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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 16 45
Rank change year-on-year -101 +29 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 301 1,085 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.38% 11.31% 3.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.64% 58.68% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 234 243 360
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,855
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £48,306 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -3.39% -13.04%
75th Percentile £76,075 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £74,157 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -9.95%

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 1,130 1,849 1,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.20% 19.27% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 884 833 1,133
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £66,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -101 145 £55,000 +2.33% 96
Yorkshire -52 84 £42,500 +13.33% 31
North East -2 72 £70,000 +7.69% 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 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.66%) Apache
3 4 (1.33%) IIS
4 3 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
5 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.33%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 110 (36.54%) AWS
2 80 (26.58%) Azure
3 36 (11.96%) GitHub
4 32 (10.63%) GCP
5 25 (8.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (4.98%) Azure AKS
11 13 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (4.32%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.99%) Serverless
13 9 (2.99%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.99%) PaaS
14 8 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.66%) IaaS
15 7 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.30%) Firewall
2 30 (9.97%) TCP/IP
3 23 (7.64%) DNS
4 16 (5.32%) DHCP
5 14 (4.65%) VPN
6 9 (2.99%) LAN
7 8 (2.66%) VLAN
7 8 (2.66%) WAN
8 6 (1.99%) SAN
8 6 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.66%) VoIP
9 5 (1.66%) VSAN
10 4 (1.33%) SSH
11 3 (1.00%) DMZ
11 3 (1.00%) HTTP
11 3 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.00%) STUN
11 3 (1.00%) Wireless
12 2 (0.66%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.66%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.28%) SQL Server
2 45 (14.95%) MySQL
3 27 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.98%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.66%) Big Data
6 2 (0.66%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.66%) Redis
7 1 (0.33%) Power BI
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (12.62%) Jenkins
2 33 (10.96%) GitLab
3 29 (9.63%) Git
4 17 (5.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (3.99%) JIRA
6 8 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.66%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.99%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.33%) GDB
9 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.33%) WinDbg
General
1 66 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.95%) Law
3 35 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.65%) Finance
5 15 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.65%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.32%) Retail
8 8 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.33%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.66%) Advertising
12 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Electronics
13 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.33%) Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Front Office
14 1 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 62 (20.60%) DevOps Engineer
1 62 (20.60%) Senior
2 40 (13.29%) Linux Engineer
3 38 (12.62%) Administrator
4 33 (10.96%) Software Engineer
5 26 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (7.97%) Senior DevOps
7 23 (7.64%) Database Engineer
7 23 (7.64%) Principal Engineer
7 23 (7.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.31%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (4.98%) DBA
11 14 (4.65%) C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (4.32%) Developer
12 13 (4.32%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.99%) SQL DBA
14 11 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.65%) Linux Administrator
14 11 (3.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.65%) Node.js
2 14 (4.65%) Web Services
3 8 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.33%) JSON
4 7 (2.33%) React
4 7 (2.33%) REST
5 5 (1.66%) Kafka
5 5 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.33%) HTML
6 4 (1.33%) YAML
7 3 (1.00%) .NET
7 3 (1.00%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (1.00%) Laravel
7 3 (1.00%) Vue
8 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.66%) gRPC
8 2 (0.66%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (0.66%) Sass
8 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.30%) Cloud Native
1 31 (10.30%) Replication
2 15 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.99%) Driving Licence
3 12 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.66%) Life Science
5 6 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.99%) Social Media
6 4 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.66%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.66%) Cybercrime
8 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.66%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.66%) PKI
8 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 84 (27.91%) Windows
2 43 (14.29%) Unix
3 38 (12.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (11.30%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.31%) CentOS
6 17 (5.65%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.99%) Debian
7 9 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (2.33%) AIX
8 7 (2.33%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.00%) CoreOS
9 3 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (1.00%) Solaris
9 3 (1.00%) VMS
10 2 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (31.56%) CI/CD
1 95 (31.56%) DevOps
2 67 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (22.26%) Software Engineering
3 66 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
5 53 (17.61%) Agile
6 50 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 40 (13.29%) AI
8 40 (13.29%) High Availability
8 40 (13.29%) Mentoring
9 37 (12.29%) Containerisation
10 34 (11.30%) Microservices
11 33 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (10.63%) Computer Science
13 30 (9.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (9.63%) Test Automation
15 24 (7.97%) Coaching
15 24 (7.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (29.24%) Python
2 42 (13.95%) Bash
2 42 (13.95%) SQL
3 34 (11.30%) Java
4 33 (10.96%) C++
5 31 (10.30%) Shell Script
6 27 (8.97%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.64%) Rust
8 17 (5.65%) Groovy
9 11 (3.65%) Go
10 10 (3.32%) C
11 6 (1.99%) C#
12 5 (1.66%) Perl
13 3 (1.00%) Bicep
13 3 (1.00%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.00%) PHP
13 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 63 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.63%) Degree
4 31 (10.30%) DV Cleared
5 23 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.99%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.66%) RHCE
9 2 (0.66%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.33%) IBM AIX Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.33%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.66%) GDPR
2 4 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.33%) QA
3 3 (1.00%) SLA
4 2 (0.66%) NIST
4 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (18.94%) Docker
2 21 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.32%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.99%) vSphere
6 6 (1.99%) iptables
6 6 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.33%) Ceph
7 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.33%) Firmware
8 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 84 (27.91%) Terraform
2 70 (23.26%) Kubernetes
3 61 (20.27%) Ansible
4 21 (6.98%) Argo
5 15 (4.98%) Progress Chef
6 14 (4.65%) Grafana
6 14 (4.65%) Puppet
7 13 (4.32%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.33%) WSUS
9 6 (1.99%) Podman
10 4 (1.33%) Istio
11 3 (1.00%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.00%) Control-M
11 3 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.00%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.00%) Nessus
11 3 (1.00%) Packer
11 3 (1.00%) SCCM
11 3 (1.00%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.63%) Red Hat
3 26 (8.64%) VMware
4 12 (3.99%) Google
5 8 (2.66%) Dell
6 7 (2.33%) Splunk
7 6 (1.99%) Pega
7 6 (1.99%) Veeam
8 5 (1.66%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.66%) Cisco
8 5 (1.66%) Oracle
8 5 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.33%) IBM
10 3 (1.00%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.00%) HP
10 3 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.00%) McAfee
10 3 (1.00%) NetApp
10 3 (1.00%) SonicWALL