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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 91 31
Rank change year-on-year +47 -60 -15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 212 123 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.96% 3.12% 6.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.98% 30.52% 51.50%
Number of salaries quoted 174 70 184
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,075 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,235 £42,770 £39,883
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 £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 482 403 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.72% 10.21% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 403 314 409
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 £61,425 £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 13 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 13 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 +71 106 £65,000 +30.00% 50
Buckinghamshire 0 54 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Oxfordshire -10 52 £55,000 +22.22% 43
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 (4.72%) Apache
1 10 (4.72%) nginx
2 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.36%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.42%) Simulink
3 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (5.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 77 (36.32%) AWS
2 67 (31.60%) Azure
3 33 (15.57%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.79%) SaaS
5 23 (10.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (6.60%) Cloudflare
6 14 (6.60%) GitHub
7 13 (6.13%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.13%) GCP
8 11 (5.19%) Datadog
8 11 (5.19%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.83%) Serverless
12 5 (2.36%) Google Workspace
12 5 (2.36%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 64 (30.19%) Firewall
2 61 (28.77%) DNS
3 23 (10.85%) VPN
4 21 (9.91%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.72%) SAN
6 8 (3.77%) HTTP
6 8 (3.77%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.77%) SSL
7 6 (2.83%) DHCP
7 6 (2.83%) VLAN
8 5 (2.36%) iSCSI
8 5 (2.36%) NAS
8 5 (2.36%) NetScaler
8 5 (2.36%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.89%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.42%) MQTT
10 3 (1.42%) Network Security
10 3 (1.42%) Wireless
11 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.19%) Power BI
3 7 (3.30%) MySQL
4 6 (2.83%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.94%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) Db2
Development Applications
1 17 (8.02%) Git
2 15 (7.08%) JIRA
3 11 (5.19%) GitLab
4 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.83%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.36%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.42%) JUnit
8 3 (1.42%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 56 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.45%) Finance
3 34 (16.04%) Manufacturing
4 19 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.66%) Retail
6 10 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.77%) Automotive
8 6 (2.83%) Legal
9 5 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.89%) Banking
10 4 (1.89%) Electronics
11 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (13.68%) Analyst
2 28 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (13.21%) Senior
3 26 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.79%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.91%) Architect
6 19 (8.96%) IT Support
6 19 (8.96%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (8.02%) Support Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Applications Architect
9 15 (7.08%) IT Engineer
10 14 (6.60%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (6.13%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 13 (6.13%) Security Engineer
11 13 (6.13%) SOC Analyst
11 13 (6.13%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (5.66%) NOC Manager
12 12 (5.66%) Operations Manager
12 12 (5.66%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.15%) Terraform
2 20 (9.43%) Regular Expression
3 19 (8.96%) XMPP
4 16 (7.55%) LDAP
5 11 (5.19%) React
6 9 (4.25%) JSON
7 8 (3.77%) Django
8 7 (3.30%) REST
8 7 (3.30%) Web Services
9 6 (2.83%) Vue
10 4 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.89%) JSON Schema
10 4 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.89%) XML
10 4 (1.89%) YAML
11 3 (1.42%) Node.js
11 3 (1.42%) Spring
11 3 (1.42%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.42%) Yocto
12 2 (0.94%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.02%) Driving Licence
2 16 (7.55%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (7.55%) PKI
3 14 (6.60%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (4.72%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.72%) Robotics
6 8 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.77%) IoT
7 7 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.30%) CSOC
7 7 (3.30%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.30%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.36%) Replication
10 4 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (50.94%) Windows
2 39 (18.40%) Windows Server
3 28 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (10.85%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.25%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.30%) Debian
6 7 (3.30%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.30%) Rocky
7 3 (1.42%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.42%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (1.42%) Gentoo
7 3 (1.42%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 51 (24.06%) SIEM
3 39 (18.40%) DevOps
3 39 (18.40%) ITIL
4 37 (17.45%) Software Engineering
4 37 (17.45%) Validation
5 35 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (16.04%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (12.74%) CI/CD
8 25 (11.79%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (10.85%) Test Automation
10 21 (9.91%) Process Improvement
11 20 (9.43%) Server Management
12 19 (8.96%) Security Operations
13 18 (8.49%) High Availability
14 17 (8.02%) Containerisation
15 16 (7.55%) Antivirus Management
15 16 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (7.55%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.96%) Python
2 57 (26.89%) PowerShell
3 47 (22.17%) Bash
4 23 (10.85%) C++
5 18 (8.49%) C
6 14 (6.60%) SQL
7 13 (6.13%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.66%) Rust
9 11 (5.19%) JavaScript
10 10 (4.72%) Go
10 10 (4.72%) Java
10 10 (4.72%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.77%) C#
12 7 (3.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (3.30%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (2.83%) Groovy
14 5 (2.36%) Korn
15 4 (1.89%) Perl
15 4 (1.89%) Ruby
16 3 (1.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 72 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 32 (15.09%) DV Cleared
4 30 (14.15%) Degree
5 16 (7.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 16 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.60%) GIAC
7 13 (6.13%) GCIA
8 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.77%) CompTIA CySA+
9 8 (3.77%) CREST Certified
9 8 (3.77%) GCIH
10 7 (3.30%) GCED
10 7 (3.30%) SANS
11 6 (2.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.83%) OSCP
11 6 (2.83%) PhD
12 5 (2.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.60%) QA
2 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.36%) MISRA
3 4 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.42%) ECSS
5 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.94%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.94%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
System Software
1 40 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (13.68%) Docker
4 23 (10.85%) vSphere
5 14 (6.60%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (6.13%) Hyper-V
7 12 (5.66%) KVM
8 10 (4.72%) Firmware
9 8 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (2.36%) Squid
11 2 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.74%) Ansible
3 15 (7.08%) Graylog
4 8 (3.77%) Grafana
4 8 (3.77%) Kibana
4 8 (3.77%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.77%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.77%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.36%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.89%) Packer
7 4 (1.89%) Podman
8 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.47%) QRadar
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (44.34%) Microsoft
2 57 (26.89%) VMware
3 39 (18.40%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.85%) Veeam
5 15 (7.08%) McAfee
6 11 (5.19%) Sage
6 11 (5.19%) Splunk
7 10 (4.72%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (4.72%) Dell
8 8 (3.77%) IBM
9 7 (3.30%) Carbon Black
10 6 (2.83%) Cisco
10 6 (2.83%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.83%) Okta
11 5 (2.36%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.36%) Citrix
11 5 (2.36%) Google
11 5 (2.36%) NetApp
12 4 (1.89%) EMC
13 3 (1.42%) Xilinx