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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 62 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -40
Permanent jobs citing Linux 25 55 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 3.20% 2.95% 5.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.32% 22.00% 44.65%
Number of salaries quoted 24 40 52
10th Percentile £45,200 £35,878 £32,086
25th Percentile £52,188 £38,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +31.25% -
75th Percentile £70,127 £62,500 £54,063
90th Percentile £77,052 £67,968 £78,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,001 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 62 250 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.93% 13.41% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 57 202 130
10th Percentile £28,800 £24,050 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £31,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,750 £52,406
90th Percentile £70,953 £61,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 +20 14 £65,000 +23.81% 28
Durham +9 6 £69,384 +32.16%
Northumberland +6 5 £61,000 +1.67%
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
2 12 (48.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) OCI
4 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 4 (16.00%) Pulumi
5 4 (16.00%) SaaS
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (12.00%) dbt
6 3 (12.00%) Sentry
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Bluetooth
2 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 2 (8.00%) VoIP
4 1 (4.00%) Broadband
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (12.00%) Redis
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (8.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jaeger
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Electronics
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Advertising
4 2 (8.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Senior
2 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Junior
6 2 (8.00%) Junior DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (12.00%) Django
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (24.00%) Operational Technology
2 6 (24.00%) SCADA
3 4 (16.00%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.00%) Hedge funds
6 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) AIX
4 1 (4.00%) Debian
4 1 (4.00%) Solaris
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (24.00%) TOGAF
5 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
7 3 (12.00%) Clean Code
7 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 3 (12.00%) Open Source
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) C
2 4 (16.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) Bicep
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
1 6 (24.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Def Stans
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (16.00%) Firmware
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (12.00%) Grafana
5 1 (4.00%) Argo
5 1 (4.00%) Control-M
5 1 (4.00%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) VMware
2 6 (24.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.00%) Google
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.00%) Juniper