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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 56 202 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.75% 8.05% 10.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.13% 47.98% 46.94%
Number of salaries quoted 32 99 153
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,050 £38,600
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,313 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £85,000
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 155 421 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 15.91% 16.77% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 112 294 389
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,125 £73,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 26 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 26 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 +3 7 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Dorking -1 5 £70,000 +27.27%
Caterham -3 5 £32,500 -4.41%
Weybridge +5 2 £45,000 +5.88%
Redhill - 2 £36,250 - 2
Walton-on-Thames +6 1 - -
Woking +6 1 £80,000 +60.00% 6
Camberley -4 1 £70,000 +105.88% 2
Staines -7 1 - -
Warlingham - 1 - -
Esher - 1 - -
Godalming - 1 £75,000 -
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 15 (26.79%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) IIS
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (17.86%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) Network Security
3 4 (7.14%) Firewall
4 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.79%) DHCP
5 1 (1.79%) DVB
5 1 (1.79%) LTE
5 1 (1.79%) NAS
5 1 (1.79%) SAN
5 1 (1.79%) VSAT
5 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) MySQL
2 12 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 10 (17.86%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) Bitbucket
1 15 (26.79%) JIRA
2 13 (23.21%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Subversion
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.79%) GDB
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Billing
3 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.79%) Automotive
5 1 (1.79%) Electronics
5 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Software Developer
3 12 (21.43%) Principal Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Administrator
4 7 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 7 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (10.71%) Senior
6 5 (8.93%) Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Support Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Lead
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Support
8 3 (5.36%) C++ Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Lead Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (44.64%) .NET
2 10 (17.86%) Node.js
2 10 (17.86%) Pandas
3 3 (5.36%) HTML
3 3 (5.36%) React
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) HTML5
5 1 (1.79%) LAMP
5 1 (1.79%) Redux
5 1 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Cyberattack
2 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.36%) Device Driver
4 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.57%) FPGA
4 2 (3.57%) VHDL
5 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (41.07%) Windows
2 10 (17.86%) Android
2 10 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.93%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.79%) CentOS
4 1 (1.79%) Debian
4 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Agile
2 16 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 13 (23.21%) Coaching
4 13 (23.21%) Systems Engineering
5 12 (21.43%) Design Patterns
5 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 11 (19.64%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (17.86%) Android Development
7 10 (17.86%) Kanban
7 10 (17.86%) Line Management
7 10 (17.86%) OO
7 10 (17.86%) OOP
7 10 (17.86%) OWASP
7 10 (17.86%) Secure Coding
7 10 (17.86%) Statistics
8 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) C++
3 15 (26.79%) JavaScript
4 14 (25.00%) C#
4 14 (25.00%) Java
5 12 (21.43%) PowerShell
6 10 (17.86%) Go
6 10 (17.86%) Rust
6 10 (17.86%) SQL
7 7 (12.50%) Bash
8 6 (10.71%) C
9 4 (7.14%) Perl
10 3 (5.36%) MATLAB
10 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.79%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.79%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.79%) PHP
11 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) DV Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Degree
4 4 (7.14%) PhD
5 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) HND
6 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.79%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) Firmware
4 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (41.07%) Ansible
2 17 (30.36%) Kubernetes
3 15 (26.79%) Terraform
4 1 (1.79%) Packer
4 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 8 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Juniper
4 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Tanium