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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 25 13
Rank change year-on-year -73 -12 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 83 307 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.17% 7.55% 11.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.48% 53.77% 51.17%
Number of salaries quoted 61 162 253
10th Percentile £39,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £82,400
South East median annual salary £56,430 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +9.52% -

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 339 571 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.87% 14.05% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 282 340 564
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,438 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £47,688 £60,000 £59,380
90th Percentile £66,125 £73,875 £74,250
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -42 45 £53,065 -11.56% 40
Buckinghamshire -43 24 £70,000 +47.37% 20
Oxfordshire -24 14 £59,240 -1.27% 27
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 12 (14.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.43%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.23%) IIS
4 2 (2.41%) CMS
4 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) WordPress
5 1 (1.20%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.20%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) AWS
2 25 (30.12%) Azure
3 15 (18.07%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.84%) GCP
4 9 (10.84%) SaaS
5 6 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.02%) Google Workspace
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.61%) Serverless
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (2.41%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.41%) IaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.20%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (31.33%) Firewall
2 17 (20.48%) DNS
3 11 (13.25%) DHCP
4 9 (10.84%) SAN
4 9 (10.84%) TCP/IP
5 7 (8.43%) iSCSI
5 7 (8.43%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (8.43%) Wireless
6 3 (3.61%) 5G
6 3 (3.61%) LAN
6 3 (3.61%) VLAN
7 2 (2.41%) 4G
7 2 (2.41%) Ethernet
7 2 (2.41%) FTP
7 2 (2.41%) HTTP
7 2 (2.41%) SMTP
7 2 (2.41%) SpaceWire
7 2 (2.41%) SSH
7 2 (2.41%) SSL
7 2 (2.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.84%) MySQL
3 7 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.20%) DTS
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.64%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) JIRA
3 5 (6.02%) GitLab
4 4 (4.82%) Burp Suite
4 4 (4.82%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.61%) Metasploit
5 3 (3.61%) MLflow
6 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.41%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.20%) JMeter
7 1 (1.20%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.20%) Testinfra
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (6.02%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.41%) Legal
6 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.20%) Finance
7 1 (1.20%) Humanities
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Law
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (13.25%) Senior
2 11 (13.25%) Support Engineer
3 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (8.43%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) Software Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) Technical Support
5 5 (6.02%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Tester
6 4 (4.82%) Administrator
6 4 (4.82%) Architect
6 4 (4.82%) IT Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) IT Support
6 4 (4.82%) Linux Support
6 4 (4.82%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Penetration Tester
6 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.61%) Web Services
2 2 (2.41%) JSON
2 2 (2.41%) Middleware
2 2 (2.41%) Qt
2 2 (2.41%) RESTful
3 1 (1.20%) .NET
3 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.20%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.20%) REST
3 1 (1.20%) SOAP
3 1 (1.20%) Spring
3 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.23%) Replication
4 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.02%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.61%) Animation
6 3 (3.61%) Life Science
6 3 (3.61%) NHS
7 2 (2.41%) Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (51.81%) Windows
2 12 (14.46%) Unix
2 12 (14.46%) Windows Server
3 9 (10.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (10.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (6.02%) Apple iOS
4 5 (6.02%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.82%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.61%) Android
6 3 (3.61%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.41%) VMS
7 2 (2.41%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) ITIL
2 16 (19.28%) Computer Science
3 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (12.05%) DevOps
5 9 (10.84%) Agile
6 8 (9.64%) CI/CD
6 8 (9.64%) Configuration Management
6 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (9.64%) Physics
7 7 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (8.43%) Open Source
7 7 (8.43%) SDLC
7 7 (8.43%) Time Management
7 7 (8.43%) Validation
8 6 (7.23%) Containerisation
8 6 (7.23%) Mathematics
8 6 (7.23%) Service Management
8 6 (7.23%) Software Engineering
8 6 (7.23%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) Python
2 22 (26.51%) Bash
3 16 (19.28%) PowerShell
4 14 (16.87%) SQL
5 10 (12.05%) C++
6 7 (8.43%) Korn
7 6 (7.23%) C
8 4 (4.82%) Fortran
8 4 (4.82%) Java
9 3 (3.61%) Perl
9 3 (3.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.61%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.41%) C#
10 2 (2.41%) Groovy
10 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 31 (37.35%) Degree
2 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.43%) Master's Degree
5 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.02%) A+ Certification
7 4 (4.82%) OSCP
7 4 (4.82%) PhD
8 3 (3.61%) MCSE
8 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.41%) CREST Certified
9 2 (2.41%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (2.41%) RHCE
10 1 (1.20%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (1.20%) GIAC
10 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.20%) Postgraduate
10 1 (1.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.61%) NIST
2 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.41%) ECSS
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) GRC
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Active Directory
2 19 (22.89%) Docker
3 13 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (6.02%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.82%) vCloud
6 4 (4.82%) vSphere
7 2 (2.41%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.20%) GPFS
8 1 (1.20%) Lustre
8 1 (1.20%) NFS
8 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.87%) Ansible
3 9 (10.84%) Terraform
4 5 (6.02%) Grafana
4 5 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.02%) SCCM
5 4 (4.82%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (4.82%) Rundeck
6 3 (3.61%) Argo
6 3 (3.61%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.61%) Kubeflow
6 3 (3.61%) Nmap
6 3 (3.61%) SCOM
7 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.41%) SCSM
8 1 (1.20%) Packer
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.48%) VMware
3 13 (15.66%) Red Hat
4 8 (9.64%) Dell
5 7 (8.43%) Splunk
6 5 (6.02%) Google
7 4 (4.82%) Atlassian
7 4 (4.82%) Cisco
7 4 (4.82%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.61%) Arista
8 3 (3.61%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.61%) IBM
8 3 (3.61%) Trend Micro
8 3 (3.61%) Veeam
9 2 (2.41%) Apple
9 2 (2.41%) Juniper
9 2 (2.41%) Oracle
9 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.41%) Sophos
10 1 (1.20%) Talend