Linux Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 734 813
Rank change year-on-year -1 +79 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Developer 32 10 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.016% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.018% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 30 9 21
10th Percentile £32,500 - £40,853
25th Percentile - - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65,625 - £62,000
90th Percentile £70,200 £50,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,635 54,775 67,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 89.22% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,217 31,082 42,983
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Linux Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Developer in the UK excluding London

Linux Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Developer in the UK excluding London

Linux Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Developer in the UK excluding London

Linux Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 of England +21 17 £60,000 +50.00% 1
West Midlands - 12 £50,000 - 1
Midlands - 12 £50,000 - 3
South East +22 3 £72,000 - 2
Linux Developer
UK

Linux Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Linux Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Linux Developer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (53.13%) C
3 15 (46.88%) C++
3 15 (46.88%) Android
4 14 (43.75%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (37.50%) Client/Server
5 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 11 (34.38%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (34.38%) Commercial Awareness
6 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (34.38%) Automotive
6 11 (34.38%) IoT
6 11 (34.38%) Raspberry Pi
6 11 (34.38%) Apple iOS
6 11 (34.38%) Multithreaded Programming
6 11 (34.38%) Business Development
6 11 (34.38%) Blog
6 11 (34.38%) Multithreading
6 11 (34.38%) Customer Engagement
7 10 (31.25%) Open Source
7 10 (31.25%) Bash
7 10 (31.25%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (31.25%) GNU Toolchain
7 10 (31.25%) Node.js
7 10 (31.25%) Git
7 10 (31.25%) nginx
7 10 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (31.25%) Firewall
7 10 (31.25%) Subversion
7 10 (31.25%) POSIX

Linux Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (31.25%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Multicast
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) MySQL
1 10 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Git
1 10 (31.25%) GNU Toolchain
1 10 (31.25%) Subversion
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Automotive
2 11 (34.38%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Node.js
1 10 (31.25%) POSIX
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (37.50%) Client/Server
3 11 (34.38%) Blog
3 11 (34.38%) IoT
3 11 (34.38%) Raspberry Pi
4 10 (31.25%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (46.88%) Android
3 11 (34.38%) Apple iOS
4 10 (31.25%) Unix
5 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Business Development
1 11 (34.38%) Commercial Awareness
1 11 (34.38%) Customer Engagement
1 11 (34.38%) Multithreaded Programming
1 11 (34.38%) Multithreading
1 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (31.25%) Open Source
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.50%) Embedded Software Development
5 4 (12.50%) Power Management
5 4 (12.50%) Presales
6 3 (9.38%) BDD
6 3 (9.38%) TDD
7 2 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
8 1 (3.13%) Cryptography
8 1 (3.13%) Mobile Development
8 1 (3.13%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (3.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) C
2 15 (46.88%) C++
3 10 (31.25%) Bash
4 6 (18.75%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) C#
5 3 (9.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft