Linux Jobs in West Sussex

Linux
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 55
Rank change year-on-year -3 +26 -22
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5 48 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 1.60% 6.46% 4.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.16% 31.79% 35.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3 44 19
10th Percentile - £27,000 -
25th Percentile - £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £54,918 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.46% +4.60% -6.29%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile - £68,000 £67,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 38 151 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 12.18% 20.32% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 25 132 78
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £35,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,900 £67,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.58% -8.95%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Salary Trend in West Sussex

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

Salary trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 30 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
Chichester -3 3 £70,000 +75.00%
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 - -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) OO
1 4 (80.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Android Development
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (60.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Perforce
1 1 (20.00%) VMware