Linux Jobs in Sheffield

Linux
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 55 16
Rank change year-on-year +27 -39 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 15 29 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.42% 2.54% 14.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.85% 20.42% 56.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 41
10th Percentile £30,625 - £22,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £46,250
90th Percentile - £67,968 £57,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% +5.88% -19.05%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 52 142 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.77% 12.42% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 41 110 121
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,215 £21,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +24.22% -35.60%
75th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £48,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £41,000 £34,800
% change year-on-year -20.73% +17.82% -18.12%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Sheffield

Linux
Salary Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Sheffield.

Salary trend for Linux in Sheffield

Linux
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Sheffield over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Sheffield

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) LAN
1 4 (26.67%) NAS
1 4 (26.67%) WAN
2 3 (20.00%) Modbus
2 3 (20.00%) RS-485
2 3 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (13.33%) FCoE
3 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) Multicast
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.67%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (6.67%) Mockito
3 1 (6.67%) Protractor
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Electronics
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Administrator
1 3 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Storage Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Team Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) NetBackup Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) SAN Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) SAN Storage Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Storage Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (6.67%) JPA
2 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 3 (20.00%) CAN bus
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Solaris
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) High Availability
2 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (13.33%) Coaching
3 2 (13.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Release Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C
1 3 (20.00%) C++
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) JCL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CCNP
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) HP ASE
1 1 (6.67%) NCIE
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (20.00%) Firmware
1 3 (20.00%) NFS
1 3 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) KVM
2 2 (13.33%) SRDF
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Xen
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Puppet
3 2 (13.33%) Control-M
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (6.67%) NetBackup
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) NetApp
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) EMC
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Brocade
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
4 1 (6.67%) Commvault
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) Pure Storage
4 1 (6.67%) Veritas