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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 24 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 445 529 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.59% 8.59% 13.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.95% 45.14% 58.54%
Number of salaries quoted 376 313 454
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,875 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £74,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
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 1,036 1,172 1,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 19.03% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 893 718 1,006
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £28,965 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £67,500 £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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +6 248 £58,350 -2.75% 53
Oxfordshire +18 122 £42,500 - 29
Buckinghamshire -42 75 £45,000 - 18
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 27 (6.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.27%) IIS
2 19 (4.27%) WebLogic
3 15 (3.37%) Oracle Service Bus
4 13 (2.92%) nginx
5 12 (2.70%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.80%) Apache
7 7 (1.57%) Confluence
8 5 (1.12%) WordPress
9 4 (0.90%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.90%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.22%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 132 (29.66%) Azure
2 81 (18.20%) AWS
3 45 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.27%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (3.37%) Azure Storage
7 13 (2.92%) GitHub
8 12 (2.70%) OCI
9 11 (2.47%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.47%) GCP
10 9 (2.02%) IaaS
11 7 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.35%) Serverless
12 6 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.12%) SaaS
14 4 (0.90%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 87 (19.55%) Firewall
2 76 (17.08%) DNS
3 56 (12.58%) DHCP
4 33 (7.42%) SAN
5 32 (7.19%) TCP/IP
6 30 (6.74%) VPN
7 22 (4.94%) SNMP
8 19 (4.27%) NAS
8 19 (4.27%) WAN
8 19 (4.27%) Wireless
9 17 (3.82%) LAN
10 15 (3.37%) VoIP
11 12 (2.70%) BGP
12 11 (2.47%) HTTP
12 11 (2.47%) Internet
13 10 (2.25%) SMTP
14 7 (1.57%) IPsec
14 7 (1.57%) VLAN
15 6 (1.35%) Network Security
15 6 (1.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.31%) MySQL
2 23 (5.17%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.37%) Oracle Database 10g
4 15 (3.37%) Oracle Database 11g
4 15 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.37%) VLDB
5 10 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.57%) InfluxDB
7 7 (1.57%) MariaDB
8 6 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.35%) GIS
9 5 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.90%) QGIS
10 4 (0.90%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.67%) DB2
11 3 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 20 (4.49%) Git
3 14 (3.15%) JIRA
4 8 (1.80%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) IntelliJ
5 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.45%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.22%) Gradle
7 1 (0.22%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Maven
7 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 91 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (3.37%) Finance
4 14 (3.15%) Aerospace
5 12 (2.70%) Electronics
6 9 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.35%) Public Sector
10 4 (0.90%) Aeronautics
11 3 (0.67%) Law
12 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Games
13 1 (0.22%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (17.98%) Senior
2 63 (14.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 59 (13.26%) Software Engineer
4 54 (12.13%) Support Engineer
5 40 (8.99%) Applications Support
6 33 (7.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (7.42%) Systems Engineer
7 32 (7.19%) Analyst
8 30 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (6.29%) Applications Engineer
9 28 (6.29%) Linux Engineer
10 25 (5.62%) Embedded Engineer
11 24 (5.39%) Support Analyst
12 23 (5.17%) Developer
12 23 (5.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 23 (5.17%) IT Support
13 21 (4.72%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 20 (4.49%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 19 (4.27%) Technical Support
15 19 (4.27%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.49%) OpenMP
2 16 (3.60%) ARM Templates
3 15 (3.37%) WPF
4 14 (3.15%) OpenACC
5 11 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (2.47%) React
5 11 (2.47%) Web Services
6 10 (2.25%) HTML
7 9 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (1.80%) XML
9 7 (1.57%) .NET
9 7 (1.57%) CSS
10 6 (1.35%) Django
10 6 (1.35%) REST
10 6 (1.35%) Spring
11 5 (1.12%) Qt
11 5 (1.12%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.12%) YAML
12 4 (0.90%) Node.js
12 4 (0.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.11%) Data Centre
2 37 (8.31%) Algorithms
3 26 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (5.62%) PKI
5 23 (5.17%) IoT
6 20 (4.49%) CUDA
7 16 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
8 15 (3.37%) CMDB
9 13 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.35%) Life Science
12 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.35%) Replication
13 4 (0.90%) EMC VNX
14 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.67%) Raspberry Pi
14 3 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 192 (43.15%) Windows
2 80 (17.98%) Windows Server
3 59 (13.26%) Unix
4 45 (10.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (9.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (6.07%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (5.39%) Windows 10
9 23 (5.17%) CentOS
10 22 (4.94%) Embedded Linux
11 17 (3.82%) Ubuntu
12 15 (3.37%) Solaris
13 12 (2.70%) Windows XP
14 6 (1.35%) VMS
15 5 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.12%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.90%) AIX
17 3 (0.67%) Android
17 3 (0.67%) Rocky
18 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (18.65%) Software Engineering
3 81 (18.20%) Agile
4 80 (17.98%) DevOps
5 66 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 51 (11.46%) CI/CD
7 46 (10.34%) Computer Science
8 43 (9.66%) ITIL
8 43 (9.66%) Release Management
9 41 (9.21%) Physics
10 39 (8.76%) Mathematics
11 37 (8.31%) Actionable Insight
12 36 (8.09%) Software Testing
13 33 (7.42%) Configuration Management
14 32 (7.19%) Open Source
15 29 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence
15 29 (6.52%) Performance Monitoring
15 29 (6.52%) Performance Tuning
16 28 (6.29%) Containerisation
17 27 (6.07%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (26.07%) Python
2 77 (17.30%) C
3 71 (15.96%) SQL
4 53 (11.91%) PowerShell
5 52 (11.69%) C++
6 49 (11.01%) Bash
7 42 (9.44%) C#
8 34 (7.64%) PL/SQL
9 32 (7.19%) Fortran
10 24 (5.39%) Java
11 19 (4.27%) VBScript
12 17 (3.82%) JavaScript
13 15 (3.37%) Bicep
13 15 (3.37%) XAML
14 14 (3.15%) VB
15 13 (2.92%) Perl
16 12 (2.70%) Embedded C
16 12 (2.70%) Groovy
17 6 (1.35%) Ruby
18 5 (1.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 162 (36.40%) Security Cleared
2 120 (26.97%) Degree
3 113 (25.39%) SC Cleared
4 62 (13.93%) DV Cleared
5 42 (9.44%) PhD
6 38 (8.54%) Master's Degree
7 25 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (5.17%) CCNA
9 14 (3.15%) CCNP
9 14 (3.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 12 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.25%) MCSE
12 8 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.90%) OCP
13 4 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.45%) OSCP
14 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.74%) SLA
2 11 (2.47%) QA
3 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.22%) NCSC
4 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 95 (21.35%) Active Directory
2 67 (15.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (11.91%) Docker
4 30 (6.74%) Hyper-V
5 28 (6.29%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (3.37%) Oracle RAC
8 14 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (2.92%) vSphere
10 12 (2.70%) Firmware
11 6 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.67%) GPFS
14 2 (0.45%) KVM
14 2 (0.45%) QEMU
14 2 (0.45%) Xen
15 1 (0.22%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.22%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 71 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 56 (12.58%) Ansible
3 43 (9.66%) Terraform
4 41 (9.21%) SCOM
5 33 (7.42%) SCCM
5 33 (7.42%) vCenter Server
6 28 (6.29%) WSUS
7 27 (6.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (4.27%) Oracle RMAN
9 16 (3.60%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (3.37%) Data Guard
10 15 (3.37%) Rancher
11 14 (3.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (3.15%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (1.35%) Kibana
12 6 (1.35%) Prometheus
13 5 (1.12%) Nagios
13 5 (1.12%) Puppet
13 5 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (25.17%) Microsoft
2 98 (22.02%) VMware
3 40 (8.99%) Oracle
4 26 (5.84%) Veeam
5 25 (5.62%) Cisco
6 23 (5.17%) Juniper
6 23 (5.17%) Red Hat
7 21 (4.72%) Palo Alto
8 20 (4.49%) Dell
9 18 (4.04%) EMC
10 17 (3.82%) Dynatrace
10 17 (3.82%) Sun
11 15 (3.37%) Remedy
12 14 (3.15%) HP
13 13 (2.92%) 3PAR
14 12 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (2.70%) Symantec
15 9 (2.02%) Aruba
15 9 (2.02%) Fortinet
16 8 (1.80%) SolarWinds