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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 19 58
Rank change year-on-year -77 +39 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 397 890 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.65% 9.44% 3.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.67% 58.02% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 279 150 237
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £70,125 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -4.00%

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 1,179 1,534 1,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.91% 16.27% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 894 631 665
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,350
25th Percentile £30,125 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -17.65% -6.59%
75th Percentile £58,063 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -86 208 £60,000 +14.29% 108
Yorkshire -13 109 £42,500 +6.25% 61
North East -13 80 £71,991 +19.99% 29
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 10 (2.52%) Apache
1 10 (2.52%) IIS
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.50%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.25%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.25%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 143 (36.02%) AWS
2 100 (25.19%) Azure
3 51 (12.85%) GitHub
4 42 (10.58%) GCP
5 27 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.03%) Azure AKS
11 14 (3.53%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (3.02%) Serverless
13 10 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.27%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.02%) PaaS
16 7 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.76%) IaaS
16 7 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.07%) TCP/IP
2 35 (8.82%) DNS
3 22 (5.54%) VPN
4 21 (5.29%) DHCP
5 18 (4.53%) Internet
6 17 (4.28%) Firewall
7 11 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (2.52%) VLAN
9 7 (1.76%) SSL
10 6 (1.51%) LAN
10 6 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (1.51%) SAN
10 6 (1.51%) VSAN
11 5 (1.26%) WAN
12 2 (0.50%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.50%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.50%) SSH
12 2 (0.50%) VoIP
12 2 (0.50%) Wireless
12 2 (0.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.37%) SQL Server
2 56 (14.11%) MySQL
3 23 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.78%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.50%) Big Data
7 2 (0.50%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.50%) Redis
7 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.25%) Db2
8 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Parquet
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
8 1 (0.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 53 (13.35%) Git
2 51 (12.85%) Jenkins
3 42 (10.58%) GitLab
4 26 (6.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (3.02%) JIRA
6 7 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.76%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.51%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.76%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
General
1 85 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.62%) Public Sector
3 50 (12.59%) Law
4 32 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.79%) Finance
6 22 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.03%) Aerospace
7 16 (4.03%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.78%) Retail
9 10 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.26%) Advertising
10 5 (1.26%) Electronics
11 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (24.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (20.91%) Senior
3 53 (13.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (13.10%) Software Engineer
5 45 (11.34%) Linux Engineer
6 42 (10.58%) Administrator
7 33 (8.31%) Senior DevOps
8 32 (8.06%) Principal Engineer
8 32 (8.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 28 (7.05%) Database Engineer
10 24 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.54%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 22 (5.54%) Systems Administrator
12 20 (5.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.79%) IT Support
13 19 (4.79%) Lead
14 17 (4.28%) IT Engineer
15 16 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (4.03%) DBA
16 15 (3.78%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (24.94%) Terraform
2 18 (4.53%) Web Services
3 14 (3.53%) Node.js
4 9 (2.27%) React
5 7 (1.76%) Kafka
6 5 (1.26%) HTML
6 5 (1.26%) REST
7 4 (1.01%) .NET
7 4 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.01%) JSON
8 3 (0.76%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.76%) Laravel
8 3 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.76%) Spring
8 3 (0.76%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.76%) Vue
9 2 (0.50%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.50%) LAMP
9 2 (0.50%) Material-UI
9 2 (0.50%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.33%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.07%) Replication
3 21 (5.29%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (4.53%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.77%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.76%) Life Science
7 6 (1.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.51%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.51%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.51%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.51%) Social Media
8 5 (1.26%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
9 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.76%) CSOC
10 3 (0.76%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 122 (30.73%) Windows
2 59 (14.86%) Unix
3 49 (12.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (9.82%) Windows Server
5 28 (7.05%) CentOS
6 19 (4.79%) Ubuntu
7 14 (3.53%) macOS
8 12 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (2.52%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.51%) AIX
12 5 (1.26%) Debian
13 3 (0.76%) CoreOS
13 3 (0.76%) VMS
14 2 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.50%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (33.75%) CI/CD
2 133 (33.50%) DevOps
3 122 (30.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (23.68%) Software Engineering
5 89 (22.42%) Platform Engineering
6 87 (21.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 86 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (19.65%) Mentoring
10 69 (17.38%) Agile
11 56 (14.11%) Containerisation
12 49 (12.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 48 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
14 47 (11.84%) AI
15 45 (11.34%) Coaching
16 42 (10.58%) High Availability
17 39 (9.82%) Microservices
17 39 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
18 34 (8.56%) Computer Science
18 34 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 98 (24.69%) Python
2 53 (13.35%) Bash
3 52 (13.10%) Shell Script
3 52 (13.10%) SQL
4 36 (9.07%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.31%) Java
6 30 (7.56%) C++
7 20 (5.04%) Go
7 20 (5.04%) Rust
8 18 (4.53%) Groovy
9 12 (3.02%) C
10 8 (2.02%) C#
11 6 (1.51%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.51%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.01%) Bicep
12 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.76%) PHP
14 2 (0.50%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 90 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.08%) DV Cleared
4 38 (9.57%) Degree
5 24 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.52%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.51%) CREST Certified
9 5 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.01%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.76%) MCSE
11 3 (0.76%) RHCE
12 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.50%) IBM AIX Certification
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.25%) MCSA
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.27%) QA
2 6 (1.51%) SLA
3 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.50%) GDPR
4 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.25%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
5 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (23.17%) Docker
2 23 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.29%) Active Directory
4 13 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.52%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.02%) vSphere
7 7 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.76%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.01%) Ceph
8 4 (1.01%) iptables
9 2 (0.50%) UAG
10 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.25%) Firmware
10 1 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 90 (22.67%) Kubernetes
2 78 (19.65%) Ansible
3 20 (5.04%) Puppet
4 19 (4.79%) Progress Chef
5 18 (4.53%) Argo
6 12 (3.02%) Grafana
6 12 (3.02%) WSUS
7 11 (2.77%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.27%) Podman
9 6 (1.51%) SCCM
9 6 (1.51%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.01%) Istio
11 3 (0.76%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.76%) Control-M
11 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.76%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.76%) Nessus
11 3 (0.76%) SCVMM
12 2 (0.50%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 67 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.56%) Red Hat
3 30 (7.56%) VMware
4 26 (6.55%) Google
5 14 (3.53%) Oracle
6 13 (3.27%) Dell
7 11 (2.77%) HP
7 11 (2.77%) Veeam
8 10 (2.52%) NetApp
8 10 (2.52%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.02%) Aruba
9 8 (2.02%) CheckPoint
9 8 (2.02%) SonicWALL
9 8 (2.02%) Thales
10 7 (1.76%) Splunk
10 7 (1.76%) YouTube
11 6 (1.51%) Pega
12 5 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.26%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow