Linux Jobs in the Thames Valley

Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 34 25
Rank change year-on-year -21 -9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 169 416 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.91% 6.19% 8.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.05% 42.54% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 99 352 304
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,050 £27,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £75,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 422 978 1,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.26% 14.56% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 305 837 677
10th Percentile £26,650 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% - -18.66%
75th Percentile £51,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £68,500 £78,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 May 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 18 May 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 -38 63 £50,000 -15.25% 70
Buckinghamshire +18 54 £50,000 +11.11% 31
Oxfordshire -2 52 £60,000 +41.18% 54
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
2 2 (1.18%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.59%) IIS
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.12%) AWS
2 27 (15.98%) Azure
3 11 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
4 8 (4.73%) GCP
4 8 (4.73%) Serverless
5 7 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.14%) AWS KMS
5 7 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (2.37%) GitHub
7 4 (2.37%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.37%) SaaS
8 3 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 39 (23.08%) VPN
2 38 (22.49%) TCP/IP
3 14 (8.28%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (7.69%) Firewall
5 11 (6.51%) DNS
6 9 (5.33%) 5G
6 9 (5.33%) Bluetooth
6 9 (5.33%) LTE
7 8 (4.73%) WAN
8 6 (3.55%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.55%) SSL
9 5 (2.96%) DHCP
9 5 (2.96%) Internet
10 3 (1.78%) VLAN
11 2 (1.18%) Ethernet
11 2 (1.18%) IP Telephony
11 2 (1.18%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.18%) MPLS
11 2 (1.18%) SAN
11 2 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.38%) MySQL
2 9 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.37%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.37%) Metabase
5 4 (2.37%) Power BI
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.18%) Metadata
7 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.18%) Tableau
8 1 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.59%) GIS
8 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.59%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 35 (20.71%) Cucumber
2 34 (20.12%) Robot Framework
3 18 (10.65%) Git
4 13 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.14%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.96%) JIRA
6 5 (2.96%) JUnit
7 4 (2.37%) Mockito
7 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.78%) DbUnit
8 3 (1.78%) jMock
8 3 (1.78%) Maven
9 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.59%) GitLab
9 1 (0.59%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.59%) Mocha
9 1 (0.59%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 46 (27.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (20.12%) Telecoms
4 18 (10.65%) Electronics
5 10 (5.92%) Retail
6 8 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Automotive
10 2 (1.18%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.59%) Finance
11 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (20.71%) Test Engineer
2 34 (20.12%) Test Automation Engineer
3 28 (16.57%) Senior
4 20 (11.83%) Software Engineer
5 19 (11.24%) Support Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (9.47%) Technical Engineer
7 16 (9.47%) Technical Support
7 16 (9.47%) Technical Support Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Applications Support
9 12 (7.10%) Applications Support Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Lead
10 11 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Administrator
11 9 (5.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.10%) Web Services
2 10 (5.92%) CSS
2 10 (5.92%) HTML
3 9 (5.33%) Laravel
4 7 (4.14%) LAMP
4 7 (4.14%) REST
5 5 (2.96%) React
6 4 (2.37%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.37%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.37%) JPA
6 4 (2.37%) Spring
7 3 (1.78%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.78%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.78%) PowerMock
7 3 (1.78%) RESTful
7 3 (1.78%) SOAP
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Batch
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.81%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (12.43%) Algorithms
3 17 (10.06%) IoT
4 9 (5.33%) NB-IoT
4 9 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.14%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.96%) Molecular Biology
7 5 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.37%) Clustering
8 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.37%) Replication
8 4 (2.37%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.78%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.78%) Robotics
10 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (42.01%) Windows
2 18 (10.65%) Unix
3 14 (8.28%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.10%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.55%) SUSE
5 6 (3.55%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.96%) Debian
6 5 (2.96%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.18%) Android
9 2 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.59%) AIX
10 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.36%) DevOps
2 52 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 39 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 35 (20.71%) Coaching
5 34 (20.12%) System Testing
5 34 (20.12%) Test Management
6 32 (18.93%) Software Engineering
7 20 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (11.83%) Open Source
8 19 (11.24%) Software Testing
9 18 (10.65%) Agile
9 18 (10.65%) Computer Science
10 17 (10.06%) Containerisation
10 17 (10.06%) Physics
11 16 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (9.47%) Mathematics
12 11 (6.51%) CI/CD
12 11 (6.51%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (60.95%) Python
2 67 (39.64%) Bash
3 48 (28.40%) JavaScript
3 48 (28.40%) PowerShell
4 34 (20.12%) SQL
5 25 (14.79%) C++
6 13 (7.69%) Java
7 12 (7.10%) C
8 11 (6.51%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.92%) Fortran
10 8 (4.73%) PHP
11 7 (4.14%) Go
11 7 (4.14%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.96%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.78%) Rust
14 2 (1.18%) C#
14 2 (1.18%) Ruby
14 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.59%) Groovy
15 1 (0.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 71 (42.01%) Degree
2 29 (17.16%) Security Cleared
3 24 (14.20%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.47%) Master's Degree
4 16 (9.47%) PhD
5 13 (7.69%) DV Cleared
6 11 (6.51%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (5.33%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (4.14%) MCP
10 4 (2.37%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.37%) Dell Certification
11 3 (1.78%) MCSA
11 3 (1.78%) MCSE
11 3 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.59%) CCSM
12 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.59%) CISSP
12 1 (0.59%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.30%) QA
2 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (17.16%) Docker
2 25 (14.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.28%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.51%) vSphere
5 7 (4.14%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.14%) NFS
6 6 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.59%) Postfix
9 1 (0.59%) Squid
9 1 (0.59%) vCloud
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (14.79%) Terraform
2 21 (12.43%) Ansible
3 17 (10.06%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.33%) Puppet
5 4 (2.37%) Nessus
5 4 (2.37%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.78%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.78%) PaperCut
7 2 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.18%) Grafana
7 2 (1.18%) Graylog
7 2 (1.18%) Kubespray
7 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.18%) ZENworks
8 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.59%) Packer
8 1 (0.59%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.59%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.38%) VMware
3 9 (5.33%) Cisco
4 6 (3.55%) Juniper
4 6 (3.55%) SAP
5 5 (2.96%) Dell
6 4 (2.37%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.37%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.78%) HP
7 3 (1.78%) IBM
7 3 (1.78%) Meraki
7 3 (1.78%) Oracle
7 3 (1.78%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.18%) Apple
8 2 (1.18%) Arista
8 2 (1.18%) Aruba
8 2 (1.18%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.18%) SevOne