Linux Job Trends in County Londonderry

Linux
Northern Ireland > County Londonderry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Londonderry requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Londonderry 10.00% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £73,801 £90,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -18.00% +44.00% +25.00%

All Operating Systems
County Londonderry

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 County Londonderry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Londonderry 50.00% 6.67% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £37,800 - -
25th Percentile £49,875 £26,400 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £27,800 -
Median % change year-on-year +151.80% - -
75th Percentile - £29,200 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% +20.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in County Londonderry

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Londonderry.

Linux job vacancy trend in County Londonderry

Linux
Salary Trend in County Londonderry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Londonderry citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Londonderry citing Linux

Linux
Job Locations in County Londonderry

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the County Londonderry region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
Coleraine - 1 - -
Linux
Northern Ireland

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Londonderry by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Graylog
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto