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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 23 13
Rank change year-on-year -84 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 80 312 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.11% 7.19% 11.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.92% 54.45% 52.79%
Number of salaries quoted 60 157 254
10th Percentile £39,525 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,625 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £56,525 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +7.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £70,375 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 349 573 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.23% 13.21% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 304 331 546
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £60,938
90th Percentile £64,250 £78,750 £79,500
South East median annual salary £38,325 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -23.35% +8.70% +2.22%

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 October 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 27 October 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 -62 40 £52,783 -15.55% 186
Buckinghamshire -52 25 £70,000 +64.71% 53
Oxfordshire -19 15 £43,250 -25.76% 16
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 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.50%) Confluence
2 6 (7.50%) IIS
3 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.00%) AWS
2 24 (30.00%) Azure
3 17 (21.25%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (8.75%) AWS KMS
7 6 (7.50%) GCP
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.25%) Route 53
8 5 (6.25%) SaaS
9 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.50%) Google Workspace
10 2 (2.50%) IaaS
10 2 (2.50%) Serverless
10 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (33.75%) Firewall
2 19 (23.75%) DNS
3 14 (17.50%) SAN
4 9 (11.25%) DHCP
4 9 (11.25%) iSCSI
4 9 (11.25%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.00%) InfiniBand
6 4 (5.00%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.00%) WAN
6 4 (5.00%) Wireless
7 3 (3.75%) LAN
7 3 (3.75%) SMTP
7 3 (3.75%) VPN
8 2 (2.50%) FTP
8 2 (2.50%) HTTP
8 2 (2.50%) SSH
9 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.25%) NGN
9 1 (1.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
3 12 (15.00%) MySQL
4 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.25%) DTS
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.75%) Git
3 10 (12.50%) JIRA
4 9 (11.25%) SonarQube
5 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (6.25%) DbUnit
5 5 (6.25%) jMock
5 5 (6.25%) JUnit
5 5 (6.25%) Maven
5 5 (6.25%) Mockito
6 4 (5.00%) Burp Suite
6 4 (5.00%) GitLab
7 3 (3.75%) Metasploit
8 2 (2.50%) MLflow
8 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.50%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.25%) Mocha
9 1 (1.25%) Testinfra
General
1 34 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Humanities
6 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Legal
6 1 (1.25%) Retail
6 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Senior
2 12 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Developer
5 6 (7.50%) IT Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) IT Support
5 6 (7.50%) Lead
6 5 (6.25%) Administrator
6 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Penetration Tester
7 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) RESTful
1 7 (8.75%) Web Services
2 6 (7.50%) Hibernate
2 6 (7.50%) SOAP
2 6 (7.50%) Spring
3 5 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.25%) Bootstrap
3 5 (6.25%) JPA
3 5 (6.25%) PowerMock
3 5 (6.25%) Spring Batch
3 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.25%) Spring Integration
4 4 (5.00%) REST
5 2 (2.50%) JSON
5 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.25%) Jest
6 1 (1.25%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.25%) Svelte
6 1 (1.25%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 10 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.75%) Replication
3 6 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.75%) Clustering
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.75%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (3.75%) NHS
5 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Animation
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 45 (56.25%) Windows
2 12 (15.00%) Unix
3 11 (13.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (13.75%) Windows Server
3 11 (13.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.00%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.75%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.50%) VMS
8 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) ITIL
2 16 (20.00%) Agile
3 15 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (13.75%) Containerisation
6 10 (12.50%) Open Source
6 10 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.25%) Scrum
7 9 (11.25%) Time Management
8 8 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (8.75%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.75%) DevOps
9 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (8.75%) Physics
10 6 (7.50%) Cloud Security
10 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.50%) Mathematics
10 6 (7.50%) Security Monitoring
10 6 (7.50%) Service Management
10 6 (7.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.75%) Python
2 23 (28.75%) Bash
3 13 (16.25%) PowerShell
3 13 (16.25%) SQL
4 9 (11.25%) Java
4 9 (11.25%) Korn
5 6 (7.50%) C++
6 5 (6.25%) Perl
7 4 (5.00%) C
7 4 (5.00%) Fortran
8 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.50%) Groovy
9 2 (2.50%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.25%) C#
10 1 (1.25%) PHP
10 1 (1.25%) PL/1
10 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (37.50%) Degree
2 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.25%) MCSE
5 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.00%) A+ Certification
6 4 (5.00%) OSCP
6 4 (5.00%) PhD
6 4 (5.00%) RHCE
7 3 (3.75%) LPIC
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.50%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.25%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (1.25%) GPEN
9 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Active Directory
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 13 (16.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (11.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.25%) NFS
6 4 (5.00%) vCloud
7 3 (3.75%) GPFS
7 3 (3.75%) Lustre
7 3 (3.75%) vSphere
8 2 (2.50%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.25%) Postfix
9 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.50%) Ansible
3 6 (7.50%) SCCM
3 6 (7.50%) Terraform
4 5 (6.25%) Grafana
4 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.00%) Rundeck
6 3 (3.75%) Argo
6 3 (3.75%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.75%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.75%) Nmap
7 2 (2.50%) Kubeflow
7 2 (2.50%) SCOM
8 1 (1.25%) Packer
8 1 (1.25%) PaperCut
8 1 (1.25%) SCSM
8 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (21.25%) VMware
3 12 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 10 (12.50%) Dell
5 9 (11.25%) Splunk
6 7 (8.75%) Atlassian
6 7 (8.75%) Cisco
7 4 (5.00%) Apple
7 4 (5.00%) Sophos
8 3 (3.75%) Arista
8 3 (3.75%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.50%) Google
9 2 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (2.50%) Juniper
9 2 (2.50%) Oracle
9 2 (2.50%) SAP
9 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.50%) Trend Micro
9 2 (2.50%) Veeam