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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -60 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 120 312 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.10% 6.44% 11.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.46% 51.32% 53.53%
Number of salaries quoted 68 179 294
10th Percentile £38,725 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,138 £39,500 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,533 £56,525 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +5.14% -6.50%
75th Percentile £68,301 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

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 394 608 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.19% 12.55% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 309 402 604
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £27,530
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £61,600 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.53% +3.33%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Linux 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Buckinghamshire -27 49 £70,000 +64.71% 15
Berkshire -77 40 £50,000 -20.00% 25
Oxfordshire -2 31 £45,000 -16.38% 17
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.00%) Confluence
3 5 (4.17%) IIS
4 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Simulink
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.67%) AWS
2 24 (20.00%) Azure
3 15 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.67%) AWS KMS
5 7 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (4.17%) Route 53
7 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.33%) GCP
8 3 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (31.67%) TCP/IP
2 37 (30.83%) VPN
3 27 (22.50%) Firewall
4 15 (12.50%) DNS
5 14 (11.67%) SAN
6 9 (7.50%) iSCSI
6 9 (7.50%) Remote Desktop
6 9 (7.50%) WAN
7 7 (5.83%) SD-WAN
8 6 (5.00%) DHCP
9 4 (3.33%) InfiniBand
10 3 (2.50%) LAN
10 3 (2.50%) SMTP
10 3 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.50%) Wireless
11 2 (1.67%) FTP
11 2 (1.67%) HTTP
11 2 (1.67%) MQTT
11 2 (1.67%) SSH
12 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.17%) MySQL
4 7 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.67%) Metadata
6 2 (1.67%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.83%) DTS
7 1 (0.83%) Metabase
7 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (28.33%) Cucumber
1 34 (28.33%) Robot Framework
2 14 (11.67%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.83%) Git
4 11 (9.17%) JIRA
5 9 (7.50%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (4.17%) DbUnit
7 5 (4.17%) jMock
7 5 (4.17%) JUnit
7 5 (4.17%) Maven
7 5 (4.17%) Mockito
8 4 (3.33%) Burp Suite
8 4 (3.33%) GitLab
9 3 (2.50%) Metasploit
10 2 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.67%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.83%) Mocha
11 1 (0.83%) Testinfra
General
1 74 (61.67%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (28.33%) Telecoms
4 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Humanities
8 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (28.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (28.33%) Test Engineer
2 17 (14.17%) Senior
3 10 (8.33%) Developer
3 10 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 9 (7.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) IT Support
7 5 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.17%) Lead
7 5 (4.17%) Mathematical Modeller
8 4 (3.33%) Administrator
8 4 (3.33%) Lead Developer
8 4 (3.33%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.33%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) Web Services
2 5 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 5 (4.17%) Bootstrap
2 5 (4.17%) Hibernate
2 5 (4.17%) JPA
2 5 (4.17%) PowerMock
2 5 (4.17%) RESTful
2 5 (4.17%) SOAP
2 5 (4.17%) Spring
2 5 (4.17%) Spring Batch
2 5 (4.17%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.17%) Spring Integration
3 3 (2.50%) CSS
3 3 (2.50%) HTML
3 3 (2.50%) REST
4 2 (1.67%) .NET
4 2 (1.67%) Node.js
4 2 (1.67%) Pandas
4 2 (1.67%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 41 (34.17%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 10 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (3.33%) Replication
7 3 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.67%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.67%) Clustering
8 2 (1.67%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.67%) IoT
8 2 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.83%) NHS
9 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (64.17%) Windows
2 16 (13.33%) Unix
3 12 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (7.50%) Mac OS
5 9 (7.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.33%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.50%) Kali Linux
7 3 (2.50%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.67%) Android
8 2 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.83%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (32.50%) DevOps
3 38 (31.67%) Test Automation
4 37 (30.83%) Mentoring
5 34 (28.33%) Coaching
5 34 (28.33%) System Testing
5 34 (28.33%) Test Management
6 21 (17.50%) Computer Science
6 21 (17.50%) ITIL
7 18 (15.00%) Agile
8 13 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (9.17%) Containerisation
9 11 (9.17%) Physics
9 11 (9.17%) Software Engineering
10 10 (8.33%) Mathematics
11 9 (7.50%) Scrum
11 9 (7.50%) Time Management
12 8 (6.67%) CI/CD
12 8 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (6.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 68 (56.67%) Python
2 59 (49.17%) Bash
3 44 (36.67%) PowerShell
4 39 (32.50%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.33%) SQL
6 11 (9.17%) C++
7 10 (8.33%) Java
8 9 (7.50%) Korn
9 7 (5.83%) MATLAB
10 5 (4.17%) C
10 5 (4.17%) Fortran
10 5 (4.17%) Perl
11 2 (1.67%) Go
11 2 (1.67%) Groovy
11 2 (1.67%) Ruby
11 2 (1.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.83%) PHP
12 1 (0.83%) PL/1
12 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (56.67%) Degree
2 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.83%) MCSE
6 5 (4.17%) A+ Certification
6 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (4.17%) PhD
7 4 (3.33%) MCP
7 4 (3.33%) OSCP
7 4 (3.33%) RHCE
8 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.50%) LPIC
8 3 (2.50%) MCSA
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.67%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (29.17%) QA
2 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.50%) NIST
5 2 (1.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (21.67%) Docker
2 23 (19.17%) Active Directory
3 12 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 9 (7.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.17%) NFS
6 4 (3.33%) vCloud
7 3 (2.50%) GPFS
7 3 (2.50%) Lustre
7 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.67%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.83%) Postfix
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.50%) Ansible
3 6 (5.00%) Terraform
4 5 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 5 (4.17%) SCCM
5 4 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.33%) Rundeck
6 3 (2.50%) Grafana
6 3 (2.50%) Nmap
6 3 (2.50%) PaperCut
6 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.67%) ZENworks
8 1 (0.83%) Nessus
8 1 (0.83%) Packer
8 1 (0.83%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.83%) SCOM
8 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.33%) VMware
3 11 (9.17%) Red Hat
4 10 (8.33%) Dell
5 9 (7.50%) Splunk
6 7 (5.83%) Cisco
7 5 (4.17%) Arista
7 5 (4.17%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
7 5 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.33%) Apple
8 4 (3.33%) Sophos
9 3 (2.50%) Juniper
9 3 (2.50%) Meraki
10 2 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.83%) Citrix
11 1 (0.83%) SAP
11 1 (0.83%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.83%) Tenable