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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,189 1,210 2,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.07% 8.32% 11.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.75% 43.37% 51.00%
Number of salaries quoted 799 835 1,067
10th Percentile £34,700 £27,750 £31,250
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 £56,509 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.06% +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 2,848 2,790 4,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.94% 19.19% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,287 1,951 2,776
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 £70,400 £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 12 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 12 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 -10 428 £53,750 +8.59% 95
Hampshire +2 411 £57,500 +15.00% 60
Berkshire +2 234 £59,000 -11.61% 58
Surrey 0 210 £55,000 - 37
Oxfordshire +13 119 £42,500 - 25
Buckinghamshire -43 75 £45,000 - 12
West Sussex +19 47 £42,500 -5.56% 12
East Sussex +40 35 £50,000 -21.57% 5
Middlesex +9 35 £60,000 -31.43%
Kent -40 14 £40,000 +23.08% 7
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 (3.45%) Apache
2 32 (2.69%) IIS
3 28 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (2.35%) OpenStack
4 24 (2.02%) nginx
5 22 (1.85%) Confluence
6 19 (1.60%) WebLogic
7 14 (1.18%) Oracle Service Bus
8 7 (0.59%) WordPress
9 6 (0.50%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.34%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.34%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.084%) Kinematics
Applications
1 33 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.35%) Simulink
3 22 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.42%) 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 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.084%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.084%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 416 (34.99%) Azure
2 172 (14.47%) AWS
3 124 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (9.84%) IBM Cloud
5 97 (8.16%) Entra ID
6 80 (6.73%) Serverless
7 79 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (6.31%) Azure Functions
9 74 (6.22%) Azure API Management
9 74 (6.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 74 (6.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (2.78%) GitHub
11 17 (1.43%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.43%) GCP
11 17 (1.43%) SaaS
12 16 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.26%) Azure Storage
14 13 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (1.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 172 (14.47%) Firewall
2 113 (9.50%) DNS
3 87 (7.32%) 5G
4 77 (6.48%) Broadband
5 72 (6.06%) TCP/IP
6 69 (5.80%) DHCP
7 53 (4.46%) VPN
8 46 (3.87%) Wireless
9 43 (3.62%) SAN
10 33 (2.78%) SNMP
11 29 (2.44%) WAN
12 24 (2.02%) NAS
13 23 (1.93%) LAN
14 22 (1.85%) BGP
15 18 (1.51%) Network Security
16 17 (1.43%) HTTP
17 16 (1.35%) VoIP
18 15 (1.26%) SSH
19 14 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
20 13 (1.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (9.76%) NoSQL
2 112 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (8.58%) Relational Database
4 89 (7.49%) MySQL
5 87 (7.32%) MongoDB
6 86 (7.23%) DB2
7 32 (2.69%) SQL Server
8 23 (1.93%) Oracle Database
9 18 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.18%) Oracle Database 10g
10 14 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
10 14 (1.18%) VLDB
11 12 (1.01%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.93%) GIS
13 9 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.67%) Redis
15 7 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.50%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.50%) Power BI
17 5 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 114 (9.59%) Git
2 75 (6.31%) JIRA
3 50 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.78%) Subversion
5 24 (2.02%) Ant
6 22 (1.85%) GitLab
7 20 (1.68%) Visual Studio
8 18 (1.51%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.43%) Robot Framework
10 16 (1.35%) CMake
11 15 (1.26%) Vagrant
12 10 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.84%) Trac
13 5 (0.42%) GDB
14 3 (0.25%) Gradle
14 3 (0.25%) IntelliJ
15 2 (0.17%) CircleCI
15 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
15 2 (0.17%) GCC
15 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 239 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 151 (12.70%) Public Sector
3 123 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (5.55%) Electronics
5 66 (5.55%) Finance
6 55 (4.63%) Telecoms
7 50 (4.21%) Manufacturing
8 45 (3.78%) Aerospace
9 40 (3.36%) Military
10 34 (2.86%) Marketing
11 9 (0.76%) Aviation
11 9 (0.76%) Banking
11 9 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.34%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.34%) Billing
13 4 (0.34%) Legal
14 2 (0.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 237 (19.93%) Software Engineer
2 211 (17.75%) Senior
3 190 (15.98%) Developer
4 123 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 90 (7.57%) Support Engineer
6 85 (7.15%) Full Stack Developer
7 77 (6.48%) Embedded Engineer
8 76 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
9 74 (6.22%) Azure Developer
10 69 (5.80%) Linux Specialist
11 67 (5.63%) Technical Specialist
12 66 (5.55%) Lead
13 64 (5.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 53 (4.46%) Applications Engineer
15 52 (4.37%) Linux Engineer
16 43 (3.62%) Architect
17 42 (3.53%) Applications Support
17 42 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
18 41 (3.45%) Senior Embedded Engineer
19 39 (3.28%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (13.12%) HTML
2 134 (11.27%) REST
3 131 (11.02%) CSS
4 118 (9.92%) Web Services
5 116 (9.76%) .NET
6 115 (9.67%) React
7 102 (8.58%) AngularJS
8 92 (7.74%) Node.js
9 91 (7.65%) jQuery
10 87 (7.32%) Vue
11 78 (6.56%) ASP.NET
12 76 (6.39%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (6.39%) Backbone.js
12 76 (6.39%) Ember.js
12 76 (6.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 57 (4.79%) XML
14 43 (3.62%) Qt
15 35 (2.94%) Middleware
16 32 (2.69%) SOAP
17 29 (2.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.62%) Algorithms
2 122 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (9.76%) Blockchain
4 77 (6.48%) Data Structures
5 73 (6.14%) Data Centre
6 67 (5.63%) Social Media
7 62 (5.21%) IoT
8 56 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
9 34 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (2.19%) CMDB
12 25 (2.10%) Embedded Systems
12 25 (2.10%) PKI
13 23 (1.93%) Product Ownership
14 20 (1.68%) CUDA
14 20 (1.68%) Raspberry Pi
15 16 (1.35%) Robotics
16 15 (1.26%) Device Driver
16 15 (1.26%) Driving Licence
16 15 (1.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 540 (45.42%) Windows
2 137 (11.52%) Ubuntu
3 125 (10.51%) Windows Server
4 104 (8.75%) CentOS
5 96 (8.07%) Android
6 80 (6.73%) Unix
7 79 (6.64%) Apple iOS
8 77 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 70 (5.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 69 (5.80%) Embedded Linux
11 46 (3.87%) Windows Server 2019
12 43 (3.62%) Debian
13 40 (3.36%) Alpine Linux
14 36 (3.03%) Windows 10
15 27 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
16 15 (1.26%) Solaris
17 12 (1.01%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.93%) AIX
19 10 (0.84%) VMS
20 8 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (26.41%) Software Engineering
2 311 (26.16%) DevOps
3 262 (22.04%) Artificial Intelligence
4 256 (21.53%) Agile
5 210 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (11.94%) CI/CD
6 142 (11.94%) Computer Science
7 137 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 133 (11.19%) OO
9 121 (10.18%) OOP
10 116 (9.76%) Co-Creation
11 109 (9.17%) Mathematics
12 104 (8.75%) MVC
13 100 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
14 99 (8.33%) Web Development
15 98 (8.24%) Full Stack Development
16 96 (8.07%) Actionable Insight
17 92 (7.74%) MVVM
17 92 (7.74%) SOLID
18 84 (7.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 389 (32.72%) Python
2 269 (22.62%) Java
3 251 (21.11%) SQL
4 230 (19.34%) C++
5 202 (16.99%) C
6 198 (16.65%) JavaScript
7 181 (15.22%) C#
8 150 (12.62%) Bash
9 113 (9.50%) PowerShell
10 38 (3.20%) Kotlin
11 35 (2.94%) PL/SQL
12 33 (2.78%) Perl
13 32 (2.69%) Fortran
13 32 (2.69%) PHP
14 24 (2.02%) Go
15 18 (1.51%) Bicep
15 18 (1.51%) VB
16 17 (1.43%) Embedded C
17 16 (1.35%) VBScript
17 16 (1.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 321 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 273 (22.96%) Degree
3 242 (20.35%) SC Cleared
4 102 (8.58%) DV Cleared
5 93 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (5.47%) Master's Degree
7 58 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.71%) MCSE
9 55 (4.63%) Azure Certification
10 46 (3.87%) PhD
11 43 (3.62%) MCSA
12 36 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
13 34 (2.86%) CCNA
14 24 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (1.43%) CCNP
16 12 (1.01%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
18 5 (0.42%) A+ Certification
18 5 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 4 (0.34%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.45%) SLA
2 17 (1.43%) QA
3 7 (0.59%) ISO 13485
3 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.34%) GDPR
4 4 (0.34%) IEC 61131
4 4 (0.34%) JTAG
5 3 (0.25%) GRC
6 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.084%) NIST
7 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 192 (16.15%) Active Directory
2 139 (11.69%) Docker
3 102 (8.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 32 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.61%) vSphere
7 26 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.02%) Firmware
9 21 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (1.35%) pfSense
11 15 (1.26%) Oracle RAC
12 14 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.84%) NFS
14 7 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
15 6 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 5 (0.42%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.25%) GPFS
17 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
18 2 (0.17%) KVM
18 2 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 174 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 117 (9.84%) Terraform
3 104 (8.75%) Ansible
4 97 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (5.63%) Jamf Pro
6 46 (3.87%) vCenter Server
7 42 (3.53%) SCOM
8 34 (2.86%) ZABBIX
9 33 (2.78%) SCCM
10 28 (2.35%) WSUS
11 27 (2.27%) Puppet
12 21 (1.77%) Grafana
13 19 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
14 15 (1.26%) Data Guard
14 15 (1.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 15 (1.26%) NetBackup
14 15 (1.26%) Rancher
15 14 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (1.09%) WMI
17 11 (0.93%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 264 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 173 (14.55%) Red Hat
3 164 (13.79%) VMware
4 123 (10.34%) IBM
5 67 (5.63%) CyberArk
5 67 (5.63%) Tanium
6 65 (5.47%) Oracle
7 49 (4.12%) Juniper
8 41 (3.45%) Cisco
9 35 (2.94%) Veeam
10 32 (2.69%) SAP
11 28 (2.35%) Xilinx
12 27 (2.27%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.19%) EMC
14 24 (2.02%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.77%) Dell
16 20 (1.68%) Splunk
17 18 (1.51%) Atlassian
18 16 (1.35%) HP
18 16 (1.35%) Sun