Linux Jobs in Fife

Linux
Scotland > Fife

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Fife 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Fife 2.72% 1.74% 6.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.00% 18.18% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £39,559 - £37,375
25th Percentile £42,537 - £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £51,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.13%
75th Percentile £53,125 - £65,313
90th Percentile £53,500 - £74,875
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

All Operating Systems
Fife

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 Fife.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Fife 3.40% 9.57% 12.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £39,052 - £33,000
25th Percentile £41,268 £52,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% +28.13%
75th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £53,375 - £74,375
Scotland median annual salary £56,500 £49,995 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.01% -0.01% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Fife

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Fife

Linux
Salary Trend in Fife

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

Salary trend for Linux in Fife

Linux
Job Locations in Fife

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Fife region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. 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
Inverkeithing - 1 £40,101 -
Linux
Scotland

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Fife 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Multicast
1 1 (25.00%) RTP
1 1 (25.00%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse RCP
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Junior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (25.00%) IPTV
1 1 (25.00%) MPEG
1 1 (25.00%) PCIe
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Rocky
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOD
3 1 (25.00%) Physics
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
1 3 (75.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Ada
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Rust
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat