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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 150 178 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.69% 5.89% 6.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.37% 43.00% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 108 109 374
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,900 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +9.47%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% +10.00%

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 381 414 997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.84% 13.69% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 298 296 888
10th Percentile £29,700 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,533 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -

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 April 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 April 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 +27 99 £62,500 +25.00% 26
Buckinghamshire -38 30 £67,000 +19.11% 11
Oxfordshire -38 21 £56,623 -5.63% 21
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 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 75 (50.00%) AWS
2 65 (43.33%) Azure
3 30 (20.00%) GCP
4 20 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (12.67%) SaaS
6 14 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.00%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (4.67%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (4.67%) Serverless
9 6 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.00%) GitHub
10 5 (3.33%) Apigee
10 5 (3.33%) Figma
10 5 (3.33%) Kong
10 5 (3.33%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.67%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 56 (37.33%) Firewall
2 44 (29.33%) DNS
3 15 (10.00%) SAN
4 14 (9.33%) VPN
5 13 (8.67%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.33%) iSCSI
6 8 (5.33%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (5.33%) Wireshark
7 7 (4.67%) DHCP
7 7 (4.67%) NAS
7 7 (4.67%) NetScaler
7 7 (4.67%) SSL
8 6 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (4.00%) WAN
9 5 (3.33%) LAN
9 5 (3.33%) VoIP
10 4 (2.67%) HTTP
10 4 (2.67%) Network Security
10 4 (2.67%) SpaceWire
11 3 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (13.33%) Git
2 16 (10.67%) GitLab
3 11 (7.33%) JIRA
4 9 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.67%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.33%) JMeter
8 2 (1.33%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.67%) MLflow
General
1 48 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 14 (9.33%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.33%) Finance
7 5 (3.33%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.00%) Games
8 3 (2.00%) Retail
8 3 (2.00%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.67%) Automotive
10 1 (0.67%) Aviation
10 1 (0.67%) Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (19.33%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 15 (10.00%) Architect
3 15 (10.00%) Senior
3 15 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) Applications Architect
4 14 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (8.67%) Analyst
5 13 (8.67%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 13 (8.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 13 (8.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 10 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Developer
7 9 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 8 (5.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Design Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) IT Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.00%) REST
2 14 (9.33%) JSON
2 14 (9.33%) Regular Expression
3 11 (7.33%) LDAP
4 10 (6.67%) XMPP
5 9 (6.00%) XML
5 9 (6.00%) YAML
6 8 (5.33%) React
7 6 (4.00%) Django
7 6 (4.00%) Web Services
8 5 (3.33%) Jinja
8 5 (3.33%) Twisted
8 5 (3.33%) WebSockets
8 5 (3.33%) YANG
9 4 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.67%) JSON Schema
9 4 (2.67%) Qt
9 4 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.00%) PyTorch
11 2 (1.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (8.67%) Client/Server
4 11 (7.33%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
5 10 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 8 (5.33%) PKI
7 6 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.67%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.00%) Arduino
10 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 58 (38.67%) Windows
2 33 (22.00%) Windows Server
3 26 (17.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (9.33%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.33%) Unix
6 7 (4.67%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.67%) VxWorks
8 2 (1.33%) Android
8 2 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.33%) CentOS
9 1 (0.67%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.67%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (20.67%) DevOps
3 28 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (18.00%) Test Automation
5 26 (17.33%) Software Engineering
6 24 (16.00%) SIEM
7 21 (14.00%) Containerisation
8 20 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 20 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 20 (13.33%) ITIL
9 18 (12.00%) Code Quality
9 18 (12.00%) Validation
10 16 (10.67%) High Availability
10 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (10.00%) System Testing
12 14 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (7.33%) Application Security
13 11 (7.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.67%) Python
2 25 (16.67%) Bash
3 23 (15.33%) PowerShell
4 22 (14.67%) C
5 21 (14.00%) C++
6 13 (8.67%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.67%) Rust
7 12 (8.00%) SQL
8 11 (7.33%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.00%) Groovy
9 6 (4.00%) Korn
9 6 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.33%) Java
11 4 (2.67%) C#
11 4 (2.67%) Go
11 4 (2.67%) Perl
12 3 (2.00%) Pascal
13 2 (1.33%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 43 (28.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.33%) Degree
3 24 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 19 (12.67%) SC Cleared
5 17 (11.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.00%) CREST Certified
8 3 (2.00%) GCIA
8 3 (2.00%) GCIH
8 3 (2.00%) GIAC
9 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.33%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.33%) GCED
9 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.33%) OSCP
9 2 (1.33%) RHCE
9 2 (1.33%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.33%) SANS
10 1 (0.67%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.67%) QA
2 5 (3.33%) SLA
3 4 (2.67%) ECSS
4 3 (2.00%) GDPR
4 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.33%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (29.33%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.33%) Docker
3 20 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (12.00%) vSphere
5 16 (10.67%) Hyper-V
6 14 (9.33%) KVM
7 8 (5.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.33%) Samba
10 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (16.00%) Terraform
2 23 (15.33%) Ansible
2 23 (15.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.67%) Graylog
3 4 (2.67%) Packer
4 3 (2.00%) Kibana
5 2 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.67%) Argo
6 1 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.67%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (25.33%) Red Hat
2 38 (25.33%) VMware
3 8 (5.33%) Dell
3 8 (5.33%) Palo Alto
4 7 (4.67%) Cisco
4 7 (4.67%) Citrix
4 7 (4.67%) Google
4 7 (4.67%) McAfee
4 7 (4.67%) NetApp
5 6 (4.00%) IBM
6 5 (3.33%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.33%) F5
6 5 (3.33%) Juniper
7 4 (2.67%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.67%) Splunk
8 3 (2.00%) Carbon Black
8 3 (2.00%) Motorola
8 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow