Linux Jobs in the Thames Valley

Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 24 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 429 513 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.38% 8.59% 14.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.94% 45.84% 60.49%
Number of salaries quoted 364 309 456
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,500 £31,479
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,875 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -10.00% -3.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £79,375
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 999 1,119 1,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.86% 18.73% 24.09%
Number of salaries quoted 857 690 1,006
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £29,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year - -16.41% -7.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,900 £77,500 £84,375
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -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 10 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +8 235 £59,000 -9.23% 58
Oxfordshire +15 119 £42,500 - 27
Buckinghamshire -44 75 £45,000 - 12
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 25 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.20%) WebLogic
3 17 (3.96%) IIS
4 14 (3.26%) Oracle Service Bus
5 12 (2.80%) nginx
5 12 (2.80%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.86%) Apache
7 6 (1.40%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.17%) Confluence
8 5 (1.17%) WordPress
9 4 (0.93%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.93%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 132 (30.77%) Azure
2 75 (17.48%) AWS
3 45 (10.49%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.43%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (3.50%) Azure Storage
7 13 (3.03%) GitHub
8 12 (2.80%) OCI
9 11 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.56%) GCP
10 9 (2.10%) IaaS
11 7 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.17%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.17%) SaaS
14 4 (0.93%) Amazon ELB
14 4 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (20.05%) Firewall
2 76 (17.72%) DNS
3 56 (13.05%) DHCP
4 34 (7.93%) SAN
5 32 (7.46%) VPN
6 31 (7.23%) TCP/IP
7 22 (5.13%) Wireless
8 20 (4.66%) NAS
8 20 (4.66%) SNMP
9 19 (4.43%) WAN
10 17 (3.96%) LAN
11 15 (3.50%) VoIP
12 12 (2.80%) BGP
13 10 (2.33%) HTTP
13 10 (2.33%) SMTP
14 9 (2.10%) Internet
15 7 (1.63%) IPsec
15 7 (1.63%) VLAN
16 6 (1.40%) Network Security
16 6 (1.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.16%) MySQL
2 22 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.26%) Oracle Database 10g
5 14 (3.26%) Oracle Database 11g
5 14 (3.26%) VLDB
6 9 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.63%) MariaDB
9 6 (1.40%) GIS
9 6 (1.40%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.17%) Power BI
10 5 (1.17%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.93%) QGIS
11 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (4.43%) Git
1 19 (4.43%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.56%) JIRA
3 5 (1.17%) GitLab
4 3 (0.70%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.23%) Gradle
6 1 (0.23%) JUnit
6 1 (0.23%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 91 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 41 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (3.73%) Aerospace
4 15 (3.50%) Finance
5 12 (2.80%) Electronics
6 8 (1.86%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.93%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Games
11 1 (0.23%) Legal
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (18.41%) Senior
2 61 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (14.22%) Software Engineer
3 46 (10.72%) Support Engineer
4 37 (8.62%) Applications Support
5 31 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 30 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
7 28 (6.53%) Linux Engineer
8 27 (6.29%) Embedded Engineer
9 26 (6.06%) Analyst
10 25 (5.83%) Applications Engineer
10 25 (5.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 24 (5.59%) IT Support
12 22 (5.13%) Developer
12 22 (5.13%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 21 (4.90%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 20 (4.66%) Lead
15 19 (4.43%) Support Analyst
16 17 (3.96%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.66%) OpenMP
2 16 (3.73%) WPF
3 15 (3.50%) ARM Templates
4 14 (3.26%) OpenACC
5 11 (2.56%) React
5 11 (2.56%) Web Services
6 10 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.63%) .NET
7 7 (1.63%) CSS
7 7 (1.63%) HTML
8 6 (1.40%) Django
8 6 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.40%) Qt
9 5 (1.17%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.17%) YAML
10 4 (0.93%) JSON
10 4 (0.93%) Kafka
10 4 (0.93%) Node.js
10 4 (0.93%) PostGIS
10 4 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.72%) Data Centre
2 38 (8.86%) Algorithms
3 28 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (5.83%) PKI
5 21 (4.90%) IoT
6 20 (4.66%) CUDA
7 15 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (3.26%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.03%) CMDB
10 9 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.63%) Replication
12 6 (1.40%) Life Science
12 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.70%) EMC VNX
14 3 (0.70%) Molecular Biology
14 3 (0.70%) Raspberry Pi
14 3 (0.70%) Social Media
14 3 (0.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 182 (42.42%) Windows
2 72 (16.78%) Windows Server
3 58 (13.52%) Unix
4 46 (10.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (10.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 40 (9.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (6.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (5.59%) CentOS
9 23 (5.36%) Embedded Linux
9 23 (5.36%) Windows 10
10 19 (4.43%) Ubuntu
11 14 (3.26%) Solaris
12 12 (2.80%) Windows XP
13 7 (1.63%) Mac OS
14 6 (1.40%) VMS
15 5 (1.17%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.93%) AIX
17 3 (0.70%) Android
17 3 (0.70%) Debian
17 3 (0.70%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (19.35%) Software Engineering
3 76 (17.72%) Agile
3 76 (17.72%) DevOps
4 65 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 48 (11.19%) Computer Science
6 47 (10.96%) CI/CD
7 41 (9.56%) ITIL
7 41 (9.56%) Physics
8 40 (9.32%) Release Management
9 39 (9.09%) Mathematics
10 37 (8.62%) Software Testing
11 33 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
12 32 (7.46%) Open Source
13 30 (6.99%) Configuration Management
14 28 (6.53%) Artificial Intelligence
14 28 (6.53%) Performance Monitoring
14 28 (6.53%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (6.29%) Containerisation
16 24 (5.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 113 (26.34%) Python
2 78 (18.18%) C
3 68 (15.85%) SQL
4 54 (12.59%) C++
5 49 (11.42%) PowerShell
6 47 (10.96%) Bash
7 43 (10.02%) C#
8 32 (7.46%) Fortran
9 31 (7.23%) PL/SQL
10 21 (4.90%) Java
11 18 (4.20%) JavaScript
12 17 (3.96%) VBScript
13 16 (3.73%) XAML
14 14 (3.26%) Bicep
14 14 (3.26%) VB
15 12 (2.80%) Embedded C
15 12 (2.80%) Groovy
15 12 (2.80%) Perl
16 6 (1.40%) Ruby
17 5 (1.17%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 146 (34.03%) Security Cleared
2 123 (28.67%) Degree
3 100 (23.31%) SC Cleared
4 57 (13.29%) DV Cleared
5 42 (9.79%) PhD
6 38 (8.86%) Master's Degree
7 25 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (5.36%) CCNA
9 14 (3.26%) CCNP
9 14 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.33%) AWS Certification
11 10 (2.33%) MCSE
12 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.93%) OCP
12 4 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.06%) SLA
2 7 (1.63%) QA
3 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (20.28%) Active Directory
2 62 (14.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (11.89%) Docker
4 30 (6.99%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (3.26%) Oracle RAC
7 14 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (3.03%) vSphere
9 12 (2.80%) Firmware
10 6 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.70%) GPFS
13 2 (0.47%) KVM
13 2 (0.47%) QEMU
13 2 (0.47%) Xen
14 1 (0.23%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.23%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 68 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 54 (12.59%) Ansible
3 39 (9.09%) SCOM
3 39 (9.09%) Terraform
4 33 (7.69%) SCCM
5 28 (6.53%) WSUS
6 27 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (6.29%) vCenter Server
7 18 (4.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (3.50%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (3.26%) Data Guard
9 14 (3.26%) NetBackup
9 14 (3.26%) Rancher
10 6 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.17%) Kibana
11 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.17%) Puppet
11 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 4 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 109 (25.41%) Microsoft
2 92 (21.45%) VMware
3 39 (9.09%) Oracle
4 25 (5.83%) Cisco
5 24 (5.59%) Veeam
6 23 (5.36%) Juniper
7 22 (5.13%) Red Hat
8 21 (4.90%) Palo Alto
9 20 (4.66%) Dell
10 18 (4.20%) EMC
11 16 (3.73%) Sun
12 15 (3.50%) Dynatrace
13 14 (3.26%) HP
13 14 (3.26%) Remedy
14 13 (3.03%) 3PAR
15 12 (2.80%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (2.80%) Symantec
16 9 (2.10%) Aruba
16 9 (2.10%) Fortinet
17 7 (1.63%) SolarWinds