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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 31 27
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 141 180 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.60% 6.29% 6.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.52% 43.69% 42.25%
Number of salaries quoted 102 112 379
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,033 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% +4.92% +8.42%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -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 366 412 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.75% 14.40% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 287 296 901
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £67,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -

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 23 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 23 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 +25 93 £62,500 +25.00% 30
Buckinghamshire -54 26 £70,000 +24.44% 14
Oxfordshire -35 22 £57,062 -4.90% 26
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 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.13%) Apache
2 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) CMS
3 2 (1.42%) WordPress
4 1 (0.71%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.06%) AWS
2 58 (41.13%) Azure
3 30 (21.28%) GCP
4 17 (12.06%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (12.06%) SaaS
5 12 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.96%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.96%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.96%) Serverless
7 6 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.26%) GitHub
8 5 (3.55%) Apigee
8 5 (3.55%) Figma
8 5 (3.55%) Kong
8 5 (3.55%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.84%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.42%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 52 (36.88%) Firewall
2 37 (26.24%) DNS
3 13 (9.22%) SAN
4 12 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 12 (8.51%) VPN
5 8 (5.67%) DHCP
6 7 (4.96%) iSCSI
6 7 (4.96%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (4.96%) Wireshark
7 6 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (4.26%) NAS
7 6 (4.26%) NetScaler
7 6 (4.26%) WAN
8 5 (3.55%) LAN
8 5 (3.55%) VoIP
9 4 (2.84%) SpaceWire
9 4 (2.84%) SSL
9 4 (2.84%) VLAN
9 4 (2.84%) Wireless
10 3 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.80%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.71%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (14.18%) Git
2 16 (11.35%) GitLab
3 11 (7.80%) JIRA
4 9 (6.38%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.55%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.84%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.42%) JMeter
8 2 (1.42%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 46 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (10.64%) Telecoms
3 13 (9.22%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.67%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.26%) Finance
6 5 (3.55%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.13%) Games
7 3 (2.13%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (18.44%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (17.02%) Software Engineer
3 22 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (9.93%) Architect
4 14 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.93%) Senior
5 13 (9.22%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (8.51%) Applications Architect
7 11 (7.80%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 11 (7.80%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.80%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 11 (7.80%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 10 (7.09%) Support Engineer
9 9 (6.38%) Developer
10 8 (5.67%) Security Architect
11 7 (4.96%) Analyst
11 7 (4.96%) Design Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) IT Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.64%) REST
2 14 (9.93%) JSON
3 12 (8.51%) Regular Expression
4 10 (7.09%) LDAP
5 9 (6.38%) XML
5 9 (6.38%) YAML
6 8 (5.67%) React
6 8 (5.67%) XMPP
7 7 (4.96%) Web Services
8 6 (4.26%) Django
9 5 (3.55%) Jinja
9 5 (3.55%) Twisted
9 5 (3.55%) WebSockets
9 5 (3.55%) YANG
10 4 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.84%) JSON Schema
10 4 (2.84%) Qt
10 4 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.13%) PyTorch
12 2 (1.42%) Google JAX
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.22%) Client/Server
4 10 (7.09%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.96%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.96%) PKI
6 6 (4.26%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (4.26%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.13%) Arduino
9 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.13%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.42%) Replication
10 2 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 52 (36.88%) Windows
2 33 (23.40%) Windows Server
3 23 (16.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (8.51%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.67%) Mac OS
5 8 (5.67%) Unix
6 4 (2.84%) VxWorks
7 3 (2.13%) Android
7 3 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.42%) CentOS
9 1 (0.71%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.71%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (20.57%) DevOps
3 27 (19.15%) Test Automation
4 26 (18.44%) Software Engineering
5 25 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (14.89%) Containerisation
7 20 (14.18%) CI/CD
7 20 (14.18%) Computer Science
8 19 (13.48%) SIEM
9 18 (12.77%) Code Quality
10 17 (12.06%) ITIL
11 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (10.64%) High Availability
12 15 (10.64%) System Testing
13 14 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (9.93%) Validation
14 12 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (7.80%) Agile
15 11 (7.80%) Microservices
16 10 (7.09%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.17%) Python
2 22 (15.60%) Bash
2 22 (15.60%) C
3 21 (14.89%) C++
4 19 (13.48%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.22%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.22%) Rust
5 13 (9.22%) SQL
6 11 (7.80%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.26%) Groovy
7 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.55%) Java
8 5 (3.55%) Korn
9 4 (2.84%) Perl
10 3 (2.13%) Pascal
10 3 (2.13%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.42%) C#
11 2 (1.42%) Go
12 1 (0.71%) Bicep
12 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 36 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.82%) Degree
3 23 (16.31%) DV Cleared
4 17 (12.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (9.93%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.42%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.42%) RHCE
8 2 (1.42%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.71%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CCIE
9 1 (0.71%) CCNA
9 1 (0.71%) CCNP
9 1 (0.71%) MCSE
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PhD
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.60%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) SLA
3 4 (2.84%) ECSS
4 3 (2.13%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (29.08%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.60%) Docker
3 21 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (12.06%) vSphere
5 16 (11.35%) Hyper-V
6 14 (9.93%) KVM
7 7 (4.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.42%) Samba
10 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (15.60%) Kubernetes
1 22 (15.60%) Terraform
2 21 (14.89%) Ansible
3 4 (2.84%) Packer
4 2 (1.42%) Grafana
4 2 (1.42%) Graylog
4 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Argo
5 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.71%) Kibana
5 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.71%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.71%) QRadar
5 1 (0.71%) SCCM
5 1 (0.71%) SCOM
5 1 (0.71%) SCSM
Vendors
1 40 (28.37%) Microsoft
2 37 (26.24%) VMware
3 33 (23.40%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.67%) Palo Alto
5 7 (4.96%) Cisco
5 7 (4.96%) Dell
5 7 (4.96%) Google
6 6 (4.26%) Citrix
6 6 (4.26%) IBM
6 6 (4.26%) McAfee
6 6 (4.26%) NetApp
7 5 (3.55%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.55%) F5
7 5 (3.55%) Juniper
8 4 (2.84%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.84%) Oracle
9 3 (2.13%) Motorola
9 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.42%) D-Link
10 2 (1.42%) Splunk