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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 83 32
Rank change year-on-year +44 -51 -16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 226 132 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.28% 3.47% 5.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.79% 31.06% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 182 77 209
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £50,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -11.54% +5.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,625 £71,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +6.80%

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 483 425 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.02% 11.16% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 399 329 487
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -12.63% -4.99%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £62,100 £74,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -17.53% +7.78%

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 August 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 August 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 +66 121 £65,000 +30.00% 28
Buckinghamshire +6 59 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Oxfordshire -12 46 £55,000 +22.22% 20
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 (4.87%) Apache
2 10 (4.42%) nginx
3 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.21%) Confluence
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.33%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.33%) Simulink
3 1 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 87 (38.50%) AWS
2 74 (32.74%) Azure
3 32 (14.16%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (10.62%) Azure Sentinel
4 24 (10.62%) SaaS
5 19 (8.41%) GCP
6 15 (6.64%) GitHub
7 14 (6.19%) Cloudflare
8 11 (4.87%) Entra ID
9 10 (4.42%) Datadog
10 9 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.54%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.65%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.65%) Serverless
14 5 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.21%) Nutanix
14 5 (2.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 76 (33.63%) Firewall
2 66 (29.20%) DNS
3 23 (10.18%) VPN
4 20 (8.85%) TCP/IP
5 14 (6.19%) SAN
6 9 (3.98%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (3.54%) HTTP
7 8 (3.54%) NAS
7 8 (3.54%) NetScaler
7 8 (3.54%) SSL
7 8 (3.54%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.65%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.21%) DHCP
10 4 (1.77%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.77%) Network Security
11 3 (1.33%) Ethernet
11 3 (1.33%) MQTT
11 3 (1.33%) VLAN
11 3 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.98%) MySQL
4 8 (3.54%) Power BI
5 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.88%) Big Data
7 1 (0.44%) Db2
7 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.44%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 19 (8.41%) Git
2 17 (7.52%) JIRA
3 13 (5.75%) GitLab
4 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.21%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.77%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.33%) JUnit
8 3 (1.33%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.44%) Storybook
General
1 64 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.93%) Manufacturing
3 35 (15.49%) Finance
4 25 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.75%) Retail
6 11 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.42%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.10%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.10%) Automotive
9 6 (2.65%) Legal
10 5 (2.21%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.77%) Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Electronics
13 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Games
13 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.44%) Aviation
14 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (12.39%) Analyst
1 28 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (11.95%) Senior
2 27 (11.95%) Software Engineer
3 26 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.06%) Architect
5 20 (8.85%) Applications Architect
6 19 (8.41%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (7.52%) IT Support
8 15 (6.64%) IT Engineer
8 15 (6.64%) Security Engineer
9 14 (6.19%) Network Engineer
9 14 (6.19%) Security Architect
9 14 (6.19%) Support Engineer
9 14 (6.19%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) SOC Analyst
11 12 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (5.31%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (5.31%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.27%) Terraform
2 23 (10.18%) Regular Expression
3 19 (8.41%) LDAP
3 19 (8.41%) XMPP
4 15 (6.64%) JSON
5 12 (5.31%) React
5 12 (5.31%) REST
6 10 (4.42%) XML
7 9 (3.98%) Django
7 9 (3.98%) Web Services
8 7 (3.10%) JSON Schema
8 7 (3.10%) YAML
9 5 (2.21%) Vue
10 4 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.77%) Twisted
10 4 (1.77%) WebSockets
11 3 (1.33%) Jinja
11 3 (1.33%) Spring
11 3 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.41%) PKI
2 16 (7.08%) Cyber Defence
3 14 (6.19%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.19%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.42%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.42%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (3.98%) Robotics
7 8 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.54%) IoT
7 8 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.10%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.10%) CSOC
8 7 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.21%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.21%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 120 (53.10%) Windows
2 48 (21.24%) Windows Server
3 35 (15.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (8.85%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.98%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.54%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.65%) Debian
8 5 (2.21%) Rocky
9 4 (1.77%) Unix
10 3 (1.33%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (1.33%) Gentoo
11 2 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.88%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.11%) SIEM
2 54 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (18.14%) DevOps
5 40 (17.70%) ITIL
6 39 (17.26%) Software Engineering
7 36 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 36 (15.93%) Validation
8 35 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (12.39%) CI/CD
10 26 (11.50%) Test Automation
11 24 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (10.18%) Containerisation
12 23 (10.18%) High Availability
13 20 (8.85%) Process Improvement
14 19 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (8.41%) Security Operations
15 18 (7.96%) Server Management
16 16 (7.08%) Antivirus Management
16 16 (7.08%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 77 (34.07%) Python
2 55 (24.34%) PowerShell
3 47 (20.80%) Bash
4 22 (9.73%) C++
5 20 (8.85%) C
6 15 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.19%) Rust
7 14 (6.19%) SQL
7 14 (6.19%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.75%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.98%) Go
9 9 (3.98%) Java
10 7 (3.10%) C#
10 7 (3.10%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (3.10%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.65%) Groovy
12 5 (2.21%) Korn
13 4 (1.77%) Perl
13 4 (1.77%) Ruby
14 3 (1.33%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 81 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.14%) DV Cleared
2 41 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.60%) Degree
4 16 (7.08%) CompTIA Security+
4 16 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.19%) GIAC
6 13 (5.75%) GCIA
7 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (3.54%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (3.54%) CREST Certified
8 8 (3.54%) GCIH
8 8 (3.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (3.10%) GCED
9 7 (3.10%) SANS
10 6 (2.65%) OSCP
11 5 (2.21%) CEH
11 5 (2.21%) CISSP
11 5 (2.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.08%) QA
2 6 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.21%) GDPR
3 5 (2.21%) MISRA
4 3 (1.33%) ECSS
4 3 (1.33%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (21.24%) Active Directory
2 35 (15.49%) Docker
3 33 (14.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (12.83%) vSphere
5 16 (7.08%) Hyper-V
6 15 (6.64%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (6.19%) KVM
8 9 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.54%) Firmware
10 6 (2.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (2.21%) Squid
12 2 (0.88%) iptables
13 1 (0.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 28 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.95%) Ansible
3 16 (7.08%) Graylog
4 8 (3.54%) Grafana
4 8 (3.54%) Kibana
4 8 (3.54%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.54%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.54%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.21%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.77%) Packer
7 4 (1.77%) Podman
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.44%) QRadar
8 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (42.04%) Microsoft
2 64 (28.32%) VMware
3 43 (19.03%) Red Hat
4 21 (9.29%) Veeam
5 15 (6.64%) McAfee
6 11 (4.87%) Cisco
6 11 (4.87%) Splunk
7 10 (4.42%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (3.98%) Dell
9 8 (3.54%) Citrix
9 8 (3.54%) IBM
9 8 (3.54%) NetApp
9 8 (3.54%) Sage
10 7 (3.10%) Carbon Black
10 7 (3.10%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.65%) Okta
12 5 (2.21%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.21%) Google
13 4 (1.77%) Oracle
13 4 (1.77%) Palo Alto