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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 771 688 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.77% 11.06% 10.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.61% 56.35% 56.65%
Number of salaries quoted 455 354 581
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £73,675
90th Percentile £84,500 £78,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £63,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.32% +5.25% +4.35%

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 1,494 1,221 1,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.99% 19.62% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 791 1,146
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,256
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -4.80% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +3 261 £55,000 -5.98% 20
Wiltshire +11 182 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Bristol +8 174 £65,000 +15.04% 24
Devon -1 75 £38,500 -26.67% 7
Dorset -24 41 £50,000 -25.93%
Somerset -1 26 £40,000 -15.79% 12
Cornwall -24 3 £55,000 +10.00% 2
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 56 (7.26%) Apache
2 34 (4.41%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.72%) nginx
4 20 (2.59%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.17%) Confluence
8 7 (0.91%) JBoss
9 6 (0.78%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.52%) IIS
10 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.39%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.26%) WordPress
13 1 (0.13%) CMS
13 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 18 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.52%) OrCAD
3 4 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.13%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (28.79%) AWS
2 175 (22.70%) Azure
3 91 (11.80%) OpenShift
4 47 (6.10%) SaaS
5 44 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (4.41%) GCP
7 31 (4.02%) Amazon S3
8 24 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (3.11%) Serverless
9 23 (2.98%) IaaS
10 22 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (2.72%) PaaS
12 16 (2.08%) MinIO
13 10 (1.30%) GitHub
14 9 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.04%) IBM Cloud
15 8 (1.04%) Nutanix
16 7 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 74 (9.60%) Firewall
2 61 (7.91%) TCP/IP
3 56 (7.26%) DNS
4 40 (5.19%) HTTP
5 34 (4.41%) Internet
6 31 (4.02%) DHCP
7 26 (3.37%) WAN
8 24 (3.11%) AMQP
8 24 (3.11%) VSAN
9 18 (2.33%) SAN
10 17 (2.20%) LAN
10 17 (2.20%) NAS
11 12 (1.56%) iSCSI
12 11 (1.43%) Wireless
13 10 (1.30%) Network Security
14 9 (1.17%) 5G
14 9 (1.17%) Ethernet
14 9 (1.17%) VLAN
15 8 (1.04%) SMTP
15 8 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.36%) Big Data
2 41 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 40 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 34 (4.41%) Hadoop
5 21 (2.72%) Oracle Database
6 19 (2.46%) MySQL
7 18 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
7 18 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.08%) Presto
9 14 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.17%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.04%) DB2
13 7 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.78%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.78%) Power BI
14 6 (0.78%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.39%) Redis
15 3 (0.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 59 (7.65%) JIRA
2 48 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.67%) Git
4 17 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 16 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (1.69%) Eclipse
6 13 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.04%) Subversion
9 7 (0.91%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.78%) RStudio
11 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.52%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.52%) LabVIEW
12 4 (0.52%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.39%) JMeter
13 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.26%) Postman
14 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 143 (18.55%) Social Skills
2 125 (16.21%) Aerospace
3 66 (8.56%) Finance
4 65 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 30 (3.89%) Electronics
7 27 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 26 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.37%) Marketing
9 19 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.33%) Tech for Good
11 17 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.95%) Banking
13 14 (1.82%) Retail
14 10 (1.30%) Avionics
15 9 (1.17%) Automotive
15 9 (1.17%) Military
16 8 (1.04%) Aviation
16 8 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 136 (17.64%) Software Engineer
2 128 (16.60%) Senior
3 120 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 73 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (8.56%) Administrator
6 65 (8.43%) Embedded Engineer
6 65 (8.43%) Linux Engineer
7 64 (8.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 51 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 46 (5.97%) Developer
10 39 (5.06%) Systems Engineer
11 38 (4.93%) Lead
12 34 (4.41%) Architect
13 30 (3.89%) Consultant
13 30 (3.89%) Systems Administrator
14 28 (3.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (3.50%) DBA
16 24 (3.11%) DV Cleared DBA
16 24 (3.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
2 45 (5.84%) React
3 44 (5.71%) REST
4 35 (4.54%) HTML
5 29 (3.76%) AngularJS
6 27 (3.50%) XML
7 25 (3.24%) CSS
8 23 (2.98%) Spring
8 23 (2.98%) Spring Boot
9 22 (2.85%) Apache NiFi
10 21 (2.72%) Node.js
10 21 (2.72%) Swagger
11 20 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (2.59%) gRPC
11 20 (2.59%) YAML
12 19 (2.46%) OpenAPI
13 18 (2.33%) Material-UI
14 16 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
14 16 (2.08%) JSON
14 16 (2.08%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 40 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.28%) Public Cloud
6 30 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
7 28 (3.63%) GNSS
8 23 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.72%) PKI
10 16 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.69%) FPGA
12 12 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.56%) Client/Server
13 11 (1.43%) e-Learning
14 9 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.17%) EMC VNX
14 9 (1.17%) VHDL
15 8 (1.04%) CUDA
15 8 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 275 (35.67%) Windows
2 102 (13.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 66 (8.56%) CentOS
4 61 (7.91%) Windows Server
5 51 (6.61%) Embedded Linux
6 49 (6.36%) Unix
7 44 (5.71%) Ubuntu
8 41 (5.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (4.93%) Debian
10 34 (4.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 32 (4.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (2.85%) Windows 10
13 13 (1.69%) Android
14 10 (1.30%) Apple iOS
15 9 (1.17%) AIX
15 9 (1.17%) Solaris
16 8 (1.04%) VMS
17 4 (0.52%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
18 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (24.77%) Software Engineering
2 165 (21.40%) Agile
3 148 (19.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 146 (18.94%) DevOps
5 137 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (13.62%) Collaborative Working
7 96 (12.45%) Containerisation
8 94 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 91 (11.80%) Actionable Insight
10 85 (11.02%) CI/CD
11 82 (10.64%) Computer Science
12 81 (10.51%) Configuration Management
13 74 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
14 69 (8.95%) Mentoring
15 64 (8.30%) Scrum
16 61 (7.91%) B2B
17 58 (7.52%) SDLC
18 57 (7.39%) Validation
19 56 (7.26%) Kanban
20 51 (6.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 287 (37.22%) Python
2 189 (24.51%) Bash
3 109 (14.14%) C
4 104 (13.49%) Java
5 103 (13.36%) SQL
6 84 (10.89%) PowerShell
7 82 (10.64%) C++
8 53 (6.87%) Embedded C
8 53 (6.87%) JavaScript
9 51 (6.61%) Perl
10 48 (6.23%) Rust
11 25 (3.24%) Shell Script
12 20 (2.59%) C#
13 16 (2.08%) PHP
14 13 (1.69%) Go
15 10 (1.30%) Tcl
15 10 (1.30%) VB
16 9 (1.17%) Embedded C++
16 9 (1.17%) MATLAB
17 8 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 366 (47.47%) Security Cleared
2 196 (25.42%) DV Cleared
3 144 (18.68%) Degree
4 121 (15.69%) SC Cleared
5 38 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.08%) HND
7 15 (1.95%) ISTQB
8 12 (1.56%) CCNA
8 12 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.43%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.30%) RHCE
10 10 (1.30%) RHCSA
11 9 (1.17%) PMP
12 8 (1.04%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.04%) CCNP
12 8 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.24%) SLA
2 22 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.59%) PMO
4 13 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.17%) QA
6 6 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.78%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.78%) NCSC
7 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 139 (18.03%) Docker
2 129 (16.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (5.97%) Active Directory
4 45 (5.84%) Hyper-V
5 39 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (4.02%) vSphere
7 28 (3.63%) Firmware
8 24 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
9 16 (2.08%) VMware NSX
10 8 (1.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.65%) KVM
13 4 (0.52%) Lustre
13 4 (0.52%) NFS
13 4 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.39%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.39%) Gluster
14 3 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 220 (28.53%) Ansible
2 178 (23.09%) Kubernetes
3 133 (17.25%) Terraform
4 107 (13.88%) Puppet
5 34 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.02%) vCenter Server
7 30 (3.89%) Grafana
8 29 (3.76%) Progress Chef
9 23 (2.98%) Nagios
10 16 (2.08%) HAProxy
11 15 (1.95%) Salt
12 11 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
13 10 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
13 10 (1.30%) SCCM
13 10 (1.30%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.91%) Rancher
14 7 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.78%) Icinga
16 5 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 154 (19.97%) VMware
2 134 (17.38%) Red Hat
3 131 (16.99%) Microsoft
4 61 (7.91%) Oracle
5 37 (4.80%) Cisco
6 21 (2.72%) Google
7 20 (2.59%) SaltStack
7 20 (2.59%) Veeam
8 19 (2.46%) SolarWinds
9 15 (1.95%) EMC
10 14 (1.82%) HP
11 12 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 11 (1.43%) NetApp
13 9 (1.17%) Brocade
13 9 (1.17%) IBM
13 9 (1.17%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.04%) Green Hills
14 8 (1.04%) Motorola
14 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.04%) Xilinx