Linux Jobs in Suffolk

Linux
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -36 -1 -13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 18 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 0.74% 3.38% 2.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 27.27% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 7
10th Percentile £48,250 £39,125 £47,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -40.28% +37.40%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £75,000 £99,000
East of England median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -8.70% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 66 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 5.19% 12.38% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 24 55 33
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,500 £21,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +11.84% +4.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,875 -
90th Percentile - £58,750 £88,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +5.88%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Suffolk

Linux
Salary Trend in Suffolk

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

Salary trend for Linux in Suffolk

Linux
Salary Histogram in Suffolk

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Suffolk over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Suffolk

Linux
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bury St Edmunds +10 1 £67,500 +28.57%
Ipswich -8 1 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Debian
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Budget Control
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) GitOps
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Product Management
3 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Go
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Argo
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Kustomize
4 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) VMware