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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 67 34
Rank change year-on-year +27 -33 -16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 217 146 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.43% 4.08% 5.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.78% 32.88% 42.26%
Number of salaries quoted 174 85 247
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,200 £34,900
25th Percentile £50,172 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +2.31%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,150
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +5.77%

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 474 444 769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.50% 12.40% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 395 339 628
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £29,783
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -3.23%
75th Percentile £66,875 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +3.33%

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 24 July 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 24 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
Berkshire +57 121 £65,000 +30.00% 19
Buckinghamshire +3 60 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Oxfordshire -19 36 £40,000 -23.81% 27
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 11 (5.07%) Apache
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.15%) nginx
4 5 (2.30%) Confluence
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.38%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.38%) Simulink
3 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 94 (43.32%) AWS
2 80 (36.87%) Azure
3 34 (15.67%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.52%) GCP
5 22 (10.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 22 (10.14%) SaaS
6 13 (5.99%) Cloudflare
7 11 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.07%) GitHub
8 10 (4.61%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.76%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.76%) Datadog
9 6 (2.76%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.76%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.76%) Serverless
10 5 (2.30%) Apigee
10 5 (2.30%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 84 (38.71%) Firewall
2 63 (29.03%) DNS
3 24 (11.06%) VPN
4 19 (8.76%) TCP/IP
5 16 (7.37%) SAN
6 11 (5.07%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (4.15%) HTTP
8 8 (3.69%) iSCSI
8 8 (3.69%) NAS
8 8 (3.69%) NetScaler
8 8 (3.69%) SSL
8 8 (3.69%) Wireshark
9 6 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.30%) LAN
10 5 (2.30%) Network Security
10 5 (2.30%) VoIP
10 5 (2.30%) WAN
11 3 (1.38%) Ethernet
11 3 (1.38%) MQTT
11 3 (1.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.53%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.61%) MySQL
4 6 (2.76%) Power BI
5 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.46%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.46%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 19 (8.76%) JIRA
2 18 (8.29%) Git
3 13 (5.99%) GitLab
4 8 (3.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.76%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.84%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.38%) JUnit
8 3 (1.38%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.46%) JMeter
9 1 (0.46%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.46%) Storybook
General
1 66 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.36%) Manufacturing
3 28 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.44%) Finance
5 17 (7.83%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (7.37%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.53%) Retail
8 5 (2.30%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.30%) Automotive
8 5 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.84%) Banking
10 3 (1.38%) Games
10 3 (1.38%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.38%) Legal
11 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Electronics
11 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.46%) Aviation
12 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (13.82%) Software Engineer
2 28 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (11.98%) Analyst
5 23 (10.60%) Architect
5 23 (10.60%) Linux Engineer
6 22 (10.14%) Senior
7 20 (9.22%) Applications Architect
8 17 (7.83%) IT Support
9 16 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (6.91%) IT Engineer
10 15 (6.91%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 14 (6.45%) Network Engineer
11 14 (6.45%) Security Architect
11 14 (6.45%) Security Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) SOC Analyst
12 12 (5.53%) Support Engineer
13 11 (5.07%) DevOps Systems Engineer
13 11 (5.07%) Linux DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.60%) Regular Expression
2 19 (8.76%) LDAP
2 19 (8.76%) XMPP
3 17 (7.83%) JSON
4 15 (6.91%) REST
5 12 (5.53%) XML
6 10 (4.61%) Web Services
7 9 (4.15%) Django
7 9 (4.15%) React
7 9 (4.15%) YAML
8 7 (3.23%) JSON Schema
9 5 (2.30%) Jinja
9 5 (2.30%) Twisted
9 5 (2.30%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.30%) YANG
10 4 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.84%) Vue
11 3 (1.38%) Yocto
12 2 (0.92%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.76%) PKI
2 18 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (6.91%) Cyber Defence
5 12 (5.53%) Driving Licence
5 12 (5.53%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (4.61%) Client/Server
6 10 (4.61%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.61%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.15%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (2.76%) CSOC
10 6 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.76%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (2.30%) IoT
11 5 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.84%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 113 (52.07%) Windows
2 47 (21.66%) Windows Server
3 35 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (7.83%) Ubuntu
5 11 (5.07%) Mac OS
6 6 (2.76%) Unix
6 6 (2.76%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.84%) Debian
8 3 (1.38%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (1.38%) Gentoo
9 2 (0.92%) CentOS
10 1 (0.46%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.46%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (26.27%) SIEM
2 53 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (18.43%) ITIL
4 37 (17.05%) DevOps
4 37 (17.05%) Software Engineering
5 34 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (14.75%) Validation
7 29 (13.36%) Test Automation
8 26 (11.98%) Containerisation
9 25 (11.52%) High Availability
10 23 (10.60%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (9.22%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (8.76%) Computer Science
13 17 (7.83%) Process Improvement
14 16 (7.37%) Antivirus Management
14 16 (7.37%) Application Security
14 16 (7.37%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 76 (35.02%) Python
2 51 (23.50%) PowerShell
3 46 (21.20%) Bash
4 23 (10.60%) C
4 23 (10.60%) C++
5 17 (7.83%) Rust
6 15 (6.91%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.91%) SQL
7 11 (5.07%) Shell Script
7 11 (5.07%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.23%) Java
8 7 (3.23%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (2.76%) C#
9 6 (2.76%) Groovy
9 6 (2.76%) Korn
9 6 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.84%) Go
10 4 (1.84%) Perl
10 4 (1.84%) Ruby
11 3 (1.38%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 74 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.97%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.05%) DV Cleared
4 36 (16.59%) Degree
5 18 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (5.99%) GIAC
8 12 (5.53%) GCIA
9 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (4.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (3.69%) CREST Certified
10 8 (3.69%) GCIH
10 8 (3.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
11 7 (3.23%) GCED
11 7 (3.23%) SANS
12 6 (2.76%) OSCP
13 5 (2.30%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.84%) CEH
14 4 (1.84%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.29%) QA
2 5 (2.30%) GDPR
2 5 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.30%) SLA
3 3 (1.38%) ECSS
3 3 (1.38%) MISRA
4 2 (0.92%) ISO 22301
4 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 50 (23.04%) Active Directory
2 35 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (15.21%) Docker
4 27 (12.44%) vSphere
5 22 (10.14%) Hyper-V
6 20 (9.22%) KVM
7 10 (4.61%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (3.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.30%) Firmware
10 5 (2.30%) Squid
11 2 (0.92%) Samba
12 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (12.90%) Ansible
1 28 (12.90%) Terraform
2 25 (11.52%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.91%) Graylog
4 9 (4.15%) Proxmox
5 8 (3.69%) Kibana
5 8 (3.69%) ZABBIX
6 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.84%) Grafana
7 4 (1.84%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.84%) Packer
7 4 (1.84%) Podman
7 4 (1.84%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.46%) Argo
8 1 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.46%) QRadar
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 62 (28.57%) VMware
3 49 (22.58%) Red Hat
4 17 (7.83%) Veeam
5 15 (6.91%) McAfee
6 12 (5.53%) Cisco
7 11 (5.07%) Splunk
8 10 (4.61%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (3.69%) Citrix
9 8 (3.69%) Dell
9 8 (3.69%) IBM
9 8 (3.69%) NetApp
10 7 (3.23%) Carbon Black
11 6 (2.76%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.76%) Juniper
11 6 (2.76%) Okta
11 6 (2.76%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.76%) Sage
12 5 (2.30%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.30%) F5