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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 75 210 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.37% 8.21% 9.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.50% 50.00% 44.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32 104 137
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,625 £37,950
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,313 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 200 420 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 16.98% 16.41% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 121 287 353
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £28,050
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,500 £32,868
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £83,500
South East median annual salary £40,050 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.76% - -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 14 May 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 14 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
Guildford +5 8 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Dorking +2 5 £70,000 +27.27% 1
Caterham -4 5 £32,500 -4.41%
Weybridge +5 2 £45,000 +5.88% 6
Warlingham - 2 - -
Redhill - 2 £36,250 - 1
Esher - 2 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames +22 1 - -
Walton-on-Thames +4 1 - -
Thames Ditton +3 1 - -
East Molesey +3 1 - -
Woking +2 1 £80,000 +60.00% 5
Camberley -5 1 £70,000 +105.88%
Staines -6 1 - - 1
Godalming - 1 £75,000 -
Banstead - 1 - -
Epsom - 1 - -
Whyteleafe - 1 - -
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 14 (18.67%) Confluence
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.67%) Apache
4 1 (1.33%) IIS
4 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) AWS
2 17 (22.67%) Azure
2 17 (22.67%) Pulumi
3 10 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.67%) Broadband
2 6 (8.00%) DNS
3 5 (6.67%) Network Security
4 4 (5.33%) Firewall
5 3 (4.00%) NAS
5 3 (4.00%) SAN
6 2 (2.67%) IP Telephony
6 2 (2.67%) SNMP
6 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.33%) DHCP
7 1 (1.33%) DVB
7 1 (1.33%) LTE
7 1 (1.33%) VSAT
7 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (37.33%) Relational Database
2 17 (22.67%) NoSQL
2 17 (22.67%) RDBMS
3 13 (17.33%) MySQL
4 10 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (22.67%) Jaeger
2 14 (18.67%) Bitbucket
2 14 (18.67%) JIRA
3 12 (16.00%) Git
4 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.67%) Subversion
5 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.33%) GDB
5 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (36.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Billing
3 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.33%) Automotive
5 1 (1.33%) Electronics
5 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Lead
2 17 (22.67%) Team Leader
3 14 (18.67%) Developer
4 13 (17.33%) Software Developer
5 11 (14.67%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (14.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Administrator
7 7 (9.33%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (9.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 7 (9.33%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (8.00%) Senior
9 5 (6.67%) Analyst
9 5 (6.67%) IT Support
9 5 (6.67%) Support Analyst
10 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Linux Support
10 4 (5.33%) Support Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) C++ Developer
11 3 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.00%) .NET
2 17 (22.67%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (22.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (13.33%) Node.js
3 10 (13.33%) Pandas
4 3 (4.00%) HTML
4 3 (4.00%) React
5 2 (2.67%) Kafka
6 1 (1.33%) HTML5
6 1 (1.33%) LAMP
6 1 (1.33%) Redux
6 1 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Cyberattack
2 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.00%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.67%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.67%) FPGA
4 2 (2.67%) VHDL
5 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (33.33%) Windows
2 22 (29.33%) Unix
3 11 (14.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (13.33%) Android
5 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.33%) CentOS
5 1 (1.33%) Debian
5 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (54.67%) Agile
2 31 (41.33%) Containerisation
3 25 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 22 (29.33%) DevOps
5 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (28.00%) Roadmaps
5 21 (28.00%) Task Automation
6 20 (26.67%) High Availability
7 18 (24.00%) Product Management
8 17 (22.67%) Budget Control
8 17 (22.67%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (22.67%) Cost Optimisation
8 17 (22.67%) GitOps
8 17 (22.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (22.67%) Resource Management
9 16 (21.33%) Mathematics
10 14 (18.67%) CI/CD
11 12 (16.00%) Design Patterns
11 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) Python
2 32 (42.67%) JavaScript
3 31 (41.33%) Java
4 27 (36.00%) Go
5 24 (32.00%) Bash
6 16 (21.33%) C++
7 14 (18.67%) PowerShell
8 13 (17.33%) C#
9 10 (13.33%) Rust
9 10 (13.33%) SQL
10 6 (8.00%) C
11 4 (5.33%) Perl
12 3 (4.00%) MATLAB
12 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
13 1 (1.33%) Embedded C
13 1 (1.33%) Embedded C++
13 1 (1.33%) PHP
13 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.67%) AWS Certification
3 13 (17.33%) DV Cleared
4 12 (16.00%) Degree
5 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.33%) HND
6 4 (5.33%) PhD
7 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.33%) CCNA
9 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.33%) HNC
9 1 (1.33%) MCSE
9 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (38.67%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.67%) Firmware
5 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (52.00%) Ansible
2 34 (45.33%) Kubernetes
3 32 (42.67%) Terraform
4 17 (22.67%) Argo
4 17 (22.67%) Kustomize
4 17 (22.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Packer
5 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Google
2 13 (17.33%) Atlassian
3 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.67%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.67%) VMware
6 3 (4.00%) Cisco
7 2 (2.67%) Juniper
7 2 (2.67%) McAfee
7 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.67%) Veeam
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.33%) Tanium