Linux Job Trends in Solihull

Linux
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 7 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Solihull 5.38% 2.82% 1.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.75% 26.67% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £42,625
25th Percentile £32,125 £31,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,750 £32,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -29.73% +2.78%
75th Percentile £37,375 £33,750 £50,313
90th Percentile - - £50,875
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -19.64% +12.00%

All Operating Systems
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 15 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 12.31% 10.56% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 26
10th Percentile £31,538 £39,950 -
25th Percentile £37,938 £48,500 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year - +13.51% +11.45%
75th Percentile £54,688 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,250 £57,500
West Midlands median annual salary £38,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.56% +5.88% -5.56%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Linux job vacancy trend in Solihull

Linux
Salary Trend in Solihull

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Confluence
2 2 (28.57%) nginx
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon ELB
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
2 5 (71.43%) AWS KMS
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) Route 53
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) HTTP
2 5 (71.43%) FTP
2 5 (71.43%) SMTP
2 5 (71.43%) SSH
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) IMAP
4 2 (28.57%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (14.29%) DHCP
5 1 (14.29%) SAN
5 1 (14.29%) SSL
5 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Vagrant
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (28.57%) Subversion
5 1 (14.29%) Browser DevTools
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) LAMP
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) VMS
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
1 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Patch Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Log Aggregation
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Proactive Management
5 1 (14.29%) Servant Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Groovy
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Ruby
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) DFS Replication
3 2 (28.57%) Dovecot
3 2 (28.57%) Postfix
3 2 (28.57%) Squid
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Nessus
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) Nagios
3 2 (28.57%) Proxmox
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (14.29%) HubSpot
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) VMware