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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 -22 -7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 169 160 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.96% 4.85% 5.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.04% 39.12% 42.01%
Number of salaries quoted 128 90 348
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.62% -5.00% +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 402 409 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.05% 12.40% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 325 297 831
10th Percentile £29,200 £26,200 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £51,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £68,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -1.73%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +26 104 £62,500 +25.00% 26
Buckinghamshire -12 43 £62,500 +25.00% 14
Oxfordshire -31 22 £50,750 -15.42% 14
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 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.96%) Confluence
3 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 93 (55.03%) AWS
2 79 (46.75%) Azure
3 31 (18.34%) GCP
4 28 (16.57%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (14.20%) SaaS
6 16 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (9.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (7.10%) Cloudflare
8 11 (6.51%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.55%) GitHub
9 6 (3.55%) Serverless
10 5 (2.96%) Apigee
10 5 (2.96%) Figma
10 5 (2.96%) Kong
10 5 (2.96%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 68 (40.24%) Firewall
2 50 (29.59%) DNS
3 24 (14.20%) VPN
4 16 (9.47%) SAN
5 15 (8.88%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.33%) Wireshark
7 8 (4.73%) iSCSI
7 8 (4.73%) NAS
7 8 (4.73%) NetScaler
7 8 (4.73%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (4.14%) SSL
9 6 (3.55%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (3.55%) HTTP
9 6 (3.55%) WAN
10 5 (2.96%) DHCP
10 5 (2.96%) LAN
10 5 (2.96%) VoIP
11 4 (2.37%) Network Security
12 2 (1.18%) PBX
12 2 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.10%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.92%) MySQL
4 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.59%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.59%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 18 (10.65%) Git
2 16 (9.47%) GitLab
3 15 (8.88%) JIRA
4 8 (4.73%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.55%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.96%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.37%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.59%) JMeter
9 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 51 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.47%) Telecoms
4 15 (8.88%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (6.51%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.92%) Finance
7 3 (1.78%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.78%) Automotive
7 3 (1.78%) Games
7 3 (1.78%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.78%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.78%) Retail
8 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.59%) Aviation
9 1 (0.59%) Banking
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
9 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (18.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (15.98%) Software Engineer
3 24 (14.20%) Linux Engineer
4 22 (13.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (10.06%) Applications Architect
5 17 (10.06%) Architect
5 17 (10.06%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (9.47%) Analyst
6 16 (9.47%) Senior
7 15 (8.88%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 14 (8.28%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Security Architect
10 10 (5.92%) SOC Analyst
11 9 (5.33%) Developer
12 8 (4.73%) Security Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.06%) Regular Expression
2 15 (8.88%) REST
3 14 (8.28%) JSON
4 13 (7.69%) LDAP
4 13 (7.69%) XMPP
5 9 (5.33%) XML
5 9 (5.33%) YAML
6 8 (4.73%) Django
6 8 (4.73%) React
7 5 (2.96%) Jinja
7 5 (2.96%) Twisted
7 5 (2.96%) Web Services
7 5 (2.96%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.96%) YANG
8 4 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.37%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.37%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.37%) Vue
9 2 (1.18%) Pandas
9 2 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (10.06%) PKI
3 16 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (8.28%) Client/Server
5 13 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
6 11 (6.51%) Cloud Native
7 10 (5.92%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.14%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (3.55%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.37%) Public Cloud
11 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.78%) Arduino
12 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.78%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 77 (45.56%) Windows
2 35 (20.71%) Windows Server
3 29 (17.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (11.83%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.73%) Mac OS
5 8 (4.73%) Unix
6 2 (1.18%) CentOS
6 2 (1.18%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.59%) Android
7 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.59%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.59%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (22.49%) DevOps
2 38 (22.49%) SIEM
3 33 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (17.75%) Software Engineering
5 29 (17.16%) ITIL
6 28 (16.57%) Test Automation
7 25 (14.79%) Containerisation
8 24 (14.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (12.43%) Computer Science
9 21 (12.43%) Validation
10 20 (11.83%) CI/CD
11 19 (11.24%) Code Quality
11 19 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (10.65%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (9.47%) High Availability
15 15 (8.88%) System Testing
16 14 (8.28%) Agile
17 13 (7.69%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 66 (39.05%) Python
2 42 (24.85%) Bash
3 35 (20.71%) PowerShell
4 21 (12.43%) C
5 20 (11.83%) C++
6 15 (8.88%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.28%) Rust
8 9 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.33%) SQL
9 8 (4.73%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.55%) C#
10 6 (3.55%) Groovy
10 6 (3.55%) Korn
11 5 (2.96%) Java
12 4 (2.37%) Go
12 4 (2.37%) Perl
12 4 (2.37%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (1.78%) Pascal
14 1 (0.59%) PHP
14 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (30.18%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.30%) Degree
3 27 (15.98%) DV Cleared
4 25 (14.79%) SC Cleared
5 20 (11.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.73%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (4.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (2.96%) CREST Certified
8 5 (2.96%) GCIA
8 5 (2.96%) GCIH
8 5 (2.96%) GIAC
9 4 (2.37%) GCED
9 4 (2.37%) OSCP
9 4 (2.37%) SANS
10 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.78%) PhD
11 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (1.18%) RHCE
11 2 (1.18%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.02%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) SLA
3 4 (2.37%) GDPR
3 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) ECSS
4 2 (1.18%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.18%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (27.81%) Active Directory
2 29 (17.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 25 (14.79%) Docker
5 23 (13.61%) KVM
6 21 (12.43%) vSphere
7 8 (4.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.18%) Samba
10 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (18.34%) Terraform
2 29 (17.16%) Ansible
3 25 (14.79%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.28%) Graylog
5 9 (5.33%) Proxmox
6 8 (4.73%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.96%) Kibana
8 4 (2.37%) Packer
9 3 (1.78%) Grafana
9 3 (1.78%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.59%) Argo
11 1 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.59%) QRadar
11 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (37.28%) Microsoft
2 50 (29.59%) VMware
3 47 (27.81%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.33%) McAfee
4 9 (5.33%) Veeam
5 8 (4.73%) Citrix
5 8 (4.73%) Dell
5 8 (4.73%) IBM
5 8 (4.73%) NetApp
5 8 (4.73%) Palo Alto
6 7 (4.14%) Cisco
6 7 (4.14%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (4.14%) Splunk
7 5 (2.96%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.96%) Carbon Black
7 5 (2.96%) F5
7 5 (2.96%) Google
7 5 (2.96%) Juniper
8 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow