Linux Jobs in Leeds

Linux
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 34 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +24 -22
Permanent jobs citing Linux 32 130 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 4.14% 5.53% 5.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.07% 52.00% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 31 91 69
10th Percentile - £33,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £26,750 £40,677 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,603 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -39.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 71 250 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 9.18% 10.63% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 54 194 189
10th Percentile - £30,650 £25,950
25th Percentile £26,750 £38,890 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £61,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £65,625 £84,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Leeds

Linux
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Leeds.

Salary trend for Linux in Leeds

Linux
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Leeds over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Leeds

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) nginx
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) AWS
1 3 (9.38%) GCP
1 3 (9.38%) GitHub
2 2 (6.25%) Apigee
2 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.13%) IaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 19 (59.38%) Cisco IOS
2 10 (31.25%) Wireless
3 4 (12.50%) DNS
4 3 (9.38%) DHCP
5 2 (6.25%) Firewall
6 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Redis
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.25%) MySQL
3 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) JUnit
3 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (59.38%) Law
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Analyst
2 17 (53.13%) Support Analyst
3 16 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 16 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 9 (28.13%) IT Analyst
4 9 (28.13%) IT Support
4 9 (28.13%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Django Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Python Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Python/Django Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Help Desk Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Django
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) FastAPI
2 2 (6.25%) Flask
2 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) RESTful
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 19 (59.38%) Mac OS X
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server
4 10 (31.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.25%) Unix
6 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Service Delivery
2 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
3 5 (15.63%) Microservices
4 4 (12.50%) OO
4 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (9.38%) Information Management
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) SDLC
5 3 (9.38%) Web Development
6 2 (6.25%) Agile
6 2 (6.25%) Kanban
6 2 (6.25%) Scrum
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.25%) Software Testing
6 2 (6.25%) TDD
6 2 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (90.63%) Python
2 15 (46.88%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) CCNP
1 10 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (31.25%) Degree
1 10 (31.25%) MCSA
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 23 (71.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Docker
3 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) pfSense
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Ansible
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Grafana
2 3 (9.38%) HAProxy
2 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.25%) Istio
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (6.25%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) SCOM
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) WSUS
4 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Cisco
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) Commvault
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) Veeam