Linux Jobs in Somerset

Linux
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 19 43 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 5.16% 5.46% 7.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.34% 37.39% 55.26%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 38
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £32,813 £38,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,125 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% -21.63% +19.44%
75th Percentile £42,500 £58,413 £64,688
90th Percentile £46,416 £83,750 £75,750
South West median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 41 115 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 11.14% 14.59% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 36 98 70
10th Percentile £27,625 £24,250 £25,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -22.05% +8.33%
75th Percentile £42,532 £57,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £48,750 £62,375 £69,375
South West median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +4.40% -9.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Somerset over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 28 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
Frome - 15 £40,000 - 1
Shepton Mallet -3 1 £62,500 +19.05%
Yeovil -12 1 £40,101 -29.89% 1
Portishead - 1 £54,321 - 1
Street - 1 - - 2
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 11 (57.89%) IIS
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 15 (78.95%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) DHCP
1 16 (84.21%) DNS
1 16 (84.21%) Firewall
1 16 (84.21%) VLAN
2 15 (78.95%) VPN
3 10 (52.63%) ADSL
3 10 (52.63%) VoIP
4 1 (5.26%) Ethernet
4 1 (5.26%) IPsec
4 1 (5.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) CMake
1 1 (5.26%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.26%) Eclipse RCP
1 1 (5.26%) Subversion
1 1 (5.26%) WiX
General
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.26%) Electronics
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) Fire and Rescue
1 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (5.26%) Local Government
1 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
1 1 (5.26%) Marketing
1 1 (5.26%) Police
1 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.26%) Retail
1 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Analyst
1 15 (78.95%) IT Analyst
1 15 (78.95%) IT Support
1 15 (78.95%) IT Support Analyst
1 15 (78.95%) Support Analyst
2 10 (52.63%) 3rd Line Support
2 10 (52.63%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Junior
5 1 (5.26%) Junior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) JSP
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) Pandas
2 1 (5.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
1 1 (5.26%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Solaris
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) ITIL
2 15 (78.95%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (78.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
4 5 (26.32%) Project Planning
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.53%) Line Management
6 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
6 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.53%) OO
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.26%) ETL
7 1 (5.26%) OOD
7 1 (5.26%) Process Management
7 1 (5.26%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) C++
4 2 (10.53%) Rust
5 1 (5.26%) Ada
5 1 (5.26%) C
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) A+ Certification
1 10 (52.63%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (84.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) LXC
3 1 (5.26%) Samba
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) SAP