Linux Jobs in the South East

Linux
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,176 1,198 2,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.01% 8.32% 11.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.54% 43.52% 50.98%
Number of salaries quoted 786 826 1,078
10th Percentile £34,750 £27,750 £31,395
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.85% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,831 2,753 4,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.89% 19.11% 21.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,269 1,921 2,799
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,200 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South East.

Salary trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley -9 421 £55,000 +10.00% 97
Hampshire +2 408 £57,500 +15.00% 62
Berkshire -2 230 £59,000 -14.18% 63
Surrey +2 208 £55,000 - 38
Oxfordshire +12 116 £42,500 - 23
Buckinghamshire -43 75 £45,000 - 11
West Sussex +21 46 £53,250 +18.33% 11
East Sussex +40 35 £50,000 -21.57% 4
Middlesex +8 35 £60,000 -31.43%
Kent -39 14 £40,000 +31.15% 8
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 41 (3.49%) Apache
2 32 (2.72%) IIS
3 28 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 27 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (1.87%) nginx
6 21 (1.79%) Confluence
7 19 (1.62%) WebLogic
8 14 (1.19%) Oracle Service Bus
9 7 (0.60%) WordPress
10 6 (0.51%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.34%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.34%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.085%) Kinematics
Applications
1 31 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.38%) Simulink
3 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.43%) OrCAD
6 4 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.34%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.085%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 414 (35.20%) Azure
2 168 (14.29%) AWS
3 124 (10.54%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (9.95%) IBM Cloud
5 97 (8.25%) Entra ID
6 80 (6.80%) Serverless
7 78 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (6.38%) Azure Functions
9 74 (6.29%) Azure API Management
9 74 (6.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 74 (6.29%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (2.81%) GitHub
11 17 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (1.36%) GCP
12 16 (1.36%) SaaS
13 15 (1.28%) Azure Storage
14 13 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 171 (14.54%) Firewall
2 112 (9.52%) DNS
3 87 (7.40%) 5G
4 77 (6.55%) Broadband
5 70 (5.95%) TCP/IP
6 69 (5.87%) DHCP
7 53 (4.51%) VPN
8 45 (3.83%) Wireless
9 43 (3.66%) SAN
10 33 (2.81%) SNMP
11 28 (2.38%) WAN
12 25 (2.13%) NAS
13 23 (1.96%) LAN
14 22 (1.87%) BGP
15 18 (1.53%) Network Security
16 16 (1.36%) HTTP
16 16 (1.36%) VoIP
17 15 (1.28%) SSH
18 14 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
19 13 (1.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (9.95%) NoSQL
2 112 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (8.67%) Relational Database
4 87 (7.40%) MongoDB
5 86 (7.31%) DB2
5 86 (7.31%) MySQL
6 31 (2.64%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.96%) Oracle Database
8 18 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.19%) Oracle Database 10g
9 14 (1.19%) Oracle Database 11g
9 14 (1.19%) VLDB
10 12 (1.02%) MariaDB
11 11 (0.94%) GIS
12 9 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.68%) Redis
14 7 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.51%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.51%) Power BI
16 5 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 113 (9.61%) Git
2 74 (6.29%) JIRA
3 51 (4.34%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.81%) Subversion
5 24 (2.04%) Ant
6 21 (1.79%) GitLab
7 20 (1.70%) Visual Studio
8 18 (1.53%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.45%) Robot Framework
10 16 (1.36%) CMake
11 15 (1.28%) Vagrant
12 10 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.85%) Trac
13 5 (0.43%) GDB
14 3 (0.26%) IntelliJ
15 2 (0.17%) CircleCI
15 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
15 2 (0.17%) GCC
15 2 (0.17%) Gradle
15 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 235 (19.98%) Social Skills
2 151 (12.84%) Public Sector
3 121 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (5.70%) Finance
6 66 (5.61%) Electronics
7 55 (4.68%) Telecoms
8 50 (4.25%) Manufacturing
9 43 (3.66%) Aerospace
10 40 (3.40%) Military
11 34 (2.89%) Marketing
12 9 (0.77%) Banking
13 8 (0.68%) Aviation
13 8 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.34%) Aeronautics
15 4 (0.34%) Billing
15 4 (0.34%) Legal
16 2 (0.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 233 (19.81%) Software Engineer
2 209 (17.77%) Senior
3 189 (16.07%) Developer
4 122 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 87 (7.40%) Support Engineer
6 85 (7.23%) Full Stack Developer
7 76 (6.46%) Embedded Engineer
8 75 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 74 (6.29%) Azure Developer
10 68 (5.78%) Linux Specialist
11 67 (5.70%) Technical Specialist
12 65 (5.53%) Lead
13 63 (5.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 52 (4.42%) Linux Engineer
15 51 (4.34%) Applications Engineer
16 44 (3.74%) Architect
17 40 (3.40%) Applications Support
17 40 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 40 (3.40%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 39 (3.32%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (13.18%) HTML
2 134 (11.39%) REST
3 131 (11.14%) CSS
4 118 (10.03%) Web Services
5 116 (9.86%) .NET
6 115 (9.78%) React
7 102 (8.67%) AngularJS
8 92 (7.82%) Node.js
9 91 (7.74%) jQuery
10 87 (7.40%) Vue
11 78 (6.63%) ASP.NET
12 76 (6.46%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (6.46%) Backbone.js
12 76 (6.46%) Ember.js
12 76 (6.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 57 (4.85%) XML
14 42 (3.57%) Qt
15 36 (3.06%) Middleware
16 32 (2.72%) SOAP
17 28 (2.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.78%) Algorithms
2 122 (10.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (9.86%) Blockchain
4 77 (6.55%) Data Structures
5 73 (6.21%) Data Centre
6 67 (5.70%) Social Media
7 61 (5.19%) IoT
8 56 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
9 33 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (2.21%) CMDB
12 25 (2.13%) PKI
13 24 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
14 23 (1.96%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.70%) CUDA
16 18 (1.53%) Raspberry Pi
17 16 (1.36%) Robotics
18 15 (1.28%) Device Driver
18 15 (1.28%) Driving Licence
18 15 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 534 (45.41%) Windows
2 136 (11.56%) Ubuntu
3 124 (10.54%) Windows Server
4 101 (8.59%) CentOS
5 95 (8.08%) Android
6 80 (6.80%) Unix
7 79 (6.72%) Apple iOS
8 73 (6.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 69 (5.87%) Embedded Linux
9 69 (5.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 43 (3.66%) Debian
10 43 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 40 (3.40%) Alpine Linux
12 35 (2.98%) Windows 10
13 26 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 15 (1.28%) Solaris
15 12 (1.02%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.94%) AIX
17 10 (0.85%) VMS
18 7 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (26.45%) Software Engineering
2 308 (26.19%) DevOps
3 262 (22.28%) Artificial Intelligence
4 254 (21.60%) Agile
5 206 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (12.07%) Computer Science
7 140 (11.90%) CI/CD
8 136 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 133 (11.31%) OO
10 120 (10.20%) OOP
11 116 (9.86%) Co-Creation
12 109 (9.27%) Mathematics
13 104 (8.84%) MVC
14 99 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
14 99 (8.42%) Web Development
15 98 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
16 96 (8.16%) Actionable Insight
17 92 (7.82%) MVVM
17 92 (7.82%) SOLID
18 82 (6.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 388 (32.99%) Python
2 268 (22.79%) Java
3 249 (21.17%) SQL
4 225 (19.13%) C++
5 199 (16.92%) C
6 198 (16.84%) JavaScript
7 180 (15.31%) C#
8 150 (12.76%) Bash
9 113 (9.61%) PowerShell
10 38 (3.23%) Kotlin
11 34 (2.89%) PL/SQL
12 32 (2.72%) Fortran
12 32 (2.72%) Perl
13 31 (2.64%) PHP
14 24 (2.04%) Go
15 18 (1.53%) Bicep
15 18 (1.53%) VB
16 17 (1.45%) Embedded C
17 16 (1.36%) VBScript
17 16 (1.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 318 (27.04%) Security Cleared
2 271 (23.04%) Degree
3 239 (20.32%) SC Cleared
4 102 (8.67%) DV Cleared
5 93 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (5.53%) Master's Degree
7 58 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.76%) MCSE
9 55 (4.68%) Azure Certification
10 46 (3.91%) PhD
11 43 (3.66%) MCSA
12 36 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
13 34 (2.89%) CCNA
14 24 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (1.45%) CCNP
16 12 (1.02%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
18 5 (0.43%) A+ Certification
18 5 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 4 (0.34%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.49%) SLA
2 17 (1.45%) QA
3 7 (0.60%) ISO 13485
3 7 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.34%) GDPR
4 4 (0.34%) IEC 61131
4 4 (0.34%) JTAG
5 3 (0.26%) GRC
6 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.085%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.085%) NIST
7 1 (0.085%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 189 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 138 (11.73%) Docker
3 101 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (4.93%) Hyper-V
5 32 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (2.55%) vSphere
7 25 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.04%) Firmware
9 21 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (1.36%) pfSense
11 15 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
12 14 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.85%) NFS
14 7 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
15 6 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 5 (0.43%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.26%) GPFS
17 3 (0.26%) VirtualBox
18 2 (0.17%) KVM
18 2 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 172 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 116 (9.86%) Terraform
3 104 (8.84%) Ansible
4 96 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (5.70%) Jamf Pro
6 45 (3.83%) vCenter Server
7 42 (3.57%) SCOM
8 34 (2.89%) ZABBIX
9 32 (2.72%) SCCM
10 28 (2.38%) WSUS
11 27 (2.30%) Puppet
12 21 (1.79%) Grafana
13 20 (1.70%) Oracle RMAN
14 16 (1.36%) NetBackup
15 15 (1.28%) Data Guard
15 15 (1.28%) EMC NetWorker
16 14 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (1.11%) Rancher
17 13 (1.11%) WMI
18 11 (0.94%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 263 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 171 (14.54%) Red Hat
3 159 (13.52%) VMware
4 123 (10.46%) IBM
5 67 (5.70%) CyberArk
5 67 (5.70%) Tanium
6 65 (5.53%) Oracle
7 49 (4.17%) Juniper
8 40 (3.40%) Cisco
9 34 (2.89%) Veeam
10 32 (2.72%) SAP
11 28 (2.38%) Xilinx
12 27 (2.30%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.21%) EMC
14 24 (2.04%) Palo Alto
15 20 (1.70%) Dell
15 20 (1.70%) Splunk
16 18 (1.53%) Atlassian
17 16 (1.36%) Sun
18 15 (1.28%) HP