Rocky Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Rocky Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Rocky skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 - 204
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs citing Rocky 4 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.059% - 0.077%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.82% - 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47,950
25th Percentile £52,500 - £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £53,000
90th Percentile £85,500 - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 - £51,000
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Rocky 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 486 423 631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.12% 11.19% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 400 327 487
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -1.39%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £73,763 £62,200 £73,750
South East median annual salary £47,000 £40,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +17.50% -17.53% +7.78%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rocky relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Rocky job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Rocky
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Rocky.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Rocky

Rocky
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rocky in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Rocky in the Thames Valley

Rocky
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 Rocky within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 August 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 - 2 £85,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £55,000 - 2
Rocky
South East

Rocky
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam