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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 9 23
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 21 21 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 4.21% 14.09% 6.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.00% 53.85% 36.96%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 14
10th Percentile £50,000 £33,750 £47,325
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +6.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £77,500 £67,250
Surrey median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -25.00% +31.46% -3.18%

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 30 39 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 6.01% 26.17% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 30 29 41
10th Percentile - £30,500 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -7.14% -30.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £62,500
Surrey median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 29 August 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) JBoss
1 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Boomi
3 1 (4.76%) iPaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
1 4 (19.05%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 4 (19.05%) Retail
2 3 (14.29%) Electronics
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Senior
2 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Administrator
3 5 (23.81%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps Administrator
4 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Real Time Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Real Time Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Design Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Design Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Swing
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) GStreamer
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Device Driver
3 2 (9.52%) FPGA
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) VHDL
4 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Robotics
4 1 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Debian
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) AI
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (19.05%) Observability
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Physics
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
5 2 (9.52%) Customer Experience
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.52%) Device Driver Development
5 2 (9.52%) Image Processing
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.76%) ArchiMate
6 1 (4.76%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) C++
3 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 5 (23.81%) C
3 5 (23.81%) Python
4 4 (19.05%) Go
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) PhD
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) HND
5 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
1 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) Grafana
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
1 4 (19.05%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.76%) Sparx