Linux Jobs in the Midlands

Linux
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 48 73
Rank change year-on-year -31 +25 -40
Permanent jobs citing Linux 235 518 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.45% 4.08% 4.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.37% 31.49% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 110 348 247
10th Percentile £27,725 £32,500 £38,507
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 891 1,645 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.08% 12.96% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 576 1,333 818
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
West Midlands +15 148 £50,000 -7.41% 509
East Midlands -53 84 £40,101 -19.80% 348
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 46 (19.57%) Confluence
2 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) IIS
4 2 (0.85%) nginx
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.85%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.43%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.43%) Simulink
5 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.70%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.64%) AWS
2 54 (22.98%) Azure
3 28 (11.91%) SaaS
4 23 (9.79%) Amazon S3
4 23 (9.79%) AWS KMS
5 22 (9.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (9.36%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (7.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (7.23%) Amazon ELB
9 15 (6.38%) Amazon Glacier
10 13 (5.53%) Google Workspace
11 9 (3.83%) PaaS
12 7 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.98%) Route 53
13 6 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.13%) Pulumi
14 5 (2.13%) Serverless
15 4 (1.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.60%) Firewall
2 38 (16.17%) WLAN
3 33 (14.04%) TCP/IP
4 31 (13.19%) DNS
4 31 (13.19%) Network Security
5 29 (12.34%) VPN
6 28 (11.91%) Internet
7 20 (8.51%) DHCP
8 13 (5.53%) VLAN
9 11 (4.68%) BGP
9 11 (4.68%) OSPF
10 8 (3.40%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (3.40%) HTTP
11 7 (2.98%) FTP
11 7 (2.98%) SMTP
11 7 (2.98%) SSH
12 6 (2.55%) SSL
12 6 (2.55%) WAN
13 4 (1.70%) Broadband
13 4 (1.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.04%) MySQL
1 33 (14.04%) Relational Database
2 23 (9.79%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (8.09%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.40%) Oracle Database
4 8 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.55%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.13%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.70%) Big Data
9 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.43%) DB2
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (21.70%) Git
2 46 (19.57%) JIRA
3 27 (11.49%) Bitbucket
4 26 (11.06%) Jenkins
5 22 (9.36%) JUnit
5 22 (9.36%) Mockito
6 17 (7.23%) Eclipse
6 17 (7.23%) Vagrant
7 16 (6.81%) Cucumber
8 15 (6.38%) IntelliJ
8 15 (6.38%) Jasmine
8 15 (6.38%) Karma Test Runner
8 15 (6.38%) Protractor
8 15 (6.38%) Robot Framework
9 9 (3.83%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (2.55%) Maven
10 6 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.13%) DbUnit
11 5 (2.13%) GitLab
11 5 (2.13%) jMock
General
1 59 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.23%) Automotive
4 17 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.81%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.68%) Retail
7 10 (4.26%) Law
8 5 (2.13%) Finance
8 5 (2.13%) Police
9 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 60 (25.53%) IT Engineer
2 46 (19.57%) IT Support
3 37 (15.74%) Support Engineer
4 36 (15.32%) Developer
5 30 (12.77%) Systems Engineer
6 29 (12.34%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (11.49%) Java Developer
8 24 (10.21%) Senior
9 21 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (7.23%) Lead
10 17 (7.23%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.38%) SaaS Developer
11 15 (6.38%) Test Automation Engineer
11 15 (6.38%) Test Engineer
12 13 (5.53%) Backend Developer
13 12 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (4.68%) Team Leader
15 10 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
16 9 (3.83%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.47%) .NET
2 25 (10.64%) JPA
3 24 (10.21%) AngularJS
4 20 (8.51%) Hibernate
5 18 (7.66%) React
6 16 (6.81%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (5.96%) Middleware
8 7 (2.98%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (2.98%) Spring
9 6 (2.55%) Bootstrap
9 6 (2.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 6 (2.55%) RESTful
9 6 (2.55%) SOAP
9 6 (2.55%) Web Services
10 5 (2.13%) PowerMock
10 5 (2.13%) Spring Batch
10 5 (2.13%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.13%) Spring Integration
10 5 (2.13%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.15%) Driving Licence
2 17 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (6.81%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.81%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.68%) Cyberattack
4 11 (4.68%) Smartphone
5 10 (4.26%) Replication
6 9 (3.83%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) IoT
7 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.85%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.85%) NB-IoT
8 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 161 (68.51%) Windows
2 41 (17.45%) Windows Server
3 26 (11.06%) Ubuntu
4 17 (7.23%) VMS
5 16 (6.81%) Windows 10
6 15 (6.38%) Android
7 13 (5.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (5.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (5.11%) Mac OS X
8 12 (5.11%) Rocky
8 12 (5.11%) Unix
9 9 (3.83%) CentOS
10 8 (3.40%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (2.13%) Windows 7
12 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.85%) Debian
13 2 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.43%) AIX
14 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.91%) Agile
2 74 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (28.09%) Mentoring
4 61 (25.96%) DevOps
5 51 (21.70%) Coaching
6 43 (18.30%) Computer Science
6 43 (18.30%) ITIL
7 41 (17.45%) Continuous Integration
8 38 (16.17%) CI/CD
9 35 (14.89%) Asset Management
10 33 (14.04%) Containerisation
11 29 (12.34%) Network Management
12 28 (11.91%) Systems Engineering
13 27 (11.49%) Continuous Deployment
13 27 (11.49%) DevSecOps
13 27 (11.49%) IT Asset Management
14 23 (9.79%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (9.36%) Configuration Management
15 22 (9.36%) Unit Testing
16 21 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (31.49%) Python
2 55 (23.40%) PowerShell
3 54 (22.98%) SQL
4 48 (20.43%) Java
5 36 (15.32%) C#
6 35 (14.89%) Bash
7 27 (11.49%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.81%) Groovy
9 14 (5.96%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.68%) C++
10 11 (4.68%) Perl
11 8 (3.40%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.98%) Go
13 6 (2.55%) C
14 5 (2.13%) Rust
14 5 (2.13%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.28%) Ruby
16 2 (0.85%) Ada
16 2 (0.85%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 86 (36.60%) Degree
2 47 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (19.57%) MCSE
4 42 (17.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (16.60%) CCNA
5 39 (16.60%) Cisco Certification
5 39 (16.60%) Security Cleared
6 35 (14.89%) CCNP
6 35 (14.89%) MCP
7 29 (12.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (11.49%) LPIC
9 25 (10.64%) SC Cleared
10 12 (5.11%) DV Cleared
11 11 (4.68%) HNC
11 11 (4.68%) HND
12 10 (4.26%) AWS Certification
13 9 (3.83%) MCSA
14 5 (2.13%) OCA
14 5 (2.13%) OCP
14 5 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.66%) QA
2 6 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.55%) SLA
3 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (25.53%) Docker
2 42 (17.87%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.68%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.26%) DFS Replication
5 10 (4.26%) vSphere
6 8 (3.40%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.70%) Postfix
7 4 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.28%) LXC
9 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.85%) Squid
10 1 (0.43%) Firmware
10 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 66 (28.09%) Ansible
2 44 (18.72%) Terraform
3 22 (9.36%) Prometheus
4 18 (7.66%) Grafana
5 11 (4.68%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.98%) Nessus
7 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (2.55%) Proxmox
8 5 (2.13%) Argo
8 5 (2.13%) Puppet
9 4 (1.70%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.28%) Nagios
11 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.85%) SCOM
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.43%) Rancher
12 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (26.38%) Microsoft
2 58 (24.68%) Cisco
3 32 (13.62%) Atlassian
4 21 (8.94%) Juniper
5 19 (8.09%) VMware
6 18 (7.66%) Google
6 18 (7.66%) ServiceNow
7 16 (6.81%) IBM
8 14 (5.96%) Apple
9 13 (5.53%) Red Hat
10 12 (5.11%) Ubiquiti
11 11 (4.68%) Dell
11 11 (4.68%) Fortinet
11 11 (4.68%) Oracle
12 10 (4.26%) Splunk
13 8 (3.40%) 3PAR
14 4 (1.70%) Databricks
14 4 (1.70%) Jaspersoft
15 3 (1.28%) Citrix
16 2 (0.85%) ArcSight