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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 94 28
Rank change year-on-year +46 -66 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 205 121 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.77% 3.21% 6.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.53% 30.71% 52.18%
Number of salaries quoted 167 69 175
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,770 £39,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,065 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -6.09% +5.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £70,000 £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 482 394 619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.52% 10.44% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 402 309 383
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,875 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,938 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £61,600 £76,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +5.26%

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 24 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 24 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 +56 98 £65,000 +26.13% 63
Buckinghamshire +5 54 £63,750 -8.93% 22
Oxfordshire -8 53 £55,000 +22.22% 80
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 (4.88%) Apache
1 10 (4.88%) nginx
2 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.95%) Lightworks
2 4 (1.95%) Simulink
3 1 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (5.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 72 (35.12%) AWS
2 63 (30.73%) Azure
3 33 (16.10%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (13.17%) SaaS
5 23 (11.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (6.83%) Cloudflare
7 13 (6.34%) Entra ID
8 12 (5.85%) GitHub
9 11 (5.37%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.88%) Datadog
10 10 (4.88%) GCP
11 9 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.93%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.93%) Serverless
14 5 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.44%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 59 (28.78%) Firewall
2 57 (27.80%) DNS
3 23 (11.22%) VPN
4 21 (10.24%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.39%) SAN
6 8 (3.90%) HTTP
6 8 (3.90%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.90%) SSL
7 6 (2.93%) DHCP
7 6 (2.93%) VLAN
8 5 (2.44%) Ethernet
8 5 (2.44%) iSCSI
9 4 (1.95%) MQTT
9 4 (1.95%) NAS
9 4 (1.95%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.95%) Wireless
9 4 (1.95%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.46%) Network Security
11 2 (0.98%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.37%) Power BI
3 7 (3.41%) MySQL
4 6 (2.93%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.98%) Big Data
7 1 (0.49%) Db2
Development Applications
1 16 (7.80%) Git
1 16 (7.80%) JIRA
2 11 (5.37%) GitLab
3 8 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.93%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.44%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.95%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.95%) PetaLinux
7 3 (1.46%) JUnit
8 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.49%) JMeter
8 1 (0.49%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.49%) Mocha
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 55 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.05%) Finance
3 32 (15.61%) Manufacturing
4 20 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.85%) Retail
6 10 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.41%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.41%) Automotive
8 6 (2.93%) Legal
9 5 (2.44%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.95%) Banking
10 4 (1.95%) Electronics
11 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.49%) Military
12 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (14.15%) Analyst
1 29 (14.15%) Senior
2 26 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (10.24%) Software Engineer
4 19 (9.27%) IT Support
4 19 (9.27%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (8.78%) Architect
6 17 (8.29%) Support Engineer
7 15 (7.32%) IT Engineer
8 14 (6.83%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (6.83%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (6.34%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 13 (6.34%) Security Engineer
9 13 (6.34%) SOC Analyst
10 12 (5.85%) Applications Architect
10 12 (5.85%) NOC Manager
10 12 (5.85%) Operations Manager
11 11 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (5.37%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.63%) Terraform
2 16 (7.80%) Regular Expression
3 15 (7.32%) XMPP
4 13 (6.34%) LDAP
5 10 (4.88%) JSON
5 10 (4.88%) React
6 5 (2.44%) Django
6 5 (2.44%) REST
6 5 (2.44%) Vue
6 5 (2.44%) Web Services
6 5 (2.44%) XML
7 4 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.95%) JSON Schema
7 4 (1.95%) Node.js
7 4 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.95%) YAML
7 4 (1.95%) Yocto
8 3 (1.46%) Spring
8 3 (1.46%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.98%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.29%) Driving Licence
2 16 (7.80%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (7.32%) PKI
4 14 (6.83%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (6.34%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (4.88%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.88%) Robotics
7 9 (4.39%) IoT
8 8 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.41%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.41%) CSOC
9 7 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (3.41%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.93%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.44%) Replication
12 4 (1.95%) FPGA
12 4 (1.95%) Verilog
12 4 (1.95%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 106 (51.71%) Windows
2 35 (17.07%) Windows Server
3 24 (11.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (11.22%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.39%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.90%) Mac OS
7 7 (3.41%) Debian
7 7 (3.41%) Rocky
8 4 (1.95%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (1.46%) Gentoo
9 3 (1.46%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (23.41%) SIEM
4 41 (20.00%) DevOps
5 39 (19.02%) ITIL
6 35 (17.07%) Software Engineering
7 34 (16.59%) Cybersecurity
8 33 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (15.12%) CI/CD
9 31 (15.12%) Validation
10 23 (11.22%) Test Automation
11 21 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (10.24%) Process Improvement
12 19 (9.27%) Security Operations
13 17 (8.29%) Agile
13 17 (8.29%) Server Management
14 16 (7.80%) AI
14 16 (7.80%) High Availability
14 16 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (7.32%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (35.12%) Python
2 56 (27.32%) PowerShell
3 49 (23.90%) Bash
4 23 (11.22%) C++
5 16 (7.80%) C
5 16 (7.80%) SQL
6 13 (6.34%) Rust
7 11 (5.37%) Go
7 11 (5.37%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.88%) Java
8 10 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 9 (4.39%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.41%) C#
10 7 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (3.41%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.93%) Groovy
12 5 (2.44%) Korn
13 4 (1.95%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.95%) Perl
13 4 (1.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 67 (32.68%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 26 (12.68%) Degree
3 26 (12.68%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.80%) CompTIA Security+
5 14 (6.83%) GIAC
6 13 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.34%) GCIA
7 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (3.90%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (3.90%) CREST Certified
8 8 (3.90%) GCIH
9 7 (3.41%) GCED
9 7 (3.41%) SANS
10 6 (2.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (2.93%) OSCP
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.44%) CEH
11 5 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.85%) QA
2 6 (2.93%) MISRA
3 5 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.95%) ECSS
5 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 2 (0.98%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.98%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
System Software
1 36 (17.56%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.66%) Docker
3 27 (13.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (9.27%) vSphere
5 14 (6.83%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (5.37%) Firmware
6 11 (5.37%) Hyper-V
7 10 (4.88%) KVM
8 6 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (2.44%) Squid
10 2 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.98%) iptables
Systems Management
1 27 (13.17%) Ansible
1 27 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.32%) Graylog
3 9 (4.39%) Grafana
3 9 (4.39%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.90%) Kibana
4 8 (3.90%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.90%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.44%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.95%) Packer
7 4 (1.95%) Podman
8 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.49%) Nagios
8 1 (0.49%) QRadar
8 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (43.41%) Microsoft
2 50 (24.39%) VMware
3 35 (17.07%) Red Hat
4 23 (11.22%) Veeam
5 12 (5.85%) McAfee
6 11 (5.37%) Sage
6 11 (5.37%) Splunk
7 10 (4.88%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (4.88%) Dell
8 8 (3.90%) IBM
9 7 (3.41%) Carbon Black
10 6 (2.93%) Cisco
10 6 (2.93%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.93%) Okta
11 5 (2.44%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.44%) Google
12 4 (1.95%) Citrix
12 4 (1.95%) EMC
12 4 (1.95%) NetApp
12 4 (1.95%) Xilinx