Linux Job Trends in Guildford

Linux
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 23
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 39 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 7.07% 10.64% 5.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 79.59% 45.45% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 33 5 8
10th Percentile £34,750 £38,750 £45,825
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £50,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -11.11% +9.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £59,063
90th Percentile £85,000 - £61,125
Surrey median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% -9.09%

All Operating Systems
Guildford

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 49 33 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 8.88% 23.40% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 43 23 27
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 -
25th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -7.14% -8.49%
75th Percentile £63,750 £33,750 £58,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £51,750 £61,500
Surrey median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +11.11%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Linux job vacancy trend in Guildford

Linux
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Guildford over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Guildford

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) JBoss
2 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (20.51%) GitHub
2 8 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.26%) Azure
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (2.56%) Boomi
5 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) DNS
1 11 (28.21%) Firewall
1 11 (28.21%) VPN
2 8 (20.51%) DHCP
3 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) LAN
4 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Retail
3 4 (10.26%) Electronics
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Senior
2 9 (23.08%) Administrator
2 9 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps Administrator
3 8 (20.51%) IT Support
3 8 (20.51%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 7 (17.95%) Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Senior Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (15.38%) IT Support Technician
5 6 (15.38%) IT Technician
5 6 (15.38%) Support Technician
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Design Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Terraform
2 7 (17.95%) Swing
3 1 (2.56%) GStreamer
3 1 (2.56%) HTML
3 1 (2.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Driving Licence
1 8 (20.51%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (20.51%) Private Cloud
2 7 (17.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (7.69%) Device Driver
3 3 (7.69%) FPGA
3 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.69%) VHDL
4 1 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Robotics
4 1 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
2 8 (20.51%) Windows 10
3 6 (15.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.56%) Debian
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) DevOps
2 13 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (25.64%) Cloud Security
4 9 (23.08%) ITIL
5 8 (20.51%) AI
5 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Customer Experience
6 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (17.95%) Observability
7 6 (15.38%) Analytics
7 6 (15.38%) Asset Management
8 5 (12.82%) Inventory Control
8 5 (12.82%) Inventory Management
8 5 (12.82%) ITSM
8 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.82%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 5 (12.82%) Service Management
8 5 (12.82%) User Experience
9 4 (10.26%) Image Processing
9 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) Bash
3 9 (23.08%) Java
4 8 (20.51%) Go
5 6 (15.38%) C++
6 5 (12.82%) C
7 3 (7.69%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 8 (20.51%) A+ Certification
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) Degree
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.26%) PhD
6 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.56%) CCSP
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.56%) CISSP
7 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.56%) HND
7 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) vSphere
3 3 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) Firmware
4 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Ansible
1 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Grafana
2 8 (20.51%) Prometheus
2 8 (20.51%) Proxmox
3 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) VMware
2 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (20.51%) Cisco
3 8 (20.51%) Meraki
3 8 (20.51%) Sophos
4 2 (5.13%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.56%) Sparx