Linux Jobs in Southampton

Linux
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 20 21 45
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 17 66 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 5.56% 7.46% 4.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.52% 38.60% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16 45 30
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,350 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £62,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +47.93% -19.52%
75th Percentile £57,813 £81,250 £71,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 171 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 10.78% 19.32% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 31 149 118
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,700 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.29% -19.05%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £48,000 £47,300 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.48% +11.29% -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Southampton

Linux
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Linux in Southampton

Linux
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Southampton over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Southampton

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) PaaS
1 2 (11.76%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) Wireshark
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Bugzilla
1 1 (5.88%) CruiseControl
1 1 (5.88%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Hudson
1 1 (5.88%) Postman
1 1 (5.88%) Subversion
1 1 (5.88%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) NOC Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
1 1 (5.88%) STL
1 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) CentOS
2 6 (35.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Information Security
1 6 (35.29%) Information Security Management
1 6 (35.29%) Penetration Testing
1 6 (35.29%) Proactive Monitoring
1 6 (35.29%) Security Management
1 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
2 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
2 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
2 4 (23.53%) OO
2 4 (23.53%) OOP
2 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
4 2 (11.76%) Physics
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.88%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C++
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) MATLAB
2 2 (11.76%) R
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) CCNA
1 6 (35.29%) CCNP
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
1 6 (35.29%) MCSA
1 6 (35.29%) MCSE
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (35.29%) Network+ Certification
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (23.53%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (11.76%) PhD
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.88%) Puppet
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco
1 8 (47.06%) VMware
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 6 (35.29%) Palo Alto
3 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) Aruba
4 2 (11.76%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (5.88%) Spotify