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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 27 15
Rank change year-on-year -70 -12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 76 275 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.92% 7.76% 10.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.68% 53.50% 49.11%
Number of salaries quoted 57 153 253
10th Percentile £40,015 £36,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £82,000
South East median annual salary £52,783 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.20% +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 308 514 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.78% 14.50% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 251 314 559
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,313 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £48,213 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% -3.58% +15.61%
75th Percentile £50,000 £61,625 £59,380
90th Percentile £68,000 £76,750 £71,500
South East median annual salary £41,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% +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 21 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 21 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 -40 45 £52,783 -13.82% 20
Buckinghamshire -53 20 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Oxfordshire -34 11 £61,740 +2.90% 10
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 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.21%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.89%) IIS
4 2 (2.63%) CMS
4 2 (2.63%) WordPress
5 1 (1.32%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.32%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) AWS
2 21 (27.63%) Azure
3 10 (13.16%) GCP
3 10 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (13.16%) SaaS
4 5 (6.58%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.95%) Serverless
7 2 (2.63%) IaaS
8 1 (1.32%) Boomi
8 1 (1.32%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.32%) OCI
8 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.32%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 20 (26.32%) Firewall
2 15 (19.74%) DNS
3 10 (13.16%) DHCP
4 9 (11.84%) TCP/IP
5 7 (9.21%) Wireless
6 4 (5.26%) iSCSI
6 4 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (5.26%) SAN
7 3 (3.95%) 5G
7 3 (3.95%) LAN
7 3 (3.95%) VLAN
8 2 (2.63%) 4G
8 2 (2.63%) Ethernet
8 2 (2.63%) SpaceWire
8 2 (2.63%) SSL
8 2 (2.63%) VPN
9 1 (1.32%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (1.32%) MIMO
9 1 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (1.32%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) MySQL
1 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.95%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.32%) DTS
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.89%) JIRA
3 5 (6.58%) Git
4 4 (5.26%) Burp Suite
4 4 (5.26%) GitLab
5 3 (3.95%) Metasploit
5 3 (3.95%) MLflow
6 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.32%) JMeter
7 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.32%) Testinfra
General
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.58%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.63%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Legal
5 2 (2.63%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.32%) Humanities
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Law
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (11.84%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Technical Support
6 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Tester
7 4 (5.26%) Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) Architect
7 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Linux Support
7 4 (5.26%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.95%) Web Services
2 2 (2.63%) JSON
2 2 (2.63%) Middleware
2 2 (2.63%) Qt
2 2 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (1.32%) .NET
3 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.32%) CSS
3 1 (1.32%) CSS3
3 1 (1.32%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.32%) HTML
3 1 (1.32%) HTML5
3 1 (1.32%) Laravel
3 1 (1.32%) REST
3 1 (1.32%) SOAP
3 1 (1.32%) Spring
3 1 (1.32%) Symfony
3 1 (1.32%) Vue
3 1 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.58%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.26%) Replication
4 3 (3.95%) Animation
4 3 (3.95%) Life Science
4 3 (3.95%) NHS
5 2 (2.63%) Clustering
5 2 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (44.74%) Windows
2 10 (13.16%) Unix
2 10 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (6.58%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.95%) Android
5 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.95%) Kali Linux
5 3 (3.95%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.63%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) ITIL
2 15 (19.74%) Computer Science
3 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (11.84%) DevOps
5 8 (10.53%) Physics
6 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
6 7 (9.21%) Open Source
6 7 (9.21%) SDLC
6 7 (9.21%) Software Engineering
7 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (7.89%) Mathematics
7 6 (7.89%) Service Management
8 5 (6.58%) Containerisation
8 5 (6.58%) Customer Service
8 5 (6.58%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (6.58%) High Availability
8 5 (6.58%) Incident Response
8 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (6.58%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (6.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) Python
2 19 (25.00%) Bash
3 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
4 13 (17.11%) SQL
5 10 (13.16%) C++
6 6 (7.89%) C
7 4 (5.26%) Fortran
7 4 (5.26%) Korn
8 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.63%) C#
9 2 (2.63%) Java
9 2 (2.63%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.32%) Go
10 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (32.89%) Degree
2 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.21%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.58%) A+ Certification
5 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.26%) OSCP
6 4 (5.26%) PhD
7 2 (2.63%) CREST Certified
7 2 (2.63%) MCSE
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.63%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.32%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.32%) GIAC
8 1 (1.32%) GPEN
8 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.32%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.32%) RHCE
8 1 (1.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) NIST
2 2 (2.63%) ECSS
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) GRC
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 19 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (15.79%) Docker
3 11 (14.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (5.26%) vSphere
5 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.63%) vCloud
7 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.11%) Ansible
3 8 (10.53%) Terraform
4 3 (3.95%) Argo
4 3 (3.95%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.95%) Grafana
4 3 (3.95%) Kubeflow
4 3 (3.95%) Nmap
4 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.95%) SCCM
4 3 (3.95%) SCOM
5 2 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.63%) Rundeck
5 2 (2.63%) SCSM
6 1 (1.32%) Packer
6 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.11%) VMware
3 11 (14.47%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.58%) Dell
4 5 (6.58%) Google
5 4 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.26%) Cisco
5 4 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.26%) Splunk
6 3 (3.95%) Arista
6 3 (3.95%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (3.95%) IBM
6 3 (3.95%) Trend Micro
6 3 (3.95%) Veeam
7 2 (2.63%) Juniper
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle
8 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.32%) Citrix
8 1 (1.32%) Informatica
8 1 (1.32%) SAP