Linux Jobs in Oxfordshire

Linux
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 38 10
Rank change year-on-year +16 -28 +14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 122 113 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.24% 7.05% 15.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.36% 40.94% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 110 62 132
10th Percentile £31,101 - £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £22,000 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.14% -5.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £59,625 £71,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 288 276 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 17.10% 17.22% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 269 191 309
10th Percentile £26,043 £22,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -28.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £45,909 £85,000
90th Percentile £62,750 £65,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +14 57 £42,500 - 13
Bicester - 6 £40,000 -
Abingdon +9 5 £37,000 +68.18%
Thame - 3 £60,000 -
Banbury - 1 £50,000 -
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 12 (9.84%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.64%) nginx
4 1 (0.82%) Apache
4 1 (0.82%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.23%) Azure
2 24 (19.67%) AWS
3 19 (15.57%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.74%) GitHub
5 6 (4.92%) IaaS
6 2 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.64%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Akamai
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.30%) Firewall
2 14 (11.48%) DHCP
2 14 (11.48%) DNS
3 11 (9.02%) WAN
4 10 (8.20%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.38%) LAN
5 9 (7.38%) SAN
6 8 (6.56%) NAS
7 7 (5.74%) VPN
8 6 (4.92%) VLAN
8 6 (4.92%) VoIP
9 5 (4.10%) Wireless
10 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (2.46%) BGP
11 3 (2.46%) OSPF
11 3 (2.46%) SD-WAN
11 3 (2.46%) WLAN
12 2 (1.64%) Network Security
12 2 (1.64%) SSL
12 2 (1.64%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.84%) MySQL
2 9 (7.38%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.74%) MariaDB
4 6 (4.92%) InfluxDB
4 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.28%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.28%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.46%) DB2
7 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Git
2 5 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (0.82%) IntelliJ
General
1 22 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.02%) Aerospace
3 10 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Electronics
5 5 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.28%) Aeronautics
7 3 (2.46%) Law
8 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Finance
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (24.59%) Senior
2 22 (18.03%) Software Engineer
3 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (8.20%) IT Support
4 10 (8.20%) Linux Engineer
5 9 (7.38%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (7.38%) Lead
5 9 (7.38%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Analyst
6 8 (6.56%) IT Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Junior
6 8 (6.56%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) 3rd Line Support
8 6 (4.92%) DBA
8 6 (4.92%) Software Development Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Support Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Team Leader
8 6 (4.92%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.30%) WPF
2 14 (11.48%) OpenACC
2 14 (11.48%) OpenMP
3 5 (4.10%) .NET
4 4 (3.28%) HTML
4 4 (3.28%) Rendezvous
5 3 (2.46%) EDI
5 3 (2.46%) XML
6 2 (1.64%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.82%) CSS
7 1 (0.82%) STL
7 1 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Algorithms
2 14 (11.48%) CUDA
3 8 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.56%) PKI
4 6 (4.92%) Life Science
5 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.28%) EMC VNX
7 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.46%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.46%) IoT
7 3 (2.46%) Molecular Biology
8 2 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.64%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.82%) Clustering
9 1 (0.82%) FPGA
9 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 72 (59.02%) Windows
2 17 (13.93%) Unix
3 16 (13.11%) Windows Server
4 12 (9.84%) Windows 10
5 11 (9.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (7.38%) CentOS
7 9 (7.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.28%) AIX
9 3 (2.46%) Android
9 3 (2.46%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.46%) Rocky
10 2 (1.64%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.64%) SUSE
10 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.82%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.87%) Software Engineering
2 32 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (18.85%) Computer Science
4 20 (16.39%) Physics
5 18 (14.75%) Mathematics
6 15 (12.30%) Multithreaded Programming
6 15 (12.30%) Multithreading
6 15 (12.30%) MVC
6 15 (12.30%) MVVM
6 15 (12.30%) SOLID
7 14 (11.48%) Code Optimisation
7 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (11.48%) Parallel Programming
8 13 (10.66%) Open Source
9 11 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (8.20%) Mentoring
10 10 (8.20%) Prototyping
11 8 (6.56%) Agile
11 8 (6.56%) Containerisation
12 7 (5.74%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.89%) C
2 42 (34.43%) Python
3 27 (22.13%) C++
4 20 (16.39%) C#
5 15 (12.30%) XAML
6 14 (11.48%) Fortran
7 13 (10.66%) Bash
8 9 (7.38%) PowerShell
9 8 (6.56%) Java
10 6 (4.92%) Ruby
10 6 (4.92%) SQL
11 5 (4.10%) Perl
11 5 (4.10%) VB.NET
12 4 (3.28%) MATLAB
12 4 (3.28%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.64%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
13 2 (1.64%) PHP
14 1 (0.82%) Korn
14 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.69%) Degree
2 25 (20.49%) Master's Degree
3 24 (19.67%) PhD
4 12 (9.84%) Security Cleared
5 9 (7.38%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (5.74%) CCNA
6 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.92%) MCSE
7 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.28%) OCP
8 4 (3.28%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.64%) CCIE
10 2 (1.64%) CCNP
10 2 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.64%) HNC
11 1 (0.82%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) SLA
2 5 (4.10%) QA
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (18.85%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (11.48%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (4.10%) vSphere
6 4 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.46%) Docker
7 3 (2.46%) Firmware
8 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.82%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 12 (9.84%) Ansible
2 11 (9.02%) Terraform
3 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.10%) Puppet
4 5 (4.10%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 4 (3.28%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (3.28%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (3.28%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.46%) Nagios
6 3 (2.46%) SCCM
7 2 (1.64%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.82%) Icinga
8 1 (0.82%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.82%) Pingdom
8 1 (0.82%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 24 (19.67%) VMware
2 22 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.38%) Cisco
3 9 (7.38%) Veeam
4 7 (5.74%) Fortinet
4 7 (5.74%) Oracle
5 6 (4.92%) Juniper
6 5 (4.10%) Aruba
6 5 (4.10%) EMC
6 5 (4.10%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.28%) SAP
7 4 (3.28%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.46%) Meraki
9 2 (1.64%) Acronis
9 2 (1.64%) Dell
9 2 (1.64%) Sun
9 2 (1.64%) Synology
10 1 (0.82%) Commvault
10 1 (0.82%) HP
10 1 (0.82%) Sage