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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 62 48
Rank change year-on-year -34 -14 +9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 213 420 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.24% 3.37% 5.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.76% 32.79% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 166 242 325
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £35,500 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,625 £62,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £74,105 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 796 1,281 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.36% 10.27% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 626 679 993
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,406 £32,000 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,875 £63,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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 -41 96 £52,500 - 112
Yorkshire -8 81 £36,500 -14.12% 36
North East +13 36 £60,000 +7.14% 19
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 21 (9.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.88%) Apache
2 4 (1.88%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.41%) CMS
3 3 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.94%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.74%) Azure
2 53 (24.88%) AWS
3 46 (21.60%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (7.98%) GCP
5 14 (6.57%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.29%) IaaS
8 6 (2.82%) AWS CodeBuild
8 6 (2.82%) Route 53
8 6 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.35%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.35%) dbt
9 5 (2.35%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.35%) PaaS
9 5 (2.35%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 36 (16.90%) Firewall
2 35 (16.43%) DNS
3 33 (15.49%) VoIP
4 30 (14.08%) TCP/IP
4 30 (14.08%) VPN
5 28 (13.15%) VLAN
6 22 (10.33%) DHCP
7 17 (7.98%) SAN
8 12 (5.63%) Ethernet
9 10 (4.69%) LAN
9 10 (4.69%) WAN
10 9 (4.23%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (4.23%) Wireless
11 8 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (3.29%) Modbus
12 7 (3.29%) RS-485
13 5 (2.35%) DMZ
13 5 (2.35%) HTTP
13 5 (2.35%) STUN
14 4 (1.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.63%) MySQL
3 11 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.82%) Redis
6 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.88%) Big Data
7 4 (1.88%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.41%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.47%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (9.86%) Git
2 15 (7.04%) JIRA
3 14 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.10%) GitLab
5 11 (5.16%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.82%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.35%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.35%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.88%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.94%) Maven
9 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.47%) Ant
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) JUnit
10 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 77 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.86%) Finance
3 16 (7.51%) Manufacturing
4 13 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 11 (5.16%) Marketing
6 9 (4.23%) Electronics
6 9 (4.23%) Retail
7 7 (3.29%) Advertising
7 7 (3.29%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.29%) Military
7 7 (3.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.41%) Games
10 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Law
12 1 (0.47%) Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (23.00%) Senior
2 32 (15.02%) Support Engineer
3 25 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.80%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (8.45%) Support Technician
6 16 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.57%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.63%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (5.63%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.63%) Developer
9 10 (4.69%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (4.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) IT Support
9 10 (4.69%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Technical Support
9 10 (4.69%) Technical Support Engineer
10 9 (4.23%) Analyst
10 9 (4.23%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (5.16%) .NET
2 11 (5.16%) CSS
3 9 (4.23%) Node.js
4 6 (2.82%) React
5 5 (2.35%) Django
5 5 (2.35%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.35%) HTML
6 4 (1.88%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.88%) Laravel
6 4 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.88%) SAP Basis
6 4 (1.88%) Vue
7 3 (1.41%) gRPC
7 3 (1.41%) REST
7 3 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (1.41%) SAPUI5
8 2 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.94%) Kafka
8 2 (0.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.74%) Driving Licence
2 21 (9.86%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (6.57%) Clustering
4 12 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.63%) FPGA
5 8 (3.76%) LIMS
5 8 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.29%) Analogue Electronics
6 7 (3.29%) CAN bus
6 7 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.41%) NHS
8 3 (1.41%) Replication
9 2 (0.94%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (57.28%) Windows
2 59 (27.70%) Windows Server
3 21 (9.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (7.51%) Mac OS
4 16 (7.51%) Unix
5 15 (7.04%) Windows 10
6 13 (6.10%) Debian
7 10 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (4.23%) Ubuntu
9 7 (3.29%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (2.35%) CentOS
10 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.88%) SUSE
12 3 (1.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.94%) VMS
14 1 (0.47%) Android
14 1 (0.47%) Fedora
14 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (20.66%) DevOps
3 41 (19.25%) CI/CD
4 40 (18.78%) Containerisation
5 37 (17.37%) Computer Science
6 30 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 28 (13.15%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (11.27%) Mentoring
9 23 (10.80%) ITIL
10 20 (9.39%) Agile
11 17 (7.98%) Coaching
11 17 (7.98%) Software Engineering
12 15 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (6.57%) Change Management
13 14 (6.57%) Migration
13 14 (6.57%) Network Management
14 13 (6.10%) Microservices
14 13 (6.10%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (5.63%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.88%) Python
2 35 (16.43%) SQL
3 27 (12.68%) PowerShell
4 26 (12.21%) Java
5 24 (11.27%) Bash
6 21 (9.86%) C
7 17 (7.98%) C++
7 17 (7.98%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.16%) C#
9 9 (4.23%) PHP
10 6 (2.82%) Perl
10 6 (2.82%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.94%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.47%) ABAP
13 1 (0.47%) Delphi
13 1 (0.47%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 43 (20.19%) Degree
2 21 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 14 (6.57%) HND
6 10 (4.69%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.23%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.76%) HNC
9 6 (2.82%) CCNA
9 6 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.82%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.35%) DBS Check
10 5 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (2.35%) ISO 9001
1 5 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.35%) QA
2 2 (0.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
System Software
1 44 (20.66%) Active Directory
2 36 (16.90%) Docker
2 36 (16.90%) Hyper-V
3 17 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.10%) vSphere
5 12 (5.63%) Firmware
6 7 (3.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.35%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.47%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.47%) HDFS
10 1 (0.47%) Postfix
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (18.31%) Kubernetes
2 30 (14.08%) Ansible
3 29 (13.62%) Terraform
4 26 (12.21%) Grafana
5 19 (8.92%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (5.16%) Control-M
8 6 (2.82%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (2.35%) SCCM
9 5 (2.35%) SCOM
9 5 (2.35%) WSUS
10 4 (1.88%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.88%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.41%) Puppet
12 2 (0.94%) Argo
12 2 (0.94%) Plesk
12 2 (0.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 80 (37.56%) Microsoft
2 39 (18.31%) VMware
3 22 (10.33%) SonicWALL
4 14 (6.57%) Cisco
4 14 (6.57%) Dell
5 13 (6.10%) Google
5 13 (6.10%) HP
5 13 (6.10%) Supermicro
6 12 (5.63%) Red Hat
7 11 (5.16%) Splunk
8 9 (4.23%) Apple
8 9 (4.23%) Sage
9 8 (3.76%) Oracle
10 6 (2.82%) Allen-Bradley
10 6 (2.82%) Siemens
10 6 (2.82%) Toshiba
11 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.35%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.88%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.88%) SAP