Linux Jobs in the Thames Valley

Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 24 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 438 527 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.54% 8.60% 14.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.07% 45.51% 60.13%
Number of salaries quoted 371 317 465
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,875 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £78,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,017 1,158 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.19% 18.89% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 875 715 1,022
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £29,000 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -15.42% -8.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £69,880
90th Percentile £68,100 £77,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Berkshire +5 241 £58,350 -10.23% 52
Oxfordshire +19 122 £42,500 - 17
Buckinghamshire -41 75 £45,000 - 14
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 25 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.34%) WebLogic
3 18 (4.11%) IIS
4 15 (3.42%) Oracle Service Bus
5 12 (2.74%) nginx
5 12 (2.74%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.83%) Apache
7 6 (1.37%) Confluence
8 5 (1.14%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.14%) WordPress
9 4 (0.91%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.91%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 131 (29.91%) Azure
2 76 (17.35%) AWS
3 44 (10.05%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.34%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (3.42%) Azure Storage
7 13 (2.97%) GitHub
8 12 (2.74%) OCI
9 11 (2.51%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.51%) GCP
10 9 (2.05%) IaaS
11 7 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.14%) SaaS
14 4 (0.91%) Amazon ELB
14 4 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.91%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 86 (19.63%) Firewall
2 76 (17.35%) DNS
3 56 (12.79%) DHCP
4 34 (7.76%) SAN
5 32 (7.31%) TCP/IP
6 31 (7.08%) VPN
7 21 (4.79%) SNMP
7 21 (4.79%) Wireless
8 20 (4.57%) NAS
9 19 (4.34%) WAN
10 17 (3.88%) LAN
11 15 (3.42%) VoIP
12 12 (2.74%) BGP
13 11 (2.51%) HTTP
14 10 (2.28%) SMTP
15 9 (2.05%) Internet
16 7 (1.60%) IPsec
16 7 (1.60%) VLAN
17 6 (1.37%) Network Security
17 6 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.22%) MySQL
2 23 (5.25%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.42%) Oracle Database 10g
4 15 (3.42%) Oracle Database 11g
4 15 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.42%) VLDB
5 9 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.60%) InfluxDB
7 7 (1.60%) MariaDB
8 6 (1.37%) GIS
9 5 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.14%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.91%) Power BI
10 4 (0.91%) QGIS
10 4 (0.91%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.68%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (4.57%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.34%) Git
3 12 (2.74%) JIRA
4 6 (1.37%) GitLab
5 3 (0.68%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.46%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.23%) Gradle
7 1 (0.23%) JUnit
7 1 (0.23%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 90 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 43 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (3.42%) Finance
4 14 (3.20%) Aerospace
5 12 (2.74%) Electronics
6 9 (2.05%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.37%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.91%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.46%) Law
10 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Games
11 1 (0.23%) Legal
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (18.04%) Senior
2 61 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (13.93%) Software Engineer
3 51 (11.64%) Support Engineer
4 39 (8.90%) Applications Support
5 32 (7.31%) Systems Engineer
6 31 (7.08%) Analyst
6 31 (7.08%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (6.39%) Linux Engineer
9 27 (6.16%) Applications Engineer
9 27 (6.16%) Embedded Engineer
10 25 (5.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 24 (5.48%) IT Support
12 23 (5.25%) Support Analyst
13 22 (5.02%) Developer
13 22 (5.02%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 21 (4.79%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 19 (4.34%) Lead
16 18 (4.11%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.57%) OpenMP
2 16 (3.65%) WPF
3 15 (3.42%) ARM Templates
4 14 (3.20%) OpenACC
5 11 (2.51%) React
5 11 (2.51%) Web Services
6 10 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (2.05%) HTML
8 7 (1.60%) .NET
8 7 (1.60%) CSS
8 7 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (1.60%) XML
9 6 (1.37%) Django
9 6 (1.37%) Qt
10 5 (1.14%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.14%) YAML
11 4 (0.91%) Knex.js
11 4 (0.91%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (0.91%) React Native
11 4 (0.91%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.27%) Data Centre
2 38 (8.68%) Algorithms
3 27 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (5.71%) PKI
5 21 (4.79%) IoT
6 20 (4.57%) CUDA
7 16 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (3.20%) CMDB
9 13 (2.97%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.37%) Life Science
12 6 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.37%) Replication
13 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.91%) EMC VNX
15 3 (0.68%) Data Structures
15 3 (0.68%) Molecular Biology
15 3 (0.68%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 191 (43.61%) Windows
2 78 (17.81%) Windows Server
3 59 (13.47%) Unix
4 46 (10.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (10.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (9.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (6.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (5.48%) Windows 10
9 23 (5.25%) CentOS
9 23 (5.25%) Embedded Linux
10 18 (4.11%) Ubuntu
11 15 (3.42%) Solaris
12 12 (2.74%) Windows XP
13 6 (1.37%) Mac OS
13 6 (1.37%) VMS
14 5 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.91%) AIX
16 3 (0.68%) Android
16 3 (0.68%) Rocky
17 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
1 84 (19.18%) Software Engineering
2 77 (17.58%) Agile
2 77 (17.58%) DevOps
3 65 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (11.19%) CI/CD
5 48 (10.96%) Computer Science
6 42 (9.59%) ITIL
6 42 (9.59%) Release Management
7 41 (9.36%) Physics
8 39 (8.90%) Mathematics
9 37 (8.45%) Actionable Insight
10 36 (8.22%) Software Testing
11 32 (7.31%) Open Source
12 31 (7.08%) Configuration Management
13 29 (6.62%) Artificial Intelligence
13 29 (6.62%) Performance Monitoring
13 29 (6.62%) Performance Tuning
14 28 (6.39%) Containerisation
15 25 (5.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 113 (25.80%) Python
2 78 (17.81%) C
3 69 (15.75%) SQL
4 54 (12.33%) C++
5 53 (12.10%) PowerShell
6 48 (10.96%) Bash
7 43 (9.82%) C#
8 33 (7.53%) PL/SQL
9 32 (7.31%) Fortran
10 21 (4.79%) Java
11 19 (4.34%) VBScript
12 17 (3.88%) JavaScript
13 16 (3.65%) XAML
14 14 (3.20%) Bicep
14 14 (3.20%) VB
15 12 (2.74%) Embedded C
15 12 (2.74%) Groovy
15 12 (2.74%) Perl
16 6 (1.37%) Ruby
17 5 (1.14%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 155 (35.39%) Security Cleared
2 123 (28.08%) Degree
3 107 (24.43%) SC Cleared
4 59 (13.47%) DV Cleared
5 42 (9.59%) PhD
6 38 (8.68%) Master's Degree
7 25 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (5.25%) CCNA
9 14 (3.20%) CCNP
9 14 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 12 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.28%) MCSE
12 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.91%) OCP
13 4 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.46%) CCIE
14 2 (0.46%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.62%) SLA
2 9 (2.05%) QA
3 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.23%) NCSC
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (20.55%) Active Directory
2 66 (15.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (11.87%) Docker
4 30 (6.85%) Hyper-V
5 26 (5.94%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (3.42%) Oracle RAC
8 14 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (2.97%) vSphere
10 12 (2.74%) Firmware
11 6 (1.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.68%) GPFS
14 2 (0.46%) KVM
14 2 (0.46%) QEMU
14 2 (0.46%) Xen
15 1 (0.23%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.23%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 68 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 54 (12.33%) Ansible
3 40 (9.13%) SCOM
3 40 (9.13%) Terraform
4 33 (7.53%) SCCM
5 31 (7.08%) vCenter Server
6 28 (6.39%) WSUS
7 27 (6.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (4.34%) Oracle RMAN
9 16 (3.65%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (3.42%) Data Guard
11 14 (3.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (3.20%) NetBackup
11 14 (3.20%) Rancher
12 6 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (1.37%) Prometheus
13 5 (1.14%) Nagios
13 5 (1.14%) Puppet
13 5 (1.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 5 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 109 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 96 (21.92%) VMware
3 40 (9.13%) Oracle
4 26 (5.94%) Veeam
5 25 (5.71%) Cisco
6 23 (5.25%) Juniper
6 23 (5.25%) Red Hat
7 21 (4.79%) Palo Alto
8 20 (4.57%) Dell
9 19 (4.34%) EMC
10 17 (3.88%) Sun
11 16 (3.65%) Dynatrace
12 15 (3.42%) Remedy
13 14 (3.20%) HP
14 13 (2.97%) 3PAR
15 12 (2.74%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (2.74%) Symantec
16 9 (2.05%) Aruba
16 9 (2.05%) Fortinet
17 8 (1.83%) SolarWinds