Linux Kernel Development Jobs in the South East

Linux Kernel Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Linux Kernel Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Kernel Development over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 382 404
Rank change year-on-year +97 +22 -
Permanent jobs citing Linux Kernel Development 1 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.012% 0.024% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.028% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £46,875 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,688 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -20.69% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £71,563 £77,500
90th Percentile - £85,625 -
England median annual salary £112,500 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +95.65% -23.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Linux Kernel Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,794 14,168 14,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.92% 84.76% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,165 9,954 8,196
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Linux Kernel Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Linux Kernel Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Kernel Development in the South East

Linux Kernel Development
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Kernel Development in the South East.

Salary trend for Linux Kernel Development in the South East

Linux Kernel Development
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Kernel Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Kent - 1 £52,500 -
Linux Kernel Development
England

Linux Kernel Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CAD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware