Debian Job Trends in the North of England

Debian Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Debian skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 260 318
Rank change year-on-year -11 +58 +107
Permanent jobs citing Debian 12 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.094% 0.076% 0.080%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.53% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile - £39,000 £32,550
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -24.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £53,625 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £77,000 £67,125
England median annual salary £48,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.17% +4.35% -2.54%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Debian 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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 784 1,045 1,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.17% 13.30% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 613 511 1,485
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,179 £74,258 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Debian job vacancy trend in the North of England

Debian
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Debian.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Debian

Debian
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Debian in the North of England

Debian
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
North West +14 8 £55,500 +38.75%
North East -5 4 £45,000 -33.33%
Debian
England

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) IaaS
3 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (16.67%) Route 53
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) AMQP
2 4 (33.33%) DMZ
2 4 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (33.33%) STUN
2 4 (33.33%) VLAN
2 4 (33.33%) VoIP
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
1 4 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) VoIP Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (33.33%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (33.33%) gRPC
1 4 (33.33%) Material-UI
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (33.33%) React
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 4 (33.33%) Swagger
2 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 4 (33.33%) CentOS
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) API Development
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Kanban
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) Open Source
3 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Ansible
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Google
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) SaltStack
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk