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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 25 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -14 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 417 495 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.99% 8.44% 14.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.81% 45.54% 61.33%
Number of salaries quoted 345 299 462
10th Percentile £34,600 £27,500 £31,458
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 974 1,087 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.98% 18.54% 23.54%
Number of salaries quoted 823 671 1,002
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,563 £26,774
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,000 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year - -16.41% -7.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £80,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £43,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.73% -8.95% -

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 28 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 28 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 -4 227 £59,000 -15.71% 58
Oxfordshire +16 117 £50,000 +17.65% 13
Buckinghamshire -48 73 £45,000 -5.26% 17
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 27 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.32%) WebLogic
3 15 (3.60%) IIS
4 14 (3.36%) Oracle Service Bus
5 11 (2.64%) OpenStack
6 10 (2.40%) nginx
7 8 (1.92%) Apache
8 6 (1.44%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.96%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.96%) Confluence
9 4 (0.96%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.96%) WordPress
10 1 (0.24%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 131 (31.41%) Azure
2 73 (17.51%) AWS
3 48 (11.51%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (5.52%) Entra ID
5 19 (4.56%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (4.32%) Azure Storage
7 13 (3.12%) GitHub
8 12 (2.88%) OCI
9 11 (2.64%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.64%) GCP
10 9 (2.16%) IaaS
11 7 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.44%) SaaS
12 6 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.20%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.96%) OneDrive
14 4 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 86 (20.62%) Firewall
2 78 (18.71%) DNS
3 57 (13.67%) DHCP
4 34 (8.15%) SAN
5 31 (7.43%) VPN
6 29 (6.95%) TCP/IP
7 21 (5.04%) NAS
8 20 (4.80%) Wireless
9 18 (4.32%) SNMP
10 17 (4.08%) WAN
11 16 (3.84%) LAN
12 14 (3.36%) VoIP
13 11 (2.64%) BGP
13 11 (2.64%) HTTP
13 11 (2.64%) SMTP
14 10 (2.40%) Internet
15 7 (1.68%) IPsec
15 7 (1.68%) VLAN
16 6 (1.44%) Network Security
16 6 (1.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.19%) MySQL
2 22 (5.28%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.36%) Oracle Database 10g
5 14 (3.36%) Oracle Database 11g
5 14 (3.36%) VLDB
6 9 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.68%) GIS
9 6 (1.44%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.20%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.20%) Power BI
10 5 (1.20%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.96%) QGIS
11 4 (0.96%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (4.32%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.08%) Git
3 10 (2.40%) JIRA
4 5 (1.20%) GitLab
5 3 (0.72%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.24%) Gradle
7 1 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 39 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (3.60%) Aerospace
3 15 (3.60%) Finance
4 11 (2.64%) Electronics
5 8 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 7 (1.68%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 4 (0.96%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.24%) Legal
10 1 (0.24%) Marketing
10 1 (0.24%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (19.90%) Senior
2 71 (17.03%) Software Engineer
3 62 (14.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (8.63%) Senior Software Engineer
4 36 (8.63%) Support Engineer
5 33 (7.91%) Applications Support
6 26 (6.24%) Linux Engineer
6 26 (6.24%) Systems Engineer
7 25 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (6.00%) Embedded Engineer
8 23 (5.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 22 (5.28%) Analyst
9 22 (5.28%) IT Support
10 21 (5.04%) Applications Engineer
10 21 (5.04%) Developer
10 21 (5.04%) Lead
10 21 (5.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 20 (4.80%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 17 (4.08%) Support Analyst
12 17 (4.08%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.80%) OpenMP
2 18 (4.32%) ARM Templates
3 17 (4.08%) WPF
4 14 (3.36%) OpenACC
5 12 (2.88%) Web Services
6 11 (2.64%) React
7 10 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (1.68%) .NET
8 7 (1.68%) CSS
8 7 (1.68%) HTML
9 6 (1.44%) Django
9 6 (1.44%) Qt
10 5 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.20%) YAML
11 4 (0.96%) gRPC
11 4 (0.96%) Knex.js
11 4 (0.96%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (0.96%) OpenLayers
11 4 (0.96%) React Native
11 4 (0.96%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.27%) Algorithms
1 47 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.19%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (6.47%) PKI
4 20 (4.80%) CUDA
4 20 (4.80%) IoT
5 14 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (3.12%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.64%) CMDB
8 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.68%) Replication
10 6 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.44%) Life Science
10 6 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.96%) EMC VNX
13 3 (0.72%) Molecular Biology
13 3 (0.72%) Raspberry Pi
13 3 (0.72%) Social Media
13 3 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 175 (41.97%) Windows
2 68 (16.31%) Windows Server
3 65 (15.59%) Unix
4 46 (11.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (10.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (7.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (6.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (5.28%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (5.04%) CentOS
9 21 (5.04%) Windows 10
10 18 (4.32%) Ubuntu
11 14 (3.36%) Solaris
12 12 (2.88%) Windows XP
13 7 (1.68%) Mac OS
14 6 (1.44%) VMS
15 5 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.96%) AIX
16 4 (0.96%) Rocky
17 3 (0.72%) Debian
18 2 (0.48%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (22.06%) Software Engineering
2 84 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (17.99%) Agile
4 73 (17.51%) DevOps
5 66 (15.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (13.67%) Computer Science
7 50 (11.99%) Physics
8 48 (11.51%) Mathematics
9 47 (11.27%) CI/CD
10 45 (10.79%) Software Testing
11 41 (9.83%) Open Source
12 40 (9.59%) ITIL
12 40 (9.59%) Release Management
13 30 (7.19%) Actionable Insight
13 30 (7.19%) Parallel Programming
14 29 (6.95%) Containerisation
15 28 (6.71%) Artificial Intelligence
15 28 (6.71%) Performance Monitoring
15 28 (6.71%) Performance Tuning
16 27 (6.47%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 122 (29.26%) Python
2 85 (20.38%) C
3 61 (14.63%) C++
3 61 (14.63%) SQL
4 56 (13.43%) Bash
5 48 (11.51%) PowerShell
6 46 (11.03%) C#
7 41 (9.83%) Fortran
8 28 (6.71%) PL/SQL
9 20 (4.80%) Java
10 17 (4.08%) Bicep
10 17 (4.08%) JavaScript
10 17 (4.08%) VB
10 17 (4.08%) VBScript
10 17 (4.08%) XAML
11 12 (2.88%) Embedded C
11 12 (2.88%) Perl
12 11 (2.64%) Groovy
13 6 (1.44%) Ruby
14 5 (1.20%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 141 (33.81%) Security Cleared
2 133 (31.89%) Degree
3 89 (21.34%) SC Cleared
4 55 (13.19%) DV Cleared
5 51 (12.23%) PhD
6 46 (11.03%) Master's Degree
7 24 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (5.28%) CCNA
9 17 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (3.36%) CCNP
12 12 (2.88%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.40%) MCSE
14 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.96%) OCP
14 4 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.48%) GCFE
15 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.24%) SLA
2 7 (1.68%) QA
3 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (19.42%) Active Directory
2 55 (13.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (11.99%) Docker
4 29 (6.95%) Hyper-V
5 19 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (4.32%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (3.36%) Oracle RAC
9 12 (2.88%) vSphere
10 10 (2.40%) Firmware
11 5 (1.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.48%) GPFS
13 2 (0.48%) KVM
13 2 (0.48%) QEMU
13 2 (0.48%) Xen
14 1 (0.24%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.24%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 67 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.51%) Ansible
3 40 (9.59%) SCOM
4 36 (8.63%) SCCM
5 33 (7.91%) Terraform
6 31 (7.43%) WSUS
7 29 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (5.52%) vCenter Server
9 18 (4.32%) Oracle RMAN
10 17 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (3.84%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (3.36%) Data Guard
12 14 (3.36%) NetBackup
13 9 (2.16%) Rancher
14 6 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (1.20%) Nagios
15 5 (1.20%) Prometheus
15 5 (1.20%) Puppet
15 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
16 4 (0.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 120 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 83 (19.90%) VMware
3 40 (9.59%) Oracle
4 23 (5.52%) Cisco
4 23 (5.52%) Veeam
5 22 (5.28%) Juniper
6 21 (5.04%) Palo Alto
7 20 (4.80%) EMC
7 20 (4.80%) Red Hat
8 19 (4.56%) Dell
9 16 (3.84%) Sun
10 14 (3.36%) Remedy
11 13 (3.12%) 3PAR
11 13 (3.12%) Dynatrace
11 13 (3.12%) HP
12 12 (2.88%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (2.88%) Symantec
13 8 (1.92%) Aruba
13 8 (1.92%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.68%) SolarWinds