Linux Jobs in the Midlands

Linux
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 71 34
Rank change year-on-year +21 -37 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 507 410 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.11% 4.54% 7.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.53% 32.85% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 342 249 398
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,350
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £77,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,608 1,248 2,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.03% 13.83% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,314 822 1,406
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,625
25th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +7.50%
75th Percentile £53,438 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,125 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
East Midlands +31 292 £50,000 -9.09% 56
West Midlands -8 215 £54,000 -1.82% 76
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 24 (4.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.16%) Apache
3 15 (2.96%) nginx
4 13 (2.56%) IIS
5 12 (2.37%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.97%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.97%) WebSphere
7 9 (1.78%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.79%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.59%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.20%) JBoss
11 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.20%) PrestaShop
11 1 (0.20%) SAP Portal
11 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) CATIA
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.39%) NASTRAN
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.58%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.79%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.59%) Maximo
4 2 (0.39%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (36.49%) Azure
2 80 (15.78%) AWS
3 71 (14.00%) IBM Cloud
4 46 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (6.71%) Entra ID
6 21 (4.14%) SaaS
7 17 (3.35%) GCP
7 17 (3.35%) GitHub
8 14 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.58%) IaaS
10 8 (1.58%) PaaS
11 6 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (0.99%) Google Workspace
12 5 (0.99%) npm
12 5 (0.99%) Serverless
13 4 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 73 (14.40%) Firewall
2 33 (6.51%) TCP/IP
3 31 (6.11%) DNS
4 23 (4.54%) DHCP
4 23 (4.54%) SAN
5 21 (4.14%) Internet
6 19 (3.75%) VLAN
7 18 (3.55%) VPN
8 16 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (2.37%) LAN
10 10 (1.97%) WAN
11 9 (1.78%) BGP
11 9 (1.78%) Bluetooth
11 9 (1.78%) IPsec
12 8 (1.58%) 802.11
12 8 (1.58%) HTTP
12 8 (1.58%) Wireless
12 8 (1.58%) Wireshark
13 7 (1.38%) MQTT
14 6 (1.18%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (15.98%) MongoDB
3 75 (14.79%) DB2
4 71 (14.00%) NoSQL
5 49 (9.66%) SQL Server
6 42 (8.28%) MySQL
7 26 (5.13%) Oracle Database
8 14 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.38%) Ingres
11 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (1.18%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.99%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.79%) Big Data
14 4 (0.79%) QGIS
14 4 (0.79%) Redis
14 4 (0.79%) UniData
Development Applications
1 54 (10.65%) Git
2 27 (5.33%) JIRA
3 18 (3.55%) Visual Studio
4 16 (3.16%) Subversion
5 10 (1.97%) GNU Toolchain
6 7 (1.38%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.99%) GitLab
7 5 (0.99%) gulp
7 5 (0.99%) webpack
8 3 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.39%) CANoe
9 2 (0.39%) GCC
9 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.20%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 105 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 83 (16.37%) Public Sector
3 73 (14.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (8.68%) Finance
6 37 (7.30%) Electronics
7 23 (4.54%) Law
8 21 (4.14%) Retail
9 18 (3.55%) Automotive
10 14 (2.76%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.97%) Local Government
11 10 (1.97%) Marketing
12 8 (1.58%) Police
13 7 (1.38%) Military
13 7 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.99%) iGaming
15 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.79%) Games
15 4 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 83 (16.37%) Senior
2 78 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 71 (14.00%) Full Stack Engineer
4 69 (13.61%) Developer
5 56 (11.05%) Software Engineer
6 51 (10.06%) Administrator
6 51 (10.06%) Embedded Engineer
7 48 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (7.30%) Linux Engineer
9 33 (6.51%) Analyst
10 30 (5.92%) DBA
11 25 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.93%) IT Engineer
11 25 (4.93%) Systems Administrator
12 24 (4.73%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.54%) Lead
13 23 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (4.34%) IT Support
15 21 (4.14%) Support Engineer
16 19 (3.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (19.92%) HTML
2 100 (19.72%) .NET
3 96 (18.93%) CSS
4 89 (17.55%) React
5 85 (16.77%) jQuery
6 84 (16.57%) Web Services
7 78 (15.38%) AngularJS
7 78 (15.38%) REST
8 77 (15.19%) Vue
9 72 (14.20%) ASP.NET
10 71 (14.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 71 (14.00%) Backbone.js
10 71 (14.00%) Ember.js
10 71 (14.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 23 (4.54%) Yocto
12 20 (3.94%) Laravel
13 18 (3.55%) HTML5
14 17 (3.35%) Node.js
15 16 (3.16%) MFC
16 13 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 80 (15.78%) Algorithms
2 78 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 72 (14.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (14.00%) Blockchain
4 71 (14.00%) e-Learning
5 26 (5.13%) IoT
6 25 (4.93%) Data Centre
7 23 (4.54%) Public Cloud
8 21 (4.14%) Embedded Systems
9 19 (3.75%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.37%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.37%) Driving Licence
12 11 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.97%) PKI
13 10 (1.97%) Replication
14 9 (1.78%) CUDA
15 8 (1.58%) Clustering
15 8 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
16 7 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 250 (49.31%) Windows
2 72 (14.20%) Android
3 71 (14.00%) Apple iOS
4 70 (13.81%) Windows Server
5 60 (11.83%) Unix
6 38 (7.50%) Embedded Linux
7 32 (6.31%) CentOS
8 31 (6.11%) Ubuntu
9 23 (4.54%) SUSE
10 20 (3.94%) Debian
11 18 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 16 (3.16%) Solaris
13 13 (2.56%) Windows 10
14 10 (1.97%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
16 6 (1.18%) AIX
16 6 (1.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 5 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
18 3 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
19 2 (0.39%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (34.52%) Agile
2 102 (20.12%) Software Engineering
3 93 (18.34%) Full Stack Development
3 93 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (17.95%) Mentoring
4 91 (17.95%) User Experience
5 90 (17.75%) Web Development
6 87 (17.16%) Artificial Intelligence
7 84 (16.57%) OO
8 82 (16.17%) OOP
9 80 (15.78%) Coaching
10 79 (15.58%) MVC
11 75 (14.79%) SOLID
12 74 (14.60%) Code Quality
13 73 (14.40%) Design Patterns
14 71 (14.00%) Co-Creation
14 71 (14.00%) Design Thinking
14 71 (14.00%) MVVM
14 71 (14.00%) Responsive Web Design
15 60 (11.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 164 (32.35%) SQL
2 116 (22.88%) C#
3 115 (22.68%) JavaScript
4 88 (17.36%) C++
5 87 (17.16%) C
6 73 (14.40%) Python
7 42 (8.28%) PowerShell
8 36 (7.10%) Java
9 32 (6.31%) Bash
10 25 (4.93%) TypeScript
11 24 (4.73%) PHP
12 18 (3.55%) VB
13 17 (3.35%) Embedded C
13 17 (3.35%) Shell Script
14 16 (3.16%) Assembly Language
15 7 (1.38%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.18%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.99%) Go
17 5 (0.99%) Ruby
18 3 (0.59%) AWK
Qualifications
1 81 (15.98%) Degree
2 42 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.54%) Azure Certification
3 23 (4.54%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (4.34%) CCNA
5 21 (4.14%) SC Cleared
6 18 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.76%) DV Cleared
9 12 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.37%) Oracle Certification
10 11 (2.17%) CCNP
10 11 (2.17%) OCP
11 9 (1.78%) HNC
12 8 (1.58%) MCSE
13 7 (1.38%) DBS Check
13 7 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.14%) QA
2 12 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.97%) GDPR
4 8 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.58%) NIST
5 7 (1.38%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.99%) MISRA
7 3 (0.59%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 76 (14.99%) Active Directory
2 44 (8.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (7.69%) Docker
4 38 (7.50%) Hyper-V
5 31 (6.11%) Firmware
6 14 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
7 13 (2.56%) vSphere
8 8 (1.58%) VMware Server
9 7 (1.38%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.99%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.39%) pfSense
13 2 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.54%) Ansible
3 14 (2.76%) Docker Swarm
3 14 (2.76%) Terraform
4 10 (1.97%) SCOM
4 10 (1.97%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (0.99%) Backup Exec
6 5 (0.99%) Data Guard
6 5 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.79%) SCOrch
7 4 (0.79%) vMotion
7 4 (0.79%) WSUS
8 3 (0.59%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.59%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.59%) Nagios
9 2 (0.39%) SCCM
9 2 (0.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 101 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 87 (17.16%) Red Hat
3 84 (16.57%) IBM
4 72 (14.20%) VMware
5 40 (7.89%) Cisco
6 36 (7.10%) Oracle
7 19 (3.75%) Veeam
8 17 (3.35%) Citrix
9 13 (2.56%) Remedy
10 10 (1.97%) Google
11 9 (1.78%) NVIDIA
12 8 (1.58%) NEC
13 7 (1.38%) Databricks
13 7 (1.38%) Dell
13 7 (1.38%) Ubiquiti
14 6 (1.18%) ESET
14 6 (1.18%) QNX
15 5 (0.99%) NetApp
15 5 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.99%) SolidFire