Linux Jobs in the West Midlands

Linux
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 65 55 42
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 126 439 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.82% 5.36% 5.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.46% 33.41% 34.44%
Number of salaries quoted 95 309 309
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 537 1,314 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.29% 16.04% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 481 860 1,002
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,000 £57,267 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
Birmingham -6 54 £55,000 +4.76% 19
Warwickshire +39 30 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Coventry -4 15 £65,000 +24.59% 11
Staffordshire +24 10 £51,128 +2.26% 10
Shropshire +15 5 £77,500 +40.91%
Walsall - 3 £57,500 -
Solihull +2 2 £46,250 +2.78% 3
Worcestershire -11 2 £27,500 -26.67% 4
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (3.97%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.59%) Apache
3 2 (1.59%) IIS
3 2 (1.59%) JBoss
3 2 (1.59%) MODX
3 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.59%) Site Server
3 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.59%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.59%) WordPress
4 1 (0.79%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.05%) AWS
2 23 (18.25%) Azure
3 20 (15.87%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.76%) GCP
4 6 (4.76%) GitHub
5 5 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.38%) SaaS
7 3 (2.38%) Serverless
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.59%) Azure App Service
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.59%) dbt
8 2 (1.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.87%) Firewall
2 14 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 13 (10.32%) DNS
4 12 (9.52%) DHCP
5 8 (6.35%) LAN
5 8 (6.35%) WAN
6 5 (3.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 5 (3.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (3.97%) HTTP
6 5 (3.97%) SAN
6 5 (3.97%) Wireless
7 3 (2.38%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.59%) Bluetooth
8 2 (1.59%) Broadband
8 2 (1.59%) IPv4
8 2 (1.59%) IPv6
8 2 (1.59%) Mobile Broadband
8 2 (1.59%) NAS
8 2 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) MySQL
1 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.59%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.59%) Redis
4 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.79%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.79%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) GitLab
2 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.56%) JIRA
3 4 (3.17%) Git
4 2 (1.59%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.79%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.73%) Finance
5 9 (7.14%) Automotive
5 9 (7.14%) Law
6 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.76%) Retail
8 5 (3.97%) Banking
9 4 (3.17%) Games
9 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.59%) Advertising
11 2 (1.59%) Electronics
11 2 (1.59%) Local Government
11 2 (1.59%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.79%) Back Office
12 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Embedded Engineer
2 22 (17.46%) Senior
3 21 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (11.90%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 14 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) Consultant
7 11 (8.73%) Developer
7 11 (8.73%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
8 10 (7.94%) Analyst
8 10 (7.94%) Junior
9 7 (5.56%) Junior Consultant
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Administrator
11 5 (3.97%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.90%) Yocto
2 6 (4.76%) HTML
3 5 (3.97%) Spine.js
4 3 (2.38%) .NET
4 3 (2.38%) Middleware
5 2 (1.59%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.59%) CSS
5 2 (1.59%) Django
5 2 (1.59%) Flask
5 2 (1.59%) POSIX
5 2 (1.59%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (0.79%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.79%) HTML5
6 1 (0.79%) jQuery
6 1 (0.79%) Kendo UI
6 1 (0.79%) LAMP
6 1 (0.79%) Laravel
6 1 (0.79%) REST
6 1 (0.79%) Spring
6 1 (0.79%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.17%) CMDB
4 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.17%) IoT
4 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.59%) Blog
6 2 (1.59%) BYOD
6 2 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.59%) HP Storage
6 2 (1.59%) iPad
6 2 (1.59%) iPhone
6 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.59%) Social Media
6 2 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (40.48%) Windows
2 20 (15.87%) Windows Server
3 19 (15.08%) Unix
4 18 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (7.14%) Android
6 5 (3.97%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (3.17%) QNX Neutrino
7 4 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.17%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.59%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.79%) CentOS
9 1 (0.79%) Debian
9 1 (0.79%) SUSE
9 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.81%) Software Engineering
2 23 (18.25%) Agile
3 21 (16.67%) DevOps
4 19 (15.08%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 17 (13.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (10.32%) Customer Service
8 13 (10.32%) ITIL
9 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (8.73%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (8.73%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 10 (7.94%) Embedded Software Development
11 10 (7.94%) Information Security
11 10 (7.94%) Project Management
12 9 (7.14%) Functional Testing
12 9 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
12 9 (7.14%) Project Planning
12 9 (7.14%) Use Case
13 7 (5.56%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.19%) Python
2 24 (19.05%) C++
3 19 (15.08%) C
4 16 (12.70%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.73%) SQL
6 10 (7.94%) Bash
7 8 (6.35%) PHP
8 5 (3.97%) Go
8 5 (3.97%) Java
9 4 (3.17%) C#
9 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.17%) Ruby
9 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.59%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.59%) Perl
11 1 (0.79%) Erlang
11 1 (0.79%) F#
11 1 (0.79%) Haskell
11 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (22.22%) Degree
2 17 (13.49%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (6.35%) CCNA
5 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.97%) CREST Certified
7 4 (3.17%) MCSE
7 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.38%) CISSP
9 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.59%) CCNP
9 2 (1.59%) NCSIE
9 2 (1.59%) PCI QSA
9 2 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.79%) CISM
10 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.79%) GISP
10 1 (0.79%) GSEC
10 1 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.56%) AUTOSAR
3 6 (4.76%) NIST
3 6 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.97%) ISO 9001
5 4 (3.17%) GRC
6 3 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.38%) MISRA
6 3 (2.38%) SLA
7 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.59%) MISRA C
7 2 (1.59%) NCSC
8 1 (0.79%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.79%) GDPR
8 1 (0.79%) JTAG
System Software
1 13 (10.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.35%) Docker
4 7 (5.56%) Firmware
5 3 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.59%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.79%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (19.84%) Terraform
2 21 (16.67%) Ansible
3 12 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.14%) Puppet
5 4 (3.17%) Nagios
6 3 (2.38%) SCCM
7 2 (1.59%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.59%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.79%) Rancher
8 1 (0.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (15.87%) Cisco
2 16 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.32%) VMware
4 7 (5.56%) BMC
4 7 (5.56%) Google
4 7 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.97%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.97%) F5
5 5 (3.97%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.97%) HP
6 4 (3.17%) Infoblox
6 4 (3.17%) QNX
6 4 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.17%) Remedy
7 3 (2.38%) Apple
7 3 (2.38%) Citrix
7 3 (2.38%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (1.59%) Meraki
8 2 (1.59%) MobileIron
8 2 (1.59%) SolarWinds