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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 93 32
Rank change year-on-year +51 -61 -16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 223 126 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.17% 3.22% 6.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.42% 30.43% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 182 72 185
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,675 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,704 £42,138 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.54% +5.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,402 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,375 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £53,065 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.49% -3.52% +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 491 414 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.98% 10.60% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 409 323 423
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,375 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £64,400 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +8.70%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +74 114 £65,000 +30.00% 49
Buckinghamshire -2 57 £65,000 -7.14% 12
Oxfordshire -13 52 £55,000 +22.22% 35
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 (4.48%) Apache
1 10 (4.48%) nginx
2 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.24%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.35%) Simulink
3 1 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (4.48%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 84 (37.67%) AWS
2 73 (32.74%) Azure
3 33 (14.80%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.21%) SaaS
5 24 (10.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 16 (7.17%) GCP
7 15 (6.73%) GitHub
8 14 (6.28%) Cloudflare
9 13 (5.83%) Entra ID
10 10 (4.48%) Datadog
10 10 (4.48%) Power Platform
11 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.69%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.69%) Serverless
14 5 (2.24%) Google Workspace
14 5 (2.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 70 (31.39%) Firewall
2 64 (28.70%) DNS
3 24 (10.76%) VPN
4 22 (9.87%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.93%) SAN
6 8 (3.59%) HTTP
6 8 (3.59%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.59%) SSL
7 7 (3.14%) DHCP
8 6 (2.69%) NAS
8 6 (2.69%) NetScaler
8 6 (2.69%) VLAN
8 6 (2.69%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.24%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.79%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.35%) MQTT
11 3 (1.35%) Network Security
11 3 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.48%) Power BI
3 8 (3.59%) MySQL
3 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.90%) Big Data
6 1 (0.45%) Db2
6 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.45%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 19 (8.52%) Git
2 16 (7.17%) JIRA
3 13 (5.83%) GitLab
4 8 (3.59%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.69%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.24%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.35%) JUnit
8 3 (1.35%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.45%) Selenium
9 1 (0.45%) Storybook
General
1 61 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.59%) Finance
3 36 (16.14%) Manufacturing
4 22 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.83%) Retail
6 10 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.59%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.59%) Automotive
8 7 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.69%) Legal
10 5 (2.24%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.79%) Banking
11 4 (1.79%) Electronics
12 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Aviation
13 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Games
13 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (13.00%) Analyst
1 29 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (12.11%) Senior
2 27 (12.11%) Software Engineer
3 26 (11.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (10.31%) Architect
5 19 (8.52%) IT Support
5 19 (8.52%) Linux Engineer
6 18 (8.07%) Applications Architect
7 17 (7.62%) Support Engineer
8 16 (7.17%) IT Engineer
9 14 (6.28%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (6.28%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Network Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Security Architect
10 13 (5.83%) Security Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) SOC Analyst
11 12 (5.38%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.45%) Terraform
2 21 (9.42%) Regular Expression
3 19 (8.52%) XMPP
4 17 (7.62%) LDAP
5 12 (5.38%) JSON
5 12 (5.38%) React
6 10 (4.48%) REST
7 9 (4.04%) Django
8 8 (3.59%) Web Services
9 7 (3.14%) XML
10 6 (2.69%) Vue
10 6 (2.69%) YAML
11 5 (2.24%) JSON Schema
12 4 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.35%) Node.js
13 3 (1.35%) Spring Boot
13 3 (1.35%) Twisted
13 3 (1.35%) WebSockets
13 3 (1.35%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.62%) PKI
2 16 (7.17%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (7.17%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.28%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.93%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.48%) Robotics
7 9 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (3.59%) IoT
9 7 (3.14%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.14%) CSOC
9 7 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (3.14%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.14%) Replication
10 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 114 (51.12%) Windows
2 43 (19.28%) Windows Server
3 30 (13.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (10.31%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.04%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.14%) Debian
6 7 (3.14%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.14%) Rocky
7 3 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.35%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (1.35%) Gentoo
7 3 (1.35%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (24.22%) SIEM
3 51 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (17.94%) DevOps
4 40 (17.94%) ITIL
4 40 (17.94%) Software Engineering
5 37 (16.59%) Validation
6 36 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 34 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (13.00%) CI/CD
9 25 (11.21%) Test Automation
10 24 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (9.42%) Containerisation
11 21 (9.42%) Process Improvement
12 20 (8.97%) High Availability
12 20 (8.97%) Server Management
13 19 (8.52%) Security Operations
14 18 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (7.17%) Antivirus Management
15 16 (7.17%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 77 (34.53%) Python
2 57 (25.56%) PowerShell
3 47 (21.08%) Bash
4 24 (10.76%) C++
5 20 (8.97%) C
6 14 (6.28%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.28%) SQL
6 14 (6.28%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.83%) Rust
8 11 (4.93%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.48%) Go
9 10 (4.48%) Java
10 8 (3.59%) C#
11 7 (3.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (3.14%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (2.69%) Groovy
13 5 (2.24%) Korn
14 4 (1.79%) Perl
14 4 (1.79%) Ruby
15 3 (1.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 76 (34.08%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (16.14%) DV Cleared
4 34 (15.25%) Degree
5 17 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (7.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (6.28%) GIAC
8 13 (5.83%) GCIA
9 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (4.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (3.59%) CompTIA CySA+
10 8 (3.59%) CREST Certified
10 8 (3.59%) GCIH
11 7 (3.14%) GCED
11 7 (3.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (3.14%) SANS
12 6 (2.69%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.69%) OSCP
12 6 (2.69%) PhD
13 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.17%) QA
2 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.24%) GDPR
3 5 (2.24%) MISRA
4 3 (1.35%) ECSS
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 44 (19.73%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.80%) Docker
3 32 (14.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (11.21%) vSphere
5 15 (6.73%) Hyper-V
5 15 (6.73%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (5.83%) KVM
7 10 (4.48%) Firmware
8 8 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (2.24%) Squid
10 2 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.90%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.11%) Ansible
3 16 (7.17%) Graylog
4 8 (3.59%) Grafana
4 8 (3.59%) Kibana
4 8 (3.59%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.59%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.59%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.24%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.79%) Packer
7 4 (1.79%) Podman
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.45%) QRadar
8 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (42.60%) Microsoft
2 61 (27.35%) VMware
3 41 (18.39%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.31%) Veeam
5 15 (6.73%) McAfee
6 11 (4.93%) Splunk
7 10 (4.48%) Cisco
7 10 (4.48%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (4.48%) Dell
7 10 (4.48%) Sage
8 8 (3.59%) IBM
9 7 (3.14%) Carbon Black
9 7 (3.14%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.69%) Citrix
10 6 (2.69%) Google
10 6 (2.69%) NetApp
10 6 (2.69%) Okta
11 5 (2.24%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.79%) EMC
13 3 (1.35%) Oracle