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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 28 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 48 100 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.91% 11.68% 18.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.55% 52.08% 64.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14 39 34
10th Percentile £49,325 £34,300 £35,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,875 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -1.90% +23.53%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £79,625 £88,750 £60,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 88 192 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.66% 22.43% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 46 105 80
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,812 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +23.46% -4.71%
75th Percentile £75,625 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,500 £70,125
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -2 46 £58,750 +12.98% 6
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 (12.50%) Apache
2 4 (8.33%) ArcGIS
2 4 (8.33%) GeoServer
2 4 (8.33%) nginx
2 4 (8.33%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) AWS
2 15 (31.25%) Azure
3 8 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.42%) GCP
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.25%) Route 53
7 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) IaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.08%) CloudFront
9 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 8 (16.67%) Firewall
3 6 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 5 (10.42%) Internet
4 5 (10.42%) IPsec
4 5 (10.42%) SNMP
4 5 (10.42%) VPN
5 4 (8.33%) BGP
5 4 (8.33%) DNS
5 4 (8.33%) SSL
6 2 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) Relational Database
2 7 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.42%) RDBMS
5 4 (8.33%) GIS
5 4 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 4 (8.33%) QGIS
6 2 (4.17%) Big Data
6 2 (4.17%) Flink
6 2 (4.17%) MySQL
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.08%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Electronics
4 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Senior
3 9 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Architect
4 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Consultant
6 5 (10.42%) NetApp Consultant
7 4 (8.33%) Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Lead
7 4 (8.33%) Lead Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Applications Support
8 3 (6.25%) AWS Architect
8 3 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Development Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (12.50%) Node.js
3 5 (10.42%) Django
3 5 (10.42%) FFmpeg
3 5 (10.42%) GStreamer
3 5 (10.42%) OpenCV
3 5 (10.42%) REST
3 5 (10.42%) Web Services
3 5 (10.42%) YAML
4 4 (8.33%) Leaflet
4 4 (8.33%) OpenLayers
4 4 (8.33%) PostGIS
4 4 (8.33%) React
4 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Video\Live Streaming
2 7 (14.58%) Public Cloud
3 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Windows
2 11 (22.92%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (20.83%) Unix
4 5 (10.42%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (8.33%) CentOS
5 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.17%) Mesosphere
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Software Engineering
2 16 (33.33%) Agile
2 16 (33.33%) Open Source
3 15 (31.25%) Actionable Insight
3 15 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 14 (29.17%) DevOps
5 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (22.92%) Asynchronous Programming
6 11 (22.92%) Multithreading
7 9 (18.75%) Migration
7 9 (18.75%) Project Management
7 9 (18.75%) Release Management
8 7 (14.58%) Cloud Operations
8 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
9 6 (12.50%) Analytics
9 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 5 (10.42%) Deep Learning
10 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Management
10 5 (10.42%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) Python
2 16 (33.33%) Bash
3 10 (20.83%) Perl
4 6 (12.50%) C
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) Java
7 2 (4.17%) Go
7 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.17%) SQL
8 1 (2.08%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Rust
8 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Degree
2 9 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 9 (18.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) Azure Certification
4 5 (10.42%) Master's Degree
4 5 (10.42%) PhD
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.08%) OSCP
6 1 (2.08%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) QA
2 6 (12.50%) JTAG
System Software
1 21 (43.75%) Docker
2 11 (22.92%) Firmware
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (39.58%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 8 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (12.50%) Terraform
4 6 (12.50%) vCenter Server
5 4 (8.33%) Rundeck
6 3 (6.25%) Grafana
6 3 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.25%) Puppet
7 2 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.17%) Kibana
8 1 (2.08%) Nessus
8 1 (2.08%) Nmap
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) VMware
2 7 (14.58%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) NetApp
3 5 (10.42%) Palo Alto
3 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
3 5 (10.42%) SolidFire
4 4 (8.33%) ESRI
4 4 (8.33%) Sparx
5 3 (6.25%) Google
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.17%) Sybase