Linux Jobs in Northern Ireland

Linux
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 30 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 20 46 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.94% 6.65% 12.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.50% 52.87% 53.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 36
10th Percentile - - £33,625
25th Percentile £85,000 £51,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £61,250 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +20.69% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,813 £73,125
90th Percentile - £79,875 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 87 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.11% 12.57% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10 45 99
10th Percentile £44,325 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -18.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £84,688 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £71,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Northern Ireland

Linux
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Linux in Northern Ireland

Linux
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 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
County Antrim +18 20 £90,000 +46.94% 28
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (30.00%) Confluence
2 5 (25.00%) Apache
2 5 (25.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (10.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) IPsec
2 2 (10.00%) IPv6
2 2 (10.00%) Multicast
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 5 (25.00%) Big Data
2 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) HBase
4 1 (5.00%) Impala
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Archiva
3 2 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (10.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) Mocha
4 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) GStreamer
2 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (20.00%) J2EE
2 4 (20.00%) Java EE
2 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (20.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) Spring
2 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (20.00%) CUDA
2 4 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (15.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (10.00%) CCTV
4 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (10.00%) PKI
4 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Low Latency
1 12 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) OO
3 8 (40.00%) OOP
3 8 (40.00%) Scrum
3 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Video Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) Bash
3 6 (30.00%) C#
3 6 (30.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) C
5 3 (15.00%) C++
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Argo
3 2 (10.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) NVIDIA
1 4 (20.00%) Sybase
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Hyperion
3 2 (10.00%) JD Edwards
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) PeopleSoft