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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 22 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -25
Permanent jobs citing Linux 53 117 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.25% 6.93% 6.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 42.24% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 32 105 60
10th Percentile £40,200 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £47,000 £36,750 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -14.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £93,000 £73,750 £56,625
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 106 277 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 14.50% 16.41% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 77 257 165
10th Percentile £27,550 £26,167 £22,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.00% -25.74%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,109 £45,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £56,250
South East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -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 20 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 20 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 31 £60,000 +20.00% 20
Abingdon +12 2 £55,000 +64.77% 7
Kidlington +9 2 - - 1
Chinnor - 2 - -
Bicester +9 1 - - 5
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 (1.89%) Apache
1 1 (1.89%) Confluence
1 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.77%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) GCP
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.89%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.89%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) npm
6 1 (1.89%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.75%) TCP/IP
2 9 (16.98%) VPN
3 7 (13.21%) Firewall
4 5 (9.43%) WAN
4 5 (9.43%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (7.55%) DNS
6 3 (5.66%) DHCP
6 3 (5.66%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.77%) IP Telephony
7 2 (3.77%) MQTT
7 2 (3.77%) VLAN
7 2 (3.77%) Wireless
8 1 (1.89%) Broadband
8 1 (1.89%) Internet
8 1 (1.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) MySQL
2 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Git
2 9 (16.98%) Cucumber
2 9 (16.98%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.89%) CMake
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Mocha
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (16.98%) Telecoms
4 8 (15.09%) Retail
5 5 (9.43%) Electronics
5 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.77%) Advertising
6 2 (3.77%) Automotive
6 2 (3.77%) Games
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Senior
2 9 (16.98%) Test Automation Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Test Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Administrator
4 7 (13.21%) Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Software Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (9.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (9.43%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.55%) Junior
7 4 (7.55%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.55%) Junior Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Help Desk Support
8 3 (5.66%) IT Support
9 2 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) CSS
1 10 (18.87%) HTML
2 9 (16.98%) Web Services
3 8 (15.09%) Laravel
4 7 (13.21%) LAMP
5 2 (3.77%) gRPC
5 2 (3.77%) REST
5 2 (3.77%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (3.77%) Vue
6 1 (1.89%) .NET
6 1 (1.89%) Jest
6 1 (1.89%) Node.js
6 1 (1.89%) Pandas
6 1 (1.89%) Playwright
6 1 (1.89%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.89%) React
6 1 (1.89%) Svelte
6 1 (1.89%) SvelteKit
6 1 (1.89%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (13.21%) Algorithms
2 7 (13.21%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (9.43%) IoT
3 5 (9.43%) Molecular Biology
3 5 (9.43%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (7.55%) Self-Driving Car
5 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.66%) Robotics
5 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.77%) Clustering
6 2 (3.77%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Online Games
6 2 (3.77%) Replication
6 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.89%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.08%) Windows
2 6 (11.32%) Mac OS
3 5 (9.43%) Debian
3 5 (9.43%) SUSE
3 5 (9.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.66%) Unix
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.77%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.89%) Android
6 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Software Engineering
2 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
2 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (18.87%) DevOps
3 10 (18.87%) Test Automation
4 9 (16.98%) Coaching
4 9 (16.98%) System Testing
4 9 (16.98%) Test Management
5 8 (15.09%) Design Patterns
5 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (15.09%) High Availability
5 8 (15.09%) OOP
5 8 (15.09%) Workflow
6 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
6 7 (13.21%) E-Commerce
6 7 (13.21%) MVC
7 5 (9.43%) Bioinformatics
7 5 (9.43%) Biology
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (9.43%) Informatics
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Python
2 20 (37.74%) Bash
2 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
4 8 (15.09%) PHP
5 7 (13.21%) SQL
6 3 (5.66%) C++
7 2 (3.77%) C
7 2 (3.77%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.77%) Ruby
7 2 (3.77%) Rust
7 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.89%) Go
8 1 (1.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) Degree
2 6 (11.32%) Master's Degree
2 6 (11.32%) PhD
3 3 (5.66%) MCP
3 3 (5.66%) MCSA
3 3 (5.66%) MCSE
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.98%) Docker
3 6 (11.32%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.43%) NFS
5 4 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.89%) Squid
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) PaperCut
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.77%) ZENworks
4 1 (1.89%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.75%) VMware
3 5 (9.43%) SAP
4 3 (5.66%) HP
4 3 (5.66%) Meraki
5 2 (3.77%) Aruba
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Apple
6 1 (1.89%) Sophos
6 1 (1.89%) Veeam