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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 94 27
Rank change year-on-year +43 -67 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 209 121 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.87% 3.14% 6.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.27% 30.56% 52.10%
Number of salaries quoted 171 69 183
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,770 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,065 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -6.12% +5.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 483 396 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.64% 10.28% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 404 310 405
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £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 £67,500 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £61,275 £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 18 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 18 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 +59 103 £65,000 +30.00% 60
Buckinghamshire +2 53 £65,000 -7.14% 15
Oxfordshire -6 53 £55,000 +22.22% 76
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 (4.78%) Apache
1 10 (4.78%) nginx
2 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.87%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.91%) Lightworks
2 4 (1.91%) Simulink
3 1 (0.48%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (5.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.36%) AWS
2 66 (31.58%) Azure
3 33 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (12.92%) SaaS
5 23 (11.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (6.70%) Cloudflare
7 13 (6.22%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.22%) GitHub
8 12 (5.74%) GCP
9 11 (5.26%) Datadog
9 11 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 9 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.87%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.87%) Serverless
13 5 (2.39%) Google Workspace
13 5 (2.39%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 60 (28.71%) Firewall
2 58 (27.75%) DNS
3 23 (11.00%) VPN
4 21 (10.05%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.31%) SAN
6 8 (3.83%) HTTP
6 8 (3.83%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.83%) SSL
7 6 (2.87%) DHCP
7 6 (2.87%) VLAN
8 5 (2.39%) Ethernet
8 5 (2.39%) iSCSI
9 4 (1.91%) MQTT
9 4 (1.91%) NAS
9 4 (1.91%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.91%) Wireless
9 4 (1.91%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.44%) Network Security
11 2 (0.96%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.26%) Power BI
3 7 (3.35%) MySQL
4 6 (2.87%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.96%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) Db2
Development Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Git
2 16 (7.66%) JIRA
3 11 (5.26%) GitLab
4 8 (3.83%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.87%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.39%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.91%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.91%) PetaLinux
8 3 (1.44%) JUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.48%) Mocha
9 1 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 57 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.70%) Finance
3 33 (15.79%) Manufacturing
4 19 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.74%) Retail
6 10 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.83%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.83%) Automotive
8 6 (2.87%) Legal
9 5 (2.39%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.91%) Banking
10 4 (1.91%) Electronics
11 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.48%) Advertising
12 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (13.88%) Analyst
1 29 (13.88%) Senior
2 27 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (11.48%) Software Engineer
5 19 (9.09%) Architect
5 19 (9.09%) IT Support
5 19 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
6 17 (8.13%) Support Engineer
7 15 (7.18%) IT Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) Applications Architect
9 13 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) Security Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) SOC Analyst
9 13 (6.22%) Systems Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) NOC Manager
10 12 (5.74%) Operations Manager
11 11 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.35%) Terraform
2 17 (8.13%) Regular Expression
3 16 (7.66%) XMPP
4 14 (6.70%) LDAP
5 11 (5.26%) React
6 10 (4.78%) JSON
7 7 (3.35%) Django
8 6 (2.87%) REST
8 6 (2.87%) Vue
8 6 (2.87%) Web Services
9 5 (2.39%) XML
10 4 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.91%) JSON Schema
10 4 (1.91%) Node.js
10 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.91%) YAML
10 4 (1.91%) Yocto
11 3 (1.44%) Spring
11 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.13%) Driving Licence
2 16 (7.66%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (7.18%) PKI
4 14 (6.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (6.22%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (4.78%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.78%) Robotics
7 9 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.31%) IoT
8 8 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (3.35%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.35%) CSOC
9 7 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (3.35%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (2.39%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.39%) Replication
12 4 (1.91%) FPGA
12 4 (1.91%) Verilog
12 4 (1.91%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 107 (51.20%) Windows
2 36 (17.22%) Windows Server
3 25 (11.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (11.00%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.31%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.83%) Mac OS
7 7 (3.35%) Debian
7 7 (3.35%) Rocky
8 4 (1.91%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (1.44%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (1.44%) Gentoo
9 3 (1.44%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.75%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (24.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (23.44%) SIEM
4 41 (19.62%) DevOps
5 39 (18.66%) ITIL
6 38 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 35 (16.75%) Cybersecurity
8 34 (16.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (15.79%) Validation
10 31 (14.83%) CI/CD
11 25 (11.96%) Test Automation
12 22 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (10.05%) Process Improvement
14 19 (9.09%) Security Operations
15 18 (8.61%) Agile
15 18 (8.61%) Server Management
16 17 (8.13%) AI
16 17 (8.13%) High Availability
17 16 (7.66%) Containerisation
17 16 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.93%) Python
2 57 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 49 (23.44%) Bash
4 25 (11.96%) C++
5 18 (8.61%) C
6 15 (7.18%) SQL
7 14 (6.70%) Rust
8 13 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.26%) JavaScript
10 10 (4.78%) Go
10 10 (4.78%) Java
10 10 (4.78%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.83%) C#
12 7 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (3.35%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (2.87%) Groovy
14 5 (2.39%) Korn
15 4 (1.91%) MATLAB
15 4 (1.91%) Perl
15 4 (1.91%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.88%) Degree
4 28 (13.40%) DV Cleared
5 16 (7.66%) CompTIA Security+
6 15 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (6.70%) GIAC
8 13 (6.22%) GCIA
9 10 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (4.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (3.83%) CompTIA CySA+
10 8 (3.83%) CREST Certified
10 8 (3.83%) GCIH
11 7 (3.35%) GCED
11 7 (3.35%) SANS
12 6 (2.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (2.87%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.87%) OSCP
12 6 (2.87%) PhD
13 5 (2.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.22%) QA
2 6 (2.87%) MISRA
3 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.91%) ECSS
5 3 (1.44%) GDPR
6 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.96%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.96%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
System Software
1 37 (17.70%) Active Directory
2 29 (13.88%) Docker
2 29 (13.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.57%) vSphere
4 14 (6.70%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.74%) Hyper-V
6 11 (5.26%) Firmware
6 11 (5.26%) KVM
7 7 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.39%) Squid
9 2 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.96%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.92%) Ansible
3 15 (7.18%) Graylog
4 8 (3.83%) Grafana
4 8 (3.83%) Kibana
4 8 (3.83%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.83%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.83%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.39%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.91%) Packer
7 4 (1.91%) Podman
8 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.48%) QRadar
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (43.54%) Microsoft
2 53 (25.36%) VMware
3 36 (17.22%) Red Hat
4 23 (11.00%) Veeam
5 13 (6.22%) McAfee
6 11 (5.26%) Sage
6 11 (5.26%) Splunk
7 10 (4.78%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (4.78%) Dell
8 8 (3.83%) IBM
9 7 (3.35%) Carbon Black
10 6 (2.87%) Cisco
10 6 (2.87%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.87%) Okta
11 5 (2.39%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.39%) Google
12 4 (1.91%) Citrix
12 4 (1.91%) EMC
12 4 (1.91%) NetApp
12 4 (1.91%) Xilinx