Linux Jobs in South London

Linux
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 56 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 36 34 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 5.00% 3.82% 5.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.86% 43.04% 33.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 21
10th Percentile £43,500 £50,000 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +36.90% -28.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,313 £60,000
90th Percentile - £86,000 £80,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

All Operating Systems
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 86 79 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 11.94% 8.88% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 33 57 87
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,375 £29,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -10.47% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £72,750 £67,500
London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South London

Linux
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Linux in South London

Linux
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in South London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in South London

Linux
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Kingston Upon Thames +12 11 £75,000 +20.00% 4
Merton +1 10 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Croydon +8 9 - - 8
Bromley -12 7 £46,250 -7.50% 8
Sutton - 3 - -
Wandsworth - 1 - -
Linux
London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 3 (8.33%) WinCC
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 29 (80.56%) AWS
2 20 (55.56%) Pulumi
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 4 (11.11%) AWS KMS
3 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Serverless
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (55.56%) Broadband
2 8 (22.22%) Firewall
3 5 (13.89%) SSL
4 3 (8.33%) VLAN
5 2 (5.56%) VPN
5 2 (5.56%) WAN
6 1 (2.78%) DHCP
6 1 (2.78%) DNS
6 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.78%) HTTP
6 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.78%) Modbus
6 1 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (2.78%) SAN
6 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) NoSQL
1 20 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 20 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (55.56%) Jaeger
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Maven
4 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (61.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Lead
2 20 (55.56%) Team Leader
3 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Control Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.78%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
1 20 (55.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) Node.js
2 2 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.78%) LDAP
3 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) SCADA
2 2 (5.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (63.89%) Unix
2 5 (13.89%) Ubuntu
3 4 (11.11%) CentOS
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.11%) Windows
4 3 (8.33%) Solaris
5 2 (5.56%) Android
6 1 (2.78%) Debian
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Agile
2 25 (69.44%) DevOps
3 22 (61.11%) Containerisation
4 21 (58.33%) High Availability
5 20 (55.56%) Budget Control
5 20 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (55.56%) Cost Optimisation
5 20 (55.56%) GitOps
5 20 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (55.56%) Mentoring
5 20 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
5 20 (55.56%) Product Management
5 20 (55.56%) Resource Management
5 20 (55.56%) Roadmaps
5 20 (55.56%) Task Automation
6 6 (16.67%) Patch Management
7 5 (13.89%) Capacity Management
7 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Key Management
9 3 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) Python
2 22 (61.11%) Go
2 22 (61.11%) Java
2 22 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 20 (55.56%) Bash
4 5 (13.89%) C++
4 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.33%) C#
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) VB
6 2 (5.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) RHCE
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (75.00%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (72.22%) Ansible
1 26 (72.22%) Terraform
2 22 (61.11%) Kubernetes
3 20 (55.56%) Argo
3 20 (55.56%) Kustomize
3 20 (55.56%) Prometheus
4 5 (13.89%) Nessus
5 4 (11.11%) Proxmox
6 3 (8.33%) Functional Safety
7 2 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (55.56%) Google
2 7 (19.44%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.11%) Juniper
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Siemens
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco
5 2 (5.56%) Dell
5 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.56%) Rapid7
5 2 (5.56%) Veeam
5 2 (5.56%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) Zerto
6 1 (2.78%) Sophos