Linux Jobs in the West Midlands

Linux
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 74 44
Rank change year-on-year -8 -30 -19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 206 272 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.85% 4.04% 5.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.93% 32.46% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 158 178 245
10th Percentile £30,500 £39,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,696 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,343 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.86% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 861 838 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.91% 12.46% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 737 578 880
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Birmingham -14 62 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Staffordshire +15 46 £36,250 -23.22% 8
Worcestershire -7 34 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Coventry +37 19 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Warwickshire +23 13 £48,250 -31.07% 1
Shropshire -5 5 £30,000 -57.14% 4
Solihull 0 4 £50,000 +1.01% 2
Herefordshire -12 1 £60,000 -40.00% 9
Brierley Hill - 1 £55,000 -
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 18 (8.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.28%) nginx
3 9 (4.37%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.88%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.91%) IIS
5 6 (2.91%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.94%) Apache
7 3 (1.46%) MQSeries
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.97%) JBoss
8 2 (0.97%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.94%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.94%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.84%) Azure
2 29 (14.08%) AWS
3 18 (8.74%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.80%) GitHub
6 13 (6.31%) GCP
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.91%) IaaS
8 6 (2.91%) PaaS
8 6 (2.91%) SaaS
8 6 (2.91%) Serverless
9 5 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.43%) npm
10 4 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.90%) Firewall
2 16 (7.77%) SAN
3 14 (6.80%) DHCP
3 14 (6.80%) DNS
4 12 (5.83%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.85%) VPN
5 10 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (4.37%) HTTP
6 9 (4.37%) LAN
7 8 (3.88%) Bluetooth
8 6 (2.91%) WAN
8 6 (2.91%) Wireless
9 5 (2.43%) RS-232
9 5 (2.43%) RS-485
9 5 (2.43%) ZigBee
10 4 (1.94%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.94%) Internet
10 4 (1.94%) MQTT
10 4 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.46%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.02%) MySQL
2 21 (10.19%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.91%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.94%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.46%) DB2
7 3 (1.46%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.46%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (11.17%) Git
2 14 (6.80%) JIRA
3 13 (6.31%) Subversion
4 10 (4.85%) GNU Toolchain
5 5 (2.43%) webpack
6 3 (1.46%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (1.46%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.97%) CANoe
7 2 (0.97%) GCC
7 2 (0.97%) gulp
7 2 (0.97%) MSBuild
General
1 64 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.08%) Finance
4 13 (6.31%) Retail
5 12 (5.83%) Electronics
5 12 (5.83%) Law
6 11 (5.34%) Automotive
7 6 (2.91%) Local Government
7 6 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.94%) Marketing
8 4 (1.94%) Police
8 4 (1.94%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.46%) Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Games
9 3 (1.46%) Legal
9 3 (1.46%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.97%) iGaming
10 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 51 (24.76%) Developer
2 38 (18.45%) Senior
3 21 (10.19%) Analyst
4 20 (9.71%) Embedded Engineer
5 18 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (8.25%) Administrator
6 17 (8.25%) Linux Engineer
7 16 (7.77%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 15 (7.28%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (6.80%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 14 (6.80%) IT Engineer
9 14 (6.80%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 14 (6.80%) Software Developer
10 13 (6.31%) Lead
10 13 (6.31%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.83%) Linux Developer
11 12 (5.83%) Support Engineer
12 11 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (5.34%) IT Support
13 10 (4.85%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.77%) Yocto
2 15 (7.28%) Laravel
3 14 (6.80%) Node.js
4 13 (6.31%) HTML
4 13 (6.31%) HTML5
5 12 (5.83%) CSS
5 12 (5.83%) Middleware
5 12 (5.83%) React
6 10 (4.85%) jQuery
6 10 (4.85%) POSIX
7 9 (4.37%) PyTorch
7 9 (4.37%) TensorFlow
8 8 (3.88%) .NET
9 7 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.40%) LAMP
9 7 (3.40%) Sass
9 7 (3.40%) Web Services
10 5 (2.43%) LEMP Stack
10 5 (2.43%) LESS
10 5 (2.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.17%) IoT
2 16 (7.77%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (5.83%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.34%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.85%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.85%) Replication
6 9 (4.37%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.37%) CUDA
7 8 (3.88%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (3.40%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.91%) PKI
10 5 (2.43%) Infotainment
10 5 (2.43%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.43%) Smart Home
11 3 (1.46%) CCTV
11 3 (1.46%) Clustering
11 3 (1.46%) EPoS
11 3 (1.46%) iPad
11 3 (1.46%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 101 (49.03%) Windows
2 41 (19.90%) Windows Server
3 33 (16.02%) Unix
4 19 (9.22%) Embedded Linux
5 18 (8.74%) Ubuntu
6 14 (6.80%) CentOS
7 11 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (4.85%) Solaris
9 9 (4.37%) Mac OS
9 9 (4.37%) Windows 10
10 8 (3.88%) SUSE
11 5 (2.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.97%) Debian
13 2 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.49%) Android
14 1 (0.49%) HPUX
14 1 (0.49%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.49%) Scientific Linux
14 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (22.82%) Agile
3 45 (21.84%) Software Engineering
4 29 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (13.59%) Customer Service
6 25 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (9.71%) Computer Science
8 20 (9.71%) DevOps
8 20 (9.71%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (9.71%) Information Security
9 17 (8.25%) User Experience
10 15 (7.28%) Cloud Security
10 15 (7.28%) Embedded Software Development
10 15 (7.28%) IT Strategy
11 14 (6.80%) Server Management
12 13 (6.31%) Performance Monitoring
13 12 (5.83%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (5.83%) Task Automation
13 12 (5.83%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.99%) C++
2 34 (16.50%) SQL
3 33 (16.02%) C
4 29 (14.08%) Python
5 21 (10.19%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.71%) PowerShell
7 17 (8.25%) Bash
7 17 (8.25%) PHP
8 16 (7.77%) C#
8 16 (7.77%) Java
9 12 (5.83%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.40%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.43%) Embedded C
11 5 (2.43%) Go
12 4 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.46%) Ruby
14 2 (0.97%) Bicep
14 2 (0.97%) Perl
15 1 (0.49%) R
15 1 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (22.33%) Degree
2 16 (7.77%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.88%) CCNA
5 8 (3.88%) MCSE
6 7 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.91%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.43%) PhD
9 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.46%) MCP
11 2 (0.97%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.49%) CCNP
12 1 (0.49%) HNC
12 1 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.85%) GDPR
2 9 (4.37%) NIST
3 5 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.43%) MISRA
4 4 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.97%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.97%) QA
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (23.30%) Active Directory
2 26 (12.62%) Hyper-V
3 22 (10.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.34%) Firmware
5 9 (4.37%) Docker
5 9 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.40%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.43%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.43%) vSphere
9 4 (1.94%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (1.94%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.97%) pfSense
10 2 (0.97%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.49%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (3.88%) Terraform
2 7 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (2.43%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.94%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.46%) Ansible
5 3 (1.46%) Backup Exec
5 3 (1.46%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.46%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 2 (0.97%) Nagios
6 2 (0.97%) WSUS
7 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (26.70%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.53%) VMware
3 27 (13.11%) Cisco
4 15 (7.28%) Citrix
5 14 (6.80%) Remedy
6 11 (5.34%) IBM
7 9 (4.37%) NVIDIA
7 9 (4.37%) Oracle
8 7 (3.40%) Dell
9 6 (2.91%) QNX
9 6 (2.91%) Veeam
10 4 (1.94%) Google
10 4 (1.94%) NEC
10 4 (1.94%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.94%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.46%) HP
11 3 (1.46%) InterSystems
11 3 (1.46%) Meraki
11 3 (1.46%) Sage
11 3 (1.46%) UiPath