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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 100 31
Rank change year-on-year +54 -69 -15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 214 123 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.98% 3.11% 6.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.12% 30.60% 51.40%
Number of salaries quoted 176 70 186
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,075 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,204 £42,770 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £57,013
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.30% +6.05%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,902 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,375 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +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 485 402 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.76% 10.17% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 406 313 413
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £61,450 £75,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +7.53%

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 12 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 12 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 +70 108 £65,000 +30.00% 50
Buckinghamshire 0 54 £65,000 -7.14% 19
Oxfordshire -9 52 £55,000 +22.22% 41
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 (4.67%) Apache
1 10 (4.67%) nginx
2 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.34%) Confluence
4 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.40%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.40%) Simulink
3 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (5.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.45%) AWS
2 68 (31.78%) Azure
3 33 (15.42%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.68%) SaaS
5 23 (10.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (6.54%) Cloudflare
6 14 (6.54%) GitHub
7 13 (6.07%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.07%) GCP
8 11 (5.14%) Datadog
8 11 (5.14%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.80%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.80%) Serverless
12 5 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 65 (30.37%) Firewall
2 61 (28.50%) DNS
3 23 (10.75%) VPN
4 21 (9.81%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.67%) SAN
6 8 (3.74%) HTTP
6 8 (3.74%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.74%) SSL
7 6 (2.80%) DHCP
7 6 (2.80%) VLAN
8 5 (2.34%) iSCSI
8 5 (2.34%) NAS
8 5 (2.34%) NetScaler
8 5 (2.34%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.87%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.40%) MQTT
10 3 (1.40%) Network Security
10 3 (1.40%) Wireless
11 2 (0.93%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.14%) Power BI
3 7 (3.27%) MySQL
4 6 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.93%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) Db2
Development Applications
1 17 (7.94%) Git
2 15 (7.01%) JIRA
3 12 (5.61%) GitLab
4 8 (3.74%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.87%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.40%) JUnit
8 3 (1.40%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 58 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.29%) Finance
3 35 (16.36%) Manufacturing
4 20 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.61%) Retail
6 10 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.74%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.74%) Automotive
8 6 (2.80%) Legal
9 5 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.87%) Banking
10 4 (1.87%) Electronics
10 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (13.55%) Analyst
2 28 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (13.08%) Senior
3 26 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.68%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.81%) Architect
6 19 (8.88%) IT Support
6 19 (8.88%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (7.94%) Support Engineer
8 16 (7.48%) Applications Architect
9 15 (7.01%) IT Engineer
10 14 (6.54%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) Security Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) SOC Analyst
11 13 (6.07%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (5.61%) NOC Manager
12 12 (5.61%) Operations Manager
12 12 (5.61%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.02%) Terraform
2 20 (9.35%) Regular Expression
3 19 (8.88%) XMPP
4 16 (7.48%) LDAP
5 11 (5.14%) React
6 10 (4.67%) JSON
7 8 (3.74%) Django
7 8 (3.74%) REST
8 7 (3.27%) Web Services
9 6 (2.80%) Vue
10 5 (2.34%) XML
10 5 (2.34%) YAML
11 4 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.87%) JSON Schema
11 4 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.40%) Node.js
12 3 (1.40%) Spring
12 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.40%) Yocto
13 2 (0.93%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.94%) Driving Licence
2 16 (7.48%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (7.48%) PKI
3 14 (6.54%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (5.14%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (4.67%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.67%) Robotics
6 8 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.74%) IoT
7 7 (3.27%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.27%) CSOC
7 7 (3.27%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.34%) Replication
9 5 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.40%) Clustering
10 3 (1.40%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 108 (50.47%) Windows
2 39 (18.22%) Windows Server
3 28 (13.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (10.75%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.21%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.27%) Debian
6 7 (3.27%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.27%) Rocky
7 3 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.40%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (1.40%) Gentoo
7 3 (1.40%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 51 (23.83%) SIEM
3 40 (18.69%) DevOps
4 39 (18.22%) ITIL
5 38 (17.76%) Validation
6 37 (17.29%) Software Engineering
7 35 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 34 (15.89%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (13.08%) CI/CD
10 25 (11.68%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (10.75%) Test Automation
12 21 (9.81%) Process Improvement
13 20 (9.35%) Server Management
14 19 (8.88%) Security Operations
15 18 (8.41%) Containerisation
15 18 (8.41%) High Availability
16 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (7.48%) Antivirus Management
17 16 (7.48%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.11%) Python
2 57 (26.64%) PowerShell
3 47 (21.96%) Bash
4 23 (10.75%) C++
5 19 (8.88%) C
6 14 (6.54%) SQL
7 13 (6.07%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.61%) JavaScript
8 12 (5.61%) Rust
9 10 (4.67%) Go
9 10 (4.67%) Java
9 10 (4.67%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.74%) C#
11 7 (3.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (3.27%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (2.80%) Groovy
13 5 (2.34%) Korn
14 4 (1.87%) Perl
14 4 (1.87%) Ruby
15 3 (1.40%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 73 (34.11%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 33 (15.42%) DV Cleared
4 31 (14.49%) Degree
5 16 (7.48%) CompTIA Security+
5 16 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.54%) GIAC
7 13 (6.07%) GCIA
8 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.74%) CompTIA CySA+
9 8 (3.74%) CREST Certified
9 8 (3.74%) GCIH
10 7 (3.27%) GCED
10 7 (3.27%) SANS
11 6 (2.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (2.80%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.80%) OSCP
11 6 (2.80%) PhD
12 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.54%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) GDPR
2 5 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.34%) MISRA
3 3 (1.40%) ECSS
4 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.93%) ISO 22301
4 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.47%) GRC
System Software
1 40 (18.69%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (13.55%) Docker
4 23 (10.75%) vSphere
5 14 (6.54%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (6.07%) Hyper-V
7 12 (5.61%) KVM
8 10 (4.67%) Firmware
9 8 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (2.34%) Squid
11 2 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.93%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.62%) Ansible
3 15 (7.01%) Graylog
4 8 (3.74%) Grafana
4 8 (3.74%) Kibana
4 8 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.74%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.74%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.34%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.87%) Packer
7 4 (1.87%) Podman
8 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.47%) QRadar
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (43.93%) Microsoft
2 57 (26.64%) VMware
3 40 (18.69%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.75%) Veeam
5 15 (7.01%) McAfee
6 11 (5.14%) Sage
6 11 (5.14%) Splunk
7 10 (4.67%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (4.67%) Dell
8 8 (3.74%) IBM
9 7 (3.27%) Carbon Black
9 7 (3.27%) Cisco
10 6 (2.80%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.80%) Okta
11 5 (2.34%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.34%) Citrix
11 5 (2.34%) Google
11 5 (2.34%) NetApp
12 4 (1.87%) EMC
13 3 (1.40%) Motorola