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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 6 44 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.33% 5.86% 12.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.86% 51.16% 55.68%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 33
10th Percentile - £50,700 £34,750
25th Percentile - £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £82,000 £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 14 86 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.45% 11.45% 22.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4 43 85
10th Percentile £32,775 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,438 £32,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £80,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 31 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 +3 6 - - 44
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 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (16.67%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Apache Hive
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
2 4 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) HBase
3 1 (16.67%) Impala
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Apache Spark Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) Java EE
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Avro
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Low Latency
1 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (66.67%) OOD
2 4 (66.67%) OOP
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Sybase
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Hyperion
3 1 (16.67%) JD Edwards
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) PeopleSoft