Linux Jobs in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 901 697 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.58% 10.76% 13.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.32% 56.94% 61.45%
Number of salaries quoted 550 313 616
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £69,688 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,600 £77,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £63,066 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.79% +5.11% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,722 1,224 1,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.39% 18.90% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 726 1,151
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,875 £26,737
25th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £33,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the South West

Linux
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Gloucestershire +4 349 £55,000 -5.17% 42
Wiltshire +9 180 £50,000 -25.93% 31
Bristol +4 173 £60,000 +4.35% 50
Devon +8 80 £37,500 -22.68% 9
Dorset -23 57 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Somerset +1 45 £41,500 -17.00% 24
Cornwall -24 4 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 65 (7.21%) Apache
2 34 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.55%) nginx
4 20 (2.22%) Jupyter
5 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.44%) Confluence
7 8 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.78%) JBoss
9 6 (0.67%) IIS
10 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.33%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.22%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.22%) WordPress
13 1 (0.11%) CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Moodle
13 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 21 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.55%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.22%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.22%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 263 (29.19%) AWS
2 200 (22.20%) Azure
3 108 (11.99%) OpenShift
4 52 (5.77%) SaaS
5 47 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (4.44%) GCP
7 31 (3.44%) Amazon S3
8 24 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (2.55%) Serverless
10 20 (2.22%) PaaS
11 19 (2.11%) IaaS
12 16 (1.78%) MinIO
13 12 (1.33%) Nutanix
14 8 (0.89%) GitHub
14 8 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.89%) Power Platform
15 7 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (8.99%) Firewall
2 69 (7.66%) TCP/IP
3 65 (7.21%) DNS
4 45 (4.99%) HTTP
5 41 (4.55%) DHCP
6 30 (3.33%) Internet
7 28 (3.11%) VSAN
8 23 (2.55%) AMQP
8 23 (2.55%) WAN
9 19 (2.11%) SAN
10 17 (1.89%) Ethernet
10 17 (1.89%) Wireless
11 16 (1.78%) iSCSI
12 14 (1.55%) LAN
12 14 (1.55%) NAS
13 12 (1.33%) 5G
14 11 (1.22%) RS-232
15 10 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
16 9 (1.00%) Network Security
16 9 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.44%) MongoDB
2 48 (5.33%) Big Data
3 44 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 34 (3.77%) Hadoop
4 34 (3.77%) MySQL
5 19 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.00%) Cloudera CDH
7 16 (1.78%) Presto
8 13 (1.44%) Oracle Database
9 12 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.89%) Power BI
12 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.78%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.78%) SQLite
13 5 (0.55%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.44%) DB2
14 4 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 72 (7.99%) JIRA
2 63 (6.99%) Git
3 55 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.89%) Subversion
5 20 (2.22%) Visual Studio
6 16 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (1.66%) Eclipse
8 14 (1.55%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.67%) Postman
9 6 (0.67%) RStudio
9 6 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.55%) LabVIEW
10 5 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.44%) Gradle
11 4 (0.44%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.44%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.33%) GitLab
12 3 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
12 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 154 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.43%) Aerospace
3 71 (7.88%) Finance
4 67 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.00%) Electronics
7 33 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 31 (3.44%) Marketing
9 28 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.55%) Retail
13 10 (1.11%) Aviation
14 8 (0.89%) Automotive
15 7 (0.78%) Avionics
15 7 (0.78%) Banking
15 7 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.67%) Military
17 5 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 174 (19.31%) Software Engineer
2 165 (18.31%) Senior
3 147 (16.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 92 (10.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 87 (9.66%) Administrator
6 74 (8.21%) Embedded Engineer
7 73 (8.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 72 (7.99%) Linux Engineer
9 63 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 51 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
11 50 (5.55%) Developer
12 43 (4.77%) Lead
13 41 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 38 (4.22%) Architect
14 38 (4.22%) DBA
15 36 (4.00%) Systems Administrator
16 32 (3.55%) DV Cleared DBA
17 30 (3.33%) Consultant
18 29 (3.22%) IT Support
19 28 (3.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.55%) React
2 47 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
3 39 (4.33%) REST
4 35 (3.88%) HTML
5 29 (3.22%) AngularJS
6 28 (3.11%) CSS
7 26 (2.89%) Apache NiFi
8 24 (2.66%) Swagger
9 23 (2.55%) Qt
9 23 (2.55%) Spring
9 23 (2.55%) Spring Boot
9 23 (2.55%) XML
10 21 (2.33%) JSON
10 21 (2.33%) Node.js
11 20 (2.22%) STL
11 20 (2.22%) YAML
12 19 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (2.11%) gRPC
13 18 (2.00%) Material-UI
13 18 (2.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.99%) Public Cloud
2 37 (4.11%) Data Centre
3 36 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (3.22%) Linux Command Line
6 28 (3.11%) GNSS
6 28 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.77%) Cyber Defence
8 22 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.11%) FPGA
10 17 (1.89%) PKI
11 16 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 15 (1.66%) EMC VNX
13 14 (1.55%) VHDL
14 11 (1.22%) Analogue Electronics
14 11 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.22%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.11%) Replication
16 9 (1.00%) Client/Server
16 9 (1.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 347 (38.51%) Windows
2 125 (13.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 88 (9.77%) CentOS
4 63 (6.99%) Embedded Linux
5 62 (6.88%) Unix
6 58 (6.44%) Windows Server
7 56 (6.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 49 (5.44%) Ubuntu
9 47 (5.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 40 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 38 (4.22%) Debian
12 27 (3.00%) Windows 10
13 19 (2.11%) CoreOS
14 13 (1.44%) Solaris
15 10 (1.11%) AIX
16 9 (1.00%) Android
17 8 (0.89%) VMS
18 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
18 7 (0.78%) Windows 7
18 7 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (24.53%) Software Engineering
2 196 (21.75%) DevOps
3 180 (19.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 162 (17.98%) Agile
5 131 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (13.65%) Actionable Insight
7 111 (12.32%) Collaborative Working
8 101 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
9 95 (10.54%) Containerisation
10 88 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 86 (9.54%) Configuration Management
12 85 (9.43%) CI/CD
12 85 (9.43%) Computer Science
12 85 (9.43%) Mentoring
13 75 (8.32%) Validation
14 70 (7.77%) Scrum
15 64 (7.10%) Kanban
15 64 (7.10%) SDLC
16 62 (6.88%) B2B
17 56 (6.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 354 (39.29%) Python
2 267 (29.63%) Bash
3 130 (14.43%) C
3 130 (14.43%) PowerShell
4 118 (13.10%) Java
5 111 (12.32%) SQL
6 77 (8.55%) C++
7 68 (7.55%) JavaScript
8 57 (6.33%) Embedded C
9 54 (5.99%) Rust
10 36 (4.00%) Shell Script
11 31 (3.44%) Perl
12 24 (2.66%) PHP
13 20 (2.22%) C#
14 13 (1.44%) Go
14 13 (1.44%) TypeScript
15 12 (1.33%) Tcl
15 12 (1.33%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.22%) MATLAB
16 11 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 463 (51.39%) Security Cleared
2 245 (27.19%) DV Cleared
3 145 (16.09%) SC Cleared
4 142 (15.76%) Degree
5 37 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (1.89%) HND
7 15 (1.66%) CCNA
8 14 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.44%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.11%) CCNP
11 10 (1.11%) RHCE
11 10 (1.11%) RHCSA
12 9 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.00%) PMP
13 8 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.22%) PMO
2 16 (1.78%) SLA
3 15 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.33%) QA
6 6 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.67%) NCSC
7 3 (0.33%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.33%) MISRA
8 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.22%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.11%) GDPR
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 154 (17.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 148 (16.43%) Docker
3 60 (6.66%) Active Directory
4 59 (6.55%) Hyper-V
5 44 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (3.66%) Firmware
7 30 (3.33%) vSphere
8 24 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (1.33%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.78%) KVM
11 7 (0.78%) XenApp
12 5 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.44%) NFS
13 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.33%) Ceph
14 3 (0.33%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.33%) Gluster
14 3 (0.33%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 265 (29.41%) Ansible
2 187 (20.75%) Kubernetes
3 131 (14.54%) Puppet
4 129 (14.32%) Terraform
5 43 (4.77%) vCenter Server
6 32 (3.55%) Nagios
6 32 (3.55%) Prometheus
7 27 (3.00%) Grafana
8 24 (2.66%) Progress Chef
9 18 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (1.78%) HAProxy
11 12 (1.33%) ZABBIX
12 10 (1.11%) SCCM
13 7 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.78%) Icinga
13 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.67%) Opsgenie
14 6 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 193 (21.42%) VMware
2 175 (19.42%) Red Hat
3 144 (15.98%) Microsoft
4 62 (6.88%) Oracle
5 44 (4.88%) Cisco
6 29 (3.22%) Veeam
7 26 (2.89%) SolarWinds
8 25 (2.77%) EMC
9 22 (2.44%) Google
9 22 (2.44%) SaltStack
10 14 (1.55%) Citrix
10 14 (1.55%) NetApp
11 13 (1.44%) Brocade
12 11 (1.22%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.11%) SAP
13 10 (1.11%) Xilinx
14 8 (0.89%) Altera
14 8 (0.89%) Green Hills
14 8 (0.89%) Motorola
14 8 (0.89%) Salesforce