Linux Jobs in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 208 864 716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.97% 9.19% 10.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.64% 52.11% 56.56%
Number of salaries quoted 125 543 308
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £71,175
90th Percentile £70,750 £82,548 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 466 1,658 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.38% 17.63% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 308 1,254 727
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,750 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +4.40% -6.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,750 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
Bristol -14 49 £46,500 -22.50% 110
Gloucestershire -19 47 £55,000 - 216
Wiltshire -10 43 £40,000 -20.00% 65
Devon -14 35 £55,000 +46.67% 109
Somerset -13 19 £40,000 -6.43% 70
Dorset 0 14 £50,000 - 46
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 13 (6.25%) OpenEdge
2 11 (5.29%) IIS
3 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.88%) Apache
5 5 (2.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.48%) Simulink
1 1 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.42%) AWS
2 29 (13.94%) Azure
3 24 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.88%) Pulumi
5 5 (2.40%) GCP
6 4 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.92%) IaaS
6 4 (1.92%) Serverless
7 3 (1.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.44%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.44%) SaaS
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.96%) Apigee
8 2 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (16.35%) VPN
2 32 (15.38%) Firewall
3 22 (10.58%) DNS
4 19 (9.13%) VLAN
5 18 (8.65%) DHCP
6 17 (8.17%) WAN
7 13 (6.25%) LAN
8 11 (5.29%) VoIP
9 10 (4.81%) ADSL
10 7 (3.37%) SD-WAN
10 7 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.88%) Broadband
12 4 (1.92%) 5G
12 4 (1.92%) IPv4
13 3 (1.44%) MPLS
13 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
13 3 (1.44%) Unified Communications
14 2 (0.96%) Internet
14 2 (0.96%) OSPF
14 2 (0.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.17%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.37%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.37%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.96%) MySQL
8 2 (0.96%) SQLite
9 1 (0.48%) Big Data
9 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.48%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 48 (23.08%) JIRA
2 31 (14.90%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.33%) Git
4 8 (3.85%) GitLab
5 6 (2.88%) Eclipse
5 6 (2.88%) Eclipse RCP
5 6 (2.88%) Jaeger
6 5 (2.40%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.92%) JUnit
8 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.96%) Maven
8 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.48%) CMake
9 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.48%) GDB
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.48%) Subversion
9 1 (0.48%) WiX
General
1 58 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.98%) Avionics
3 26 (12.50%) Finance
4 22 (10.58%) Manufacturing
5 20 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.33%) Marketing
8 9 (4.33%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.37%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.37%) Electronics
9 7 (3.37%) Retail
10 5 (2.40%) Legal
11 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.44%) Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Automotive
13 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (22.60%) Senior
2 26 (12.50%) Developer
2 26 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 21 (10.10%) Support Engineer
4 19 (9.13%) Administrator
5 18 (8.65%) ERP Developer
5 18 (8.65%) Progress Developer
5 18 (8.65%) Technical Engineer
5 18 (8.65%) Technical Support
5 18 (8.65%) Technical Support Engineer
6 17 (8.17%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (7.69%) IT Support
7 16 (7.69%) Lead
8 15 (7.21%) Analyst
8 15 (7.21%) IT Analyst
8 15 (7.21%) IT Support Analyst
8 15 (7.21%) Support Analyst
9 13 (6.25%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) 3rd Line Support
10 10 (4.81%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.81%) HTML
2 7 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.37%) React
3 6 (2.88%) CSS
3 6 (2.88%) Hibernate
3 6 (2.88%) JSP
3 6 (2.88%) Middleware
3 6 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (2.40%) .NET
4 5 (2.40%) RESTful
5 4 (1.92%) JSF
5 4 (1.92%) Laravel
6 3 (1.44%) OpenCL
6 3 (1.44%) Symfony
6 3 (1.44%) Yii
7 2 (0.96%) Spring
7 2 (0.96%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.48%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.48%) Redux
8 1 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.10%) Satnav
2 17 (8.17%) e-Learning
3 9 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.37%) GNSS
5 5 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.92%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.92%) FPGA
6 4 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.92%) MicroBlaze
6 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.92%) Self-Driving Car
6 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.92%) VHDL
7 3 (1.44%) CUDA
7 3 (1.44%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.44%) PCIe
8 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 85 (40.87%) Windows
2 31 (14.90%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.77%) Unix
4 5 (2.40%) Android
5 4 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) AIX
8 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (19.23%) Mathematics
3 36 (17.31%) Physics
3 36 (17.31%) Software Engineering
4 33 (15.87%) User Experience
5 31 (14.90%) Test Automation
6 28 (13.46%) Mentoring
7 27 (12.98%) Quality Management
7 27 (12.98%) UX Design
8 25 (12.02%) B2B
8 25 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (11.54%) DevOps
10 23 (11.06%) ITIL
11 22 (10.58%) Agile
11 22 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (10.58%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (10.10%) Customer Service
12 21 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (9.62%) High Availability
14 19 (9.13%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (31.25%) Python
2 44 (21.15%) C
3 33 (15.87%) Java
4 28 (13.46%) PowerShell
5 27 (12.98%) Bash
5 27 (12.98%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.98%) SQL
6 20 (9.62%) C++
7 18 (8.65%) Progress 4GL
8 11 (5.29%) Go
8 11 (5.29%) PHP
9 8 (3.85%) Perl
10 6 (2.88%) C#
10 6 (2.88%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.40%) Rust
12 4 (1.92%) Ada
12 4 (1.92%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.92%) R
12 4 (1.92%) Tcl
13 3 (1.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (36.54%) Degree
2 63 (30.29%) Security Cleared
3 34 (16.35%) DV Cleared
4 24 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 18 (8.65%) HND
6 16 (7.69%) HNC
7 15 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (6.25%) AWS Certification
8 13 (6.25%) CCNP
9 12 (5.77%) RHCSA
10 11 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (4.81%) A+ Certification
11 10 (4.81%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (3.37%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.92%) CISSP
14 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.96%) CCNA
14 2 (0.96%) CISM
14 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.54%) SLA
2 4 (1.92%) PMO
3 3 (1.44%) QA
4 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.48%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) MISRA
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (14.90%) Docker
2 21 (10.10%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.85%) Firmware
5 7 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.88%) vSphere
7 4 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.48%) LXC
9 1 (0.48%) Samba
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (12.98%) Ansible
2 26 (12.50%) Terraform
3 22 (10.58%) Kubernetes
4 19 (9.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.88%) Argo
6 6 (2.88%) Kustomize
7 5 (2.40%) Kibana
7 5 (2.40%) Puppet
8 2 (0.96%) Istio
8 2 (0.96%) Podman
9 1 (0.48%) Grafana
9 1 (0.48%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 77 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.54%) Cisco
2 24 (11.54%) VMware
3 18 (8.65%) Progress
3 18 (8.65%) Salesforce
4 14 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.81%) Veeam
6 8 (3.85%) Google
7 7 (3.37%) Oracle
8 5 (2.40%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.40%) Graphcore
8 5 (2.40%) SAP
9 4 (1.92%) Intel
9 4 (1.92%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.92%) Xilinx
9 4 (1.92%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.44%) Altera
10 3 (1.44%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.44%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (1.44%) Green Hills