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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,219 1,148 2,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.82% 8.34% 10.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.52% 43.60% 51.62%
Number of salaries quoted 809 788 1,069
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,150
England median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% +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 2,867 2,633 4,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.04% 19.13% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,263 1,842 2,766
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,875 £63,450
90th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 2 June 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 2 June 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
Hampshire 0 426 £57,500 +15.00% 59
Thames Valley -11 421 £55,000 +10.00% 82
Berkshire -1 231 £59,000 -15.71% 45
Surrey -3 210 £55,000 - 29
Oxfordshire +13 119 £50,500 +18.82% 16
Buckinghamshire -44 71 £45,000 -5.26% 22
West Sussex +28 54 £54,918 +22.04% 17
East Sussex +46 39 £50,000 +11.11% 16
Middlesex +4 35 £60,000 -31.43%
Kent -29 22 £40,000 +23.08% 7
Sussex - 3 £60,000 - 3
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 40 (3.28%) Apache
2 32 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (2.54%) IIS
4 27 (2.21%) OpenStack
5 21 (1.72%) Confluence
5 21 (1.72%) nginx
6 19 (1.56%) WebLogic
7 14 (1.15%) Oracle Service Bus
8 7 (0.57%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.49%) WordPress
10 4 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.33%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.33%) CMS
10 4 (0.33%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.25%) Drupal
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.082%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.082%) Totara
Applications
1 40 (3.28%) Simulink
2 29 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.41%) OrCAD
6 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.33%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.082%) Magento
4 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.082%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 423 (34.70%) Azure
2 176 (14.44%) AWS
3 124 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (9.52%) IBM Cloud
5 101 (8.29%) Entra ID
6 85 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (6.56%) Serverless
8 75 (6.15%) Azure Functions
9 74 (6.07%) Azure API Management
9 74 (6.07%) Azure Logic Apps
9 74 (6.07%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (2.71%) GitHub
11 20 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (1.48%) Azure Storage
13 17 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.39%) SaaS
14 15 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (1.23%) GCP
15 12 (0.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 179 (14.68%) Firewall
2 112 (9.19%) DNS
3 87 (7.14%) 5G
4 78 (6.40%) Broadband
5 70 (5.74%) DHCP
5 70 (5.74%) TCP/IP
6 51 (4.18%) VPN
7 44 (3.61%) SAN
8 43 (3.53%) Wireless
9 30 (2.46%) SNMP
10 27 (2.21%) WAN
11 26 (2.13%) NAS
12 23 (1.89%) LAN
13 21 (1.72%) BGP
14 20 (1.64%) HTTP
15 18 (1.48%) Network Security
16 17 (1.39%) VoIP
17 16 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
18 15 (1.23%) Internet
18 15 (1.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (10.50%) NoSQL
2 113 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (8.37%) Relational Database
4 88 (7.22%) DB2
5 87 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 86 (7.05%) MySQL
7 33 (2.71%) SQL Server
8 23 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.89%) Oracle Database
9 14 (1.15%) Oracle Database 10g
9 14 (1.15%) Oracle Database 11g
9 14 (1.15%) VLDB
10 12 (0.98%) GIS
10 12 (0.98%) MariaDB
11 9 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.66%) Redis
13 7 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.49%) Power BI
15 5 (0.41%) Big Data
15 5 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 119 (9.76%) Git
2 77 (6.32%) JIRA
3 52 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.63%) Subversion
5 21 (1.72%) Ant
5 21 (1.72%) GitLab
5 21 (1.72%) Vagrant
5 21 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 19 (1.56%) Robot Framework
7 18 (1.48%) Eclipse
8 15 (1.23%) CMake
9 10 (0.82%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.82%) Trac
10 4 (0.33%) GDB
11 3 (0.25%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.16%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.16%) GCC
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.082%) SonarQube
General
1 250 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 151 (12.39%) Public Sector
3 119 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (5.50%) Finance
6 65 (5.33%) Electronics
7 55 (4.51%) Telecoms
8 50 (4.10%) Aerospace
8 50 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 39 (3.20%) Military
10 34 (2.79%) Marketing
11 9 (0.74%) Banking
12 8 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.57%) Aviation
14 6 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.33%) Aeronautics
15 4 (0.33%) Billing
15 4 (0.33%) Legal
16 3 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 253 (20.75%) Software Engineer
2 214 (17.56%) Senior
3 193 (15.83%) Developer
4 130 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 86 (7.05%) Full Stack Developer
5 86 (7.05%) Support Engineer
6 82 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
7 75 (6.15%) Embedded Engineer
8 74 (6.07%) Azure Developer
9 68 (5.58%) Linux Specialist
10 67 (5.50%) Technical Specialist
11 66 (5.41%) Lead
12 62 (5.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 55 (4.51%) Applications Engineer
14 53 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
15 49 (4.02%) Architect
16 41 (3.36%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 39 (3.20%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 38 (3.12%) Senior Linux Specialist
18 38 (3.12%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (12.88%) HTML
2 136 (11.16%) REST
3 133 (10.91%) CSS
4 119 (9.76%) Web Services
5 117 (9.60%) .NET
6 116 (9.52%) React
7 102 (8.37%) AngularJS
8 92 (7.55%) jQuery
8 92 (7.55%) Node.js
9 87 (7.14%) Vue
10 78 (6.40%) ASP.NET
11 76 (6.23%) ASP.NET Core
11 76 (6.23%) Backbone.js
11 76 (6.23%) Ember.js
11 76 (6.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 58 (4.76%) XML
13 47 (3.86%) Middleware
14 41 (3.36%) Qt
15 32 (2.63%) SOAP
16 27 (2.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 171 (14.03%) Algorithms
2 122 (10.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (9.52%) Blockchain
4 83 (6.81%) Data Centre
5 77 (6.32%) Data Structures
6 67 (5.50%) Social Media
7 61 (5.00%) IoT
8 57 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
10 36 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (2.13%) PKI
12 24 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
13 23 (1.89%) CMDB
14 22 (1.80%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.64%) CUDA
16 18 (1.48%) Client/Server
16 18 (1.48%) Raspberry Pi
17 17 (1.39%) Robotics
18 15 (1.23%) Driving Licence
19 14 (1.15%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 546 (44.79%) Windows
2 144 (11.81%) Ubuntu
3 133 (10.91%) Windows Server
4 104 (8.53%) CentOS
5 101 (8.29%) Android
6 89 (7.30%) Unix
7 79 (6.48%) Apple iOS
8 77 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 75 (6.15%) Embedded Linux
10 74 (6.07%) Windows Server 2016
11 46 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
12 44 (3.61%) Debian
13 40 (3.28%) Alpine Linux
14 35 (2.87%) Windows 10
15 25 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
16 15 (1.23%) Solaris
17 12 (0.98%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.90%) AIX
19 9 (0.74%) VMS
20 8 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (27.97%) Software Engineering
2 317 (26.00%) DevOps
3 274 (22.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 265 (21.74%) Agile
5 209 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (13.29%) Computer Science
7 147 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 142 (11.65%) CI/CD
9 132 (10.83%) OO
10 119 (9.76%) OOP
11 118 (9.68%) Mathematics
12 116 (9.52%) Co-Creation
13 108 (8.86%) MVC
14 100 (8.20%) Full Stack Development
15 99 (8.12%) Web Development
16 96 (7.88%) SOLID
17 95 (7.79%) MVVM
18 94 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
19 91 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
20 86 (7.05%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 417 (34.21%) Python
2 276 (22.64%) Java
3 249 (20.43%) SQL
4 243 (19.93%) C++
5 216 (17.72%) C
6 205 (16.82%) JavaScript
7 183 (15.01%) C#
8 164 (13.45%) Bash
9 113 (9.27%) PowerShell
10 48 (3.94%) Kotlin
11 42 (3.45%) Fortran
12 33 (2.71%) PHP
13 32 (2.63%) Perl
13 32 (2.63%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.97%) Go
15 21 (1.72%) Bicep
15 21 (1.72%) VB
16 19 (1.56%) XAML
17 18 (1.48%) Embedded C
18 17 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 334 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 296 (24.28%) Degree
3 240 (19.69%) SC Cleared
4 108 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 105 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (6.07%) Master's Degree
7 58 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.59%) MCSE
8 56 (4.59%) PhD
9 55 (4.51%) Azure Certification
10 43 (3.53%) MCSA
11 36 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (2.79%) CCNA
13 27 (2.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (1.39%) CCNP
15 14 (1.15%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
17 5 (0.41%) A+ Certification
17 5 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.53%) SLA
2 17 (1.39%) QA
3 7 (0.57%) ISO 13485
3 7 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.33%) IEC 61131
4 4 (0.33%) JTAG
5 3 (0.25%) GDPR
5 3 (0.25%) GRC
6 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.082%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.082%) NIST
7 1 (0.082%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 187 (15.34%) Active Directory
2 139 (11.40%) Docker
3 99 (8.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (4.59%) Hyper-V
5 35 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (2.71%) vSphere
7 23 (1.89%) Firmware
8 21 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
8 21 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (1.39%) pfSense
11 15 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
12 11 (0.90%) NFS
13 8 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
14 5 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.41%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.16%) KVM
16 2 (0.16%) QEMU
16 2 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 179 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 114 (9.35%) Terraform
3 102 (8.37%) Ansible
4 99 (8.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (5.50%) Jamf Pro
6 42 (3.45%) SCOM
6 42 (3.45%) vCenter Server
7 37 (3.04%) SCCM
8 34 (2.79%) ZABBIX
9 31 (2.54%) Puppet
10 30 (2.46%) WSUS
11 20 (1.64%) Grafana
11 20 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
12 17 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (1.31%) NetBackup
14 15 (1.23%) Data Guard
15 13 (1.07%) WMI
16 11 (0.90%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.90%) Nagios
Vendors
1 281 (23.05%) Microsoft
2 171 (14.03%) Red Hat
3 166 (13.62%) VMware
4 122 (10.01%) IBM
5 67 (5.50%) CyberArk
5 67 (5.50%) Tanium
6 66 (5.41%) Oracle
7 48 (3.94%) Juniper
8 43 (3.53%) Cisco
9 40 (3.28%) Xilinx
10 34 (2.79%) Veeam
11 32 (2.63%) SAP
12 28 (2.30%) EMC
13 27 (2.21%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.05%) Palo Alto
15 20 (1.64%) Splunk
16 19 (1.56%) Dell
17 18 (1.48%) Atlassian
18 16 (1.31%) ServiceNow
18 16 (1.31%) Sun