Linux Jobs in Staffordshire

Linux
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 53 17
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 +25
Permanent jobs citing Linux 46 15 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 4.72% 2.73% 9.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.26% 11.54% 39.58%
Number of salaries quoted 34 12 20
10th Percentile £26,875 £41,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,813 £24,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £47,358 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.45% +22.21% -3.13%
75th Percentile £50,688 £60,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £55,000 £66,750 £52,500
West Midlands median annual salary £53,250 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +2.94%

All Operating Systems
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 152 130 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 15.61% 23.68% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 131 86 97
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,000 £21,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £41,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% +26.15% +12.07%
75th Percentile £47,500 £51,214 £41,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £48,750
West Midlands median annual salary £37,750 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +5.88% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
Stoke-on-Trent +1 15 £30,000 -45.45% 6
Stafford +4 10 £55,000 +30.95% 1
Tamworth -12 6 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Burton-upon-Trent +2 4 £52,500 -4.55%
Cannock -16 3 £37,500 -20.58%
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 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.35%) AWS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.17%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) Firewall
2 8 (17.39%) VPN
3 2 (4.35%) DHCP
3 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 2 (4.35%) SAN
3 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.17%) BGP
4 1 (2.17%) OSPF
4 1 (2.17%) Skype
4 1 (2.17%) SSH
4 1 (2.17%) VLAN
4 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) MySQL
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Law
4 9 (19.57%) Retail
5 8 (17.39%) Finance
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Analyst
2 9 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) IT Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Operations Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Security Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Security Operations Analyst
4 7 (15.22%) Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (10.87%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Team Leader
8 2 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Support
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 43 (93.48%) Windows
2 23 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (17.39%) Windows 10
4 7 (15.22%) CentOS
4 7 (15.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.17%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Customer Service
2 10 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (21.74%) DevOps
2 10 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (21.74%) Risk Management
3 9 (19.57%) Cloud Security
3 9 (19.57%) Network Virtualisation
3 9 (19.57%) Performance Monitoring
4 8 (17.39%) Information Security
4 8 (17.39%) Security Operations
4 8 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (15.22%) Service Management
6 6 (13.04%) Business Development
6 6 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (10.87%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (10.87%) Time Management
8 3 (6.52%) Asset Management
8 3 (6.52%) IT Asset Management
8 3 (6.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) SQL
2 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.04%) C++
3 6 (13.04%) Java
3 6 (13.04%) Python
4 5 (10.87%) C#
4 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.52%) CCNA
2 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) MCSE
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) HNC
3 1 (2.17%) HND
3 1 (2.17%) MCSA
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) GDPR
2 8 (17.39%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.57%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (17.39%) Hyper-V
4 7 (15.22%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
1 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (30.43%) Cisco
3 12 (26.09%) Remedy
4 9 (19.57%) VMware
5 7 (15.22%) Citrix
5 7 (15.22%) Dell
6 2 (4.35%) EMC
6 2 (4.35%) SonicWALL
7 1 (2.17%) Apple
7 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (2.17%) Ubiquiti