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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 100 22
Rank change year-on-year +48 -78 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 206 114 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.74% 2.97% 7.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.74% 29.77% 54.25%
Number of salaries quoted 171 63 176
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,850 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,770 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,065 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -6.09% +5.11%
75th Percentile £70,625 £69,602 £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 482 383 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.40% 9.99% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 405 300 364
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 £48,463
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -22.62% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £61,550 £78,375
South East median annual salary £45,000 £38,413 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.15% -23.18% +5.26%

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 6 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 6 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 +56 92 £65,000 +26.13% 78
Buckinghamshire +3 57 £65,000 -7.14% 34
Oxfordshire -2 57 £55,500 +28.32% 70
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 (4.85%) Apache
1 10 (4.85%) nginx
2 7 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.91%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.94%) Lightworks
2 4 (1.94%) Simulink
3 1 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (5.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.04%) AWS
2 65 (31.55%) Azure
3 35 (16.99%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (12.62%) SaaS
5 23 (11.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (7.28%) Entra ID
7 14 (6.80%) Cloudflare
8 12 (5.83%) Datadog
8 12 (5.83%) GitHub
9 11 (5.34%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.85%) GCP
11 7 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.91%) Google Workspace
13 5 (2.43%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.43%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.43%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 57 (27.67%) Firewall
2 56 (27.18%) DNS
3 24 (11.65%) VPN
4 22 (10.68%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.37%) SAN
6 8 (3.88%) HTTP
6 8 (3.88%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.88%) SSL
7 7 (3.40%) DHCP
7 7 (3.40%) VLAN
8 5 (2.43%) Ethernet
8 5 (2.43%) iSCSI
9 4 (1.94%) MQTT
9 4 (1.94%) NAS
9 4 (1.94%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.94%) Wireless
9 4 (1.94%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.46%) Network Security
11 2 (0.97%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.34%) Power BI
3 7 (3.40%) MySQL
4 6 (2.91%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.43%) Big Data
6 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) Db2
Development Applications
1 11 (5.34%) JIRA
2 9 (4.37%) Git
3 5 (2.43%) GitLab
4 4 (1.94%) PetaLinux
5 3 (1.46%) JUnit
6 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.49%) JMeter
7 1 (0.49%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.49%) Mocha
7 1 (0.49%) Selenium
7 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 54 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.96%) Finance
3 32 (15.53%) Manufacturing
4 21 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.83%) Retail
6 10 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.88%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.88%) Automotive
8 6 (2.91%) Legal
9 4 (1.94%) Banking
9 4 (1.94%) Electronics
9 4 (1.94%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Advertising
11 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.49%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (16.99%) Senior
2 29 (14.08%) Analyst
3 27 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (11.65%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.71%) IT Support
6 18 (8.74%) Support Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Architect
7 17 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Linux Engineer
8 16 (7.77%) IT Engineer
9 15 (7.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Security Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) SOC Analyst
10 13 (6.31%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (5.83%) NOC Manager
11 12 (5.83%) Operations Manager
12 11 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (5.34%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 11 (5.34%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.85%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.17%) Terraform
2 14 (6.80%) Regular Expression
3 13 (6.31%) XMPP
4 11 (5.34%) LDAP
5 9 (4.37%) React
6 6 (2.91%) Django
6 6 (2.91%) Vue
7 5 (2.43%) JSON
7 5 (2.43%) Web Services
7 5 (2.43%) XML
8 4 (1.94%) JSON Schema
8 4 (1.94%) Node.js
8 4 (1.94%) Yocto
9 3 (1.46%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.97%) CSS
10 2 (0.97%) HTML
10 2 (0.97%) Qt
10 2 (0.97%) Spring
11 1 (0.49%) RESTful
11 1 (0.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.25%) Driving Licence
2 16 (7.77%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (7.28%) PKI
4 14 (6.80%) Embedded Systems
4 14 (6.80%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (4.85%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.85%) Robotics
6 9 (4.37%) IoT
7 8 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (3.40%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.40%) CSOC
8 7 (3.40%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (3.40%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.91%) Replication
10 4 (1.94%) FPGA
10 4 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.94%) Verilog
10 4 (1.94%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 110 (53.40%) Windows
2 35 (16.99%) Windows Server
3 23 (11.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (10.19%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.37%) Rocky
5 9 (4.37%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.88%) Mac OS
7 7 (3.40%) Debian
8 5 (2.43%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (1.94%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (1.46%) Gentoo
10 3 (1.46%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (26.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (22.33%) SIEM
4 39 (18.93%) ITIL
5 38 (18.45%) Software Engineering
6 36 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (17.48%) DevOps
7 34 (16.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (14.08%) Validation
9 28 (13.59%) CI/CD
10 21 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (10.19%) Process Improvement
11 19 (9.22%) Security Operations
12 18 (8.74%) AI
12 18 (8.74%) Test Automation
13 16 (7.77%) High Availability
13 16 (7.77%) Server Management
14 15 (7.28%) Customer Service
14 15 (7.28%) Vulnerability Management
15 14 (6.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 68 (33.01%) Python
2 57 (27.67%) PowerShell
3 47 (22.82%) Bash
4 27 (13.11%) C++
5 17 (8.25%) C
5 17 (8.25%) SQL
6 14 (6.80%) Rust
7 12 (5.83%) Go
7 12 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.85%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.37%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.88%) C#
11 7 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (3.40%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (2.43%) Java
12 5 (2.43%) Korn
13 4 (1.94%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.94%) Ruby
14 1 (0.49%) COBOL
14 1 (0.49%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 64 (31.07%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.11%) Degree
3 27 (13.11%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.77%) CompTIA Security+
5 14 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.80%) GIAC
6 13 (6.31%) GCIA
7 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (3.88%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (3.88%) CREST Certified
8 8 (3.88%) GCIH
9 7 (3.40%) GCED
9 7 (3.40%) SANS
10 6 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (2.91%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.91%) OSCP
10 6 (2.91%) PhD
11 5 (2.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.40%) MISRA
1 7 (3.40%) QA
2 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.94%) ECSS
4 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) GRC
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (16.99%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (12.14%) Docker
4 18 (8.74%) vSphere
5 15 (7.28%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (5.83%) Firmware
7 11 (5.34%) Hyper-V
8 10 (4.85%) KVM
9 9 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (2.43%) Squid
11 2 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.97%) iptables
Systems Management
1 24 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.22%) Ansible
3 15 (7.28%) Graylog
4 12 (5.83%) Grafana
4 12 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.88%) Kibana
5 8 (3.88%) Proxmox
5 8 (3.88%) ZABBIX
6 7 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.43%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.94%) Podman
9 2 (0.97%) Nagios
10 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.49%) QRadar
10 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (43.20%) Microsoft
2 50 (24.27%) VMware
3 30 (14.56%) Red Hat
4 24 (11.65%) Veeam
5 11 (5.34%) Dell
5 11 (5.34%) Sage
5 11 (5.34%) Splunk
6 10 (4.85%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (4.85%) McAfee
7 7 (3.40%) Carbon Black
8 6 (2.91%) Cisco
8 6 (2.91%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.91%) Google
8 6 (2.91%) Okta
9 4 (1.94%) Citrix
9 4 (1.94%) EMC
9 4 (1.94%) IBM
9 4 (1.94%) NetApp
9 4 (1.94%) Xilinx
10 3 (1.46%) NVIDIA