Linux Jobs in the East of England

Linux
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 32 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 458 370 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.79% 7.85% 10.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.71% 37.56% 46.09%
Number of salaries quoted 385 217 216
10th Percentile £31,500 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,125 985 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.67% 20.90% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 958 606 772
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £24,275
25th Percentile £27,500 £30,688 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Cambridgeshire +12 239 £58,750 -6.00% 52
Hertfordshire +7 116 £55,000 -4.35% 54
Norfolk 0 43 £32,500 - 2
Essex -4 25 £55,000 +37.50% 21
Suffolk -1 18 £53,750 -40.28% 8
Bedfordshire -20 17 £40,000 -30.43% 2
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 27 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.84%) Apache
4 11 (2.40%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (2.40%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (2.40%) Exchange Server 2013
5 9 (1.97%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.75%) Confluence
6 8 (1.75%) nginx
7 3 (0.66%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.09%) Simulink
2 2 (0.44%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 91 (19.87%) AWS
2 66 (14.41%) Azure
3 47 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (4.59%) AWS IoT
5 18 (3.93%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.49%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.84%) GitHub
8 12 (2.62%) GCP
9 10 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.75%) SaaS
11 7 (1.53%) Serverless
12 4 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.66%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.44%) Google Workspace
14 2 (0.44%) npm
14 2 (0.44%) Yarn
15 1 (0.22%) Amazon EC2
15 1 (0.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.17%) Firewall
2 27 (5.90%) DNS
2 27 (5.90%) SAN
3 23 (5.02%) Internet
4 22 (4.80%) VLAN
4 22 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (4.59%) Wireless
6 19 (4.15%) TCP/IP
7 16 (3.49%) Bluetooth
7 16 (3.49%) VPN
8 13 (2.84%) DHCP
9 8 (1.75%) NAS
10 7 (1.53%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (1.31%) LTE
12 5 (1.09%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.09%) LoRaWAN
12 5 (1.09%) MQTT
12 5 (1.09%) PBX
12 5 (1.09%) SSH
13 4 (0.87%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.39%) MySQL
2 23 (5.02%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.80%) Relational Database
4 21 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.93%) Power BI
6 15 (3.28%) BusinessObjects
6 15 (3.28%) MariaDB
6 15 (3.28%) MongoDB
6 15 (3.28%) QlikView
7 12 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.87%) GIS
10 4 (0.87%) Redis
10 4 (0.87%) Spatial Data
10 4 (0.87%) Triplestore
11 3 (0.66%) Big Data
12 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (0.22%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 41 (8.95%) Git
2 27 (5.90%) JIRA
3 18 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.62%) GitLab
5 8 (1.75%) Appium
5 8 (1.75%) UI Automator
6 6 (1.31%) ClearCase
6 6 (1.31%) ClearQuest
6 6 (1.31%) Subversion
6 6 (1.31%) Trac
6 6 (1.31%) webpack
7 4 (0.87%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.66%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.66%) Rational Team Concert
9 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.44%) GCC
9 2 (0.44%) Phabricator
9 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 111 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 45 (9.83%) Automotive
3 35 (7.64%) Electronics
4 29 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.68%) Finance
5 26 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (5.46%) Manufacturing
7 18 (3.93%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.75%) Games
10 5 (1.09%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.09%) Marketing
10 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.87%) Local Government
11 4 (0.87%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.66%) Advertising
13 2 (0.44%) French Language
13 2 (0.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 101 (22.05%) Developer
2 77 (16.81%) Software Engineer
3 66 (14.41%) Senior
4 49 (10.70%) Linux Engineer
5 45 (9.83%) Embedded Engineer
6 36 (7.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 34 (7.42%) Consultant
7 34 (7.42%) IT Support
8 32 (6.99%) IT Engineer
9 30 (6.55%) Administrator
9 30 (6.55%) PHP Developer
9 30 (6.55%) Support Engineer
10 26 (5.68%) Software Developer
11 23 (5.02%) IT Support Engineer
11 23 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.15%) Architect
13 19 (4.15%) Systems Engineer
14 18 (3.93%) IT Technician
14 18 (3.93%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.26%) HTML
2 32 (6.99%) Node.js
3 26 (5.68%) CSS
3 26 (5.68%) React
4 14 (3.06%) Laravel
5 13 (2.84%) Django
6 12 (2.62%) Ajax
7 11 (2.40%) CSS3
7 11 (2.40%) Fluent Bit
7 11 (2.40%) HTML5
7 11 (2.40%) Vue
8 10 (2.18%) RESTful
8 10 (2.18%) XML
8 10 (2.18%) Yocto
9 9 (1.97%) Middleware
9 9 (1.97%) REST
10 8 (1.75%) .NET
10 8 (1.75%) jQuery
10 8 (1.75%) Sass
10 8 (1.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.07%) IoT
2 39 (8.52%) Embedded Systems
3 31 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (5.02%) Data Centre
5 21 (4.59%) Client/Server
6 20 (4.37%) Mobile App
7 19 (4.15%) Blog
8 18 (3.93%) Raspberry Pi
9 12 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.97%) Smartphone
12 8 (1.75%) Device Driver
12 8 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.75%) RISC-V
13 6 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.31%) Robotics
14 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 163 (35.59%) Windows
2 53 (11.57%) Embedded Linux
3 49 (10.70%) Android
4 47 (10.26%) Windows Server
5 24 (5.24%) Ubuntu
6 22 (4.80%) Apple iOS
7 20 (4.37%) Debian
8 17 (3.71%) Unix
9 15 (3.28%) Mac OS
10 12 (2.62%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (2.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (2.40%) Windows 7
11 11 (2.40%) Windows 8
12 10 (2.18%) Windows 10
13 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (1.31%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (1.09%) Solaris
16 4 (0.87%) AIX
16 4 (0.87%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (23.36%) Software Engineering
2 101 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (10.26%) DevOps
4 41 (8.95%) Agile
4 41 (8.95%) Computer Science
5 34 (7.42%) Test Automation
6 32 (6.99%) Mentoring
7 29 (6.33%) Customer Service
8 28 (6.11%) Multithreading
9 27 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (5.46%) OO
10 25 (5.46%) Presales
11 24 (5.24%) Roadmaps
11 24 (5.24%) Server Management
12 23 (5.02%) ITIL
13 22 (4.80%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (4.80%) Open Source
14 20 (4.37%) Benchmarking
14 20 (4.37%) Business Development
14 20 (4.37%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 109 (23.80%) C
2 103 (22.49%) Python
3 76 (16.59%) JavaScript
4 63 (13.76%) C++
5 43 (9.39%) PHP
6 42 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 38 (8.30%) Bash
8 35 (7.64%) Java
8 35 (7.64%) SQL
9 34 (7.42%) Embedded C
10 33 (7.21%) C#
10 33 (7.21%) TypeScript
11 28 (6.11%) Shell Script
12 14 (3.06%) Rust
13 12 (2.62%) VB
14 10 (2.18%) Embedded C++
15 8 (1.75%) Ada
16 5 (1.09%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.87%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.66%) Cython
Qualifications
1 63 (13.76%) Degree
2 47 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (3.49%) CCNA
7 14 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.62%) MCSE
9 10 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.09%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.66%) HND
13 3 (0.66%) PhD
14 2 (0.44%) CCNP
14 2 (0.44%) HNC
14 2 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.18%) QA
2 8 (1.75%) IEC 62304
2 8 (1.75%) ISO 13485
3 7 (1.53%) SLA
4 5 (1.09%) MISRA
5 3 (0.66%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.44%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (11.79%) Active Directory
2 45 (9.83%) Docker
3 36 (7.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.37%) Firmware
5 18 (3.93%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.66%) KVM
10 2 (0.44%) Lustre
10 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.44%) vSphere
11 1 (0.22%) iptables
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.22%) Samba
Systems Management
1 28 (6.11%) Ansible
2 27 (5.90%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.84%) Puppet
4 13 (2.84%) Terraform
5 11 (2.40%) Fluentd
5 11 (2.40%) logstash
5 11 (2.40%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.97%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.66%) Grafana
8 3 (0.66%) SCCM
9 2 (0.44%) Argo
9 2 (0.44%) Aspera SmartTrack
9 2 (0.44%) Podman
10 1 (0.22%) cPanel
10 1 (0.22%) Packer
10 1 (0.22%) SCOM
10 1 (0.22%) WSUS
10 1 (0.22%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 87 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 58 (12.66%) VMware
3 33 (7.21%) Red Hat
4 19 (4.15%) NetApp
5 17 (3.71%) Citrix
6 15 (3.28%) Cognos
7 12 (2.62%) Cisco
7 12 (2.62%) IBM
8 11 (2.40%) Splunk
9 8 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.75%) F5
9 8 (1.75%) Sophos
10 6 (1.31%) Oracle
11 5 (1.09%) Apple
11 5 (1.09%) Dell
12 4 (0.87%) Intel
12 4 (0.87%) SAP
13 3 (0.66%) EMC
13 3 (0.66%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.66%) HP