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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 88 34
Rank change year-on-year +46 -54 -19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 227 132 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.26% 3.39% 6.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.42% 31.35% 49.19%
Number of salaries quoted 183 77 196
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £42,500 £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 £68,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £71,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,783 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.15% -4.03% +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 489 421 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.03% 10.82% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 405 327 454
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,750
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 £79,500 £63,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £48,925
% change year-on-year +18.75% -18.24% +6.36%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 +72 121 £65,000 +30.00% 43
Buckinghamshire +1 59 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Oxfordshire -12 47 £55,000 +22.22% 29
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 11 (4.85%) Apache
2 10 (4.41%) nginx
3 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.32%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.32%) Simulink
3 1 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 87 (38.33%) AWS
2 73 (32.16%) Azure
3 32 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.01%) SaaS
5 24 (10.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 18 (7.93%) GCP
7 15 (6.61%) GitHub
8 14 (6.17%) Cloudflare
9 11 (4.85%) Entra ID
10 10 (4.41%) Datadog
11 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.96%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.64%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.64%) Serverless
14 5 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 76 (33.48%) Firewall
2 66 (29.07%) DNS
3 23 (10.13%) VPN
4 20 (8.81%) TCP/IP
5 14 (6.17%) SAN
6 9 (3.96%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (3.52%) HTTP
7 8 (3.52%) NAS
7 8 (3.52%) NetScaler
7 8 (3.52%) SSL
7 8 (3.52%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.64%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.20%) DHCP
10 4 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.76%) Network Security
11 3 (1.32%) Ethernet
11 3 (1.32%) MQTT
11 3 (1.32%) VLAN
11 3 (1.32%) VoIP
11 3 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.96%) MySQL
2 9 (3.96%) Power BI
2 9 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.44%) Db2
5 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.44%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 19 (8.37%) Git
2 16 (7.05%) JIRA
3 13 (5.73%) GitLab
4 8 (3.52%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.64%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.76%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.32%) JUnit
8 3 (1.32%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.44%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) Storybook
General
1 65 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.86%) Finance
2 36 (15.86%) Manufacturing
3 24 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.73%) Retail
5 11 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.52%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.52%) Automotive
8 6 (2.64%) Legal
9 5 (2.20%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.76%) Banking
10 4 (1.76%) Electronics
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.44%) Aviation
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (12.33%) Analyst
1 28 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 28 (12.33%) Senior
1 28 (12.33%) Software Engineer
2 26 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (11.01%) Architect
4 20 (8.81%) Applications Architect
5 19 (8.37%) Linux Engineer
6 17 (7.49%) IT Support
7 15 (6.61%) IT Engineer
8 14 (6.17%) Network Engineer
8 14 (6.17%) Security Architect
8 14 (6.17%) Security Engineer
8 14 (6.17%) Support Engineer
8 14 (6.17%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.73%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.73%) SOC Analyst
10 12 (5.29%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (5.29%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.22%) Terraform
2 23 (10.13%) Regular Expression
3 19 (8.37%) LDAP
3 19 (8.37%) XMPP
4 15 (6.61%) JSON
5 12 (5.29%) React
5 12 (5.29%) REST
6 10 (4.41%) Django
6 10 (4.41%) XML
7 9 (3.96%) Web Services
8 7 (3.08%) JSON Schema
8 7 (3.08%) YAML
9 6 (2.64%) Vue
10 4 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.76%) Twisted
10 4 (1.76%) WebSockets
11 3 (1.32%) Jinja
11 3 (1.32%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.32%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.37%) PKI
2 16 (7.05%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (6.61%) Driving Licence
4 14 (6.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.41%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (3.96%) Robotics
8 8 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (3.52%) IoT
8 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.08%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.08%) CSOC
9 7 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (2.20%) Client/Server
11 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 118 (51.98%) Windows
2 47 (20.70%) Windows Server
3 35 (15.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (8.81%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.96%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.08%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.64%) Debian
8 5 (2.20%) Rocky
9 4 (1.76%) Unix
10 3 (1.32%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (1.32%) Gentoo
11 2 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.88%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.55%) SIEM
2 55 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (18.06%) DevOps
5 40 (17.62%) ITIL
5 40 (17.62%) Software Engineering
6 36 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 36 (15.86%) Validation
7 34 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (12.33%) CI/CD
9 27 (11.89%) Test Automation
10 24 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (10.13%) High Availability
12 22 (9.69%) Containerisation
13 20 (8.81%) Process Improvement
14 19 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (8.37%) Security Operations
15 18 (7.93%) Server Management
16 16 (7.05%) Antivirus Management
16 16 (7.05%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.48%) Python
2 55 (24.23%) PowerShell
3 47 (20.70%) Bash
4 24 (10.57%) C++
5 21 (9.25%) C
6 16 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.17%) Rust
8 14 (6.17%) SQL
9 13 (5.73%) Shell Script
10 10 (4.41%) Java
11 9 (3.96%) Go
12 8 (3.52%) C#
13 7 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (3.08%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (2.64%) Groovy
15 5 (2.20%) Korn
16 4 (1.76%) Perl
16 4 (1.76%) Ruby
17 3 (1.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 80 (35.24%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.62%) DV Cleared
2 40 (17.62%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.98%) Degree
4 17 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.05%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (6.17%) GIAC
7 13 (5.73%) GCIA
8 10 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.52%) CompTIA CySA+
9 8 (3.52%) CREST Certified
9 8 (3.52%) GCIH
10 7 (3.08%) GCED
10 7 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (3.08%) SANS
11 6 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.64%) OSCP
11 6 (2.64%) PhD
12 5 (2.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.49%) QA
2 6 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.20%) GDPR
3 5 (2.20%) MISRA
4 3 (1.32%) ECSS
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 47 (20.70%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.98%) Docker
3 33 (14.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (12.78%) vSphere
5 16 (7.05%) Hyper-V
6 15 (6.61%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (6.17%) KVM
8 9 (3.96%) Firmware
8 9 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (2.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.88%) iptables
12 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 29 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.89%) Ansible
3 16 (7.05%) Graylog
4 8 (3.52%) Grafana
4 8 (3.52%) Kibana
4 8 (3.52%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.52%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.52%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.20%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.76%) Packer
7 4 (1.76%) Podman
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.44%) QRadar
8 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (41.85%) Microsoft
2 64 (28.19%) VMware
3 43 (18.94%) Red Hat
4 21 (9.25%) Veeam
5 15 (6.61%) McAfee
6 11 (4.85%) Cisco
6 11 (4.85%) Splunk
7 10 (4.41%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (3.96%) Dell
8 9 (3.96%) Sage
9 8 (3.52%) Citrix
9 8 (3.52%) IBM
9 8 (3.52%) NetApp
10 7 (3.08%) Carbon Black
10 7 (3.08%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.64%) Okta
12 5 (2.20%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.76%) EMC
13 4 (1.76%) Google
13 4 (1.76%) Palo Alto