Linux Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 121 23
Rank change year-on-year +70 -98 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 216 79 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.85% 2.09% 7.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.37% 22.64% 54.22%
Number of salaries quoted 176 62 163
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,675 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,953 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,065 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -6.12% +5.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,801 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 498 349 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.56% 9.21% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 413 302 345
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £48,925
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.35% -6.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £62,450 £80,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £38,325 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.42% -23.35% +7.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Linux job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Linux
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Berkshire +55 97 £65,000 +26.13% 68
Oxfordshire +4 61 £56,250 +25.00% 52
Buckinghamshire +24 59 £62,500 -10.71% 23
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (4.63%) Apache
1 10 (4.63%) nginx
2 6 (2.78%) Confluence
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.85%) Lightworks
2 4 (1.85%) Simulink
3 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (5.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 70 (32.41%) Azure
2 65 (30.09%) AWS
3 34 (15.74%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (12.50%) SaaS
5 25 (11.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 19 (8.80%) Entra ID
7 14 (6.48%) Cloudflare
8 13 (6.02%) Datadog
9 12 (5.56%) GitHub
10 11 (5.09%) Power Platform
11 10 (4.63%) GCP
12 9 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.70%) Google Workspace
14 7 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.78%) Azure AKS
15 6 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (2.31%) Nutanix
16 5 (2.31%) Power Automate
17 1 (0.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 60 (27.78%) DNS
2 57 (26.39%) Firewall
3 28 (12.96%) VPN
4 27 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.09%) DHCP
6 10 (4.63%) VLAN
7 8 (3.70%) HTTP
7 8 (3.70%) SSL
8 6 (2.78%) Ethernet
8 6 (2.78%) SAN
9 5 (2.31%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.85%) MQTT
10 4 (1.85%) NAS
10 4 (1.85%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.85%) Wireless
10 4 (1.85%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.39%) LAN
11 3 (1.39%) Network Security
11 3 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.09%) Power BI
3 6 (2.78%) Big Data
4 4 (1.85%) MySQL
5 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.46%) Db2
Development Applications
1 11 (5.09%) JIRA
2 9 (4.17%) Git
3 5 (2.31%) GitLab
4 4 (1.85%) PetaLinux
5 3 (1.39%) JUnit
6 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) JMeter
7 1 (0.46%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.46%) Mocha
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.46%) Storybook
General
1 52 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.13%) Finance
3 32 (14.81%) Manufacturing
4 23 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.56%) Retail
6 8 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.70%) Automotive
7 7 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.78%) Legal
9 5 (2.31%) Electronics
9 5 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.85%) Banking
11 3 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.93%) Military
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (17.59%) Senior
2 31 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (13.43%) Analyst
4 25 (11.57%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.72%) IT Support
6 19 (8.80%) Support Engineer
7 18 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (7.87%) Architect
8 17 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (7.87%) IT Engineer
8 17 (7.87%) Linux Engineer
9 16 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (6.02%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 13 (6.02%) Security Engineer
10 13 (6.02%) SOC Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) NOC Manager
11 12 (5.56%) Operations Manager
12 11 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (5.09%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.63%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.50%) Terraform
2 14 (6.48%) Regular Expression
3 13 (6.02%) XMPP
4 11 (5.09%) LDAP
5 9 (4.17%) React
6 6 (2.78%) Django
6 6 (2.78%) Vue
7 5 (2.31%) JSON
7 5 (2.31%) Web Services
7 5 (2.31%) XML
8 4 (1.85%) JSON Schema
8 4 (1.85%) Node.js
8 4 (1.85%) Yocto
9 3 (1.39%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.93%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.93%) CSS
10 2 (0.93%) HTML
10 2 (0.93%) Qt
10 2 (0.93%) Spring
11 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.87%) Driving Licence
2 16 (7.41%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (6.94%) PKI
4 14 (6.48%) Embedded Systems
4 14 (6.48%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.63%) IoT
5 10 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.63%) Robotics
6 9 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.70%) Replication
8 7 (3.24%) CSOC
8 7 (3.24%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.85%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.85%) FPGA
10 4 (1.85%) Verilog
10 4 (1.85%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 116 (53.70%) Windows
2 37 (17.13%) Windows Server
3 25 (11.57%) Ubuntu
4 20 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.09%) Rocky
6 9 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.70%) macOS
8 7 (3.24%) Debian
9 5 (2.31%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (1.85%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (1.39%) Gentoo
11 3 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.93%) Unix
13 1 (0.46%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (21.30%) SIEM
4 39 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (18.06%) Software Engineering
5 38 (17.59%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (17.59%) DevOps
6 37 (17.13%) ITIL
7 31 (14.35%) Validation
8 29 (13.43%) CI/CD
9 24 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (9.72%) Process Improvement
11 20 (9.26%) Security Operations
12 19 (8.80%) AI
13 18 (8.33%) Server Management
13 18 (8.33%) Test Automation
14 17 (7.87%) Customer Service
15 16 (7.41%) Analytics
16 15 (6.94%) Vulnerability Management
17 14 (6.48%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 70 (32.41%) Python
2 58 (26.85%) PowerShell
3 46 (21.30%) Bash
4 28 (12.96%) C++
5 18 (8.33%) SQL
6 17 (7.87%) C
7 14 (6.48%) Rust
8 13 (6.02%) Go
9 12 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.63%) JavaScript
11 9 (4.17%) Shell Script
12 8 (3.70%) C#
13 7 (3.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (3.24%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (2.31%) Java
15 4 (1.85%) MATLAB
15 4 (1.85%) Ruby
16 2 (0.93%) Bicep
16 2 (0.93%) Korn
17 1 (0.46%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 68 (31.48%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 31 (14.35%) DV Cleared
4 25 (11.57%) Degree
5 16 (7.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.48%) GIAC
7 13 (6.02%) GCIA
8 10 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
9 8 (3.70%) CREST Certified
9 8 (3.70%) GCIH
10 7 (3.24%) GCED
10 7 (3.24%) SANS
11 6 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (2.78%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.78%) OSCP
11 6 (2.78%) PhD
12 5 (2.31%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.24%) MISRA
1 7 (3.24%) QA
2 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.85%) ECSS
4 3 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) GRC
5 2 (0.93%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.19%) Docker
4 18 (8.33%) vSphere
5 15 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (6.02%) Firmware
7 11 (5.09%) Hyper-V
8 10 (4.63%) KVM
8 10 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.31%) Squid
10 2 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.93%) iptables
10 2 (0.93%) LXC
Systems Management
1 22 (10.19%) Ansible
1 22 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.94%) Graylog
3 14 (6.48%) Grafana
3 14 (6.48%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.70%) Kibana
5 8 (3.70%) Proxmox
5 8 (3.70%) ZABBIX
6 5 (2.31%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.85%) Podman
8 3 (1.39%) Nagios
9 2 (0.93%) SCCM
10 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.46%) Puppet
10 1 (0.46%) QRadar
10 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 52 (24.07%) VMware
3 28 (12.96%) Red Hat
4 26 (12.04%) Veeam
5 12 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (5.09%) Sage
6 11 (5.09%) Splunk
7 10 (4.63%) Dell
7 10 (4.63%) McAfee
8 8 (3.70%) Google
9 7 (3.24%) Carbon Black
10 6 (2.78%) Cisco
10 6 (2.78%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.78%) Okta
11 4 (1.85%) Citrix
11 4 (1.85%) EMC
11 4 (1.85%) IBM
11 4 (1.85%) NetApp
11 4 (1.85%) Xilinx
12 3 (1.39%) NVIDIA