Linux Jobs in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 843 698 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.08% 10.36% 13.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.65% 55.44% 59.93%
Number of salaries quoted 540 315 623
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,007 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £56,504 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.07% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,632 1,259 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.58% 18.69% 23.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 746 1,185
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,578 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,918 £62,331 £66,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £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 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 May 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 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
Gloucestershire -1 333 £55,000 -0.90% 33
Wiltshire +8 159 £50,000 -27.27% 23
Bristol -1 156 £62,500 +4.17% 76
Devon +12 77 £37,500 -16.67% 10
Dorset -25 60 £50,000 - 5
Somerset +7 46 £42,750 -20.47% 20
Cornwall - 4 £55,000 - 1
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 66 (7.83%) Apache
2 32 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.61%) nginx
4 21 (2.49%) Jupyter
5 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.30%) Confluence
7 6 (0.71%) IIS
7 6 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.59%) JBoss
9 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.47%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.36%) Captiva
10 3 (0.36%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.36%) FileNet
10 3 (0.36%) GlassFish
10 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.59%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.24%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.24%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 243 (28.83%) AWS
2 183 (21.71%) Azure
3 103 (12.22%) OpenShift
4 40 (4.74%) SaaS
5 39 (4.63%) GCP
5 39 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (3.91%) Amazon S3
7 25 (2.97%) PaaS
8 24 (2.85%) IaaS
9 20 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (2.37%) Serverless
10 19 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (2.02%) MinIO
12 12 (1.42%) Nutanix
13 9 (1.07%) GitHub
14 8 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (0.95%) Power Platform
15 7 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.42%) Firewall
2 69 (8.19%) TCP/IP
3 61 (7.24%) DNS
4 43 (5.10%) HTTP
5 40 (4.74%) DHCP
6 31 (3.68%) Internet
7 27 (3.20%) VSAN
8 22 (2.61%) WAN
9 20 (2.37%) AMQP
10 18 (2.14%) SAN
11 16 (1.90%) Ethernet
11 16 (1.90%) Wireless
12 15 (1.78%) iSCSI
13 13 (1.54%) 5G
13 13 (1.54%) LAN
13 13 (1.54%) NAS
14 12 (1.42%) Network Security
15 11 (1.30%) RS-232
16 10 (1.19%) VLAN
17 9 (1.07%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.46%) Big Data
2 42 (4.98%) MongoDB
3 36 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 32 (3.80%) Hadoop
5 31 (3.68%) MySQL
6 18 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.02%) Presto
8 15 (1.78%) Cloudera CDH
9 11 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.19%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.95%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.95%) Power BI
13 7 (0.83%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.83%) SQLite
14 6 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.59%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.47%) GIS
16 4 (0.47%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 68 (8.07%) JIRA
2 61 (7.24%) Git
3 53 (6.29%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.08%) Subversion
5 19 (2.25%) Visual Studio
6 17 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (1.54%) Eclipse
8 10 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.71%) Postman
9 6 (0.71%) RStudio
10 5 (0.59%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.47%) Gradle
11 4 (0.47%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.47%) Maven
11 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.36%) GitLab
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
13 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 144 (17.08%) Social Skills
2 130 (15.42%) Aerospace
3 65 (7.71%) Finance
4 62 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.27%) Electronics
7 31 (3.68%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.32%) Marketing
9 27 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 19 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.90%) Retail
12 9 (1.07%) Aviation
13 8 (0.95%) Automotive
14 7 (0.83%) Avionics
15 6 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Military
15 6 (0.71%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.59%) Banking
16 5 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 168 (19.93%) Software Engineer
2 156 (18.51%) Senior
3 135 (16.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 88 (10.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (10.08%) Administrator
6 71 (8.42%) Embedded Engineer
7 70 (8.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 60 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 57 (6.76%) Linux Engineer
10 53 (6.29%) Developer
11 52 (6.17%) Systems Engineer
12 44 (5.22%) Lead
13 39 (4.63%) Systems Administrator
14 38 (4.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (4.27%) Architect
16 33 (3.91%) DBA
17 31 (3.68%) Consultant
18 29 (3.44%) Linux Administrator
18 29 (3.44%) Support Engineer
19 27 (3.20%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
1 45 (5.34%) React
2 32 (3.80%) HTML
3 30 (3.56%) REST
4 28 (3.32%) Apache NiFi
5 25 (2.97%) AngularJS
5 25 (2.97%) CSS
5 25 (2.97%) Qt
6 22 (2.61%) Spring Boot
7 21 (2.49%) JSON
7 21 (2.49%) STL
7 21 (2.49%) Swagger
7 21 (2.49%) XML
7 21 (2.49%) YAML
8 20 (2.37%) Spring
9 19 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.14%) Node.js
11 17 (2.02%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (2.02%) jQuery
12 15 (1.78%) KML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.69%) Public Cloud
2 37 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
5 28 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (3.20%) GNSS
7 24 (2.85%) Cyber Defence
8 19 (2.25%) FPGA
9 17 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 16 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 16 (1.90%) PKI
11 14 (1.66%) EMC VNX
11 14 (1.66%) VHDL
12 11 (1.30%) Analogue Electronics
12 11 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.30%) Device Driver
12 11 (1.30%) Operational Technology
13 8 (0.95%) Replication
13 8 (0.95%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 327 (38.79%) Windows
2 123 (14.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 81 (9.61%) CentOS
4 66 (7.83%) Embedded Linux
5 63 (7.47%) Unix
6 50 (5.93%) Ubuntu
6 50 (5.93%) Windows Server
7 49 (5.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 41 (4.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 36 (4.27%) Debian
10 35 (4.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 23 (2.73%) Windows 10
12 20 (2.37%) CoreOS
13 10 (1.19%) AIX
13 10 (1.19%) Solaris
14 9 (1.07%) Android
15 8 (0.95%) VMS
16 7 (0.83%) Apple iOS
16 7 (0.83%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (25.27%) Software Engineering
2 198 (23.49%) DevOps
3 171 (20.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 139 (16.49%) Agile
5 134 (15.90%) Actionable Insight
6 125 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
8 92 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
9 91 (10.79%) Containerisation
10 88 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 85 (10.08%) Configuration Management
12 82 (9.73%) CI/CD
13 80 (9.49%) Computer Science
14 78 (9.25%) Mentoring
15 72 (8.54%) Validation
16 61 (7.24%) B2B
17 59 (7.00%) SDLC
18 58 (6.88%) Scrum
19 52 (6.17%) Kanban
20 51 (6.05%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 355 (42.11%) Python
2 263 (31.20%) Bash
3 132 (15.66%) C
4 125 (14.83%) PowerShell
5 117 (13.88%) Java
6 107 (12.69%) SQL
7 77 (9.13%) C++
8 68 (8.07%) JavaScript
9 57 (6.76%) Embedded C
10 55 (6.52%) Rust
11 40 (4.74%) Shell Script
12 29 (3.44%) Perl
13 21 (2.49%) PHP
14 17 (2.02%) C#
15 13 (1.54%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.42%) Tcl
16 12 (1.42%) T-SQL
17 11 (1.30%) Go
17 11 (1.30%) MATLAB
17 11 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 434 (51.48%) Security Cleared
2 223 (26.45%) DV Cleared
3 123 (14.59%) Degree
4 119 (14.12%) SC Cleared
5 34 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.02%) HND
7 15 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.54%) CCNA
10 11 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 10 (1.19%) CCNP
11 10 (1.19%) RHCE
11 10 (1.19%) RHCSA
12 9 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.07%) PMP
13 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
15 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.25%) PMO
2 12 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (1.42%) QA
3 10 (1.19%) SLA
4 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.71%) NCSC
6 4 (0.47%) GDPR
7 3 (0.36%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.36%) MISRA
8 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 141 (16.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 136 (16.13%) Docker
3 59 (7.00%) Active Directory
4 53 (6.29%) Hyper-V
5 41 (4.86%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (3.91%) Firmware
7 29 (3.44%) vSphere
8 21 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (2.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (1.30%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.83%) KVM
11 7 (0.83%) XenApp
12 4 (0.47%) NFS
12 4 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.36%) Ceph
13 3 (0.36%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.36%) Gluster
13 3 (0.36%) oVirt
13 3 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.24%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 253 (30.01%) Ansible
2 176 (20.88%) Kubernetes
3 132 (15.66%) Puppet
4 116 (13.76%) Terraform
5 42 (4.98%) vCenter Server
6 33 (3.91%) Prometheus
7 29 (3.44%) Nagios
8 26 (3.08%) Grafana
8 26 (3.08%) Progress Chef
9 17 (2.02%) EMC NetWorker
9 17 (2.02%) HAProxy
10 11 (1.30%) ZABBIX
11 10 (1.19%) SCCM
12 7 (0.83%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.71%) Icinga
13 6 (0.71%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.59%) Rancher
14 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 182 (21.59%) VMware
2 157 (18.62%) Red Hat
3 122 (14.47%) Microsoft
4 52 (6.17%) Oracle
5 41 (4.86%) Cisco
6 27 (3.20%) Veeam
7 24 (2.85%) EMC
7 24 (2.85%) SolarWinds
8 19 (2.25%) Google
8 19 (2.25%) SaltStack
9 14 (1.66%) Citrix
10 13 (1.54%) NetApp
10 13 (1.54%) SAP
11 12 (1.42%) Brocade
12 10 (1.19%) Xilinx
13 8 (0.95%) Altera
13 8 (0.95%) Green Hills
13 8 (0.95%) Motorola
13 8 (0.95%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.83%) IBM