Linux Jobs in Staffordshire

Linux
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 43 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -29
Permanent jobs citing Linux 23 45 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.70% 4.10% 3.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.50% 27.27% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 19 33 16
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £34,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £46,108
Median % change year-on-year - -24.09% +35.61%
75th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £51,250
90th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 219 165 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 35.21% 15.03% 23.22%
Number of salaries quoted 148 141 89
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,300 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £32,500 £41,001
Median % change year-on-year +13.62% -20.73% +26.16%
75th Percentile - £47,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £38,925 £55,000 £57,750
West Midlands median annual salary £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Staffordshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Staffordshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Staffordshire

Linux
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent +20 16 £35,000 +16.67% 17
Tamworth +10 2 £41,250 -17.50% 1
Burton-upon-Trent +5 2 £27,500 -47.62%
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (8.70%) IIS
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Google Workspace
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) BGP
2 11 (47.83%) DHCP
2 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 11 (47.83%) OSPF
2 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
2 11 (47.83%) VLAN
2 11 (47.83%) WLAN
3 2 (8.70%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) webpack
2 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
2 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (4.35%) Mockito
2 1 (4.35%) Protractor
General
1 19 (82.61%) Social Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Automotive
2 11 (47.83%) Retail
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Law
4 2 (8.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) IT Engineer
1 12 (52.17%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support Technician
2 5 (21.74%) IT Technician
2 5 (21.74%) Support Technician
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Support Technician
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Technician
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Rust Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.35%) IT Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) React
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) Electron
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.35%) JPA
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Management Information System
1 11 (47.83%) Smartphone
2 5 (21.74%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 18 (78.26%) Windows Server
3 16 (69.57%) Windows 10
4 11 (47.83%) Mac OS X
4 11 (47.83%) Ubuntu
4 11 (47.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (47.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (21.74%) Windows 7
6 2 (8.70%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Business Case
1 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
1 11 (47.83%) Performance Tuning
1 11 (47.83%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Front End Development
3 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
3 2 (8.70%) ITIL
3 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
3 2 (8.70%) Process Improvement
3 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
4 1 (4.35%) Agile
4 1 (4.35%) B2B
4 1 (4.35%) BCP
4 1 (4.35%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.35%) Project Management
4 1 (4.35%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 12 (52.17%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) C++
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Rust
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (47.83%) Degree
1 11 (47.83%) HNC
1 11 (47.83%) HND
1 11 (47.83%) MCSE
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (52.17%) Dell
2 12 (52.17%) Ubiquiti
3 11 (47.83%) Apple
3 11 (47.83%) Cisco
3 11 (47.83%) Fortinet
3 11 (47.83%) Google
4 5 (21.74%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) EMC
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) SonicWALL