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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 15 52
Rank change year-on-year -86 +37 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 365 1,021 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.55% 10.87% 3.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.52% 59.85% 35.83%
Number of salaries quoted 273 180 271
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £74,987 £63,375 £60,625
90th Percentile £101,250 £72,750 £71,991
England median annual salary £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.40% +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 1,158 1,706 1,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.93% 18.17% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 908 706 828
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,008
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,563 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -9.57%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £65,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -89 188 £57,500 +6.98% 112
Yorkshire -19 101 £42,500 +3.03% 42
North East -3 76 £70,000 +7.69% 37
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 8 (2.19%) Apache
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.64%) IIS
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 122 (33.42%) AWS
2 86 (23.56%) Azure
3 40 (10.96%) GitHub
4 31 (8.49%) GCP
5 26 (7.12%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (4.93%) Azure AKS
9 18 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (4.11%) Serverless
11 14 (3.84%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.74%) Amazon S3
15 8 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (1.92%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.92%) PaaS
17 6 (1.64%) IaaS
18 5 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.49%) TCP/IP
2 29 (7.95%) DNS
3 22 (6.03%) Firewall
4 20 (5.48%) DHCP
5 17 (4.66%) VPN
6 8 (2.19%) LAN
6 8 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.92%) VLAN
7 7 (1.92%) WAN
8 6 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (1.64%) SAN
9 5 (1.37%) SSL
9 5 (1.37%) VSAN
10 4 (1.10%) Internet
10 4 (1.10%) SSH
11 3 (0.82%) AMQP
11 3 (0.82%) Wireless
12 2 (0.55%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.55%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.55%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.16%) SQL Server
2 54 (14.79%) MySQL
3 25 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.82%) Big Data
6 3 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.27%) Db2
8 1 (0.27%) Power BI
8 1 (0.27%) Redis
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.14%) GitLab
3 35 (9.59%) Git
4 20 (5.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.56%) JIRA
6 10 (2.74%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.27%) GDB
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
9 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.27%) WinDbg
General
1 74 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.52%) Law
3 49 (13.42%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.48%) Finance
4 20 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.84%) Aerospace
8 13 (3.56%) Retail
9 10 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.37%) Advertising
11 4 (1.10%) Electronics
12 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.55%) Automotive
13 2 (0.55%) Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (20.00%) Senior
2 68 (18.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (15.07%) Software Engineer
4 52 (14.25%) Linux Engineer
5 44 (12.05%) Administrator
6 42 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (7.95%) Database Engineer
8 26 (7.12%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (7.12%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (6.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 24 (6.58%) Systems Administrator
11 22 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.93%) Lead
13 16 (4.38%) DBA
13 16 (4.38%) Developer
13 16 (4.38%) IT Support
13 16 (4.38%) Linux Administrator
13 16 (4.38%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.84%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (24.11%) Terraform
2 18 (4.93%) Node.js
3 17 (4.66%) Web Services
4 10 (2.74%) React
5 9 (2.47%) REST
6 7 (1.92%) JSON
6 7 (1.92%) Kafka
6 7 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.37%) HTML
9 4 (1.10%) .NET
9 4 (1.10%) Spring
9 4 (1.10%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.10%) YAML
10 3 (0.82%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.82%) gRPC
10 3 (0.82%) Laravel
10 3 (0.82%) Material-UI
10 3 (0.82%) Swagger
10 3 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.41%) Replication
2 36 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.38%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.19%) Life Science
7 7 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.64%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.64%) Social Media
9 5 (1.37%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.37%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.55%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 115 (31.51%) Windows
2 57 (15.62%) Unix
3 47 (12.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (10.41%) Windows Server
5 23 (6.30%) CentOS
6 19 (5.21%) Ubuntu
7 12 (3.29%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.74%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (2.19%) AIX
11 6 (1.64%) Debian
12 3 (0.82%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.82%) Solaris
12 3 (0.82%) VMS
13 2 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.55%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (29.32%) CI/CD
2 102 (27.95%) DevOps
3 95 (26.03%) Software Engineering
4 82 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (18.36%) Agile
7 65 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 64 (17.53%) Platform Engineering
9 57 (15.62%) Mentoring
10 43 (11.78%) High Availability
11 42 (11.51%) Containerisation
12 41 (11.23%) AI
13 40 (10.96%) Microservices
14 37 (10.14%) Coaching
14 37 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (9.04%) Computer Science
16 32 (8.77%) Scrum
17 31 (8.49%) Test Automation
18 30 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (24.66%) Python
2 51 (13.97%) SQL
3 43 (11.78%) Bash
4 38 (10.41%) Shell Script
5 35 (9.59%) Java
6 34 (9.32%) C++
7 27 (7.40%) PowerShell
8 20 (5.48%) Groovy
8 20 (5.48%) Rust
9 14 (3.84%) Go
10 13 (3.56%) C
11 7 (1.92%) C#
12 6 (1.64%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.64%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) Bicep
14 3 (0.82%) PHP
15 2 (0.55%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.55%) Korn
15 2 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.86%) Degree
4 32 (8.77%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.47%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.10%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.82%) RHCE
9 3 (0.82%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.55%) IBM AIX Certification
10 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.55%) MCSE
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.27%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.84%) QA
2 5 (1.37%) SLA
3 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.82%) GDPR
4 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (18.90%) Docker
2 22 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (3.56%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.47%) vSphere
6 7 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.64%) iptables
7 6 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.10%) Ceph
8 4 (1.10%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.55%) UAG
10 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 81 (22.19%) Kubernetes
2 68 (18.63%) Ansible
3 21 (5.75%) Argo
4 18 (4.93%) Progress Chef
4 18 (4.93%) Puppet
5 12 (3.29%) Grafana
6 11 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.47%) Podman
7 9 (2.47%) WSUS
8 6 (1.64%) SCCM
9 4 (1.10%) Istio
9 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.82%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.82%) Control-M
10 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.82%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.82%) Nessus
10 3 (0.82%) Packer
10 3 (0.82%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.82%) systemd
Vendors
1 41 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.86%) Red Hat
3 30 (8.22%) VMware
4 14 (3.84%) Google
5 13 (3.56%) Oracle
6 10 (2.74%) Dell
7 8 (2.19%) Veeam
8 7 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.92%) Splunk
9 6 (1.64%) NetApp
9 6 (1.64%) Pega
10 5 (1.37%) Aruba
10 5 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.37%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.37%) HP
10 5 (1.37%) IBM
10 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.37%) SonicWALL
10 5 (1.37%) Thales
11 4 (1.10%) New Relic