Linux Jobs in Essex

Linux
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 50 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 19 34 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 2.16% 4.16% 7.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.10% 24.82% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 29
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,400 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,688 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -15.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £54,625 £62,500
90th Percentile - £63,575 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%

All Operating Systems
Essex

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 157 137 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 17.82% 16.77% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 143 106 109
10th Percentile £22,900 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £37,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -2.60% -18.95%
75th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £79,375 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.44% +5.88% -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Essex over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Essex

Linux
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Essex region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Colchester +3 7 £40,000 +6.67% 2
Basildon -6 4 £52,000 - 3
Chelmsford +4 3 £55,000 +29.41%
Grays -2 3 £60,000 -
Southend-on-Sea +12 1 - -
Brentwood -17 1 £57,500 +43.75% 6
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 6 (31.58%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) FTP
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) VLAN
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 6 (31.58%) GitLab
2 6 (31.58%) webpack
3 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
1 6 (31.58%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) PHP Developer
1 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Technician
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) COBOL Programmer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Support
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Node.js
1 6 (31.58%) React
1 6 (31.58%) Symfony
2 1 (5.26%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Alpine Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Software Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) Agile
4 1 (5.26%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps
4 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (5.26%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (5.26%) Line Management
4 1 (5.26%) Microservices
4 1 (5.26%) Security Hardening
4 1 (5.26%) Server Management
4 1 (5.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PHP
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (31.58%) Rust
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) COBOL
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 1 (5.26%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.26%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) CCNA
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Packer
2 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Micro Focus