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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 31 20 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 5.72% 13.51% 6.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.50% 52.63% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 29 10 10
10th Percentile £35,500 £33,500 £46,775
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,563 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +6.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £63,438
90th Percentile - £77,500 £69,000
Surrey median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% -9.09%

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 40 38 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 7.38% 25.68% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 38 28 32
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 -
25th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% -7.14% -29.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £49,688 £58,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £67,125
Surrey median annual salary £42,250 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.63% -20.00% +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 12 September 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 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
2 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (19.35%) GitHub
2 6 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (3.23%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) Boomi
4 1 (3.23%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
1 6 (19.35%) VPN
2 5 (16.13%) DHCP
2 5 (16.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) LAN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Retail
3 3 (9.68%) Electronics
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Senior
2 7 (22.58%) Administrator
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Java Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior Java Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (19.35%) DevOps Administrator
3 6 (19.35%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) IT Support
5 4 (12.90%) IT Support Technician
5 4 (12.90%) IT Technician
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Support Technician
6 3 (9.68%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Real Time Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Real Time Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Swing
2 6 (19.35%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) GStreamer
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (19.35%) Private Cloud
3 5 (16.13%) Driving Licence
4 2 (6.45%) Device Driver
4 2 (6.45%) FPGA
4 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.45%) VHDL
5 1 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Robotics
5 1 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 6 (19.35%) Ubuntu
3 5 (16.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.23%) Debian
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) DevOps
2 7 (22.58%) AI
2 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
3 6 (19.35%) Cloud Security
3 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (19.35%) ITIL
3 6 (19.35%) Observability
4 5 (16.13%) Analytics
4 5 (16.13%) Customer Experience
5 4 (12.90%) Asset Management
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Inventory Control
6 3 (9.68%) Inventory Management
6 3 (9.68%) ITSM
6 3 (9.68%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (9.68%) Physics
6 3 (9.68%) Service Management
6 3 (9.68%) User Experience
7 2 (6.45%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) Bash
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) C++
3 6 (19.35%) Go
4 5 (16.13%) C
5 2 (6.45%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification
2 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) A+ Certification
4 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.45%) PhD
7 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) HND
7 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) vSphere
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Ansible
1 6 (19.35%) Grafana
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
1 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
1 6 (19.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) VMware
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco
3 5 (16.13%) Meraki
3 5 (16.13%) Sophos
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.23%) Sparx