Linux Specialist Job Trends in the North of England

Linux Specialist
England > North of England

The median Linux Specialist salary in the North of England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 - 310
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 3 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.032% - 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% - 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £57,000 - £38,870
25th Percentile £63,750 - £39,082
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £41,235
75th Percentile - - £42,749
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £41,235
% change year-on-year +20.00% +51.57% -5.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 8,173 13,337 8,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.10% 94.99% 93.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 7,948 6,358
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,734 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +1.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Linux Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in the North of England

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Linux Specialist job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Specialist job vacancies in the North of England

Linux Specialist
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Specialist in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Specialist in the North of England

Linux Specialist
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 Linux Specialist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
North West - 3 £75,000 - 4
Linux Specialist
England

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Linux Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Linux Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat