Linux Jobs in Watford

Linux
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Watford 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 6 4 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 4.35% 1.34% 7.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 7.55% 36.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 28
10th Percentile £40,500 - £49,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -10.85% -0.77%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £68,625
90th Percentile £58,600 - £75,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

All Operating Systems
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 53 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 13.04% 17.79% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17 44 51
10th Percentile £37,000 £22,475 £23,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £23,000 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £27,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -45.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £39,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £57,400 £58,750 £75,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,320 £40,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +38.30% -16.67% +12.94%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Watford

Linux
Salary Trend in Watford

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

Salary trend for Linux in Watford

Linux
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Watford over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Watford

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 (16.67%) Alfresco
1 1 (16.67%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Content Management
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 3 (50.00%) Information Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) Change Control
3 1 (16.67%) Document Management
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Rust
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (16.67%) VMware