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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 112 200 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.41% 7.13% 6.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.00% 46.73% 42.69%
Number of salaries quoted 76 135 354
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -0.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,500 £77,675
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 350 428 951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.53% 15.25% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 277 299 840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -1.45%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +3 74 £57,500 +15.00% 36
Buckinghamshire -45 20 £63,500 +27.00% 13
Oxfordshire -29 18 £57,500 -4.17% 21
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 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.68%) Apache
4 2 (1.79%) CMS
4 2 (1.79%) IIS
4 2 (1.79%) WordPress
5 1 (0.89%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (48.21%) AWS
2 52 (46.43%) Azure
3 25 (22.32%) GCP
4 17 (15.18%) SaaS
5 16 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.36%) Google Workspace
7 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.46%) Apigee
8 5 (4.46%) Kong
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.68%) Figma
9 3 (2.68%) GitHub
9 3 (2.68%) Serverless
10 1 (0.89%) IaaS
10 1 (0.89%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 39 (34.82%) Firewall
2 28 (25.00%) DNS
3 12 (10.71%) VPN
4 11 (9.82%) DHCP
4 11 (9.82%) TCP/IP
5 7 (6.25%) SAN
6 6 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (5.36%) WAN
7 5 (4.46%) LAN
7 5 (4.46%) Wireless
7 5 (4.46%) Wireshark
8 4 (3.57%) NAS
8 4 (3.57%) NetScaler
8 4 (3.57%) SpaceWire
8 4 (3.57%) VLAN
8 4 (3.57%) VoIP
9 3 (2.68%) 5G
9 3 (2.68%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.68%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.25%) MySQL
2 7 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.68%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.89%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Git
2 8 (7.14%) GitLab
3 6 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.36%) JIRA
4 3 (2.68%) MLflow
5 1 (0.89%) JMeter
5 1 (0.89%) LoadRunner
General
1 33 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.61%) Telecoms
3 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.46%) Health Technology
7 4 (3.57%) Finance
8 3 (2.68%) Games
8 3 (2.68%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Legal
9 2 (1.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.89%) Aviation
10 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (19.64%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (17.86%) Software Engineer
3 12 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 11 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.82%) Systems Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) Architect
5 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) Senior
6 9 (8.04%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 8 (7.14%) IT Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Network Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Applications Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) IT Support
9 6 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) JSON
1 9 (8.04%) REST
1 9 (8.04%) XML
2 6 (5.36%) Web Services
3 5 (4.46%) Jinja
3 5 (4.46%) React
3 5 (4.46%) Regular Expression
3 5 (4.46%) YAML
3 5 (4.46%) YANG
4 4 (3.57%) LDAP
4 4 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.57%) Qt
5 3 (2.68%) Django
5 3 (2.68%) JSON Schema
5 3 (2.68%) Twisted
5 3 (2.68%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.79%) Laravel
6 2 (1.79%) Middleware
6 2 (1.79%) RESTful
6 2 (1.79%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (9.82%) Client/Server
3 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.46%) PKI
3 5 (4.46%) Replication
4 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.57%) NHS
4 4 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.68%) Animation
5 3 (2.68%) Life Science
5 3 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 42 (37.50%) Windows
2 25 (22.32%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (8.93%) Unix
5 9 (8.04%) Ubuntu
6 8 (7.14%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.57%) VxWorks
8 3 (2.68%) Android
8 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.68%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.79%) CentOS
10 1 (0.89%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.89%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.75%) DevOps
2 21 (18.75%) Software Engineering
3 20 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (16.96%) Computer Science
5 17 (15.18%) Test Automation
6 16 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 14 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 14 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 14 (12.50%) ITIL
8 13 (11.61%) System Testing
9 12 (10.71%) High Availability
10 11 (9.82%) Customer Service
10 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (8.04%) SIEM
12 8 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
12 8 (7.14%) Test Scripting
13 7 (6.25%) Validation
14 6 (5.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.82%) Python
2 21 (18.75%) C++
3 19 (16.96%) C
4 16 (14.29%) Bash
5 14 (12.50%) SQL
6 13 (11.61%) PowerShell
7 12 (10.71%) JavaScript
8 11 (9.82%) Rust
9 9 (8.04%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.68%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.79%) C#
11 2 (1.79%) Go
11 2 (1.79%) Java
12 1 (0.89%) Bicep
12 1 (0.89%) Fortran
12 1 (0.89%) Korn
12 1 (0.89%) Pascal
12 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (25.00%) Degree
2 20 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (11.61%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.79%) RHCE
8 2 (1.79%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.89%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.89%) CCIE
9 1 (0.89%) CCNA
9 1 (0.89%) CCNP
9 1 (0.89%) CCSE
9 1 (0.89%) CCSM
9 1 (0.89%) MCSE
9 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.89%) PhD
9 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) SLA
3 4 (3.57%) ECSS
4 2 (1.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (29.46%) Active Directory
2 20 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (15.18%) Docker
4 15 (13.39%) Hyper-V
5 12 (10.71%) KVM
5 12 (10.71%) vSphere
6 3 (2.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.79%) Samba
7 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (14.29%) Ansible
1 16 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 16 (14.29%) Terraform
2 4 (3.57%) Argo
2 4 (3.57%) Grafana
2 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.68%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.79%) SCCM
4 2 (1.79%) SCOM
4 2 (1.79%) SCSM
5 1 (0.89%) Graylog
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.89%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 28 (25.00%) VMware
3 21 (18.75%) Red Hat
4 9 (8.04%) Google
5 8 (7.14%) Cisco
5 8 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 5 (4.46%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.46%) F5
6 5 (4.46%) Juniper
6 5 (4.46%) Oracle
7 4 (3.57%) Citrix
7 4 (3.57%) Dell
7 4 (3.57%) NetApp
7 4 (3.57%) Veeam
8 3 (2.68%) IBM
8 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.68%) Trend Micro
9 2 (1.79%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.79%) D-Link
10 1 (0.89%) Epicor