Linux Jobs in Wiltshire

Linux
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 15 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 46 174 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 12.43% 12.67% 10.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.27% 60.42% 45.37%
Number of salaries quoted 28 122 39
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,688 £36,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £58,438 £74,375
90th Percentile £53,951 £80,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 288 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 23.78% 20.98% 22.68%
Number of salaries quoted 62 215 124
10th Percentile £31,750 £26,250 £24,225
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £31,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.48% -12.63%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £62,188
90th Percentile - £66,750 £73,750
South West median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year -15.79% +4.97% -9.50%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Salary histogram for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Chippenham +1 15 - - 3
Salisbury +1 7 £34,500 -8.00% 8
Swindon -15 4 £51,058 +13.46% 5
Trowbridge +11 1 £67,500 - 2
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 12 (26.09%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) AWS
2 4 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.17%) GCP
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) HTTP
2 1 (2.17%) Internet
2 1 (2.17%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.17%) LAN
2 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.17%) SAN
2 1 (2.17%) VLAN
2 1 (2.17%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 17 (36.96%) Manufacturing
2 15 (32.61%) Finance
3 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Developer
1 17 (36.96%) ERP Developer
1 17 (36.96%) Progress Developer
2 16 (34.78%) Systems Administrator
3 15 (32.61%) Administrator
4 8 (17.39%) Test Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Lead
7 1 (2.17%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Software Team Leader
7 1 (2.17%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) e-Learning
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) CCTV
3 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Continuous Improvement
1 17 (36.96%) Customer Service
1 17 (36.96%) ERP
1 17 (36.96%) High Availability
2 15 (32.61%) Innovative Thinking
3 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.39%) Software Testing
5 7 (15.22%) Regression Testing
5 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
5 7 (15.22%) Time Management
6 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.52%) Containerisation
7 2 (4.35%) Blue Team
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security
7 2 (4.35%) Configuration Management
7 2 (4.35%) DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) DevSecOps
7 2 (4.35%) Forensic Analysis
7 2 (4.35%) Information Security
7 2 (4.35%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Progress 4GL
2 11 (23.91%) Python
3 3 (6.52%) Bash
4 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) C
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) Perl
5 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (32.61%) CCNP
3 15 (32.61%) DV Cleared
3 15 (32.61%) RHCSA
4 10 (21.74%) Degree
5 7 (15.22%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CISM
6 2 (4.35%) CISSP
6 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.96%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Ansible
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.17%) Nagios
2 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.17%) Puppet
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.96%) Progress
3 15 (32.61%) Cisco
3 15 (32.61%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.17%) Veeam