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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 82 80
Rank change year-on-year +41 -2 -34
Permanent jobs citing Linux 239 195 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.72% 2.90% 4.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.83% 23.05% 32.59%
Number of salaries quoted 72 157 186
10th Percentile £27,525 £30,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +0.47% +2.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £64,875 £79,250 £80,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +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 728 846 899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.42% 12.59% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 357 739 617
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £38,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £71,399 £63,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 2 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 2 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 +28 61 £60,000 - 17
Warwickshire +22 52 - - 6
Staffordshire +8 37 £35,000 +12.90% 12
Worcestershire +10 17 £40,000 -20.00% 5
Coventry -12 13 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Wolverhampton - 5 £46,250 - 3
Solihull +6 4 £70,000 +40.00% 2
Walsall - 4 - -
Willenhall - 3 - -
Tipton - 3 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 3 - -
Smethwick - 3 - -
Bilston - 3 - -
Kingswinford - 3 - -
Rowley Regis - 3 - -
Brierley Hill +4 2 - -
Halesowen - 2 - -
Dudley - 2 - -
Stourbridge - 2 - -
West Bromwich - 2 - - 1
Wednesbury - 2 - -
Shropshire +21 1 £80,000 +166.67% 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 20 (8.37%) Confluence
2 2 (0.84%) IIS
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.42%) Apache
3 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 27 (11.30%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (4.18%) NEC Housing
2 8 (3.35%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.84%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.04%) AWS
2 21 (8.79%) Azure
3 19 (7.95%) Google Workspace
4 10 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.77%) SaaS
6 5 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.67%) GCP
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.26%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (1.26%) Datadog
8 3 (1.26%) dbt
8 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.26%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.84%) OCI
9 2 (0.84%) Sentry
9 2 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 141 (59.00%) WLAN
2 129 (53.97%) Network Security
3 125 (52.30%) Internet
4 28 (11.72%) Firewall
5 24 (10.04%) TCP/IP
6 22 (9.21%) DHCP
6 22 (9.21%) DNS
7 21 (8.79%) VLAN
8 19 (7.95%) BGP
8 19 (7.95%) OSPF
9 4 (1.67%) VPN
10 3 (1.26%) LAN
10 3 (1.26%) SSL
11 2 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.84%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.84%) IPsec
11 2 (0.84%) MPLS
11 2 (0.84%) SAN
11 2 (0.84%) WAN
11 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.04%) MySQL
2 19 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.18%) BusinessObjects
4 8 (3.35%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.93%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.51%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.26%) Redis
10 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.42%) DB2
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.42%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 24 (10.04%) Git
2 20 (8.37%) JIRA
3 18 (7.53%) Bitbucket
4 9 (3.77%) JUnit
4 9 (3.77%) Mockito
5 7 (2.93%) Eclipse
5 7 (2.93%) IntelliJ
5 7 (2.93%) Jasmine
5 7 (2.93%) Karma Test Runner
5 7 (2.93%) Protractor
6 5 (2.09%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.26%) GitLab
8 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.42%) GDB
9 1 (0.42%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.42%) WinDbg
General
1 39 (16.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.62%) Automotive
3 19 (7.95%) Retail
4 13 (5.44%) Finance
4 13 (5.44%) Police
5 11 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.18%) Local Government
7 4 (1.67%) Law
8 3 (1.26%) Legal
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (64.02%) IT Engineer
2 133 (55.65%) IT Support
3 123 (51.46%) IT Support Engineer
3 123 (51.46%) Support Engineer
4 31 (12.97%) Senior
5 30 (12.55%) Systems Engineer
6 18 (7.53%) Developer
7 12 (5.02%) Consultant
7 12 (5.02%) Java Developer
7 12 (5.02%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (4.18%) Senior Support Consultant
8 10 (4.18%) Support Consultant
9 9 (3.77%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (2.93%) IT Support Technician
11 7 (2.93%) IT Technician
11 7 (2.93%) SaaS Developer
11 7 (2.93%) Support Technician
12 6 (2.51%) Backend Developer
12 6 (2.51%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.62%) .NET
2 11 (4.60%) AngularJS
3 10 (4.18%) JPA
4 9 (3.77%) Middleware
5 8 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (3.35%) React
6 7 (2.93%) Hibernate
7 6 (2.51%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 5 (2.09%) Yocto
9 4 (1.67%) Django
10 3 (1.26%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.26%) Entity Framework
10 3 (1.26%) GWT
10 3 (1.26%) J2EE
10 3 (1.26%) OAuth
10 3 (1.26%) SAML
10 3 (1.26%) Vaadin
11 2 (0.84%) CSS
11 2 (0.84%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 129 (53.97%) Driving Licence
2 23 (9.62%) Management Information System
3 19 (7.95%) Smartphone
4 7 (2.93%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.93%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.51%) IoT
6 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.42%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.42%) Clustering
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.42%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.42%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 198 (82.85%) Windows
2 27 (11.30%) Windows 10
2 27 (11.30%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.21%) Ubuntu
4 19 (7.95%) Mac OS X
4 19 (7.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 19 (7.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (4.18%) Solaris
5 10 (4.18%) Unix
6 8 (3.35%) Windows 7
7 5 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.26%) Android
8 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.26%) Rocky
9 2 (0.84%) CentOS
9 2 (0.84%) Debian
9 2 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (63.18%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (60.25%) Computer Science
3 130 (54.39%) Mentoring
4 128 (53.56%) ITIL
5 125 (52.30%) Asset Management
6 124 (51.88%) Network Management
7 122 (51.05%) IT Asset Management
8 37 (15.48%) Agile
9 29 (12.13%) Systems Engineering
10 26 (10.88%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (10.46%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (10.04%) CI/CD
13 20 (8.37%) Coaching
14 19 (7.95%) Business Case
14 19 (7.95%) Continuous Deployment
15 18 (7.53%) DevSecOps
16 15 (6.28%) DevOps
16 15 (6.28%) Software Engineering
17 10 (4.18%) Customer Requirements
17 10 (4.18%) Housing Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.92%) SQL
2 24 (10.04%) PowerShell
3 23 (9.62%) C#
4 14 (5.86%) Java
4 14 (5.86%) Python
5 11 (4.60%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.35%) C++
6 8 (3.35%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.93%) C
8 4 (1.67%) Bash
8 4 (1.67%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.26%) PHP
9 3 (1.26%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.42%) CodeQL
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
10 1 (0.42%) Ruby
10 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 152 (63.60%) Degree
2 142 (59.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 142 (59.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 141 (59.00%) MCSE
4 124 (51.88%) CCNA
4 124 (51.88%) Cisco Certification
5 122 (51.05%) CCNP
5 122 (51.05%) LPIC
5 122 (51.05%) MCP
6 19 (7.95%) HNC
6 19 (7.95%) HND
7 18 (7.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (6.28%) Security Cleared
9 10 (4.18%) DBS Check
10 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
11 5 (2.09%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.09%) OCA
11 5 (2.09%) OCP
11 5 (2.09%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.69%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.18%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.67%) SLA
4 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) QA
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (15.90%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.53%) Docker
3 8 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.26%) LXC
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (9.62%) Ansible
2 12 (5.02%) Terraform
3 6 (2.51%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.26%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.26%) Nessus
4 3 (1.26%) Puppet
5 2 (0.84%) Proxmox
5 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.42%) Argo
6 1 (0.42%) Grafana
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.42%) Nagios
6 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 170 (71.13%) Microsoft
2 144 (60.25%) Cisco
3 23 (9.62%) Google
4 20 (8.37%) Ubiquiti
5 19 (7.95%) Apple
5 19 (7.95%) Atlassian
5 19 (7.95%) Dell
5 19 (7.95%) Fortinet
6 14 (5.86%) VMware
7 10 (4.18%) Citrix
7 10 (4.18%) NEC
7 10 (4.18%) Oracle
8 7 (2.93%) IBM
9 6 (2.51%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.09%) Juniper
11 2 (0.84%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.84%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.84%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.84%) SevOne
12 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow