Linux Jobs in the North East

Linux
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 41 14 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 3.62% 2.72% 6.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.05% 18.18% 38.22%
Number of salaries quoted 31 14 58
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,875 £35,960
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £61,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +53.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65,750 £69,800 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,144 £71,690 £81,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 105 77 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 9.27% 14.98% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 64 70 155
10th Percentile £32,875 £27,500 £24,350
25th Percentile £36,625 £28,563 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £34,791 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.72% -13.02% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £52,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £70,644 £62,625 £70,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% 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 6 December 2024.

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 6 December 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
Tyne and Wear -17 24 £51,250 -14.58% 14
Northumberland - 14 £56,000 -
Durham -13 3 £69,308 +26.01%
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 3 (7.32%) nginx
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
2 2 (4.88%) IIS
2 2 (4.88%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (12.20%) Slack
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (7.32%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (7.32%) dbt
3 3 (7.32%) GCP
3 3 (7.32%) PaaS
3 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
4 2 (4.88%) Sentry
5 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) SSL
1 4 (9.76%) Wireless
2 3 (7.32%) Bluetooth
2 3 (7.32%) Internet
2 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.76%) MariaDB
2 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) Redis
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.88%) DB2
4 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (36.59%) Electronics
2 11 (26.83%) Aerospace
2 11 (26.83%) Automotive
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
3 7 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Legal
4 4 (9.76%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Advertising
6 2 (4.88%) Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Senior
2 15 (36.59%) Embedded Engineer
2 15 (36.59%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 11 (26.83%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 11 (26.83%) Firmware Engineer
3 11 (26.83%) Senior Firmware Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Software Engineer
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) IT Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) IT Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Junior
6 4 (9.76%) Junior Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Service Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) Django
2 4 (9.76%) HTML
3 3 (7.32%) OAuth
3 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
3 3 (7.32%) SAML
4 2 (4.88%) Flask
4 2 (4.88%) Pyramid
4 2 (4.88%) XML
4 2 (4.88%) XML Messaging
4 2 (4.88%) Yocto
5 1 (2.44%) Kafka
5 1 (2.44%) LAMP
5 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Windows
2 10 (24.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (14.63%) Unix
4 4 (9.76%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.32%) Debian
5 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.88%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.44%) AIX
7 1 (2.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
1 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
2 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
2 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
3 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
3 5 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (12.20%) Open Source
4 4 (9.76%) Data Security
4 4 (9.76%) DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 3 (7.32%) Clean Code
5 3 (7.32%) Coaching
5 3 (7.32%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (7.32%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (7.32%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (7.32%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) C
2 9 (21.95%) Python
3 6 (14.63%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) Bash
4 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) C++
5 2 (4.88%) COBOL
5 2 (4.88%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 1 (2.44%) Embedded C++
6 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
System Software
1 15 (36.59%) Embedded Firmware
1 15 (36.59%) Firmware
2 7 (17.07%) Docker
3 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
4 4 (9.76%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Ansible
3 3 (7.32%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (7.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Micro Focus
3 2 (4.88%) Sybase
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Juniper