Linux Jobs in the West Midlands

Linux
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 81 78
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 -34
Permanent jobs citing Linux 186 208 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.17% 2.87% 4.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.16% 24.10% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 68 160 176
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £46,065
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £62,875 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,343 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.41% -14.86% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 711 863 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.92% 11.92% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 380 739 570
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -

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 April 2025.

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 April 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
Birmingham +25 55 £57,500 -4.17% 26
Warwickshire +9 41 - - 11
Staffordshire +7 29 £35,000 -3.45% 34
Worcestershire +3 11 £38,000 -24.00% 12
Coventry -12 9 £53,750 -17.31% 7
Wolverhampton - 4 £46,250 -
Solihull +8 3 £70,000 +40.00%
Herefordshire +8 2 - - 6
Bilston - 2 - -
Willenhall - 2 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 - -
Tipton - 2 - -
Walsall - 2 - -
Kingswinford - 2 - -
Rowley Regis - 2 - -
Smethwick - 2 - -
Shropshire +15 1 £80,000 +166.67%
Brierley Hill +7 1 - -
Dudley - 1 - -
Halesowen - 1 - -
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Wednesbury - 1 - -
West Bromwich - 1 - -
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 20 (10.75%) Confluence
2 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) IIS
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (12.37%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.30%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.15%) NEC Housing
2 4 (2.15%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.08%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.98%) AWS
2 24 (12.90%) Azure
3 16 (8.60%) Google Workspace
4 11 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.38%) SaaS
6 5 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.69%) Serverless
7 4 (2.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (2.15%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.15%) AWS KMS
7 4 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (1.61%) Datadog
9 2 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (47.31%) WLAN
2 78 (41.94%) Network Security
3 72 (38.71%) Internet
4 28 (15.05%) Firewall
5 23 (12.37%) TCP/IP
6 21 (11.29%) DHCP
6 21 (11.29%) DNS
7 18 (9.68%) VLAN
8 16 (8.60%) BGP
8 16 (8.60%) OSPF
9 6 (3.23%) VPN
10 5 (2.69%) SSL
11 4 (2.15%) LAN
12 3 (1.61%) WAN
13 2 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (1.08%) Ethernet
13 2 (1.08%) IPsec
13 2 (1.08%) MPLS
13 2 (1.08%) SAN
13 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.37%) MySQL
2 19 (10.22%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.30%) Oracle Database
4 7 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.23%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.15%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.54%) DB2
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (12.37%) Git
2 20 (10.75%) JIRA
3 18 (9.68%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.84%) JUnit
4 9 (4.84%) Mockito
5 7 (3.76%) Eclipse
5 7 (3.76%) IntelliJ
5 7 (3.76%) Jasmine
5 7 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.76%) Karma Test Runner
5 7 (3.76%) Protractor
6 4 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.61%) GitLab
7 3 (1.61%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.08%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.54%) GDB
9 1 (0.54%) Maven
9 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 39 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.75%) Automotive
3 16 (8.60%) Retail
4 11 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.84%) Police
6 8 (4.30%) Law
7 7 (3.76%) Finance
8 6 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.15%) Local Government
10 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.08%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Back Office
12 1 (0.54%) Electronics
12 1 (0.54%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 103 (55.38%) IT Engineer
2 81 (43.55%) IT Support
3 73 (39.25%) IT Support Engineer
3 73 (39.25%) Support Engineer
4 27 (14.52%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (11.83%) Senior
6 20 (10.75%) Developer
7 14 (7.53%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.84%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (3.76%) SaaS Developer
11 6 (3.23%) Backend Developer
11 6 (3.23%) Consultant
11 6 (3.23%) DBA
11 6 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.23%) IT Support Technician
11 6 (3.23%) IT Technician
11 6 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (3.23%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.90%) .NET
2 12 (6.45%) JPA
2 12 (6.45%) Middleware
3 11 (5.91%) AngularJS
4 9 (4.84%) React
5 8 (4.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (3.76%) Hibernate
7 6 (3.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 5 (2.69%) GWT
8 5 (2.69%) J2EE
8 5 (2.69%) Vaadin
9 3 (1.61%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.61%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.08%) CSS
10 2 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.08%) jQuery
10 2 (1.08%) REST
10 2 (1.08%) Spring
10 2 (1.08%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 81 (43.55%) Driving Licence
2 21 (11.29%) Management Information System
3 16 (8.60%) Smartphone
4 9 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.76%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.61%) IoT
7 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.54%) Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.54%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 147 (79.03%) Windows
2 25 (13.44%) Windows Server
3 22 (11.83%) Ubuntu
3 22 (11.83%) Windows 10
4 17 (9.14%) Mac OS X
5 16 (8.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (8.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (3.76%) Unix
7 6 (3.23%) Windows 7
8 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.69%) Rocky
9 4 (2.15%) Android
9 4 (2.15%) Solaris
10 3 (1.61%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.61%) VMS
11 2 (1.08%) CentOS
11 2 (1.08%) Debian
11 2 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (54.30%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (48.39%) Computer Science
3 83 (44.62%) Mentoring
4 80 (43.01%) ITIL
5 76 (40.86%) Asset Management
6 74 (39.78%) Network Management
7 72 (38.71%) IT Asset Management
8 40 (21.51%) Agile
9 26 (13.98%) Performance Tuning
9 26 (13.98%) Systems Engineering
10 23 (12.37%) CI/CD
11 22 (11.83%) Coaching
11 22 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (9.68%) Continuous Deployment
12 18 (9.68%) DevOps
12 18 (9.68%) DevSecOps
13 16 (8.60%) Business Case
14 12 (6.45%) Software Engineering
15 11 (5.91%) Containerisation
15 11 (5.91%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.12%) SQL
2 23 (12.37%) C#
2 23 (12.37%) PowerShell
3 19 (10.22%) Java
3 19 (10.22%) Python
4 12 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.84%) Bash
6 8 (4.30%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.76%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.23%) C++
9 5 (2.69%) Perl
10 4 (2.15%) C
10 4 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.61%) Groovy
11 3 (1.61%) Ruby
12 2 (1.08%) PHP
13 1 (0.54%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.54%) Go
13 1 (0.54%) Rust
13 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (55.91%) Degree
2 89 (47.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 89 (47.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 88 (47.31%) MCSE
4 74 (39.78%) CCNA
4 74 (39.78%) Cisco Certification
5 72 (38.71%) CCNP
5 72 (38.71%) LPIC
5 72 (38.71%) MCP
6 19 (10.22%) Security Cleared
7 18 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (8.60%) HNC
8 16 (8.60%) HND
9 10 (5.38%) DV Cleared
10 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
11 5 (2.69%) OCA
11 5 (2.69%) OCP
11 5 (2.69%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (2.15%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.69%) QA
3 4 (2.15%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.08%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (18.28%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.29%) Docker
3 11 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.61%) LXC
6 1 (0.54%) vSphere
6 1 (0.54%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (15.59%) Ansible
2 14 (7.53%) Terraform
3 6 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (2.69%) Nessus
4 5 (2.69%) Puppet
5 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.15%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.61%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.61%) Nagios
6 3 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.08%) SCOM
7 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.54%) Argo
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.54%) Grafana
8 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (58.60%) Microsoft
2 91 (48.92%) Cisco
3 19 (10.22%) Apple
3 19 (10.22%) Atlassian
4 17 (9.14%) Google
4 17 (9.14%) Ubiquiti
5 16 (8.60%) Dell
5 16 (8.60%) Fortinet
6 15 (8.06%) VMware
7 11 (5.91%) Oracle
8 10 (5.38%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.30%) IBM
10 7 (3.76%) Citrix
10 7 (3.76%) Juniper
11 4 (2.15%) NEC
12 3 (1.61%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.08%) ArcSight
13 2 (1.08%) JD Edwards
13 2 (1.08%) SevOne
13 2 (1.08%) Splunk