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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 31 91 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.48% 11.82% 12.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.74% 59.48% 56.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6 32 50
10th Percentile £49,875 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £82,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £61,875 £88,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +7.14%

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 78 153 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.27% 19.87% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 44 66 103
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,688 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,750 £63,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -15 31 £52,500 +5.00% 18
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 (19.35%) Apache
2 4 (12.90%) nginx
2 4 (12.90%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) TCP/IP
2 6 (19.35%) Wireshark
3 5 (16.13%) Firewall
3 5 (16.13%) Internet
3 5 (16.13%) IPsec
3 5 (16.13%) SNMP
3 5 (16.13%) VPN
4 4 (12.90%) BGP
4 4 (12.90%) DNS
4 4 (12.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Relational Database
2 5 (16.13%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
2 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Flink
5 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Electronics
3 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Consultant
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) NetApp Consultant
4 5 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Lead
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Junior
6 2 (6.45%) Junior Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Junior Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Principal Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (19.35%) Node.js
3 5 (16.13%) FFmpeg
3 5 (16.13%) GStreamer
3 5 (16.13%) OpenCV
3 5 (16.13%) REST
3 5 (16.13%) Web Services
3 5 (16.13%) YAML
4 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Video\Live Streaming
2 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Embedded Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
3 5 (16.13%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (12.90%) CentOS
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (6.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Open Source
2 13 (41.94%) Agile
3 12 (38.71%) Computer Science
4 11 (35.48%) Asynchronous Programming
4 11 (35.48%) Multithreading
4 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
5 10 (32.26%) Actionable Insight
6 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (29.03%) Project Management
7 6 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (19.35%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (19.35%) Release Management
8 5 (16.13%) Analytics
8 5 (16.13%) Deep Learning
8 5 (16.13%) DevOps
8 5 (16.13%) Epics
8 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (16.13%) Storage Management
8 5 (16.13%) User Stories
8 5 (16.13%) Video Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) Bash
3 10 (32.26%) Perl
4 6 (19.35%) C
5 1 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Master's Degree
2 5 (16.13%) PhD
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) QA
2 6 (19.35%) JTAG
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
2 11 (35.48%) Firmware
3 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (19.35%) Ansible
2 6 (19.35%) vCenter Server
3 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.90%) Rundeck
5 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.23%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle
1 7 (22.58%) VMware
2 5 (16.13%) NetApp
2 5 (16.13%) Palo Alto
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat
2 5 (16.13%) SolidFire
3 4 (12.90%) Sparx