Linux Jobs in Birmingham

Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 78 55
Rank change year-on-year +32 -23 -13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 63 70 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.78% 2.42% 4.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.21% 25.18% 36.55%
Number of salaries quoted 46 45 68
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £40,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,688 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £107,500 £77,950
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 174 278 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.20% 9.62% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 120 225 202
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,550 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.24% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,835 £75,000 £76,150
West Midlands median annual salary £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 16 (25.40%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) ColdFusion
3 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.59%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (47.62%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) Azure
3 16 (25.40%) Amazon S3
3 16 (25.40%) AWS KMS
4 15 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (20.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (19.05%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (15.87%) Amazon Glacier
8 8 (12.70%) SaaS
9 7 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (7.94%) Route 53
10 5 (7.94%) Serverless
11 4 (6.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (4.76%) Datadog
13 2 (3.17%) GCP
13 2 (3.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.81%) Firewall
2 10 (15.87%) DNS
3 6 (9.52%) WAN
4 5 (7.94%) FTP
4 5 (7.94%) HTTP
4 5 (7.94%) Network Security
4 5 (7.94%) SMTP
4 5 (7.94%) SSH
5 4 (6.35%) SD-WAN
5 4 (6.35%) SSL
6 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (3.17%) DHCP
7 2 (3.17%) Ethernet
7 2 (3.17%) IMAP
7 2 (3.17%) LAN
7 2 (3.17%) MPLS
7 2 (3.17%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (3.17%) VPN
8 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (12.70%) MySQL
3 7 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle Exadata
4 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.76%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.59%) DB2
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Git
1 16 (25.40%) Jenkins
1 16 (25.40%) JIRA
2 12 (19.05%) Vagrant
3 9 (14.29%) JUnit
3 9 (14.29%) Mockito
4 7 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (9.52%) Eclipse
5 6 (9.52%) IntelliJ
5 6 (9.52%) Jasmine
5 6 (9.52%) Karma Test Runner
5 6 (9.52%) Protractor
6 3 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.76%) DbUnit
6 3 (4.76%) GitLab
6 3 (4.76%) jMock
6 3 (4.76%) Maven
6 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.59%) GDB
7 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (20.63%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Law
4 5 (7.94%) Police
5 3 (4.76%) Automotive
6 2 (3.17%) Legal
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Advertising
7 1 (1.59%) Back Office
7 1 (1.59%) Finance
7 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) DBA
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle DBA
4 6 (9.52%) SaaS Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Backend Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Graduate
6 4 (6.35%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Graduate Java Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) JPA
2 13 (20.63%) AngularJS
3 12 (19.05%) Middleware
4 9 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 7 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (11.11%) React
6 6 (9.52%) .NET
6 6 (9.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 5 (7.94%) GWT
7 5 (7.94%) J2EE
7 5 (7.94%) Vaadin
8 4 (6.35%) Bootstrap
8 4 (6.35%) RESTful
8 4 (6.35%) SOAP
8 4 (6.35%) Web Services
9 3 (4.76%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.76%) PowerMock
9 3 (4.76%) Spring Batch
9 3 (4.76%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.52%) Replication
3 3 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (47.62%) Windows
2 12 (19.05%) VMS
3 7 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 7 (11.11%) Unix
4 5 (7.94%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (7.94%) Rocky
5 3 (4.76%) Android
5 3 (4.76%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.59%) CentOS
6 1 (1.59%) Debian
6 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) DevOps
2 19 (30.16%) Agile
3 14 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 13 (20.63%) Patch Management
5 12 (19.05%) Cloud Security
6 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
7 10 (15.87%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (14.29%) Change Management
8 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 9 (14.29%) Microservices
9 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (9.52%) Open Source
11 6 (9.52%) SDLC
11 6 (9.52%) Unit Testing
12 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
12 5 (7.94%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) Java
2 21 (33.33%) SQL
3 20 (31.75%) Python
4 12 (19.05%) Groovy
4 12 (19.05%) PowerShell
5 11 (17.46%) Shell Script
6 7 (11.11%) C#
7 6 (9.52%) Perl
7 6 (9.52%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.76%) C++
8 3 (4.76%) Ruby
8 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.17%) PHP
10 1 (1.59%) Bash
10 1 (1.59%) C
10 1 (1.59%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (39.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.63%) Degree
4 7 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.94%) OCA
5 5 (7.94%) OCP
5 5 (7.94%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.17%) CASP
7 2 (3.17%) CCNA
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.17%) CISM
7 2 (3.17%) CISSP
7 2 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.17%) PhD
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.59%) NCSC
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (38.10%) Docker
2 14 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.52%) DFS Replication
4 4 (6.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.76%) LXC
6 2 (3.17%) Dovecot
6 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.17%) Postfix
6 2 (3.17%) Squid
7 1 (1.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Ansible
3 11 (17.46%) Grafana
3 11 (17.46%) Prometheus
4 6 (9.52%) Nessus
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (9.52%) Proxmox
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.76%) Nagios
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Juniper
2 10 (15.87%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.70%) Cisco
3 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.70%) Oracle
3 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
4 7 (11.11%) IBM
5 6 (9.52%) Atlassian
6 5 (7.94%) VMware
7 2 (3.17%) Apple
7 2 (3.17%) Citrix
7 2 (3.17%) Fujitsu
7 2 (3.17%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (3.17%) SevOne
8 1 (1.59%) Google
8 1 (1.59%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.59%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.59%) PeopleSoft