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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 8 8 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 3.85% 5.84% 12.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 72.73% 48.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 17
10th Percentile £37,500 - £40,750
25th Percentile £43,125 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +11.90% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,938 £61,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £62,625 £69,500
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

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 20 11 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 9.62% 8.03% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 36
10th Percentile - £46,750 £28,927
25th Percentile £30,500 £56,250 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +26.32% +46.15%
75th Percentile £51,563 £65,625 £55,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £73,500 £61,000
Surrey median annual salary £39,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% -

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 27 December 2025.

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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Electronics
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Military
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) IT Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) IT Support
1 2 (25.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (25.00%) FPGA
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) CAD
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Software Licensing
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) C++
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) CCNA
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) MCSE
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (25.00%) HND
3 2 (25.00%) PhD
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Podman
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (12.50%) Adobe
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk