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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 24 12
Rank change year-on-year -73 -12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 83 319 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.28% 7.36% 11.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.99% 55.09% 51.90%
Number of salaries quoted 61 163 256
10th Percentile £39,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,623 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +9.52% -7.89%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,125 £63,777
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £56,527 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.69% +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 346 579 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.49% 13.37% 21.88%
Number of salaries quoted 296 335 569
10th Percentile £27,800 £29,850 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £36,174
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £46,813 £60,000 £59,380
90th Percentile £65,625 £78,250 £75,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -

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 November 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 November 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 -55 43 £53,065 -11.56% 43
Buckinghamshire -37 24 £70,000 +47.37% 13
Oxfordshire -13 16 £56,623 -5.63% 44
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 13 (15.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.43%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.23%) IIS
4 3 (3.61%) Confluence
5 2 (2.41%) CMS
5 2 (2.41%) WordPress
6 1 (1.20%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.20%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) AWS
2 24 (28.92%) Azure
3 17 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.64%) GCP
4 8 (9.64%) SaaS
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.82%) Google Workspace
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (3.61%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.61%) Serverless
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (2.41%) IaaS
9 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.20%) Boomi
10 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (33.73%) Firewall
2 20 (24.10%) DNS
3 13 (15.66%) DHCP
4 11 (13.25%) SAN
5 8 (9.64%) iSCSI
5 8 (9.64%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (8.43%) TCP/IP
7 6 (7.23%) Wireless
8 4 (4.82%) InfiniBand
9 3 (3.61%) LAN
9 3 (3.61%) VLAN
9 3 (3.61%) VPN
10 2 (2.41%) Ethernet
10 2 (2.41%) FTP
10 2 (2.41%) HTTP
10 2 (2.41%) SMTP
10 2 (2.41%) SpaceWire
10 2 (2.41%) SSH
10 2 (2.41%) SSL
11 1 (1.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.25%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.05%) MySQL
3 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.20%) DTS
6 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.84%) JIRA
3 8 (9.64%) Git
4 5 (6.02%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.82%) Burp Suite
5 4 (4.82%) GitLab
6 3 (3.61%) Metasploit
6 3 (3.61%) MLflow
7 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.41%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.20%) DbUnit
8 1 (1.20%) JMeter
8 1 (1.20%) jMock
8 1 (1.20%) JUnit
8 1 (1.20%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.20%) Maven
8 1 (1.20%) Mockito
8 1 (1.20%) Testinfra
General
1 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.64%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Health Technology
4 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.20%) Humanities
6 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.20%) Law
6 1 (1.20%) Legal
6 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.20%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Senior
3 10 (12.05%) Support Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) IT Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) IT Support
6 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Tester
7 4 (4.82%) Administrator
7 4 (4.82%) Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Linux Support
7 4 (4.82%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Penetration Tester
7 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) Web Services
2 3 (3.61%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.61%) RESTful
3 2 (2.41%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.41%) JSON
3 2 (2.41%) Qt
3 2 (2.41%) SOAP
3 2 (2.41%) Spring
4 1 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.20%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.20%) JPA
4 1 (1.20%) Middleware
4 1 (1.20%) PowerMock
4 1 (1.20%) REST
4 1 (1.20%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.20%) Spring Integration
4 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.23%) Replication
4 5 (6.02%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.61%) Animation
6 3 (3.61%) Life Science
6 3 (3.61%) NHS
7 2 (2.41%) Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (54.22%) Windows
2 12 (14.46%) Windows Server
3 11 (13.25%) Unix
4 10 (12.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (12.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.02%) Apple iOS
5 5 (6.02%) Mac OS
5 5 (6.02%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.61%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.41%) Android
7 2 (2.41%) VMS
7 2 (2.41%) VxWorks
8 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) ITIL
2 15 (18.07%) Computer Science
3 11 (13.25%) Agile
3 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (9.64%) DevOps
5 8 (9.64%) Time Management
6 7 (8.43%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.43%) Configuration Management
6 7 (8.43%) Containerisation
6 7 (8.43%) Customer Service
6 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (8.43%) Open Source
6 7 (8.43%) Physics
6 7 (8.43%) Validation
7 6 (7.23%) Mathematics
7 6 (7.23%) SDLC
7 6 (7.23%) Service Management
7 6 (7.23%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) Python
2 23 (27.71%) Bash
3 16 (19.28%) PowerShell
4 13 (15.66%) SQL
5 9 (10.84%) C++
6 8 (9.64%) Korn
7 6 (7.23%) C
8 5 (6.02%) Java
8 5 (6.02%) Perl
9 4 (4.82%) Fortran
10 3 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.41%) Groovy
11 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.41%) MATLAB
11 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.20%) C#
12 1 (1.20%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 32 (38.55%) Degree
2 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.43%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.82%) A+ Certification
6 4 (4.82%) MCSE
6 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.82%) OSCP
6 4 (4.82%) PhD
6 4 (4.82%) RHCE
7 3 (3.61%) LPIC
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.41%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.41%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.20%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) NIST
3 2 (2.41%) ECSS
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
4 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 27 (32.53%) Active Directory
2 20 (24.10%) Docker
3 13 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (7.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.82%) NFS
6 4 (4.82%) vCloud
6 4 (4.82%) vSphere
7 3 (3.61%) GPFS
7 3 (3.61%) Lustre
8 2 (2.41%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.46%) Ansible
3 7 (8.43%) Terraform
4 6 (7.23%) SCCM
5 4 (4.82%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (4.82%) Grafana
5 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.82%) Rundeck
6 3 (3.61%) Argo
6 3 (3.61%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.61%) Kubeflow
6 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.61%) Nmap
6 3 (3.61%) SCOM
7 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) SCSM
8 1 (1.20%) Packer
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.48%) VMware
3 12 (14.46%) Red Hat
4 9 (10.84%) Dell
5 8 (9.64%) Splunk
6 5 (6.02%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.02%) Cisco
7 4 (4.82%) Google
8 3 (3.61%) Apple
8 3 (3.61%) Arista
8 3 (3.61%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.61%) Sophos
8 3 (3.61%) Trend Micro
8 3 (3.61%) Veeam
9 2 (2.41%) IBM
9 2 (2.41%) Juniper
9 2 (2.41%) Oracle
9 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.20%) SAP