Linux Jobs in Surrey

Linux
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 46 154 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 4.74% 6.96% 10.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.66% 42.19% 46.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30 94 155
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,550 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,813 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,750 £78,750 £86,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 129 365 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 13.29% 16.49% 22.62%
Number of salaries quoted 98 284 410
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,438 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £59,875 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Surrey over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Guildford 0 7 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Dorking +2 5 £70,000 +27.27% 1
Caterham -4 4 £32,500 -4.41%
Tadworth +1 2 - -
Weybridge +4 1 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Camberley -2 1 £70,000 +105.88%
Staines -10 1 - -
Redhill - 1 £27,500 -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 16 (34.78%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
3 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) Azure
2 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (4.35%) AWS
2 2 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DNS
2 6 (13.04%) Network Security
3 5 (10.87%) Firewall
4 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) DHCP
5 1 (2.17%) DVB
5 1 (2.17%) LTE
5 1 (2.17%) VSAT
5 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) MySQL
2 12 (26.09%) Relational Database
3 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 5 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) JIRA
2 16 (34.78%) Bitbucket
3 13 (28.26%) Git
4 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.35%) Subversion
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.17%) GDB
5 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.70%) Billing
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Electronics
4 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.52%) Marketing
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Principal Engineer
1 12 (26.09%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (10.87%) Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Developer
3 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Support Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Lead
4 4 (8.70%) Linux Support
4 4 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 3 (6.52%) C++ Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) C/C++ Developer
6 2 (4.35%) C++ Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) .NET
2 3 (6.52%) HTML
3 2 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) HTML5
4 1 (2.17%) LAMP
4 1 (2.17%) React
4 1 (2.17%) Redux
4 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.35%) Device Driver
3 2 (4.35%) FPGA
3 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.35%) VHDL
4 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.87%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.17%) CentOS
4 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Agile
1 13 (28.26%) Coaching
1 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
1 13 (28.26%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (13.04%) DevOps
3 6 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
4 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
4 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
4 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
4 5 (10.87%) Migration
4 5 (10.87%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (10.87%) Observability
4 5 (10.87%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (10.87%) Task Automation
5 4 (8.70%) Data Analysis
5 4 (8.70%) Mathematics
5 4 (8.70%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
1 13 (28.26%) SQL
2 12 (26.09%) C#
2 12 (26.09%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) Bash
3 7 (15.22%) C
3 7 (15.22%) C++
4 6 (13.04%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) Perl
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.17%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.17%) PHP
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Degree
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) PhD
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) HNC
4 1 (2.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
1 2 (4.35%) Firmware
2 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Ansible
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Nagios
4 1 (2.17%) Packer
4 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Atlassian
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) Juniper
4 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Symantec
5 1 (2.17%) Tanium
5 1 (2.17%) VMware