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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 23 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 +22
Permanent jobs citing Linux 421 492 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.91% 8.62% 14.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.09% 45.94% 61.84%
Number of salaries quoted 346 300 461
10th Percentile £34,750 £27,375 £31,458
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,313 £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 977 1,071 1,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.72% 18.77% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 822 668 991
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,989
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,438 £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 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £80,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -7.37% -

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -1 231 £59,000 -15.71% 45
Oxfordshire +13 119 £50,500 +18.82% 16
Buckinghamshire -44 71 £45,000 -5.26% 22
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 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.28%) WebLogic
3 14 (3.33%) IIS
3 14 (3.33%) Oracle Service Bus
4 11 (2.61%) OpenStack
5 10 (2.38%) nginx
6 8 (1.90%) Apache
7 6 (1.43%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.95%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.95%) Confluence
8 4 (0.95%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.95%) WordPress
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 130 (30.88%) Azure
2 74 (17.58%) AWS
3 48 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (5.46%) Entra ID
5 18 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (4.28%) Azure Storage
6 13 (3.09%) GitHub
7 12 (2.85%) OCI
8 11 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.61%) GCP
9 8 (1.90%) IaaS
10 7 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.43%) SaaS
11 6 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.19%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.95%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 85 (20.19%) Firewall
2 75 (17.81%) DNS
3 56 (13.30%) DHCP
4 34 (8.08%) SAN
5 30 (7.13%) VPN
6 28 (6.65%) TCP/IP
7 21 (4.99%) NAS
8 20 (4.75%) Wireless
9 17 (4.04%) SNMP
9 17 (4.04%) WAN
10 16 (3.80%) LAN
11 13 (3.09%) VoIP
12 10 (2.38%) BGP
12 10 (2.38%) HTTP
12 10 (2.38%) Internet
12 10 (2.38%) SMTP
13 7 (1.66%) VLAN
14 6 (1.43%) IPsec
14 6 (1.43%) Network Security
14 6 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.36%) MySQL
2 22 (5.23%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.56%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.33%) Oracle Database 10g
5 14 (3.33%) Oracle Database 11g
5 14 (3.33%) VLDB
6 9 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.66%) GIS
9 6 (1.43%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.19%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.19%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.19%) Power BI
10 5 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.95%) QGIS
11 4 (0.95%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (4.28%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.04%) Git
3 10 (2.38%) JIRA
4 5 (1.19%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) 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 94 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 39 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (3.80%) Aerospace
4 14 (3.33%) Finance
5 11 (2.61%) Electronics
6 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.66%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.19%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.95%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Advertising
11 1 (0.24%) Legal
11 1 (0.24%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (19.71%) Senior
2 75 (17.81%) Software Engineer
3 60 (14.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (8.55%) Senior Software Engineer
4 36 (8.55%) Support Engineer
5 33 (7.84%) Applications Support
6 26 (6.18%) Embedded Engineer
6 26 (6.18%) Linux Engineer
7 25 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.70%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (5.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 22 (5.23%) Developer
10 22 (5.23%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 21 (4.99%) Analyst
11 21 (4.99%) Applications Engineer
11 21 (4.99%) IT Support
11 21 (4.99%) Lead
12 20 (4.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 17 (4.04%) Active Directory Specialist
13 17 (4.04%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.75%) OpenMP
2 19 (4.51%) WPF
3 18 (4.28%) ARM Templates
4 14 (3.33%) OpenACC
5 12 (2.85%) React
6 11 (2.61%) Web Services
7 10 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (1.90%) CSS
8 8 (1.90%) HTML
9 7 (1.66%) .NET
10 6 (1.43%) Django
10 6 (1.43%) Qt
11 5 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (1.19%) YAML
12 4 (0.95%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.95%) LEMP Stack
12 4 (0.95%) OpenLayers
12 4 (0.95%) React Native
12 4 (0.95%) Sequelize
12 4 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.40%) Algorithms
2 46 (10.93%) Data Centre
3 30 (7.13%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (6.18%) PKI
5 20 (4.75%) CUDA
5 20 (4.75%) IoT
6 14 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.38%) CMDB
9 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.66%) Replication
10 6 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.43%) Life Science
11 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.95%) EMC VNX
12 4 (0.95%) Raspberry Pi
13 3 (0.71%) Arduino
13 3 (0.71%) Molecular Biology
13 3 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 175 (41.57%) Windows
2 66 (15.68%) Unix
2 66 (15.68%) Windows Server
3 46 (10.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 44 (10.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (7.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (5.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (5.23%) Embedded Linux
8 21 (4.99%) CentOS
8 21 (4.99%) Windows 10
9 18 (4.28%) Ubuntu
10 14 (3.33%) Solaris
11 12 (2.85%) Windows XP
12 7 (1.66%) Mac OS
13 5 (1.19%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (1.19%) VMS
14 4 (0.95%) AIX
14 4 (0.95%) Rocky
15 3 (0.71%) Debian
16 2 (0.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (22.57%) Software Engineering
2 85 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (17.58%) Agile
4 73 (17.34%) DevOps
5 64 (15.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (13.54%) Computer Science
7 51 (12.11%) Physics
8 49 (11.64%) Mathematics
9 47 (11.16%) CI/CD
10 46 (10.93%) Software Testing
11 41 (9.74%) Open Source
12 40 (9.50%) ITIL
12 40 (9.50%) Release Management
13 31 (7.36%) Parallel Programming
14 30 (7.13%) Actionable Insight
15 29 (6.89%) Containerisation
16 28 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence
16 28 (6.65%) Performance Monitoring
16 28 (6.65%) Performance Tuning
17 27 (6.41%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (29.69%) Python
2 88 (20.90%) C
3 66 (15.68%) C++
4 60 (14.25%) Bash
5 59 (14.01%) SQL
6 47 (11.16%) C#
6 47 (11.16%) PowerShell
7 42 (9.98%) Fortran
8 28 (6.65%) PL/SQL
9 20 (4.75%) Java
10 19 (4.51%) XAML
11 17 (4.04%) Bicep
11 17 (4.04%) JavaScript
11 17 (4.04%) VB
11 17 (4.04%) VBScript
12 13 (3.09%) Embedded C
13 12 (2.85%) Perl
14 11 (2.61%) Groovy
15 6 (1.43%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 144 (34.20%) Security Cleared
2 133 (31.59%) Degree
3 88 (20.90%) SC Cleared
4 54 (12.83%) DV Cleared
5 52 (12.35%) PhD
6 47 (11.16%) Master's Degree
7 24 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (5.23%) CCNA
9 17 (4.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (3.33%) CCNP
12 12 (2.85%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.38%) MCSE
14 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.95%) OCP
14 4 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.48%) CCIE
15 2 (0.48%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.18%) SLA
2 7 (1.66%) QA
3 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (18.76%) Active Directory
2 54 (12.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (11.88%) Docker
4 28 (6.65%) Hyper-V
5 19 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (4.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (4.04%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
8 12 (2.85%) vSphere
9 10 (2.38%) Firmware
10 5 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.48%) GPFS
12 2 (0.48%) KVM
12 2 (0.48%) QEMU
12 2 (0.48%) Xen
13 1 (0.24%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 67 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.40%) Ansible
3 39 (9.26%) SCOM
4 36 (8.55%) SCCM
5 33 (7.84%) Terraform
6 30 (7.13%) WSUS
7 29 (6.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (5.46%) vCenter Server
9 18 (4.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 17 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (3.80%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (3.33%) Data Guard
12 14 (3.33%) NetBackup
13 9 (2.14%) Rancher
14 6 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (1.19%) Nagios
15 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
15 5 (1.19%) Puppet
15 5 (1.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
16 4 (0.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 121 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 81 (19.24%) VMware
3 40 (9.50%) Oracle
4 23 (5.46%) Veeam
5 22 (5.23%) Cisco
6 21 (4.99%) Juniper
6 21 (4.99%) Palo Alto
7 20 (4.75%) EMC
7 20 (4.75%) Red Hat
8 18 (4.28%) Dell
9 16 (3.80%) Sun
10 14 (3.33%) Remedy
11 13 (3.09%) 3PAR
11 13 (3.09%) HP
12 12 (2.85%) Dynatrace
12 12 (2.85%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (2.85%) Symantec
13 8 (1.90%) Aruba
13 8 (1.90%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.43%) SolarWinds