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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 15 14 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 10.64% 5.88% 7.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.45% 38.89% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 12
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,300 £35,675
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +58.46%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £57,688
90th Percentile - £62,750 £60,725
Surrey median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +18.28%

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 33 36 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 23.40% 15.13% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23 29 33
10th Percentile £30,500 - £28,821
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £33,750 £57,500 £57,250
90th Percentile £51,750 £62,750 £68,750
Surrey median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Job vacancy trend for Linux 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 21 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Guildford

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Wireless
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Administrator
1 9 (60.00%) IT Administrator
1 9 (60.00%) IT Support
2 5 (33.33%) IT Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Support
3 2 (13.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (20.00%) FPGA
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Device Driver
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (73.33%) Mentoring
2 9 (60.00%) Inventory Management
3 3 (20.00%) CAD
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Physics
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Device Driver Development
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.67%) Schematic Capture
5 1 (6.67%) Security Patching
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C
1 2 (13.33%) C++
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded C
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded C++
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (66.67%) CCNA
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (66.67%) MCSE
2 10 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (33.33%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) HND
5 2 (13.33%) PhD
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.67%) HNC
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) vSphere
2 3 (20.00%) Firmware
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Podman
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (66.67%) VMware
3 9 (60.00%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 1 (6.67%) Adobe
5 1 (6.67%) NetApp
5 1 (6.67%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk