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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 25 13
Rank change year-on-year -75 -12 +13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 83 310 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.36% 7.21% 11.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.85% 54.67% 51.94%
Number of salaries quoted 63 154 259
10th Percentile £39,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £56,525 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +7.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,602 £68,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £82,750
South East median annual salary £56,430 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.14% +7.64% -

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 348 567 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.89% 13.19% 21.78%
Number of salaries quoted 301 323 571
10th Percentile £27,800 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £47,750 £60,000 £59,380
90th Percentile £66,250 £80,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.33% +14.44% -

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025. 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 -59 41 £53,065 -11.56% 291
Buckinghamshire -43 25 £70,000 +64.71% 62
Oxfordshire -11 17 £55,000 -8.33% 41
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 14 (16.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.23%) IIS
2 6 (7.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (1.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (43.37%) AWS
2 24 (28.92%) Azure
3 18 (21.69%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (9.64%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.43%) GCP
6 7 (8.43%) SaaS
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.02%) AWS KMS
8 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.61%) Google Workspace
9 3 (3.61%) Route 53
9 3 (3.61%) Serverless
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (2.41%) IaaS
10 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (33.73%) Firewall
2 20 (24.10%) DNS
3 13 (15.66%) SAN
4 11 (13.25%) DHCP
5 9 (10.84%) iSCSI
5 9 (10.84%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.02%) Wireless
8 4 (4.82%) InfiniBand
9 3 (3.61%) LAN
9 3 (3.61%) SMTP
9 3 (3.61%) VPN
10 2 (2.41%) FTP
10 2 (2.41%) HTTP
10 2 (2.41%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.41%) SpaceWire
10 2 (2.41%) SSH
10 2 (2.41%) VLAN
10 2 (2.41%) WAN
11 1 (1.20%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) MySQL
1 12 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (14.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.61%) Data Mining
3 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.20%) DTS
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.25%) Git
3 9 (10.84%) JIRA
4 7 (8.43%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.82%) Burp Suite
5 4 (4.82%) GitLab
6 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.61%) DbUnit
6 3 (3.61%) jMock
6 3 (3.61%) JUnit
6 3 (3.61%) Maven
6 3 (3.61%) Metasploit
6 3 (3.61%) MLflow
6 3 (3.61%) Mockito
7 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.41%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.20%) Mocha
8 1 (1.20%) Testinfra
General
1 34 (40.96%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.84%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.20%) Humanities
6 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.20%) Law
6 1 (1.20%) Legal
6 1 (1.20%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (19.28%) Senior
2 15 (18.07%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Support Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) IT Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) IT Support
7 5 (6.02%) Administrator
7 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (6.02%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Developer
8 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Lead
8 4 (4.82%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) Web Services
2 5 (6.02%) RESTful
3 4 (4.82%) Hibernate
3 4 (4.82%) SOAP
3 4 (4.82%) Spring
4 3 (3.61%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.61%) Bootstrap
4 3 (3.61%) JPA
4 3 (3.61%) PowerMock
4 3 (3.61%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.61%) REST
4 3 (3.61%) Spring Batch
4 3 (3.61%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.61%) Spring Integration
5 2 (2.41%) JSON
5 2 (2.41%) Qt
6 1 (1.20%) Jest
6 1 (1.20%) Vue
6 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.84%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.23%) Replication
4 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.82%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (3.61%) Animation
5 3 (3.61%) Life Science
5 3 (3.61%) NHS
6 2 (2.41%) Clustering
6 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (55.42%) Windows
2 12 (14.46%) Unix
2 12 (14.46%) Windows Server
3 11 (13.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (13.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (6.02%) Apple iOS
4 5 (6.02%) Mac OS
4 5 (6.02%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.61%) Kali Linux
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (2.41%) VMS
6 2 (2.41%) VxWorks
7 1 (1.20%) Android
7 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.12%) ITIL
2 15 (18.07%) Computer Science
3 14 (16.87%) Agile
4 11 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (10.84%) Containerisation
6 9 (10.84%) Time Management
7 8 (9.64%) DevOps
7 8 (9.64%) Open Source
8 7 (8.43%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.43%) Configuration Management
8 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (8.43%) Physics
8 7 (8.43%) Scrum
9 6 (7.23%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (7.23%) Customer Service
9 6 (7.23%) Data Management
9 6 (7.23%) Service Management
9 6 (7.23%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) Python
2 24 (28.92%) Bash
3 15 (18.07%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.25%) SQL
5 9 (10.84%) C++
5 9 (10.84%) Korn
6 7 (8.43%) Java
7 6 (7.23%) C
8 5 (6.02%) Perl
9 4 (4.82%) Fortran
10 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.41%) Groovy
11 2 (2.41%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.20%) C#
12 1 (1.20%) PHP
12 1 (1.20%) PL/1
12 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (38.55%) Degree
2 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.43%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.82%) A+ Certification
6 4 (4.82%) MCSE
6 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.82%) OSCP
6 4 (4.82%) PhD
6 4 (4.82%) RHCE
7 3 (3.61%) LPIC
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.41%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.41%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.20%) GPEN
9 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.61%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) NIST
4 2 (2.41%) ECSS
5 1 (1.20%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (32.53%) Active Directory
2 23 (27.71%) Docker
3 13 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (10.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (8.43%) Hyper-V
6 5 (6.02%) NFS
7 4 (4.82%) vCloud
7 4 (4.82%) vSphere
8 3 (3.61%) GPFS
8 3 (3.61%) Lustre
9 2 (2.41%) DFS Replication
10 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (25.30%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.46%) Ansible
3 7 (8.43%) SCCM
3 7 (8.43%) Terraform
4 4 (4.82%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (4.82%) Grafana
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.82%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.61%) Argo
5 3 (3.61%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.61%) Kubeflow
5 3 (3.61%) Nmap
5 3 (3.61%) SCOM
6 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.41%) SCSM
7 1 (1.20%) Packer
7 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (27.71%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.48%) VMware
3 13 (15.66%) Red Hat
4 10 (12.05%) Dell
5 9 (10.84%) Splunk
6 6 (7.23%) Atlassian
6 6 (7.23%) Cisco
7 4 (4.82%) Apple
7 4 (4.82%) Sophos
8 3 (3.61%) Arista
8 3 (3.61%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.61%) Google
8 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.61%) Trend Micro
8 3 (3.61%) Veeam
9 2 (2.41%) Juniper
9 2 (2.41%) Oracle
9 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.20%) SnapLogic
394 Linux jobs in the Thames Valley