Linux Job Trends in Somerset

Linux
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 34 10
Rank change year-on-year +11 -24 +29
Permanent jobs citing Linux 40 15 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 7.25% 3.37% 11.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.79% 16.85% 49.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 36
10th Percentile - £30,000 £32,875
25th Percentile - £33,750 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -7.69% -15.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 £55,064 £58,413
90th Percentile £89,000 £58,930 £75,625
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -1.82%

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 73 89 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 13.22% 20.00% 22.79%
Number of salaries quoted 23 54 73
10th Percentile £29,150 - £26,550
25th Percentile £31,250 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £10,258 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +241.20% -75.86% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £33,438 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £56,827 £65,000
South West median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -18.37% +8.89%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Linux job vacancy trend in Somerset

Linux
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Somerset over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 2026. 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
Bath +11 39 £75,000 +114.29% 9
Weston-super-Mare -4 12 - -
Clevedon - 12 - -
Wells -1 1 £90,000 -
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 36 (90.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 39 (97.50%) Azure
2 36 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (90.00%) DHCP
1 36 (90.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) Modbus
2 1 (2.50%) RS-485
2 1 (2.50%) VLAN
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (90.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 36 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
1 36 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Electronics
2 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (90.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (2.50%) Head of Technology
Miscellaneous
1 36 (90.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) CCTV
2 1 (2.50%) Derivative
2 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (92.50%) Windows
2 36 (90.00%) Windows Server
2 36 (90.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (10.00%) Debian
4 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.50%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (90.00%) Customer Experience
2 36 (90.00%) Customer Service
2 36 (90.00%) Email Filtering
2 36 (90.00%) Kalman Filter
2 36 (90.00%) Migration
2 36 (90.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 36 (90.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 36 (90.00%) Web Filtering
3 3 (7.50%) Business Development
3 3 (7.50%) DevOps
3 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (2.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (2.50%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (2.50%) QMS
4 1 (2.50%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 36 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (90.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 36 (90.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (90.00%) Active Directory
1 36 (90.00%) Hyper-V
1 36 (90.00%) Terminal Server
2 1 (2.50%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (92.50%) Microsoft
2 36 (90.00%) Brocade
2 36 (90.00%) Nimble Storage
2 36 (90.00%) SolarWinds
2 36 (90.00%) Splunk
2 36 (90.00%) Tanium
2 36 (90.00%) Veeam
2 36 (90.00%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) MikroTik