Linux Jobs in Northern Ireland

Linux
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 27 35 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -24
Permanent jobs citing Linux 50 104 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.26% 10.14% 10.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.82% 49.29% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 25 46 31
10th Percentile £31,950 £36,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £69,800 £67,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £60,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 211 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.30% 20.57% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 47 114 45
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,625 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £69,800 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £70,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Salary histogram 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 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
County Antrim +3 48 £50,000 -4.76% 12
County Down +12 1 £34,500 -48.89%
Newry - 1 £34,500 -
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 1 (2.00%) CMS
1 1 (2.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 27 (54.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) Azure
3 13 (26.00%) GCP
3 13 (26.00%) OpenShift
3 13 (26.00%) Serverless
4 8 (16.00%) IaaS
5 6 (12.00%) SaaS
6 5 (10.00%) PaaS
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.00%) CloudFront
8 2 (4.00%) dbt
8 2 (4.00%) GitHub
8 2 (4.00%) Pulumi
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (18.00%) DHCP
2 9 (18.00%) DNS
2 9 (18.00%) HTTP
3 7 (14.00%) Firewall
3 7 (14.00%) SAN
4 3 (6.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (4.00%) IP Telephony
5 2 (4.00%) LAN
5 2 (4.00%) Network Security
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) Internet
6 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) MySQL
2 4 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Flink
3 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.00%) Redis
3 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.00%) Maven
3 1 (2.00%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.00%) Selenium
3 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) Architect
2 8 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Applications Support
4 6 (12.00%) Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Lead
5 5 (10.00%) Team Leader
6 4 (8.00%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) DBA
8 2 (4.00%) MySQL DBA
8 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Django
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) CSS3
2 1 (2.00%) Doctrine
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.00%) GeoJSON
2 1 (2.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) HTML5
2 1 (2.00%) JSON
2 1 (2.00%) Laravel
2 1 (2.00%) Node.js
2 1 (2.00%) Symfony
2 1 (2.00%) Twig
2 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (12.00%) Private Cloud
2 6 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 5 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.00%) Virtual Team
5 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (52.00%) Windows
2 11 (22.00%) Unix
3 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (24.00%) Agile
3 12 (24.00%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
5 10 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (20.00%) Microservices
6 9 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (18.00%) Design Patterns
6 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (18.00%) Loose Coupling
6 9 (18.00%) SIEM
7 8 (16.00%) Security Architecture
8 7 (14.00%) DevOps
8 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (12.00%) Project Management
9 6 (12.00%) Technology Transformation
10 5 (10.00%) DRM
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) Java
3 9 (18.00%) Bash
4 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) C
6 2 (4.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) PHP
6 2 (4.00%) Rust
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) Degree
3 7 (14.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.00%) LXC
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Ansible
2 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.00%) Terraform
3 6 (12.00%) Puppet
4 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.00%) Grafana
6 3 (6.00%) Kibana
7 2 (4.00%) Nagios
7 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.00%) Nessus
8 1 (2.00%) Nmap
8 1 (2.00%) SCCM
8 1 (2.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) VMware
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) Avaya
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) Mitel
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) ESRI
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.00%) Remedy