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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 23 12
Rank change year-on-year -79 -11 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 81 317 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.28% 7.31% 11.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.62% 55.23% 52.09%
Number of salaries quoted 61 161 260
10th Percentile £39,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +9.52% -8.30%
75th Percentile £69,203 £67,500 £64,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £56,430 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +9.52% -

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 343 574 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.64% 13.24% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 295 331 574
10th Percentile £27,880 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,875 £36,193
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +6.38%
75th Percentile £47,125 £60,000 £59,380
90th Percentile £65,750 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +15.56% -

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 17 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 17 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 -58 40 £53,065 -11.56% 87
Buckinghamshire -37 24 £70,000 +55.56% 55
Oxfordshire -12 17 £55,812 -6.98% 30
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 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.41%) IIS
4 4 (4.94%) Confluence
5 2 (2.47%) CMS
5 2 (2.47%) WordPress
6 1 (1.23%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.98%) AWS
2 24 (29.63%) Azure
3 17 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.64%) GCP
5 7 (8.64%) SaaS
6 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.94%) AWS KMS
6 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 3 (3.70%) Serverless
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.47%) IaaS
8 2 (2.47%) Route 53
8 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (34.57%) Firewall
2 19 (23.46%) DNS
3 12 (14.81%) DHCP
3 12 (14.81%) SAN
4 8 (9.88%) iSCSI
4 8 (9.88%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (8.64%) TCP/IP
6 6 (7.41%) Wireless
7 4 (4.94%) InfiniBand
8 3 (3.70%) LAN
8 3 (3.70%) VLAN
8 3 (3.70%) VPN
9 2 (2.47%) Ethernet
9 2 (2.47%) FTP
9 2 (2.47%) HTTP
9 2 (2.47%) SMTP
9 2 (2.47%) SpaceWire
9 2 (2.47%) SSH
9 2 (2.47%) SSL
10 1 (1.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.35%) MySQL
2 10 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.23%) DTS
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.11%) Git
3 8 (9.88%) JIRA
4 6 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.94%) Burp Suite
5 4 (4.94%) GitLab
6 3 (3.70%) Metasploit
6 3 (3.70%) MLflow
7 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.47%) DbUnit
7 2 (2.47%) jMock
7 2 (2.47%) JUnit
7 2 (2.47%) Maven
7 2 (2.47%) Mockito
7 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.47%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.23%) Testinfra
General
1 34 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.23%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.23%) Humanities
6 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.23%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Senior
3 10 (12.35%) Support Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) IT Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) IT Support
7 5 (6.17%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Administrator
8 4 (4.94%) Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Lead
8 4 (4.94%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) Web Services
2 4 (4.94%) RESTful
3 3 (3.70%) Hibernate
3 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.70%) SOAP
3 3 (3.70%) Spring
4 2 (2.47%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.47%) Bootstrap
4 2 (2.47%) JPA
4 2 (2.47%) JSON
4 2 (2.47%) PowerMock
4 2 (2.47%) Qt
4 2 (2.47%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.47%) Spring Integration
5 1 (1.23%) REST
5 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.41%) Replication
4 5 (6.17%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (4.94%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.70%) Animation
6 3 (3.70%) Life Science
6 3 (3.70%) NHS
7 2 (2.47%) Clustering
7 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (54.32%) Windows
2 13 (16.05%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.81%) Unix
4 10 (12.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (12.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (7.41%) Apple iOS
5 6 (7.41%) Mac OS
6 5 (6.17%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.70%) Kali Linux
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.47%) Android
8 2 (2.47%) VMS
8 2 (2.47%) VxWorks
9 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) ITIL
2 15 (18.52%) Computer Science
3 13 (16.05%) Agile
4 10 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (9.88%) Containerisation
5 8 (9.88%) DevOps
5 8 (9.88%) Time Management
6 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.64%) Configuration Management
6 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (8.64%) Open Source
6 7 (8.64%) Physics
7 6 (7.41%) Customer Service
7 6 (7.41%) Data Management
7 6 (7.41%) Scrum
7 6 (7.41%) SDLC
7 6 (7.41%) Task Automation
7 6 (7.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) Python
2 23 (28.40%) Bash
3 16 (19.75%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.58%) SQL
5 9 (11.11%) C++
6 8 (9.88%) Korn
7 6 (7.41%) C
7 6 (7.41%) Java
8 5 (6.17%) Perl
9 4 (4.94%) Fortran
10 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.47%) Groovy
11 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.47%) MATLAB
11 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.23%) C#
12 1 (1.23%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 32 (39.51%) Degree
2 13 (16.05%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.94%) A+ Certification
6 4 (4.94%) MCSE
6 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.94%) OSCP
6 4 (4.94%) PhD
6 4 (4.94%) RHCE
7 3 (3.70%) LPIC
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.47%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.47%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.23%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.70%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) NIST
4 2 (2.47%) ECSS
5 1 (1.23%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 21 (25.93%) Docker
3 14 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (8.64%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.94%) NFS
6 4 (4.94%) vCloud
6 4 (4.94%) vSphere
7 3 (3.70%) GPFS
7 3 (3.70%) Lustre
8 2 (2.47%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (24.69%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.81%) Ansible
3 7 (8.64%) SCCM
3 7 (8.64%) Terraform
4 4 (4.94%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (4.94%) Grafana
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.94%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.70%) Argo
5 3 (3.70%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.70%) Kubeflow
5 3 (3.70%) Nmap
5 3 (3.70%) SCOM
6 2 (2.47%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.47%) SCSM
7 1 (1.23%) Packer
7 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (27.16%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.22%) VMware
3 12 (14.81%) Red Hat
4 9 (11.11%) Dell
5 8 (9.88%) Splunk
6 5 (6.17%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.17%) Cisco
7 4 (4.94%) Apple
7 4 (4.94%) Sophos
8 3 (3.70%) Arista
8 3 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.70%) Google
8 3 (3.70%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.70%) Trend Micro
8 3 (3.70%) Veeam
9 2 (2.47%) Juniper
9 2 (2.47%) Oracle
9 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.23%) Informatica
10 1 (1.23%) SAP