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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 23 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 416 502 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.04% 8.54% 14.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.67% 45.68% 61.37%
Number of salaries quoted 348 306 457
10th Percentile £34,500 £27,500 £31,458
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £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 £76,875 £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 975 1,099 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.17% 18.69% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 831 680 995
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,556 £26,846
25th Percentile £34,500 £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 £62,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £78,875 £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 26 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 26 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 -2 227 £59,000 -15.71% 61
Oxfordshire +14 115 £50,000 +17.65% 16
Buckinghamshire -43 74 £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 25 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.33%) WebLogic
3 15 (3.61%) IIS
4 14 (3.37%) 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 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 128 (30.77%) Azure
2 72 (17.31%) AWS
3 45 (10.82%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.81%) Entra ID
5 17 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (3.85%) Azure Storage
7 13 (3.13%) 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%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 84 (20.19%) Firewall
2 76 (18.27%) DNS
3 55 (13.22%) DHCP
4 34 (8.17%) SAN
5 31 (7.45%) VPN
6 29 (6.97%) TCP/IP
7 21 (5.05%) NAS
8 20 (4.81%) Wireless
9 18 (4.33%) SNMP
10 17 (4.09%) WAN
11 16 (3.85%) LAN
12 14 (3.37%) VoIP
13 11 (2.64%) BGP
13 11 (2.64%) HTTP
13 11 (2.64%) SMTP
14 9 (2.16%) 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 (7.21%) MySQL
2 22 (5.29%) Oracle Database
3 15 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.37%) Oracle Database 10g
4 14 (3.37%) Oracle Database 11g
4 14 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.37%) VLDB
5 9 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.44%) GIS
7 6 (1.44%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.20%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.20%) Power BI
8 5 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.96%) QGIS
9 4 (0.96%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (4.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.09%) Git
3 10 (2.40%) JIRA
4 4 (0.96%) 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 90 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 39 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (3.85%) Finance
4 15 (3.61%) Aerospace
5 11 (2.64%) Electronics
6 8 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.96%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Legal
11 1 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 82 (19.71%) Senior
2 67 (16.11%) Software Engineer
3 61 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (9.13%) Support Engineer
5 35 (8.41%) Applications Support
5 35 (8.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 27 (6.49%) Linux Engineer
7 26 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
8 25 (6.01%) Embedded Engineer
9 23 (5.53%) Analyst
9 23 (5.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 23 (5.53%) IT Support
10 22 (5.29%) Applications Engineer
11 21 (5.05%) Developer
11 21 (5.05%) Lead
11 21 (5.05%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 20 (4.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 18 (4.33%) Support Analyst
14 17 (4.09%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.81%) OpenMP
2 17 (4.09%) WPF
3 16 (3.85%) ARM Templates
4 14 (3.37%) 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%) GraphQL
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 46 (11.06%) Data Centre
2 45 (10.82%) Algorithms
3 28 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (6.01%) PKI
5 20 (4.81%) CUDA
5 20 (4.81%) IoT
6 14 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.64%) CMDB
9 9 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.68%) Replication
11 6 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.44%) Life Science
11 6 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.72%) Arduino
13 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.72%) Raspberry Pi
13 3 (0.72%) Social Media
13 3 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 173 (41.59%) Windows
2 66 (15.87%) Windows Server
3 64 (15.38%) Unix
4 44 (10.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (10.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 34 (8.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (5.29%) CentOS
8 22 (5.29%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (5.05%) Windows 10
10 18 (4.33%) Ubuntu
11 14 (3.37%) 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
17 3 (0.72%) Debian
17 3 (0.72%) Rocky
18 2 (0.48%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (21.15%) Software Engineering
2 84 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (17.31%) Agile
4 71 (17.07%) DevOps
5 65 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 55 (13.22%) Computer Science
7 48 (11.54%) Physics
8 46 (11.06%) Mathematics
9 45 (10.82%) CI/CD
10 43 (10.34%) Software Testing
11 39 (9.38%) ITIL
11 39 (9.38%) Open Source
12 38 (9.13%) Release Management
13 30 (7.21%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence
14 28 (6.73%) Parallel Programming
14 28 (6.73%) Performance Monitoring
14 28 (6.73%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (6.49%) Containerisation
16 26 (6.25%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (28.61%) Python
2 84 (20.19%) C
3 62 (14.90%) SQL
4 58 (13.94%) C++
5 54 (12.98%) Bash
6 46 (11.06%) PowerShell
7 45 (10.82%) C#
8 39 (9.38%) Fortran
9 29 (6.97%) PL/SQL
10 20 (4.81%) Java
11 17 (4.09%) JavaScript
11 17 (4.09%) XAML
12 15 (3.61%) Bicep
12 15 (3.61%) VB
12 15 (3.61%) VBScript
13 12 (2.88%) Embedded C
13 12 (2.88%) Perl
14 11 (2.64%) Groovy
15 6 (1.44%) Ruby
16 5 (1.20%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 140 (33.65%) Security Cleared
2 130 (31.25%) Degree
3 90 (21.63%) SC Cleared
4 55 (13.22%) DV Cleared
5 49 (11.78%) PhD
6 44 (10.58%) Master's Degree
7 24 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (5.29%) CCNA
9 15 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (3.37%) CCNP
11 12 (2.88%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.40%) MCSE
13 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.96%) OCP
13 4 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.48%) GCFE
14 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.25%) 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 79 (18.99%) Active Directory
2 56 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (11.54%) Docker
4 29 (6.97%) Hyper-V
5 18 (4.33%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (3.37%) 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 64 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 51 (12.26%) Ansible
3 38 (9.13%) SCOM
4 34 (8.17%) Terraform
5 33 (7.93%) SCCM
6 29 (6.97%) WSUS
7 27 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (5.53%) vCenter Server
9 18 (4.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 15 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (3.61%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (3.37%) Data Guard
11 14 (3.37%) NetBackup
12 10 (2.40%) Rancher
13 6 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (1.20%) Prometheus
14 5 (1.20%) Puppet
14 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
15 4 (0.96%) Kibana
15 4 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (27.64%) Microsoft
2 83 (19.95%) VMware
3 39 (9.38%) Oracle
4 23 (5.53%) Cisco
5 22 (5.29%) Juniper
5 22 (5.29%) Veeam
6 21 (5.05%) Palo Alto
7 20 (4.81%) Red Hat
8 19 (4.57%) Dell
8 19 (4.57%) EMC
9 16 (3.85%) Sun
10 14 (3.37%) Remedy
11 13 (3.13%) 3PAR
11 13 (3.13%) Dynatrace
11 13 (3.13%) HP
12 12 (2.88%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (2.88%) Symantec
13 8 (1.92%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.68%) Aruba
15 6 (1.44%) SolarWinds