Linux Job Trends in Surrey

Linux
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 38 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 81 63 174
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.71% 5.63% 7.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.12% 25.93% 47.67%
Number of salaries quoted 75 35 101
10th Percentile £41,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +4.98%

All Operating Systems
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 197 243 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 9.02% 21.72% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 174 186 257
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,250 £26,400
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £48,438 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £79,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Linux job vacancy trend in Surrey

Linux
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Surrey over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford -23 21 £62,500 -3.85% 6
Redhill +23 17 £45,000 - 8
Staines +2 11 £50,000 -28.57%
Woking -16 8 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Leatherhead - 4 - -
Egham - 4 £65,000 -
Chertsey - 2 £80,000 -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (6.17%) IIS
1 5 (6.17%) nginx
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.28%) AWS
2 12 (14.81%) Azure
3 10 (12.35%) GitHub
3 10 (12.35%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (8.64%) Azure AKS
7 6 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.41%) Cloudflare
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (4.94%) SaaS
10 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.47%) GCP
10 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.46%) Firewall
2 16 (19.75%) VoIP
3 11 (13.58%) LAN
3 11 (13.58%) WAN
4 10 (12.35%) TCP/IP
4 10 (12.35%) VPN
5 7 (8.64%) HTTP
5 7 (8.64%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (7.41%) VLAN
7 5 (6.17%) Asterisk PBX
7 5 (6.17%) Network Security
7 5 (6.17%) VSAT
8 4 (4.94%) BGP
8 4 (4.94%) DNS
8 4 (4.94%) IPsec
8 4 (4.94%) LTE
8 4 (4.94%) OSPF
9 3 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (3.70%) MPLS
9 3 (3.70%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.28%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.88%) MySQL
3 5 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) JIRA
2 7 (8.64%) GitLab
3 6 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 6 (7.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (4.94%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.94%) Git
5 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.88%) Electronics
2 8 (9.88%) Finance
3 7 (8.64%) Manufacturing
3 7 (8.64%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Military
4 6 (7.41%) Retail
5 4 (4.94%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Senior
2 20 (24.69%) Developer
3 14 (17.28%) Support Engineer
4 13 (16.05%) Senior Developer
5 9 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) IT Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) IT Support
7 7 (8.64%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Administrator
8 6 (7.41%) DevOps Administrator
8 6 (7.41%) Field Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Field Service Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Linux Support Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 6 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) Swing
2 6 (7.41%) pytest
2 6 (7.41%) React
3 5 (6.17%) .NET
3 5 (6.17%) ARM Templates
3 5 (6.17%) Loki
3 5 (6.17%) Node.js
4 4 (4.94%) Jest
4 4 (4.94%) LAMP
5 3 (3.70%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.47%) Django
6 2 (2.47%) FreeSWITCH
6 2 (2.47%) Jinja
6 2 (2.47%) OAuth
6 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.47%) REST
6 2 (2.47%) RFC 2833
6 2 (2.47%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (2.47%) WebRTC
6 2 (2.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 9 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.41%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.41%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.47%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) IoT
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Replication
5 1 (1.23%) Robotics
5 1 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (39.51%) Windows
2 15 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.88%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.41%) Debian
5 5 (6.17%) CentOS
6 4 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.86%) CI/CD
2 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.52%) DevOps
4 13 (16.05%) Agile
4 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Automation
5 11 (13.58%) AI
5 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
6 10 (12.35%) High Availability
7 9 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 9 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (8.64%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.64%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (8.64%) Observability
10 6 (7.41%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (7.41%) Mentoring
10 6 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.04%) Python
2 14 (17.28%) Bash
3 12 (14.81%) Java
3 12 (14.81%) PHP
4 9 (11.11%) Perl
4 9 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 8 (9.88%) C++
6 7 (8.64%) Ruby
7 6 (7.41%) Go
7 6 (7.41%) SQL
8 5 (6.17%) Bicep
8 5 (6.17%) C
8 5 (6.17%) C#
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.28%) DV Cleared
4 12 (14.81%) Degree
5 9 (11.11%) CCNA
5 9 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (8.64%) AWS Certification
7 5 (6.17%) HNC
7 5 (6.17%) HND
8 4 (4.94%) CCNP
9 3 (3.70%) CEH
9 3 (3.70%) CISM
9 3 (3.70%) CISSP
9 3 (3.70%) GIAC
10 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (7.41%) QA
3 5 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.70%) NIST
4 3 (3.70%) SLA
5 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 14 (17.28%) Docker
2 5 (6.17%) Firmware
2 5 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.47%) Kamailio
4 1 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (27.16%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.05%) Grafana
2 13 (16.05%) Terraform
3 12 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 11 (13.58%) Ansible
5 6 (7.41%) Proxmox
6 3 (3.70%) Argo
6 3 (3.70%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.05%) Cisco
2 13 (16.05%) VMware
3 6 (7.41%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.94%) New Relic
5 3 (3.70%) Qualys
5 3 (3.70%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.70%) Splunk
5 3 (3.70%) Zerto
6 2 (2.47%) BT
6 2 (2.47%) Mitel
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.23%) EMC
7 1 (1.23%) Google
7 1 (1.23%) Juniper
7 1 (1.23%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.23%) Siebel
7 1 (1.23%) Starlink