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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 11 23
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 22 22 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 4.49% 15.07% 7.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.86% 59.46% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 23
10th Percentile £51,250 £35,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,188 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile - £76,875 £71,250
Surrey median annual salary £58,750 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.96% +22.73% -

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 35 37 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 7.14% 25.34% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 35 27 67
10th Percentile £28,250 - £31,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -7.14% -32.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £55,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £63,500
Surrey median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 18 July 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 8 (36.36%) GitHub
1 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) Firewall
1 6 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (9.09%) RTP
2 2 (9.09%) Unified Communications
2 2 (9.09%) VoIP
2 2 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 6 (27.27%) Retail
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Electronics
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Senior
2 12 (54.55%) Developer
3 9 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 9 (40.91%) Senior Developer
3 9 (40.91%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Administrator
4 6 (27.27%) DevOps Administrator
4 6 (27.27%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 6 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Real Time Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Real Time Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Swing
2 3 (13.64%) Django
2 3 (13.64%) Flask
3 2 (9.09%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (9.09%) Jinja
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 2 (9.09%) pytest
3 2 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) RFC 2833
3 2 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (9.09%) WebRTC
4 1 (4.55%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (27.27%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Robotics
3 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) AI
1 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 6 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (27.27%) Observability
4 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Physics
6 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.09%) OO
6 2 (9.09%) OOP
6 2 (9.09%) Open Source
6 2 (9.09%) Sentiment Analysis
6 2 (9.09%) Speech Recognition
7 1 (4.55%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.55%) Prototyping
7 1 (4.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Java
2 10 (45.45%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) C++
4 6 (27.27%) Bash
4 6 (27.27%) C
4 6 (27.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Kamailio
3 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Ansible
2 6 (27.27%) Grafana
2 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
2 6 (27.27%) Proxmox
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (9.09%) BT
2 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Mitel