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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 22 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 6 8 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 2.97% 6.15% 13.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.50% 72.73% 51.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 19
10th Percentile £47,000 - £40,750
25th Percentile £48,125 £56,250 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +14.08% -1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,938 £59,250
90th Percentile £68,000 £62,625 £66,000
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -1.90%

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 16 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 7.92% 8.46% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 38
10th Percentile - £46,750 £28,997
25th Percentile £30,500 £56,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £60,000 £48,650
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +23.33% +43.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £55,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,500 £61,000
Surrey median annual salary £38,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% +10.53% +5.56%

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 8 January 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (33.33%) Military
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Software Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) FPGA
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) CAD
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Software Licensing
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) PhD
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) HNC
3 1 (16.67%) HND
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Podman
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk