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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 80 34
Rank change year-on-year +44 -46 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 234 132 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.46% 3.57% 5.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.66% 31.06% 47.56%
Number of salaries quoted 186 77 213
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £42,770 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.54% +5.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £71,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +10.00%

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 491 425 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.26% 11.48% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 405 328 492
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £48,925
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -15.18% +3.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £46,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £73,175 £63,250 £73,750
South East median annual salary £46,000 £40,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +68 126 £65,000 +30.00% 38
Buckinghamshire +5 64 £65,000 -7.14% 25
Oxfordshire -14 44 £55,000 +22.22% 49
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 12 (5.13%) Apache
2 10 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.27%) nginx
3 5 (2.14%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.28%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.28%) Simulink
3 1 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 95 (40.60%) AWS
2 78 (33.33%) Azure
3 33 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (10.26%) SaaS
5 23 (9.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 23 (9.83%) GCP
6 15 (6.41%) GitHub
7 13 (5.56%) Cloudflare
8 10 (4.27%) Datadog
9 9 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.85%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.99%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.56%) Nutanix
11 6 (2.56%) Serverless
12 5 (2.14%) Figma
12 5 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 82 (35.04%) Firewall
2 65 (27.78%) DNS
3 24 (10.26%) VPN
4 19 (8.12%) TCP/IP
5 16 (6.84%) SAN
6 11 (4.70%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (3.85%) HTTP
8 8 (3.42%) iSCSI
8 8 (3.42%) NAS
8 8 (3.42%) NetScaler
8 8 (3.42%) SSL
8 8 (3.42%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.14%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.14%) Network Security
9 5 (2.14%) VoIP
10 4 (1.71%) DHCP
11 3 (1.28%) Ethernet
11 3 (1.28%) VLAN
11 3 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.70%) MySQL
4 7 (2.99%) Power BI
5 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.43%) Db2
7 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.43%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 20 (8.55%) Git
2 18 (7.69%) JIRA
3 13 (5.56%) GitLab
4 9 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.71%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.28%) JUnit
8 3 (1.28%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 67 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 34 (14.53%) Finance
4 27 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (5.98%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.56%) Retail
7 7 (2.99%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.99%) Automotive
8 6 (2.56%) Legal
9 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.71%) Banking
11 3 (1.28%) Electronics
11 3 (1.28%) Games
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.43%) Aviation
13 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (12.82%) Software Engineer
2 29 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (12.39%) Senior
3 27 (11.54%) Analyst
4 26 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (10.68%) Architect
6 21 (8.97%) Linux Engineer
7 20 (8.55%) Applications Architect
8 16 (6.84%) IT Support
9 15 (6.41%) Network Engineer
9 15 (6.41%) Security Engineer
10 14 (5.98%) IT Engineer
10 14 (5.98%) Security Architect
10 14 (5.98%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (5.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 12 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.13%) NOC Manager
12 12 (5.13%) Operations Manager
12 12 (5.13%) SOC Analyst
12 12 (5.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.83%) Regular Expression
2 19 (8.12%) LDAP
2 19 (8.12%) XMPP
3 16 (6.84%) JSON
4 14 (5.98%) REST
5 13 (5.56%) React
6 11 (4.70%) XML
7 10 (4.27%) Django
7 10 (4.27%) Web Services
8 8 (3.42%) YAML
9 7 (2.99%) JSON Schema
10 5 (2.14%) Twisted
10 5 (2.14%) Vue
10 5 (2.14%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.71%) Jinja
11 4 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.71%) YANG
12 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.28%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.12%) PKI
2 15 (6.41%) Cyber Defence
2 15 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 13 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (4.27%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.27%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (4.27%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.85%) IoT
6 8 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.42%) Robotics
7 7 (2.99%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.99%) CSOC
7 7 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 121 (51.71%) Windows
2 49 (20.94%) Windows Server
3 37 (15.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.85%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.42%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.56%) Unix
8 5 (2.14%) Debian
9 4 (1.71%) Rocky
10 3 (1.28%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (1.28%) Gentoo
11 2 (0.85%) CentOS
11 2 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.43%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.79%) SIEM
2 54 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (17.95%) DevOps
4 41 (17.52%) ITIL
4 41 (17.52%) Software Engineering
5 37 (15.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 36 (15.38%) Validation
7 35 (14.96%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (12.39%) CI/CD
8 29 (12.39%) Test Automation
9 26 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 26 (11.11%) High Availability
10 24 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (8.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (8.55%) Process Improvement
12 18 (7.69%) Security Operations
13 17 (7.26%) Computer Science
13 17 (7.26%) Server Management
13 17 (7.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.04%) Python
2 55 (23.50%) PowerShell
3 49 (20.94%) Bash
4 25 (10.68%) C++
5 23 (9.83%) C
6 17 (7.26%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.84%) Rust
8 15 (6.41%) SQL
8 15 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 14 (5.98%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.85%) Go
10 9 (3.85%) Java
11 7 (2.99%) C#
11 7 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.99%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (2.56%) Groovy
12 6 (2.56%) Korn
13 4 (1.71%) Perl
13 4 (1.71%) Ruby
14 3 (1.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 81 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.95%) DV Cleared
3 41 (17.52%) SC Cleared
4 36 (15.38%) Degree
5 17 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (5.98%) GIAC
8 13 (5.56%) GCIA
9 10 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (4.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (3.42%) CompTIA CySA+
10 8 (3.42%) CREST Certified
10 8 (3.42%) GCIH
10 8 (3.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (2.99%) GCED
11 7 (2.99%) SANS
12 6 (2.56%) OSCP
13 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.14%) CEH
13 5 (2.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.26%) QA
2 6 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.14%) GDPR
3 5 (2.14%) MISRA
3 5 (2.14%) SLA
4 3 (1.28%) ECSS
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.85%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
System Software
1 49 (20.94%) Active Directory
2 39 (16.67%) Docker
3 36 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (12.39%) vSphere
5 19 (8.12%) Hyper-V
6 17 (7.26%) KVM
7 15 (6.41%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 8 (3.42%) Firmware
10 5 (2.14%) Squid
11 2 (0.85%) iptables
11 2 (0.85%) Samba
12 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (13.25%) Kubernetes
1 31 (13.25%) Terraform
2 28 (11.97%) Ansible
3 15 (6.41%) Graylog
4 9 (3.85%) Proxmox
5 8 (3.42%) Grafana
5 8 (3.42%) Kibana
5 8 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.42%) ZABBIX
6 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.14%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.71%) Packer
8 4 (1.71%) Podman
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.43%) QRadar
9 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (40.60%) Microsoft
2 66 (28.21%) VMware
3 46 (19.66%) Red Hat
4 20 (8.55%) Veeam
5 15 (6.41%) McAfee
6 12 (5.13%) Cisco
7 11 (4.70%) Splunk
8 10 (4.27%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (4.27%) Dell
9 8 (3.42%) Citrix
9 8 (3.42%) IBM
9 8 (3.42%) NetApp
10 7 (2.99%) Carbon Black
10 7 (2.99%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.99%) Sage
11 6 (2.56%) Okta
12 5 (2.14%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.14%) Google
12 5 (2.14%) Juniper
12 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto