Linux Jobs in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 59 21
Rank change year-on-year +19 -38 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 832 952 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.76% 5.53% 9.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.93% 40.39% 46.70%
Number of salaries quoted 543 520 936
10th Percentile £33,800 £29,225 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,677 £65,313 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,700
England median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,253 2,357 3,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.90% 13.69% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 1,499 2,423
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £71,652 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North of England.

Salary trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West +21 523 £54,424 +4.66% 83
Yorkshire +18 255 £47,500 -5.00% 50
North East -17 54 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 54 (6.49%) Apache
2 34 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (2.76%) IIS
4 22 (2.64%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.28%) ArcGIS
6 14 (1.68%) Apache Spark
7 12 (1.44%) Captiva
7 12 (1.44%) FileNet
7 12 (1.44%) GeoServer
7 12 (1.44%) WebLogic
7 12 (1.44%) WebSphere
8 10 (1.20%) nginx
8 10 (1.20%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.96%) Confluence
10 4 (0.48%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.24%) SAS
13 1 (0.12%) CMS
13 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 313 (37.62%) Azure
2 243 (29.21%) AWS
3 78 (9.38%) IBM Cloud
4 76 (9.13%) GCP
5 73 (8.77%) Serverless
6 64 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (5.05%) Azure API Management
9 41 (4.93%) Azure Functions
9 41 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 41 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (3.97%) GitHub
11 31 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (3.13%) SaaS
13 25 (3.00%) OpenShift
14 22 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.16%) Amazon S3
16 18 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 130 (15.63%) Firewall
2 70 (8.41%) DNS
3 59 (7.09%) VPN
4 56 (6.73%) TCP/IP
5 54 (6.49%) WAN
6 53 (6.37%) DHCP
7 51 (6.13%) LAN
8 45 (5.41%) SAN
9 35 (4.21%) Network Security
10 31 (3.73%) SSL
11 29 (3.49%) Internet
12 26 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (2.76%) NAS
14 22 (2.64%) Wireless
15 21 (2.52%) MQTT
15 21 (2.52%) SD-WAN
16 15 (1.80%) IPsec
16 15 (1.80%) SNMP
16 15 (1.80%) VLAN
17 14 (1.68%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (13.70%) MongoDB
3 106 (12.74%) NoSQL
4 78 (9.38%) DB2
5 77 (9.25%) SQL Server
6 75 (9.01%) Relational Database
7 70 (8.41%) MySQL
8 23 (2.76%) Oracle Database
9 21 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (2.28%) GIS
10 19 (2.28%) Redis
11 18 (2.16%) Big Data
11 18 (2.16%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.44%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.44%) QGIS
14 11 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
15 7 (0.84%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 58 (6.97%) JIRA
2 49 (5.89%) Git
3 42 (5.05%) GitLab
4 39 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 24 (2.88%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.32%) IBM UrbanCode
7 11 (1.32%) Subversion
8 7 (0.84%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.84%) PHPUnit
8 7 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.72%) GDB
9 6 (0.72%) Gradle
10 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.60%) Clang
10 5 (0.60%) Maven
11 4 (0.48%) CMake
11 4 (0.48%) GCC
12 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
General
1 153 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 124 (14.90%) Public Sector
3 108 (12.98%) Finance
4 51 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.21%) Aerospace
7 32 (3.85%) Banking
8 23 (2.76%) Retail
9 22 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 22 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.92%) Electronics
12 14 (1.68%) Law
13 13 (1.56%) Automotive
13 13 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.44%) Mandarin Language
15 8 (0.96%) Games
15 8 (0.96%) Military
16 7 (0.84%) Front Office
17 6 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 178 (21.39%) Senior
2 167 (20.07%) Developer
3 153 (18.39%) Software Engineer
4 80 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 73 (8.77%) Lead
6 55 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 55 (6.61%) Embedded Engineer
7 53 (6.37%) Full Stack Developer
8 46 (5.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 43 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
9 43 (5.17%) Full Stack Engineer
10 41 (4.93%) Azure Developer
11 38 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (4.45%) Support Engineer
13 36 (4.33%) Architect
14 35 (4.21%) Analyst
14 35 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (3.97%) IT Engineer
16 32 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (16.71%) React
2 124 (14.90%) CSS
3 122 (14.66%) HTML
4 120 (14.42%) REST
5 105 (12.62%) .NET
6 102 (12.26%) AngularJS
7 99 (11.90%) Vue
8 95 (11.42%) Node.js
9 94 (11.30%) Web Services
10 89 (10.70%) jQuery
11 86 (10.34%) ASP.NET
12 78 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 78 (9.38%) Backbone.js
12 78 (9.38%) Ember.js
12 78 (9.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 40 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (3.13%) Spring Boot
15 25 (3.00%) Laravel
16 21 (2.52%) Spring
17 20 (2.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 80 (9.62%) Algorithms
3 79 (9.50%) Blockchain
4 78 (9.38%) Data Structures
5 70 (8.41%) Public Cloud
6 66 (7.93%) Data Centre
7 37 (4.45%) e-Learning
8 30 (3.61%) Management Information System
9 28 (3.37%) IoT
10 27 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
12 22 (2.64%) Private Cloud
13 19 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (2.04%) Cloud Native
16 15 (1.80%) PMI
17 13 (1.56%) Replication
18 12 (1.44%) DataPower
18 12 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
19 11 (1.32%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 419 (50.36%) Windows
2 95 (11.42%) Windows Server
3 87 (10.46%) Apple iOS
4 86 (10.34%) Android
5 70 (8.41%) Unix
6 57 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 44 (5.29%) Ubuntu
8 39 (4.69%) Embedded Linux
9 29 (3.49%) Mac OS
10 21 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 18 (2.16%) CentOS
13 17 (2.04%) Debian
14 15 (1.80%) Data ONTAP
15 13 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (1.20%) Windows 10
17 9 (1.08%) AIX
18 8 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
19 7 (0.84%) Mac OS X
19 7 (0.84%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (27.76%) Agile
2 188 (22.60%) DevOps
2 188 (22.60%) Software Engineering
3 140 (16.83%) Mentoring
4 135 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (14.66%) OO
6 116 (13.94%) Full Stack Development
7 114 (13.70%) User Experience
8 109 (13.10%) Coaching
8 109 (13.10%) Web Development
9 107 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 100 (12.02%) OOP
11 96 (11.54%) MVC
12 94 (11.30%) Artificial Intelligence
13 93 (11.18%) Design Patterns
14 90 (10.82%) MVVM
15 86 (10.34%) CI/CD
16 85 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 79 (9.50%) SOLID
18 78 (9.38%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 219 (26.32%) Python
2 174 (20.91%) SQL
3 169 (20.31%) JavaScript
4 153 (18.39%) Java
5 104 (12.50%) C#
6 95 (11.42%) C
7 65 (7.81%) C++
8 64 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 47 (5.65%) PHP
10 33 (3.97%) Bash
11 21 (2.52%) Rust
11 21 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.92%) Embedded C
13 15 (1.80%) TypeScript
14 13 (1.56%) VBScript
15 12 (1.44%) Perl
15 12 (1.44%) Ruby
16 11 (1.32%) COBOL
16 11 (1.32%) Delphi
16 11 (1.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 113 (13.58%) Degree
2 93 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 63 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.73%) AWS Certification
7 25 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (2.28%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.92%) PMI Certification
11 14 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.68%) CCNA
11 14 (1.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.44%) MCSE
13 11 (1.32%) MCSA
14 8 (0.96%) CCNP
15 7 (0.84%) CISSP
16 6 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
17 5 (0.60%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.09%) GDPR
2 19 (2.28%) SLA
3 15 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.96%) NIST
6 7 (0.84%) ISO 9000
6 7 (0.84%) QA
7 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 110 (13.22%) Docker
2 98 (11.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (11.42%) Active Directory
4 57 (6.85%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.25%) Firmware
6 17 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
6 17 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (1.80%) vSphere
8 4 (0.48%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.36%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.12%) KVM
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 122 (14.66%) Ansible
2 105 (12.62%) Kubernetes
3 98 (11.78%) Terraform
4 31 (3.73%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.76%) Progress Chef
6 22 (2.64%) Puppet
7 19 (2.28%) Grafana
8 18 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (2.16%) WSUS
9 17 (2.04%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.68%) SCCM
11 12 (1.44%) Opsgenie
11 12 (1.44%) VxRail
11 12 (1.44%) ZABBIX
12 11 (1.32%) SCOM
13 7 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 6 (0.72%) Nagios
15 5 (0.60%) Plesk
Vendors
1 138 (16.59%) Red Hat
2 134 (16.11%) VMware
3 132 (15.87%) Microsoft
4 117 (14.06%) IBM
5 85 (10.22%) Oracle
6 68 (8.17%) Cisco
7 45 (5.41%) Google
8 31 (3.73%) Veeam
9 30 (3.61%) NetApp
10 23 (2.76%) SolarWinds
11 19 (2.28%) ESRI
12 18 (2.16%) Dell
12 18 (2.16%) SAP
13 17 (2.04%) Palo Alto
14 15 (1.80%) SolidFire
15 14 (1.68%) Fortinet
16 13 (1.56%) F5
17 12 (1.44%) Pega
17 12 (1.44%) ServiceNow
17 12 (1.44%) Sparx