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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 20 7 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 5.09% 6.80% 11.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.00% 70.00% 53.42%
Number of salaries quoted 19 7 36
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £43,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £46,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £74,375 £63,125
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,500 £75,625
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 25 10 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 6.36% 9.71% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 24 10 70
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,375 £31,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £66,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +39.47% +14.46%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £60,125
90th Percentile £80,500 £84,000 £65,375
Surrey median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +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 15 April 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) GitHub
1 11 (55.00%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
1 8 (40.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) HTTP
2 3 (15.00%) RTP
2 3 (15.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (15.00%) VoIP
2 3 (15.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 8 (40.00%) Retail
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Administrator
2 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps Administrator
2 8 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 8 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 3 (15.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Real Time Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Real Time Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Django
1 4 (20.00%) Flask
2 3 (15.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (15.00%) Jinja
2 3 (15.00%) OAuth
2 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (15.00%) pytest
2 3 (15.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) RFC 2833
2 3 (15.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (15.00%) WebRTC
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) AI
1 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (40.00%) Observability
3 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (15.00%) OO
3 3 (15.00%) OOP
3 3 (15.00%) Open Source
3 3 (15.00%) Physics
3 3 (15.00%) Sentiment Analysis
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Speech Recognition
4 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.00%) CAD
5 1 (5.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) Bash
2 9 (45.00%) C
2 9 (45.00%) C++
3 8 (40.00%) Go
4 5 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (40.00%) Ansible
2 8 (40.00%) Grafana
2 8 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 8 (40.00%) Proxmox
2 8 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) BT
3 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (15.00%) Mitel
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle