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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -24
Permanent jobs citing Linux 10 45 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.94% 6.45% 11.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.56% 52.33% 55.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 32
10th Percentile - £50,975 £35,025
25th Percentile £85,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,625 £82,500
90th Percentile - £80,375 £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 18 86 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.09% 12.32% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5 43 84
10th Percentile £34,700 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,750 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £90,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -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 15 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 +6 10 £90,000 +63.64% 43
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 5 (50.00%) Apache
1 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (20.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) IPsec
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 5 (50.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (10.00%) HBase
4 1 (10.00%) Impala
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
1 1 (10.00%) Mocha
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) J2EE
2 4 (40.00%) Java EE
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Low Latency
1 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (40.00%) OOD
2 4 (40.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Coaching
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Retention
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Sybase
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Hyperion
3 2 (20.00%) JD Edwards
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) PeopleSoft