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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 29 28
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 133 183 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.53% 6.51% 6.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.84% 45.30% 41.98%
Number of salaries quoted 91 114 374
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,313 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +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 361 404 998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.88% 14.38% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 281 291 893
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +25 90 £61,250 +22.50% 36
Buckinghamshire -49 24 £70,000 +21.74% 17
Oxfordshire -36 19 £56,623 -5.63% 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 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.50%) CMS
4 2 (1.50%) WordPress
5 1 (0.75%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (51.88%) AWS
2 57 (42.86%) Azure
3 28 (21.05%) GCP
4 18 (13.53%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (12.78%) SaaS
6 12 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.02%) Serverless
8 6 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.51%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.51%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.76%) Apigee
9 5 (3.76%) Figma
9 5 (3.76%) GitHub
9 5 (3.76%) Google Workspace
9 5 (3.76%) Kong
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (1.50%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 45 (33.83%) Firewall
2 30 (22.56%) DNS
3 11 (8.27%) VPN
4 10 (7.52%) SAN
4 10 (7.52%) TCP/IP
5 9 (6.77%) DHCP
6 6 (4.51%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (4.51%) iSCSI
6 6 (4.51%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (4.51%) WAN
7 5 (3.76%) LAN
7 5 (3.76%) VoIP
7 5 (3.76%) Wireless
7 5 (3.76%) Wireshark
8 4 (3.01%) NAS
8 4 (3.01%) NetScaler
8 4 (3.01%) SpaceWire
8 4 (3.01%) VLAN
9 3 (2.26%) 5G
9 3 (2.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.02%) MySQL
4 3 (2.26%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.75%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (15.04%) Git
2 14 (10.53%) GitLab
3 11 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.27%) JIRA
4 6 (4.51%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.01%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.50%) MLflow
8 1 (0.75%) JMeter
8 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
General
1 44 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.28%) Telecoms
3 12 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.02%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.76%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.01%) Finance
7 3 (2.26%) Games
7 3 (2.26%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Automotive
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (19.55%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (18.05%) Software Engineer
3 20 (15.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (10.53%) Architect
5 13 (9.77%) Senior
5 13 (9.77%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 11 (8.27%) Support Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Applications Architect
9 9 (6.77%) Developer
10 7 (5.26%) IT Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.51%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) REST
2 14 (10.53%) JSON
3 9 (6.77%) Regular Expression
3 9 (6.77%) XML
3 9 (6.77%) YAML
4 8 (6.02%) LDAP
4 8 (6.02%) React
4 8 (6.02%) Web Services
5 6 (4.51%) Django
5 6 (4.51%) XMPP
6 5 (3.76%) Jinja
6 5 (3.76%) Twisted
6 5 (3.76%) WebSockets
6 5 (3.76%) YANG
7 4 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.01%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.01%) Qt
7 4 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.26%) JSON Schema
9 2 (1.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.77%) Client/Server
4 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.51%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (3.76%) PKI
6 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.26%) Arduino
7 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.26%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (2.26%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.50%) Animation
8 2 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.50%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 45 (33.83%) Windows
2 28 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 18 (13.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (9.02%) Ubuntu
5 9 (6.77%) Unix
6 8 (6.02%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.01%) VxWorks
8 3 (2.26%) Android
8 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.50%) CentOS
10 1 (0.75%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.75%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (21.80%) DevOps
3 27 (20.30%) Test Automation
4 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
5 22 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 20 (15.04%) Computer Science
8 19 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 18 (13.53%) Code Quality
10 17 (12.78%) ITIL
11 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (11.28%) System Testing
12 14 (10.53%) High Availability
13 13 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (9.77%) SIEM
13 13 (9.77%) Validation
14 11 (8.27%) Microservices
15 10 (7.52%) Agile
15 10 (7.52%) Customer Service
16 9 (6.77%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (36.84%) Python
2 22 (16.54%) C
2 22 (16.54%) C++
3 21 (15.79%) Bash
4 16 (12.03%) PowerShell
5 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.53%) SQL
7 13 (9.77%) Rust
8 11 (8.27%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.26%) Java
10 6 (4.51%) Groovy
10 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.01%) Korn
11 4 (3.01%) Perl
12 3 (2.26%) C#
12 3 (2.26%) Pascal
12 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.50%) Go
14 1 (0.75%) Bicep
14 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (26.32%) Degree
2 31 (23.31%) Security Cleared
3 19 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 17 (12.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (10.53%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.50%) RHCE
7 2 (1.50%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) CCSE
8 1 (0.75%) CCSM
8 1 (0.75%) MCSE
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PhD
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.79%) QA
2 5 (3.76%) SLA
3 4 (3.01%) ECSS
3 4 (3.01%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 24 (18.05%) Docker
3 23 (17.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (12.03%) Hyper-V
4 16 (12.03%) vSphere
5 14 (10.53%) KVM
6 6 (4.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.50%) Samba
8 2 (1.50%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (18.05%) Ansible
2 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.29%) Terraform
3 4 (3.01%) Packer
4 2 (1.50%) Argo
4 2 (1.50%) Grafana
4 2 (1.50%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.50%) SCCM
4 2 (1.50%) SCOM
4 2 (1.50%) SCSM
5 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.75%) Graylog
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.75%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (26.32%) Microsoft
1 35 (26.32%) VMware
2 31 (23.31%) Red Hat
3 8 (6.02%) Google
3 8 (6.02%) Palo Alto
4 7 (5.26%) Cisco
4 7 (5.26%) Dell
4 7 (5.26%) IBM
5 5 (3.76%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.76%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.76%) F5
5 5 (3.76%) Juniper
5 5 (3.76%) McAfee
5 5 (3.76%) Oracle
6 4 (3.01%) Citrix
6 4 (3.01%) NetApp
6 4 (3.01%) Veeam
7 3 (2.26%) Motorola
7 3 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.26%) Trend Micro