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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 33 19
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 427 393 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.91% 7.60% 10.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.09% 37.15% 45.89%
Number of salaries quoted 352 221 211
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +12.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +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 1,065 1,058 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.24% 20.47% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 915 622 748
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +4.65% -9.47%
75th Percentile £57,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,000 £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 18 May 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 18 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
Cambridgeshire +12 228 £55,000 -12.00% 86
Hertfordshire +6 102 £55,000 -4.35% 40
Norfolk +3 42 £32,500 - 2
Essex -9 20 £49,500 +23.75% 8
Bedfordshire -15 18 £40,000 -28.89% 3
Suffolk -2 17 £52,500 -35.19% 3
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 26 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.81%) Apache
4 11 (2.58%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (2.58%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (2.58%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (1.87%) Confluence
5 8 (1.87%) nginx
5 8 (1.87%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.70%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.17%) Simulink
2 2 (0.47%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 87 (20.37%) AWS
2 64 (14.99%) Azure
3 46 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (5.15%) AWS IoT
5 17 (3.98%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.51%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.81%) GCP
7 12 (2.81%) GitHub
8 10 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.87%) SaaS
10 7 (1.64%) Serverless
11 3 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.70%) DigitalOcean
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.47%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.47%) npm
12 2 (0.47%) Yarn
13 1 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.23%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.84%) Firewall
2 29 (6.79%) SAN
3 27 (6.32%) DNS
4 21 (4.92%) VLAN
4 21 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (4.68%) Internet
6 19 (4.45%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.45%) Wireless
7 16 (3.75%) Bluetooth
7 16 (3.75%) VPN
8 13 (3.04%) DHCP
9 8 (1.87%) NAS
10 7 (1.64%) LTE
11 6 (1.41%) LoRaWAN
11 6 (1.41%) MQTT
11 6 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (1.17%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.17%) PBX
12 5 (1.17%) SSH
13 4 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.30%) MySQL
2 22 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.98%) Power BI
6 15 (3.51%) MariaDB
6 15 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.28%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (3.28%) QlikView
8 12 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.94%) GIS
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
11 4 (0.94%) Spatial Data
11 4 (0.94%) Triplestore
12 3 (0.70%) Big Data
13 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database 11g
14 1 (0.23%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 42 (9.84%) Git
2 27 (6.32%) JIRA
3 19 (4.45%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.34%) GitLab
5 8 (1.87%) Appium
5 8 (1.87%) UI Automator
6 7 (1.64%) Subversion
7 6 (1.41%) ClearCase
7 6 (1.41%) ClearQuest
7 6 (1.41%) Trac
7 6 (1.41%) webpack
8 4 (0.94%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.70%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (0.70%) Rational Team Concert
10 2 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.47%) GCC
10 2 (0.47%) git-flow
10 2 (0.47%) Phabricator
10 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 113 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.84%) Automotive
3 37 (8.67%) Electronics
4 32 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.09%) Manufacturing
5 26 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (5.85%) Finance
7 18 (4.22%) Aerospace
8 13 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.64%) Games
10 6 (1.41%) Marketing
10 6 (1.41%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.17%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.94%) Local Government
12 4 (0.94%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.70%) Advertising
14 2 (0.47%) Law
14 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (22.72%) Developer
2 69 (16.16%) Software Engineer
3 63 (14.75%) Senior
4 45 (10.54%) Embedded Engineer
5 40 (9.37%) Linux Engineer
6 35 (8.20%) Administrator
6 35 (8.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 34 (7.96%) Consultant
8 33 (7.73%) IT Support
9 30 (7.03%) IT Engineer
9 30 (7.03%) PHP Developer
10 29 (6.79%) Support Engineer
11 26 (6.09%) Software Developer
12 22 (5.15%) IT Support Engineer
13 21 (4.92%) IT Administrator
13 21 (4.92%) Server Administrator
14 18 (4.22%) IT Technician
14 18 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (3.98%) Linux Developer
15 17 (3.98%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.77%) HTML
2 32 (7.49%) Node.js
3 25 (5.85%) CSS
3 25 (5.85%) React
4 14 (3.28%) Laravel
5 13 (3.04%) Django
6 12 (2.81%) Ajax
6 12 (2.81%) Fluent Bit
7 11 (2.58%) CSS3
7 11 (2.58%) HTML5
7 11 (2.58%) Vue
7 11 (2.58%) Yocto
8 10 (2.34%) RESTful
8 10 (2.34%) XML
9 9 (2.11%) Middleware
10 8 (1.87%) Flask
10 8 (1.87%) jQuery
10 8 (1.87%) REST
10 8 (1.87%) Sass
10 8 (1.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.46%) IoT
2 40 (9.37%) Embedded Systems
3 35 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (6.32%) Data Centre
5 21 (4.92%) Client/Server
6 20 (4.68%) Mobile App
7 19 (4.45%) Blog
8 18 (4.22%) Raspberry Pi
9 12 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.11%) Device Driver
10 9 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.11%) Smartphone
11 8 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.87%) RISC-V
12 6 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.41%) Robotics
13 4 (0.94%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 157 (36.77%) Windows
2 50 (11.71%) Windows Server
3 42 (9.84%) Android
4 33 (7.73%) Embedded Linux
5 22 (5.15%) Apple iOS
6 20 (4.68%) Ubuntu
7 17 (3.98%) Debian
8 15 (3.51%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.81%) Unix
10 11 (2.58%) Windows 7
10 11 (2.58%) Windows 8
10 11 (2.58%) Windows Server 2008
10 11 (2.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (2.34%) Windows 10
12 6 (1.41%) Alpine Linux
12 6 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.94%) FreeRTOS
13 4 (0.94%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (23.42%) Software Engineering
2 98 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (10.77%) DevOps
4 41 (9.60%) Agile
5 40 (9.37%) Computer Science
6 35 (8.20%) Test Automation
7 30 (7.03%) Mentoring
8 29 (6.79%) Multithreading
9 27 (6.32%) Customer Service
9 27 (6.32%) Server Management
10 26 (6.09%) OO
11 24 (5.62%) Benchmarking
11 24 (5.62%) Presales
12 23 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (5.15%) ITIL
13 22 (5.15%) Performance Monitoring
13 22 (5.15%) Vulnerability Management
14 21 (4.92%) Data Centre Operations
14 21 (4.92%) Multithreaded Programming
Programming Languages
1 104 (24.36%) C
2 102 (23.89%) Python
3 72 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 51 (11.94%) C++
5 45 (10.54%) PowerShell
6 43 (10.07%) PHP
7 39 (9.13%) Bash
8 36 (8.43%) SQL
9 34 (7.96%) Embedded C
10 33 (7.73%) C#
11 32 (7.49%) TypeScript
12 27 (6.32%) Shell Script
13 24 (5.62%) Java
14 12 (2.81%) Rust
14 12 (2.81%) VB
15 10 (2.34%) Embedded C++
16 8 (1.87%) Ada
17 5 (1.17%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.94%) Perl
18 4 (0.94%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 63 (14.75%) Degree
2 45 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (3.51%) CCNA
7 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.58%) MCSE
9 10 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.17%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.70%) HND
14 3 (0.70%) PhD
15 2 (0.47%) HNC
15 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.47%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.11%) QA
2 8 (1.87%) IEC 62304
2 8 (1.87%) ISO 13485
3 7 (1.64%) SLA
4 5 (1.17%) MISRA
5 3 (0.70%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 54 (12.65%) Active Directory
2 47 (11.01%) Docker
3 32 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.68%) Firmware
5 17 (3.98%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.87%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.70%) KVM
9 2 (0.47%) Lustre
9 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.47%) vSphere
10 1 (0.23%) iptables
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.23%) Samba
10 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.85%) Ansible
3 14 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (3.04%) Terraform
5 12 (2.81%) Fluentd
5 12 (2.81%) logstash
6 11 (2.58%) Progress Chef
6 11 (2.58%) Puppet
7 7 (1.64%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.70%) Grafana
9 2 (0.47%) Argo
9 2 (0.47%) Aspera SmartTrack
9 2 (0.47%) Podman
9 2 (0.47%) SCCM
9 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.23%) cPanel
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Packer
10 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 89 (20.84%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.58%) VMware
3 27 (6.32%) Red Hat
4 23 (5.39%) NetApp
5 21 (4.92%) Citrix
6 14 (3.28%) Cognos
7 12 (2.81%) IBM
7 12 (2.81%) Splunk
8 10 (2.34%) Cisco
9 8 (1.87%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.87%) F5
9 8 (1.87%) Sophos
10 5 (1.17%) Apple
10 5 (1.17%) Dell
10 5 (1.17%) Oracle
10 5 (1.17%) SAP
11 3 (0.70%) EMC
11 3 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.70%) HP
12 2 (0.47%) WatchGuard