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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 83 61
Rank change year-on-year +32 -22 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 59 66 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.23% 2.37% 4.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.10% 24.18% 34.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42 42 63
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £40,650
25th Percentile £31,563 £41,875 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +6.45% +9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £75,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £107,500 £79,800
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -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 173 273 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.41% 9.80% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 117 220 198
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £23,675
25th Percentile £34,000 £29,000 £28,652
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% +4.05%

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 19 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 11 (18.64%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.69%) ColdFusion
3 1 (1.69%) nginx
3 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (3.39%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) AWS
2 16 (27.12%) Azure
3 11 (18.64%) Amazon S3
3 11 (18.64%) AWS KMS
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (16.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon Glacier
6 8 (13.56%) SaaS
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (8.47%) Serverless
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.08%) Datadog
11 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
11 2 (3.39%) GCP
11 2 (3.39%) OCI
11 2 (3.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.34%) Firewall
2 8 (13.56%) DNS
3 6 (10.17%) Network Security
3 6 (10.17%) WAN
4 4 (6.78%) SD-WAN
4 4 (6.78%) SSL
5 3 (5.08%) FTP
5 3 (5.08%) HTTP
5 3 (5.08%) SMTP
5 3 (5.08%) SSH
5 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.08%) VPN
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (3.39%) DHCP
6 2 (3.39%) Ethernet
6 2 (3.39%) IPsec
6 2 (3.39%) LAN
6 2 (3.39%) MPLS
7 1 (1.69%) Internet
7 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.56%) MySQL
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle Database
3 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.17%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.69%) DB2
7 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
1 11 (18.64%) Jenkins
1 11 (18.64%) JIRA
2 9 (15.25%) Vagrant
3 7 (11.86%) JUnit
3 7 (11.86%) Mockito
4 6 (10.17%) Eclipse
4 6 (10.17%) IntelliJ
4 6 (10.17%) Jasmine
4 6 (10.17%) Karma Test Runner
4 6 (10.17%) Protractor
5 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.08%) GitLab
7 1 (1.69%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.69%) GDB
7 1 (1.69%) jMock
7 1 (1.69%) Maven
7 1 (1.69%) Subversion
7 1 (1.69%) WinDbg
General
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Law
4 5 (8.47%) Police
5 3 (5.08%) Automotive
6 2 (3.39%) Finance
6 2 (3.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Advertising
7 1 (1.69%) Back Office
7 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Java Developer
3 6 (10.17%) DBA
3 6 (10.17%) Oracle DBA
3 6 (10.17%) SaaS Developer
3 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Backend Developer
4 5 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) IT Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Graduate
5 4 (6.78%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Graduate Java Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) JPA
1 12 (20.34%) Middleware
2 11 (18.64%) AngularJS
3 8 (13.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (11.86%) Hibernate
4 7 (11.86%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (11.86%) React
5 6 (10.17%) .NET
5 6 (10.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 5 (8.47%) GWT
6 5 (8.47%) J2EE
6 5 (8.47%) Vaadin
7 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
7 3 (5.08%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.39%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.39%) RESTful
8 2 (3.39%) SOAP
8 2 (3.39%) Web Services
9 1 (1.69%) CSS
9 1 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Mobile App
2 6 (10.17%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.78%) Replication
4 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.39%) Clustering
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 28 (47.46%) Windows
2 9 (15.25%) VMS
3 7 (11.86%) Unix
4 6 (10.17%) Ubuntu
5 5 (8.47%) Rocky
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (5.08%) Android
6 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
6 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.69%) CentOS
8 1 (1.69%) Debian
8 1 (1.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) DevOps
2 17 (28.81%) Agile
3 11 (18.64%) Configuration Management
3 11 (18.64%) Patch Management
3 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.25%) Cloud Security
4 9 (15.25%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
5 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
6 7 (11.86%) Microservices
7 6 (10.17%) Change Management
7 6 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
7 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (10.17%) SDLC
7 6 (10.17%) Unit Testing
8 5 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (8.47%) Data Management
8 5 (8.47%) Database Tuning
8 5 (8.47%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) SQL
2 19 (32.20%) Java
3 17 (28.81%) Python
4 11 (18.64%) Shell Script
5 9 (15.25%) Groovy
5 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.86%) C#
7 6 (10.17%) PL/SQL
8 5 (8.47%) Perl
9 3 (5.08%) C++
9 3 (5.08%) Ruby
9 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
10 2 (3.39%) PHP
11 1 (1.69%) Bash
11 1 (1.69%) C
11 1 (1.69%) CodeQL
11 1 (1.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.34%) Degree
4 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.47%) OCA
5 5 (8.47%) OCP
5 5 (8.47%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.39%) CASP
7 2 (3.39%) CCNA
7 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.39%) CISM
7 2 (3.39%) CISSP
7 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.39%) PhD
8 1 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.69%) NCSC
4 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (33.90%) Docker
2 13 (22.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.78%) DFS Replication
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.08%) LXC
5 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.69%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.69%) Postfix
6 1 (1.69%) Squid
6 1 (1.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (30.51%) Terraform
2 13 (22.03%) Ansible
3 8 (13.56%) Grafana
3 8 (13.56%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.17%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (8.47%) Nessus
5 5 (8.47%) Proxmox
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.08%) Nagios
7 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Juniper
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) Oracle
3 8 (13.56%) Cisco
3 8 (13.56%) Red Hat
4 7 (11.86%) IBM
4 7 (11.86%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.47%) VMware
6 4 (6.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.39%) Apple
7 2 (3.39%) Citrix
7 2 (3.39%) Fujitsu
7 2 (3.39%) Hyperion
7 2 (3.39%) JD Edwards
7 2 (3.39%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (3.39%) SevOne
8 1 (1.69%) Google
8 1 (1.69%) Jaspersoft