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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 7 8 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 3.33% 6.15% 13.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.75% 72.73% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 24
10th Percentile £53,750 - £41,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +11.90% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,875 £62,625 £80,000
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%

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 16 11 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 7.62% 8.46% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 44
10th Percentile £27,950 £46,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £56,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% +33.80%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,625 £56,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £73,500 £64,250
Surrey median annual salary £38,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +5.00% +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 22 January 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 3 (42.86%) GitHub
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) RTP
2 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
1 2 (28.57%) Military
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Django
1 2 (28.57%) Flask
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (14.29%) Jinja
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RFC 2833
2 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (14.29%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) CAD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Sentiment Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Software Licensing
3 1 (14.29%) Speech Recognition
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C
1 4 (57.14%) C++
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 2 (28.57%) Proxmox
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) BT
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Mitel
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle