Linux Job Trends in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 63 43
Rank change year-on-year -64 -20 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 181 287 626
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.34% 3.97% 4.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.18% 29.50% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 135 191 493
10th Percentile £27,700 £30,000 £34,850
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,850 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,940 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 816 973 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.03% 13.45% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 631 540 1,578
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% - -
75th Percentile £53,125 £61,250 £57,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,258 £67,968
England median annual salary £44,720 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.17% +8.42% -9.52%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Linux job vacancy trend in the North of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 March 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 -53 92 £55,000 +4.76% 72
Yorkshire -64 50 £34,000 -20.00% 47
North East -4 39 £51,500 -15.57% 28
Linux
England

Linux
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 6 (3.31%) Apache
2 4 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.10%) JBoss
3 2 (1.10%) nginx
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.39%) AWS
2 48 (26.52%) Azure
3 26 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (12.15%) GCP
5 17 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.97%) OpenShift
8 8 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.87%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (3.87%) dbt
9 7 (3.87%) Pulumi
10 6 (3.31%) IaaS
10 6 (3.31%) PaaS
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.76%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.76%) GitHub
11 5 (2.76%) Sentry
12 4 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.92%) DNS
2 26 (14.36%) Firewall
2 26 (14.36%) VPN
3 25 (13.81%) TCP/IP
4 16 (8.84%) Ethernet
5 15 (8.29%) DHCP
6 13 (7.18%) VLAN
6 13 (7.18%) VoIP
7 12 (6.63%) Internet
8 10 (5.52%) LAN
8 10 (5.52%) WAN
9 9 (4.97%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (3.31%) HTTP
11 5 (2.76%) DMZ
11 5 (2.76%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.76%) SSL
11 5 (2.76%) STUN
12 4 (2.21%) AMQP
12 4 (2.21%) SSH
12 4 (2.21%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.36%) SQL Server
2 24 (13.26%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.84%) MySQL
4 14 (7.73%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.42%) Redis
7 7 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.21%) Big Data
8 4 (2.21%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.21%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.66%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.66%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (14.92%) Git
2 13 (7.18%) Bitbucket
2 13 (7.18%) GitLab
2 13 (7.18%) JIRA
3 5 (2.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.66%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.10%) Maven
6 2 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.55%) Ant
7 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.55%) git-flow
7 1 (0.55%) JUnit
7 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.55%) Selenium
7 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.39%) Retail
3 16 (8.84%) Finance
4 15 (8.29%) Manufacturing
5 10 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.42%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.87%) Advertising
8 7 (3.87%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.31%) Marketing
10 3 (1.66%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.10%) Electronics
11 2 (1.10%) Law
11 2 (1.10%) Military
11 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (22.65%) Senior
2 22 (12.15%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (9.94%) Support Engineer
4 14 (7.73%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.63%) IT Support
5 12 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.08%) Analyst
6 11 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (6.08%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (5.52%) Developer
7 10 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Graduate
8 9 (4.97%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Logistics Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.42%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Software Engineering Graduate
9 8 (4.42%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.52%) Node.js
2 7 (3.87%) Django
2 7 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (3.31%) .NET
3 6 (3.31%) REST
4 5 (2.76%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.76%) CSS
4 5 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.76%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (2.76%) React
5 4 (2.21%) gRPC
5 4 (2.21%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.21%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.21%) RESTful
5 4 (2.21%) SAP Basis
5 4 (2.21%) Spring
5 4 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.21%) Swagger
6 3 (1.66%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.39%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.84%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (8.84%) FPGA
3 8 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.76%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.76%) LIMS
5 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.21%) NHS
6 4 (2.21%) PKI
6 4 (2.21%) Replication
6 4 (2.21%) SCADA
7 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.10%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.10%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 96 (53.04%) Windows
2 44 (24.31%) Windows Server
3 17 (9.39%) Unix
4 12 (6.63%) Debian
5 8 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.87%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.31%) CentOS
8 5 (2.76%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.21%) SUSE
10 3 (1.66%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (1.66%) VMS
11 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
11 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.55%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.55%) Fedora
12 1 (0.55%) Solaris
12 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (19.89%) Containerisation
2 36 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (19.34%) CI/CD
4 33 (18.23%) ITIL
5 32 (17.68%) DevOps
6 26 (14.36%) Computer Science
7 21 (11.60%) Agile
8 18 (9.94%) Software Engineering
9 17 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (9.39%) Mentoring
10 15 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (7.73%) Coaching
11 14 (7.73%) Observability
11 14 (7.73%) Service Delivery
11 14 (7.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (7.18%) Change Management
13 12 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.63%) Microservices
14 11 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 46 (25.41%) Python
2 29 (16.02%) SQL
3 27 (14.92%) Java
4 20 (11.05%) C
5 19 (10.50%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.39%) Bash
7 11 (6.08%) Go
7 11 (6.08%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.52%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.42%) C++
9 8 (4.42%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.31%) C#
10 6 (3.31%) PHP
11 4 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.66%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) ABAP
13 1 (0.55%) Delphi
13 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (16.02%) Degree
2 22 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.18%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.18%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.87%) HND
6 6 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.76%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.76%) HNC
8 4 (2.21%) CCNA
8 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.10%) CISSP
9 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.55%) PhD
10 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) GDPR
2 7 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.76%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (18.23%) Active Directory
2 24 (13.26%) Docker
3 12 (6.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.08%) vSphere
5 10 (5.52%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.42%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.76%) Firmware
8 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (22.10%) Ansible
2 39 (21.55%) Terraform
3 38 (20.99%) Kubernetes
4 19 (10.50%) Grafana
5 16 (8.84%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.97%) Control-M
7 7 (3.87%) Puppet
8 5 (2.76%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.21%) WSUS
10 3 (1.66%) Rancher
11 2 (1.10%) Argo
11 2 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.10%) Nagios
11 2 (1.10%) Plesk
11 2 (1.10%) Podman
11 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.55%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (19.34%) Microsoft
1 35 (19.34%) VMware
2 13 (7.18%) Google
2 13 (7.18%) Splunk
3 10 (5.52%) Cisco
4 9 (4.97%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.76%) SAP
5 5 (2.76%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.21%) Apple
6 4 (2.21%) Oracle
6 4 (2.21%) Sage
6 4 (2.21%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.21%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.10%) Adobe
7 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.10%) BMC
7 2 (1.10%) Draytek
7 2 (1.10%) Qualys
7 2 (1.10%) Siemens
7 2 (1.10%) Toshiba