Linux Kernel Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Kernel Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Linux Kernel Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Kernel Development over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 748 755
Rank change year-on-year +189 +7 +94
Permanent jobs citing Linux Kernel Development 3 22 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.031% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.037% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 5
10th Percentile £61,750 - -
25th Percentile £77,500 £51,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +95.65% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £133,125 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £140,250 £95,000 £103,000
UK median annual salary £106,750 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +85.65% -23.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Linux Kernel Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,228 59,361 58,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.46% 84.34% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17,909 41,086 30,132
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,004 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Linux Kernel Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux Kernel Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Kernel Development in the UK excluding London

Linux Kernel Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Kernel Development in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Kernel Development in the UK excluding London

Linux Kernel Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Kernel Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Kernel Development in the UK excluding London

Linux Kernel Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Kernel Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
East of England +47 2 £121,250 - 6
South East +95 1 £52,500 -8.70% 1
Linux Kernel Development
UK

Linux Kernel Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GDB
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) KGDB
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Firmware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenEmbedded
1 1 (33.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (33.33%) Verilog
1 1 (33.33%) VHDL
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (33.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) CAD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware