Linux Jobs in the North East

Linux
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 43 35 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -18 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 14 75 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.71% 7.00% 11.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.18% 38.27% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14 60 126
10th Percentile £40,875 £35,960 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,188 £34,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% -20.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £69,800 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,690 £80,375 £65,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 77 196 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 14.92% 18.28% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 72 160 288
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,500 £22,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £54,375 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,125 £70,125 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North East

Linux
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Linux in the North East

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North East over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

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 30 November 2023. 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
Durham +1 7 £55,000 +46.07% 5
Tyne and Wear +2 5 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (21.43%) dbt
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Pulumi
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) VLAN
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
3 1 (7.14%) IPsec
3 1 (7.14%) MQTT
3 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (21.43%) Redis
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Gradle
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Django
1 3 (21.43%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) OAuth
2 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 2 (14.29%) SAML
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
3 1 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (7.14%) OpenID
3 1 (7.14%) Play Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Infotainment
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Open Source
4 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
5 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) DataFlex
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Ceph
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (14.29%) pfSense
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Proxmox
4 1 (7.14%) Nessus
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat