Linux Job Trends in the North East

Linux
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 61
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 62 19 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.34% 2.29% 2.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.67% 26.76% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 58 19 39
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £52,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £97,500 £71,504 £65,984
90th Percentile £120,000 £75,057 £67,968
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 71 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.53% 8.54% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 101 62 189
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,445 £23,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,125 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £67,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Linux job vacancy trend in the North East

Linux
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North East over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in the North East

Linux
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North East region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -6 59 £69,655 +11.45% 18
Durham -15 2 £50,000 -27.94% 2
Northumberland - 1 £39,000 - 3
Linux
England

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) Azure
2 25 (40.32%) AWS
3 7 (11.29%) IaaS
4 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.68%) GCP
5 5 (8.06%) GitHub
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.84%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (4.84%) PaaS
6 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.61%) dbt
8 1 (1.61%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Firewall
2 8 (12.90%) VPN
3 5 (8.06%) DMZ
3 5 (8.06%) DNS
3 5 (8.06%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (8.06%) STUN
3 5 (8.06%) VLAN
3 5 (8.06%) VoIP
4 3 (4.84%) DHCP
4 3 (4.84%) LAN
4 3 (4.84%) SSH
4 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.84%) WAN
5 2 (3.23%) HTTP
6 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.13%) MySQL
3 6 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) GitLab
2 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (4.84%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.84%) Git
3 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 3 (4.84%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.84%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (22.58%) Law
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Finance
5 3 (4.84%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Senior
2 14 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) C++ Software Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) Principal Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) Rust Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) Rust Software Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) Software Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Administrator
5 8 (12.90%) C++ Developer
5 8 (12.90%) C++ Software Developer
5 8 (12.90%) Developer
5 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Rust Developer
5 8 (12.90%) Software Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Principal Software Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (8.06%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (8.06%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (8.06%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (4.84%) Node.js
3 1 (1.61%) .NET
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.61%) Django
3 1 (1.61%) XML
3 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Replication
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Windows
2 8 (12.90%) Debian
2 8 (12.90%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.29%) Ubuntu
4 6 (9.68%) Unix
5 3 (4.84%) CentOS
5 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Computer Science
2 21 (33.87%) AI
3 19 (30.65%) DevOps
4 18 (29.03%) Mathematics
4 18 (29.03%) Physics
4 18 (29.03%) Requirements Management
4 18 (29.03%) Software Engineering
5 16 (25.81%) CI/CD
6 14 (22.58%) High Availability
6 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (19.35%) Technical Debt
7 12 (19.35%) Workflow
8 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (12.90%) Agile
9 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.68%) Microservices
11 6 (9.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.03%) C++
1 18 (29.03%) Rust
2 13 (20.97%) Python
2 13 (20.97%) SQL
3 11 (17.74%) Bash
4 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.90%) Java
6 5 (8.06%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.45%) C#
8 2 (3.23%) Go
9 1 (1.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (37.10%) Degree
2 20 (32.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.29%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (22.58%) Docker
2 8 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.68%) iptables
4 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.84%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (25.81%) Terraform
2 15 (24.19%) Ansible
3 14 (22.58%) Kubernetes
4 8 (12.90%) Grafana
5 7 (11.29%) Puppet
6 5 (8.06%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.84%) Argo
7 3 (4.84%) Control-M
7 3 (4.84%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (4.84%) systemd
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) VMware
3 5 (8.06%) Cisco
4 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.23%) Pega
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds