Linux Jobs in Northamptonshire

Linux
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 25 36
Rank change year-on-year -30 +11 -25
Permanent jobs citing Linux 28 48 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.26% 6.64% 4.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 30.00% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12 40 10
10th Percentile - £24,500 £53,675
25th Percentile - £25,406 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £50,000 £54,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £61,175 £68,750 £71,750
East Midlands median annual salary £40,101 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.80% -9.09% -

All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 70 160 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.16% 22.13% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 47 135 57
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,350 £26,900
25th Percentile £26,563 £24,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -31.58% +65.22%
75th Percentile £50,625 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,000 £55,750 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +7.14%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Northampton -17 7 £40,101 +60.40% 1
Wellingborough +10 2 £50,000 +90.48%
Towcester -4 1 - -
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Cloudflare
3 2 (7.14%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) VPN
2 11 (39.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.86%) Firewall
4 3 (10.71%) DHCP
4 3 (10.71%) DNS
5 1 (3.57%) 5G
5 1 (3.57%) Bluetooth
5 1 (3.57%) Broadband
5 1 (3.57%) LTE
5 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Cucumber
1 11 (39.29%) Robot Framework
2 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
2 3 (10.71%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.57%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (3.57%) Jaeger
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (46.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (39.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Test Automation Engineer
1 11 (39.29%) Test Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Server Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.57%) JSP
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 25 (89.29%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.00%) CentOS
3 7 (25.00%) Rocky
3 7 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (7.14%) Unix
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.57%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Coaching
1 14 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 12 (42.86%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (39.29%) System Testing
3 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
3 11 (39.29%) Test Management
4 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps
8 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 13 (46.43%) Bash
4 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.29%) C#
6 3 (10.71%) SQL
7 2 (7.14%) Java
8 1 (3.57%) Ada
8 1 (3.57%) Go
8 1 (3.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) QA
2 5 (17.86%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (3.57%) Firmware
4 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Argo
3 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Kustomize
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Atlassian
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco
2 3 (10.71%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Imperva
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle