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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 67 32
Rank change year-on-year +27 -35 -13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 211 149 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.46% 4.16% 5.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.09% 33.18% 42.49%
Number of salaries quoted 167 87 304
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,550 £34,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,602 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,783 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.15% -4.03% +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 468 449 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.67% 12.55% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 386 342 755
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,600
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,750 £56,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £68,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +42 123 £65,000 +30.00% 20
Buckinghamshire -1 53 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Oxfordshire -22 35 £36,250 -34.09% 23
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 11 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.84%) Apache
3 5 (2.37%) Confluence
4 4 (1.90%) nginx
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.42%) Simulink
3 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 95 (45.02%) AWS
2 82 (38.86%) Azure
3 35 (16.59%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (13.27%) GCP
5 22 (10.43%) SaaS
6 20 (9.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.16%) Cloudflare
7 13 (6.16%) Entra ID
8 10 (4.74%) GitHub
9 6 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.84%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.84%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.84%) Serverless
10 5 (2.37%) Figma
10 5 (2.37%) Kong
10 5 (2.37%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 81 (38.39%) Firewall
2 62 (29.38%) DNS
3 27 (12.80%) VPN
4 19 (9.00%) TCP/IP
5 16 (7.58%) SAN
6 11 (5.21%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (4.27%) HTTP
8 8 (3.79%) iSCSI
8 8 (3.79%) NAS
8 8 (3.79%) NetScaler
8 8 (3.79%) SSL
8 8 (3.79%) WAN
8 8 (3.79%) Wireshark
9 7 (3.32%) LAN
10 6 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (2.37%) Network Security
11 5 (2.37%) VoIP
12 4 (1.90%) Wireless
13 3 (1.42%) DHCP
13 3 (1.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.74%) MySQL
4 5 (2.37%) Power BI
5 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.47%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 19 (9.00%) Git
1 19 (9.00%) JIRA
2 14 (6.64%) GitLab
3 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.84%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.37%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.90%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.42%) JUnit
7 3 (1.42%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.47%) JMeter
8 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 62 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.43%) Manufacturing
4 20 (9.48%) Finance
5 18 (8.53%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (7.58%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.32%) Retail
8 5 (2.37%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.90%) Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Automotive
10 3 (1.42%) Games
10 3 (1.42%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Aviation
12 1 (0.47%) Electronics
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (14.69%) DevOps Engineer
1 31 (14.69%) Software Engineer
2 28 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (11.85%) Analyst
4 24 (11.37%) Linux Engineer
5 23 (10.90%) Architect
6 21 (9.95%) Senior
7 20 (9.48%) Applications Architect
8 18 (8.53%) Systems Engineer
9 16 (7.58%) IT Support
9 16 (7.58%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 15 (7.11%) IT Engineer
11 14 (6.64%) Network Engineer
11 14 (6.64%) Security Architect
11 14 (6.64%) Security Engineer
12 13 (6.16%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 13 (6.16%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 13 (6.16%) Linux/Unix DevOps
13 12 (5.69%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (5.69%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.90%) Regular Expression
2 19 (9.00%) LDAP
2 19 (9.00%) XMPP
3 17 (8.06%) JSON
4 15 (7.11%) REST
5 12 (5.69%) XML
6 9 (4.27%) YAML
7 8 (3.79%) Django
7 8 (3.79%) React
8 7 (3.32%) JSON Schema
8 7 (3.32%) Web Services
9 5 (2.37%) Jinja
9 5 (2.37%) Twisted
9 5 (2.37%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.37%) YANG
10 4 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.42%) Vue
11 3 (1.42%) Yocto
12 2 (0.95%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
1 20 (9.48%) PKI
2 16 (7.58%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.16%) Client/Server
4 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.74%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.74%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.74%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.79%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.90%) Clustering
8 4 (1.90%) CSOC
8 4 (1.90%) IoT
8 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (49.76%) Windows
2 45 (21.33%) Windows Server
3 35 (16.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (9.00%) Ubuntu
5 13 (6.16%) Mac OS
6 6 (2.84%) Unix
7 3 (1.42%) Debian
7 3 (1.42%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (1.42%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.95%) CentOS
8 2 (0.95%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.47%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.47%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (25.12%) SIEM
3 51 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (18.96%) ITIL
5 38 (18.01%) DevOps
5 38 (18.01%) Software Engineering
6 33 (15.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (15.64%) Test Automation
7 31 (14.69%) Validation
8 30 (14.22%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (12.32%) Containerisation
10 24 (11.37%) CI/CD
11 22 (10.43%) Computer Science
12 20 (9.48%) High Availability
12 20 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (8.53%) Code Quality
15 16 (7.58%) Antivirus Management
15 16 (7.58%) Application Security
15 16 (7.58%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 75 (35.55%) Python
2 49 (23.22%) PowerShell
3 46 (21.80%) Bash
4 26 (12.32%) C
5 25 (11.85%) C++
6 19 (9.00%) Rust
7 14 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.64%) SQL
8 13 (6.16%) Shell Script
9 9 (4.27%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.32%) Java
10 7 (3.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.84%) Groovy
11 6 (2.84%) Korn
12 5 (2.37%) C#
13 4 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.90%) Perl
13 4 (1.90%) Ruby
14 3 (1.42%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.42%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 69 (32.70%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.48%) Degree
3 37 (17.54%) DV Cleared
4 34 (16.11%) SC Cleared
5 20 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (5.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (5.21%) GIAC
8 10 (4.74%) GCIA
9 8 (3.79%) CREST Certified
9 8 (3.79%) GCIH
9 8 (3.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (3.32%) GCED
10 7 (3.32%) SANS
11 6 (2.84%) OSCP
12 5 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
13 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.42%) PhD
15 2 (0.95%) CCNA CyberOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.95%) QA
2 5 (2.37%) ECSS
2 5 (2.37%) GDPR
2 5 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.37%) SLA
3 3 (1.42%) MISRA
4 2 (0.95%) ISO 22301
4 2 (0.95%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 53 (25.12%) Active Directory
2 32 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (14.22%) Docker
4 27 (12.80%) vSphere
5 26 (12.32%) Hyper-V
6 22 (10.43%) KVM
7 8 (3.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.90%) Firmware
10 2 (0.95%) Samba
10 2 (0.95%) Squid
11 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (14.22%) Ansible
2 29 (13.74%) Terraform
3 23 (10.90%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.11%) Graylog
5 9 (4.27%) Proxmox
6 8 (3.79%) Kibana
6 8 (3.79%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.90%) Packer
9 3 (1.42%) Podman
10 2 (0.95%) Grafana
10 2 (0.95%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.47%) Argo
11 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.47%) QRadar
11 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (41.71%) Microsoft
2 59 (27.96%) VMware
3 51 (24.17%) Red Hat
4 15 (7.11%) McAfee
5 13 (6.16%) Veeam
6 11 (5.21%) Splunk
7 10 (4.74%) Cisco
7 10 (4.74%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (3.79%) Citrix
8 8 (3.79%) Dell
8 8 (3.79%) IBM
8 8 (3.79%) NetApp
9 7 (3.32%) Carbon Black
9 7 (3.32%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.84%) Juniper
10 6 (2.84%) Okta
11 5 (2.37%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.37%) F5
11 5 (2.37%) Sage
12 4 (1.90%) Oracle