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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 11 43
Rank change year-on-year -158 +32 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 190 1,058 774
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.95% 13.48% 4.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 59.84% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 160 204 530
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,000 £32,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £74,258 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 950 1,768 2,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.77% 22.53% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 742 683 1,731
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -126 103 £55,000 - 51
Yorkshire -79 52 £52,500 +23.53% 18
North East -30 35 £47,500 -24.60% 16
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 4 (2.11%) Apache
1 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) nginx
3 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.05%) AWS
2 59 (31.05%) Azure
3 20 (10.53%) GCP
4 19 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (8.95%) Azure AKS
5 17 (8.95%) GitHub
5 17 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.84%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.74%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.21%) Serverless
12 7 (3.68%) IaaS
13 6 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.16%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.16%) Firewall
2 19 (10.00%) DNS
3 17 (8.95%) VPN
4 13 (6.84%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.79%) DHCP
6 10 (5.26%) Internet
7 9 (4.74%) VLAN
7 9 (4.74%) VoIP
8 8 (4.21%) LAN
8 8 (4.21%) WAN
9 6 (3.16%) HTTP
10 5 (2.63%) DMZ
10 5 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.63%) STUN
11 4 (2.11%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.11%) MPLS
11 4 (2.11%) Network Security
11 4 (2.11%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.11%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (2.11%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.89%) SQL Server
2 32 (16.84%) MySQL
2 32 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.63%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.58%) Big Data
5 3 (1.58%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.58%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.58%) Redis
6 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.68%) GitLab
2 18 (9.47%) Git
3 17 (8.95%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.74%) JIRA
5 7 (3.68%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.63%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.53%) GDB
10 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.53%) WinDbg
General
1 36 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.58%) Law
3 19 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.79%) Aerospace
4 11 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.26%) Finance
5 10 (5.26%) Retail
6 6 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Advertising
8 4 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) German Language
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (21.05%) Senior
2 32 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (11.58%) Administrator
4 21 (11.05%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (7.89%) DBA
6 15 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (7.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.84%) Support Engineer
9 12 (6.32%) Developer
9 12 (6.32%) SQL DBA
10 11 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (5.79%) IT Support
11 8 (4.21%) Analyst
11 8 (4.21%) IT Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.95%) Node.js
2 8 (4.21%) REST
2 8 (4.21%) Web Services
3 7 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (3.68%) JSON
3 7 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.16%) HTML
5 5 (2.63%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (2.11%) Laravel
6 4 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.11%) React
6 4 (2.11%) YAML
7 3 (1.58%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.58%) gRPC
7 3 (1.58%) Material-UI
7 3 (1.58%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.58%) RESTful
7 3 (1.58%) Spring
7 3 (1.58%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.42%) Replication
2 11 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.74%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.11%) PKI
6 4 (2.11%) SCADA
7 3 (1.58%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.58%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.58%) Life Science
7 3 (1.58%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.05%) IoT
8 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.05%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 80 (42.11%) Windows
2 29 (15.26%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.68%) Unix
4 20 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.79%) Debian
5 11 (5.79%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.16%) CentOS
6 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.58%) AIX
8 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.05%) Solaris
9 2 (1.05%) VMS
10 1 (0.53%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (28.42%) CI/CD
2 53 (27.89%) DevOps
3 42 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (18.95%) Agile
6 28 (14.74%) Software Engineering
7 27 (14.21%) Containerisation
7 27 (14.21%) Mentoring
8 26 (13.68%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (12.63%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (12.63%) Microservices
11 21 (11.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (10.53%) High Availability
13 19 (10.00%) ITIL
13 19 (10.00%) Test Automation
14 18 (9.47%) AI
14 18 (9.47%) Scrum
15 15 (7.89%) Coaching
16 14 (7.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.47%) Python
2 27 (14.21%) Java
2 27 (14.21%) SQL
3 24 (12.63%) PowerShell
4 23 (12.11%) Bash
5 14 (7.37%) C++
6 12 (6.32%) Shell Script
7 11 (5.79%) C
7 11 (5.79%) Go
7 11 (5.79%) Groovy
8 7 (3.68%) Rust
8 7 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.16%) C#
9 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.63%) Perl
10 5 (2.63%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) Bicep
11 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.95%) DV Cleared
3 16 (8.42%) Degree
4 13 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.16%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.11%) CCNA
9 4 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.53%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.74%) GDPR
1 9 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.11%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.58%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (13.16%) Docker
2 20 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.79%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.74%) vSphere
6 7 (3.68%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.11%) iptables
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (31.05%) Terraform
2 42 (22.11%) Kubernetes
3 41 (21.58%) Ansible
4 15 (7.89%) Argo
5 11 (5.79%) Grafana
5 11 (5.79%) Progress Chef
6 9 (4.74%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.68%) Puppet
8 4 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.11%) WSUS
9 3 (1.58%) Packer
9 3 (1.58%) systemd
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.05%) Control-M
10 2 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.05%) Podman
10 2 (1.05%) Rancher
11 1 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 22 (11.58%) Microsoft
1 22 (11.58%) VMware
2 17 (8.95%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.79%) Splunk
4 5 (2.63%) Cisco
4 5 (2.63%) Google
4 5 (2.63%) SolarWinds
5 4 (2.11%) IBM
5 4 (2.11%) Oracle
6 3 (1.58%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.58%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.05%) Mirantis
7 2 (1.05%) Qualys
7 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Adobe
8 1 (0.53%) Cognos
8 1 (0.53%) Dell
8 1 (0.53%) McAfee
8 1 (0.53%) SAP