Linux Jobs in the Midlands

Linux
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 59 41 39
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 -13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 222 674 682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.37% 6.02% 6.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.30% 35.16% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 148 479 498
10th Percentile £32,675 £31,845 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £36,270
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 844 1,917 1,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.61% 17.12% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 707 1,264 1,572
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,125 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
West Midlands -10 126 £56,000 +12.00% 61
East Midlands -12 95 £60,000 +15.38% 41
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 6 (2.70%) Confluence
2 5 (2.25%) MS Exchange
2 5 (2.25%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.80%) Apache
3 4 (1.80%) JBoss
4 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.35%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.90%) IIS
5 2 (0.90%) MODX
5 2 (0.90%) nginx
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.90%) Site Server
5 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.90%) WordPress
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (32.88%) Azure
2 52 (23.42%) AWS
3 29 (13.06%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.31%) GCP
5 12 (5.41%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.50%) IaaS
7 9 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (4.05%) GitHub
7 9 (4.05%) Serverless
8 8 (3.60%) SaaS
9 6 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.70%) PaaS
10 4 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.80%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.35%) Route 53
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.90%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.41%) TCP/IP
2 30 (13.51%) DNS
3 25 (11.26%) DHCP
3 25 (11.26%) Firewall
4 22 (9.91%) WAN
5 14 (6.31%) HTTP
6 12 (5.41%) SD-WAN
7 11 (4.95%) LAN
7 11 (4.95%) SAN
8 8 (3.60%) 5G
9 7 (3.15%) Internet
9 7 (3.15%) SMTP
10 6 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 5 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (2.25%) VLAN
11 5 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.25%) Wireless
12 3 (1.35%) Ethernet
12 3 (1.35%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.36%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.50%) MySQL
3 9 (4.05%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.80%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.35%) Flink
8 3 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.90%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.90%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.90%) Redis
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.45%) Big Data
10 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.45%) UniData
Development Applications
1 14 (6.31%) GitLab
1 14 (6.31%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.95%) Git
3 9 (4.05%) JIRA
4 4 (1.80%) Terragrunt
4 4 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.90%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.45%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.45%) Maven
6 1 (0.45%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (9.46%) Finance
4 17 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (6.31%) Law
5 14 (6.31%) Retail
6 12 (5.41%) Aerospace
6 12 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.05%) Automotive
8 7 (3.15%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.25%) Banking
9 5 (2.25%) Games
9 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.25%) Marketing
10 4 (1.80%) Electronics
10 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.35%) Back Office
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (17.57%) Senior
2 34 (15.32%) Software Engineer
3 28 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (12.16%) Linux Engineer
5 26 (11.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (11.26%) Embedded Engineer
7 21 (9.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 17 (7.66%) Developer
8 17 (7.66%) Lead
9 15 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (6.76%) C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (6.76%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 14 (6.31%) DBA
11 12 (5.41%) Administrator
11 12 (5.41%) Analyst
11 12 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) Consultant
11 12 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (4.95%) Embedded C++ Engineer
12 11 (4.95%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.76%) Yocto
2 10 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (4.50%) HTML
3 8 (3.60%) REST
4 7 (3.15%) Kafka
4 7 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (3.15%) XML
5 6 (2.70%) CSS
5 6 (2.70%) JSON
5 6 (2.70%) RESTful
6 5 (2.25%) Node.js
6 5 (2.25%) Spine.js
6 5 (2.25%) YAML
7 4 (1.80%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (1.80%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (1.80%) Web Services
8 3 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (1.35%) HTML5
8 3 (1.35%) Laravel
8 3 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.46%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.50%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.60%) GNSS
4 7 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.15%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.15%) Replication
5 6 (2.70%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.80%) CMDB
7 4 (1.80%) IoT
7 4 (1.80%) Tandem
8 3 (1.35%) Handset
8 3 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.90%) BYOD
9 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (47.30%) Windows
2 36 (16.22%) Windows Server
3 32 (14.41%) Unix
4 18 (8.11%) Embedded Linux
5 17 (7.66%) Android
6 10 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (3.60%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.70%) CentOS
9 5 (2.25%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (2.25%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.25%) Windows 10
9 5 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.80%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.80%) QNX Neutrino
11 2 (0.90%) Debian
11 2 (0.90%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.45%) SUSE
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (20.72%) DevOps
1 46 (20.72%) Software Engineering
2 41 (18.47%) Agile
2 41 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 29 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (9.91%) Project Management
7 18 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (8.11%) Functional Testing
7 18 (8.11%) Project Planning
8 16 (7.21%) Actionable Insight
8 16 (7.21%) Containerisation
8 16 (7.21%) Customer Service
8 16 (7.21%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 15 (6.76%) Configuration Management
9 15 (6.76%) ITIL
10 14 (6.31%) Microservices
11 13 (5.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 67 (30.18%) Python
2 40 (18.02%) PowerShell
3 32 (14.41%) C++
4 24 (10.81%) Bash
5 23 (10.36%) Java
5 23 (10.36%) SQL
6 22 (9.91%) C
7 12 (5.41%) PHP
8 10 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.50%) Ruby
9 7 (3.15%) Perl
10 5 (2.25%) C#
10 5 (2.25%) Go
11 4 (1.80%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.90%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.45%) Erlang
13 1 (0.45%) Haskell
13 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (25.23%) Degree
2 30 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.36%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.31%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.60%) CCNA
6 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.70%) OCP
7 6 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (2.25%) CCNP
8 5 (2.25%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.80%) MCSE
10 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.35%) CISSP
10 3 (1.35%) MCP
10 3 (1.35%) OCA
11 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.90%) NCSIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.15%) AUTOSAR
2 7 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.70%) NIST
3 6 (2.70%) SLA
4 5 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (2.25%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.80%) GRC
5 4 (1.80%) PMO
6 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.35%) MISRA
7 2 (0.90%) GDPR
7 2 (0.90%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.90%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.45%) JTAG
8 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (14.86%) Docker
2 22 (9.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.46%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 8 (3.60%) Firmware
6 4 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.45%) LXC
8 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 56 (25.23%) Terraform
2 47 (21.17%) Ansible
3 36 (16.22%) Kubernetes
4 17 (7.66%) Puppet
5 6 (2.70%) Nagios
6 5 (2.25%) Grafana
7 4 (1.80%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.35%) SCCM
9 2 (0.90%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.90%) Rsyslog
9 2 (0.90%) WSUS
10 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.45%) Rancher
10 1 (0.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 37 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.61%) VMware
3 25 (11.26%) Cisco
4 18 (8.11%) Oracle
5 9 (4.05%) Google
5 9 (4.05%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.15%) BMC
6 7 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.70%) HP
7 6 (2.70%) IBM
8 5 (2.25%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.25%) Citrix
8 5 (2.25%) F5
8 5 (2.25%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.25%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.25%) Meraki
8 5 (2.25%) Remedy
8 5 (2.25%) Splunk
9 4 (1.80%) QNX
9 4 (1.80%) Rackspace