Linux Jobs in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 20 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 537 732 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.32% 9.04% 11.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.83% 49.19% 53.01%
Number of salaries quoted 342 404 355
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £42,531 £42,500 £36,641
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,188 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
South West

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,036 1,488 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 21.85% 18.38% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 769 965 962
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,175 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +17.28% -4.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £76,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Linux in the South West

Linux
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
Gloucestershire +1 190 £55,000 -4.35% 55
Bristol +21 149 £60,000 +9.09% 63
Wiltshire +15 62 £45,000 -10.00% 29
Devon +6 61 £52,500 +31.25% 6
Dorset -3 32 £61,250 +16.67% 19
Somerset +33 30 £40,000 -23.81% 20
Cornwall - 8 £50,000 - 4
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 27 (5.03%) Apache
2 17 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.42%) Confluence
3 13 (2.42%) nginx
3 13 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.23%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.93%) IIS
5 5 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.56%) Captiva
6 3 (0.56%) FileNet
6 3 (0.56%) MS Exchange
6 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Mathcad
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 201 (37.43%) AWS
2 169 (31.47%) Azure
3 78 (14.53%) OpenShift
4 46 (8.57%) GCP
5 40 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (6.70%) SaaS
7 24 (4.47%) PaaS
8 21 (3.91%) IaaS
9 19 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (3.17%) Serverless
11 16 (2.98%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.23%) MinIO
13 11 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.05%) Nutanix
14 10 (1.86%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.68%) Rubrik
16 8 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 7 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
18 6 (1.12%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.22%) DNS
1 71 (13.22%) TCP/IP
2 67 (12.48%) DHCP
3 63 (11.73%) Firewall
4 40 (7.45%) HTTP
5 37 (6.89%) WAN
6 35 (6.52%) VPN
7 30 (5.59%) SAN
8 29 (5.40%) VLAN
9 25 (4.66%) IPv4
10 23 (4.28%) SD-WAN
11 20 (3.72%) OSPF
12 16 (2.98%) Internet
12 16 (2.98%) Network Security
12 16 (2.98%) Wireless
13 13 (2.42%) 5G
14 12 (2.23%) BGP
15 10 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (1.86%) Software-Defined Radio
15 10 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.64%) Big Data
2 23 (4.28%) MongoDB
3 20 (3.72%) MySQL
3 20 (3.72%) NoSQL
4 17 (3.17%) Hadoop
5 16 (2.98%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.23%) Presto
7 10 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.49%) Apache Accumulo
8 8 (1.49%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.93%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.56%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.56%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.37%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 58 (10.80%) Jenkins
2 46 (8.57%) Git
3 39 (7.26%) JIRA
4 17 (3.17%) Maven
5 15 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 11 (2.05%) GitLab
7 5 (0.93%) Subversion
7 5 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.74%) MSTest
8 4 (0.74%) NUnit
8 4 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.74%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.74%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.56%) CMake
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.37%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 90 (16.76%) Social Skills
2 78 (14.53%) Finance
3 41 (7.64%) Aerospace
4 28 (5.21%) Retail
5 23 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.28%) Banking
6 21 (3.91%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.17%) Military
8 12 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.68%) Aviation
10 9 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.49%) Automotive
12 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.12%) Electronics
13 6 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.93%) Marketing
15 4 (0.74%) Law
15 4 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 92 (17.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (16.20%) Senior
3 82 (15.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (11.36%) Software Engineer
5 48 (8.94%) Developer
6 46 (8.57%) Administrator
7 41 (7.64%) Linux Engineer
8 38 (7.08%) Architect
9 32 (5.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (5.21%) DBA
11 25 (4.66%) Analyst
11 25 (4.66%) Lead
12 21 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (3.35%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.35%) Systems Administrator
14 17 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (3.17%) Support Engineer
14 17 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (2.98%) Junior
16 15 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.28%) Apache NiFi
2 21 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (3.91%) Kafka
3 19 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (3.35%) .NET
5 17 (3.17%) XML
6 16 (2.98%) YAML
7 14 (2.61%) RESTful
8 12 (2.23%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (2.23%) React
9 11 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.05%) LAMP
9 11 (2.05%) Web Services
10 9 (1.68%) Flutter
10 9 (1.68%) Hibernate
10 9 (1.68%) HTML
10 9 (1.68%) Quarkus
10 9 (1.68%) Symfony
11 7 (1.30%) CSS
11 7 (1.30%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.24%) Public Cloud
2 25 (4.66%) Data Centre
2 25 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.98%) Private Cloud
5 15 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (2.05%) Mainframe
7 11 (2.05%) PKI
8 10 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
8 10 (1.86%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.68%) Clustering
10 8 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.49%) Fat Client
10 8 (1.49%) GNSS
10 8 (1.49%) Raspberry Pi
10 8 (1.49%) Thin Client
11 6 (1.12%) Tandem
11 6 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 283 (52.70%) Windows
2 74 (13.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 67 (12.48%) Unix
4 58 (10.80%) Windows Server
5 50 (9.31%) CentOS
6 44 (8.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 42 (7.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (7.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 27 (5.03%) Ubuntu
10 18 (3.35%) Android
11 14 (2.61%) Apple iOS
12 13 (2.42%) Debian
13 11 (2.05%) Solaris
14 9 (1.68%) Windows 10
15 8 (1.49%) Mac OS
16 7 (1.30%) Fedora
16 7 (1.30%) openSUSE
17 6 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.93%) CoreOS
19 3 (0.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (35.01%) DevOps
2 127 (23.65%) Actionable Insight
3 126 (23.46%) Agile
4 112 (20.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 110 (20.48%) CI/CD
6 109 (20.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 103 (19.18%) Software Engineering
8 78 (14.53%) Containerisation
9 71 (13.22%) Configuration Management
10 65 (12.10%) Mentoring
11 57 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
13 43 (8.01%) DevSecOps
14 38 (7.08%) Software Architecture
15 37 (6.89%) Computer Science
16 34 (6.33%) Microservices
16 34 (6.33%) Test Automation
17 33 (6.15%) Task Automation
18 32 (5.96%) SDLC
19 31 (5.77%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 230 (42.83%) Python
2 180 (33.52%) Bash
3 123 (22.91%) PowerShell
4 121 (22.53%) Java
5 85 (15.83%) SQL
6 59 (10.99%) C++
7 29 (5.40%) Shell Script
8 23 (4.28%) C
8 23 (4.28%) C#
9 21 (3.91%) PHP
10 20 (3.72%) JavaScript
11 11 (2.05%) Perl
12 9 (1.68%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.30%) Go
13 7 (1.30%) Ruby
13 7 (1.30%) Rust
14 5 (0.93%) Ada
15 4 (0.74%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.74%) Embedded C++
15 4 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 233 (43.39%) Security Cleared
2 115 (21.42%) DV Cleared
3 96 (17.88%) SC Cleared
4 76 (14.15%) Degree
5 16 (2.98%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.23%) CCNA
7 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.86%) CCNP
8 10 (1.86%) MCSE
9 8 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.49%) MCP
10 6 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.93%) A+ Certification
11 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (0.93%) PMP
12 3 (0.56%) MCSA
12 3 (0.56%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.17%) QA
2 16 (2.98%) PMO
3 10 (1.86%) Software Quality Assurance
4 9 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.68%) SLA
5 7 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.56%) GDPR
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) JTAG
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 155 (28.86%) Docker
2 77 (14.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (10.06%) Hyper-V
4 44 (8.19%) Active Directory
5 20 (3.72%) vSphere
6 13 (2.42%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.23%) Firmware
8 9 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.30%) Samba
10 5 (0.93%) HDFS
11 3 (0.56%) KVM
11 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.37%) Shibboleth
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.19%) LXC
13 1 (0.19%) NFS
13 1 (0.19%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 176 (32.77%) Ansible
2 161 (29.98%) Kubernetes
3 96 (17.88%) Terraform
4 88 (16.39%) Puppet
5 20 (3.72%) Grafana
6 15 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.61%) SCCM
8 12 (2.23%) HAProxy
9 9 (1.68%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.30%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.93%) Nagios
12 5 (0.93%) Oozie
13 4 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.74%) Podman
13 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 108 (20.11%) VMware
2 95 (17.69%) Red Hat
3 86 (16.01%) Microsoft
4 56 (10.43%) Oracle
5 28 (5.21%) Cisco
6 21 (3.91%) Google
7 15 (2.79%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.61%) CheckPoint
8 14 (2.61%) Dell
9 12 (2.23%) Meraki
10 11 (2.05%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.68%) Aruba
11 9 (1.68%) Avaya
11 9 (1.68%) IBM
11 9 (1.68%) Juniper
11 9 (1.68%) Splunk
12 8 (1.49%) HP
12 8 (1.49%) NetApp
12 8 (1.49%) Veeam
13 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow