Linux Jobs in Swindon

Linux
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 15 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -32
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 44 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 2.82% 9.61% 4.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.77% 59.46% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3 44 17
10th Percentile £38,633 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £42,208 £32,563 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +5.88% -26.09%
75th Percentile £53,951 £53,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £56,375 £59,000
Wiltshire median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.27% +44.74%

All Operating Systems
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13 74 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 9.15% 16.16% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10 74 75
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £24,200
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £50,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +31.58% -20.00%
75th Percentile £36,563 £53,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £53,951 £56,750 £52,500
Wiltshire median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £40,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% +24.22% -15.26%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Swindon

Linux
Salary Trend in Swindon

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

Salary trend for Linux in Swindon

Linux
Salary Histogram in Swindon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Swindon over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Swindon

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) CCTV
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Ubiquiti
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware