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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 26 14
Rank change year-on-year -70 -12 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 81 287 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.05% 7.82% 11.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.16% 54.05% 50.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59 154 256
10th Percentile £40,015 £36,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +9.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £82,000
South East median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.71% +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 322 531 699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.16% 14.47% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 264 318 561
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £48,925 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% -2.15% +15.61%
75th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £59,380
90th Percentile £68,525 £75,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £40,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.00% +11.11% -

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -47 46 £53,065 -13.36% 23
Buckinghamshire -46 24 £62,750 +32.11% 17
Oxfordshire -25 11 £61,740 +2.90% 11
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 (12.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.41%) IIS
4 2 (2.47%) CMS
4 2 (2.47%) Confluence
4 2 (2.47%) WordPress
5 1 (1.23%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.23%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (40.74%) AWS
2 24 (29.63%) Azure
3 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.35%) GCP
5 9 (11.11%) SaaS
6 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.17%) Google Workspace
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) Serverless
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (2.47%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.47%) IaaS
9 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Boomi
10 1 (1.23%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (28.40%) Firewall
2 17 (20.99%) DNS
3 10 (12.35%) DHCP
4 9 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 7 (8.64%) Wireless
6 5 (6.17%) iSCSI
6 5 (6.17%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (6.17%) SAN
7 3 (3.70%) 5G
7 3 (3.70%) LAN
7 3 (3.70%) VLAN
8 2 (2.47%) 4G
8 2 (2.47%) Ethernet
8 2 (2.47%) FTP
8 2 (2.47%) HTTP
8 2 (2.47%) SMTP
8 2 (2.47%) SpaceWire
8 2 (2.47%) SSH
8 2 (2.47%) SSL
8 2 (2.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) MySQL
1 8 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.23%) DTS
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.11%) Git
3 8 (9.88%) JIRA
4 6 (7.41%) GitLab
5 4 (4.94%) Burp Suite
5 4 (4.94%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.70%) Metasploit
6 3 (3.70%) MLflow
7 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.47%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.23%) JMeter
8 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.23%) Testinfra
General
1 27 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.17%) Manufacturing
2 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.47%) Finance
5 2 (2.47%) Legal
5 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.23%) Humanities
6 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.23%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (11.11%) Senior
2 9 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Technical Support
5 5 (6.17%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Tester
6 4 (4.94%) Administrator
6 4 (4.94%) Architect
6 4 (4.94%) Linux Support
6 4 (4.94%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Penetration Tester
6 4 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.70%) Web Services
2 2 (2.47%) JSON
2 2 (2.47%) Middleware
2 2 (2.47%) Qt
2 2 (2.47%) RESTful
3 1 (1.23%) .NET
3 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.23%) CSS
3 1 (1.23%) CSS3
3 1 (1.23%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.23%) HTML
3 1 (1.23%) HTML5
3 1 (1.23%) Laravel
3 1 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (1.23%) SOAP
3 1 (1.23%) Spring
3 1 (1.23%) Symfony
3 1 (1.23%) Vue
3 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.41%) Replication
3 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.17%) Fibre Optics
3 5 (6.17%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.94%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.94%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.70%) Animation
5 3 (3.70%) Life Science
5 3 (3.70%) NHS
6 2 (2.47%) Clustering
6 2 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (48.15%) Windows
2 10 (12.35%) Unix
2 10 (12.35%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (8.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (6.17%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.70%) Android
5 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.70%) Kali Linux
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.47%) VMS
6 2 (2.47%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.46%) ITIL
2 15 (18.52%) Computer Science
3 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (13.58%) DevOps
5 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 8 (9.88%) Agile
6 8 (9.88%) Configuration Management
6 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (9.88%) Physics
7 7 (8.64%) Containerisation
7 7 (8.64%) Open Source
7 7 (8.64%) SDLC
7 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
7 7 (8.64%) Validation
8 6 (7.41%) Cloud Security
8 6 (7.41%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.41%) Mathematics
8 6 (7.41%) Service Management
8 6 (7.41%) Task Automation
9 5 (6.17%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) Python
2 19 (23.46%) Bash
3 16 (19.75%) PowerShell
4 14 (17.28%) SQL
5 10 (12.35%) C++
6 6 (7.41%) C
7 5 (6.17%) Korn
8 4 (4.94%) Fortran
8 4 (4.94%) Java
9 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.47%) C#
10 2 (2.47%) Groovy
10 2 (2.47%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.47%) Perl
11 1 (1.23%) Go
11 1 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (34.57%) Degree
2 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.17%) A+ Certification
5 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.94%) OSCP
6 4 (4.94%) PhD
7 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CREST Certified
7 2 (2.47%) MCSE
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.47%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.23%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.23%) GIAC
8 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.23%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) NIST
2 2 (2.47%) ECSS
2 2 (2.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) GRC
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 22 (27.16%) Active Directory
2 17 (20.99%) Docker
3 11 (13.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (4.94%) vCloud
5 4 (4.94%) vSphere
6 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.47%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (23.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.28%) Ansible
3 9 (11.11%) Terraform
4 5 (6.17%) Grafana
4 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.94%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (4.94%) Rundeck
6 3 (3.70%) Argo
6 3 (3.70%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.70%) Kubeflow
6 3 (3.70%) Nmap
6 3 (3.70%) SCCM
6 3 (3.70%) SCOM
7 2 (2.47%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.47%) SCSM
8 1 (1.23%) Packer
8 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.52%) VMware
3 11 (13.58%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.41%) Dell
5 5 (6.17%) Google
5 5 (6.17%) Splunk
6 4 (4.94%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.94%) Cisco
6 4 (4.94%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.70%) Arista
7 3 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (3.70%) IBM
7 3 (3.70%) Trend Micro
7 3 (3.70%) Veeam
8 2 (2.47%) Juniper
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle
8 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.23%) Jitterbit
9 1 (1.23%) SnapLogic
9 1 (1.23%) Talend