3 2 (4.00%) SCCM
3 2 (4.00%) ZENworks
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (22.00%) VMware
2 5 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (6.00%) HP
3 3 (6.00%) Meraki
4 2 (4.00%) Apple
4 2 (4.00%) Aruba
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Sophos
5 1 (2.00%) Veeam