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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 62 45
Rank change year-on-year -44 -17 +12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 202 413 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.07% 3.33% 5.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.34% 32.99% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 165 233 324
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 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -7.49% +8.10%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £69,800
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £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 830 1,252 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.50% 10.08% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 636 644 995
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,469 £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 £51,500 £56,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -50 92 £50,000 -4.76% 90
Yorkshire -14 74 £36,500 -14.12% 43
North East +4 36 £60,000 +7.14% 20
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 (10.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.98%) Apache
2 4 (1.98%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.49%) CMS
3 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (36.63%) Azure
2 51 (25.25%) AWS
3 46 (22.77%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (8.42%) GCP
5 14 (6.93%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.47%) IaaS
8 6 (2.97%) AWS CodeBuild
8 6 (2.97%) Route 53
8 6 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.48%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.48%) dbt
9 5 (2.48%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.48%) PaaS
9 5 (2.48%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 37 (18.32%) Firewall
2 35 (17.33%) DNS
3 33 (16.34%) VoIP
4 30 (14.85%) TCP/IP
4 30 (14.85%) VPN
5 28 (13.86%) VLAN
6 22 (10.89%) DHCP
7 17 (8.42%) SAN
8 10 (4.95%) LAN
8 10 (4.95%) WAN
9 9 (4.46%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (4.46%) Wireless
10 8 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (3.47%) Modbus
11 7 (3.47%) RS-485
12 5 (2.48%) DMZ
12 5 (2.48%) HTTP
12 5 (2.48%) STUN
13 4 (1.98%) Ethernet
14 3 (1.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.37%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.94%) MySQL
3 10 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.97%) Redis
6 5 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.48%) Big Data
7 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.49%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (9.90%) Git
2 15 (7.43%) JIRA
3 14 (6.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.44%) GitLab
5 11 (5.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.97%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.48%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.98%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.99%) Maven
9 2 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.50%) Ant
10 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.50%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.50%) git-flow
10 1 (0.50%) JUnit
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 73 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.89%) Finance
3 14 (6.93%) Telecoms
4 13 (6.44%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.94%) Marketing
6 8 (3.96%) Advertising
6 8 (3.96%) Electronics
6 8 (3.96%) Retail
7 7 (3.47%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.47%) Military
8 5 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Games
11 2 (0.99%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Law
11 2 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (23.76%) Senior
2 33 (16.34%) Support Engineer
3 25 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (10.40%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (8.91%) Support Technician
6 17 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) Applications Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) Applications Support
7 12 (5.94%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Developer
8 11 (5.45%) Technical Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Technical Support
8 11 (5.45%) Technical Support Engineer
9 10 (4.95%) Analyst
9 10 (4.95%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (4.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 9 (4.46%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) IT Support
11 8 (3.96%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (5.45%) CSS
3 10 (4.95%) .NET
4 8 (3.96%) Node.js
5 6 (2.97%) React
6 5 (2.48%) Django
6 5 (2.48%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (2.48%) HTML
7 4 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.98%) Laravel
7 4 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.98%) SAP Basis
7 4 (1.98%) Vue
8 3 (1.49%) gRPC
8 3 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (1.49%) SAPUI5
9 2 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.99%) Kafka
9 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.89%) Driving Licence
2 14 (6.93%) Clustering
3 13 (6.44%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (5.94%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.96%) LIMS
6 7 (3.47%) Analogue Electronics
6 7 (3.47%) CAN bus
6 7 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.97%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.98%) FPGA
10 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Replication
11 2 (0.99%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) NHS
11 2 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 122 (60.40%) Windows
2 58 (28.71%) Windows Server
3 21 (10.40%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (8.42%) Mac OS
5 15 (7.43%) Windows 10
6 14 (6.93%) Unix
7 13 (6.44%) Debian
8 9 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (4.46%) Ubuntu
9 7 (3.47%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (2.48%) CentOS
10 5 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.98%) SUSE
12 3 (1.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.99%) VMS
14 1 (0.50%) Android
14 1 (0.50%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (22.28%) DevOps
3 42 (20.79%) CI/CD
4 40 (19.80%) Containerisation
5 36 (17.82%) Computer Science
6 30 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 29 (14.36%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (11.88%) Mentoring
10 23 (11.39%) ITIL
11 19 (9.41%) Agile
12 17 (8.42%) Coaching
13 14 (6.93%) Change Management
13 14 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (6.93%) Network Management
13 14 (6.93%) Software Engineering
14 13 (6.44%) Microservices
14 13 (6.44%) Migration
14 13 (6.44%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (5.94%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.25%) Python
2 32 (15.84%) SQL
3 27 (13.37%) PowerShell
4 24 (11.88%) Java
5 23 (11.39%) Bash
6 18 (8.91%) C
7 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.43%) C++
9 10 (4.95%) C#
10 8 (3.96%) PHP
11 6 (2.97%) Perl
11 6 (2.97%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.98%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.99%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.50%) ABAP
14 1 (0.50%) Go
14 1 (0.50%) Groovy
14 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (21.29%) Degree
2 20 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (6.93%) HND
4 14 (6.93%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.95%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.46%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.96%) HNC
7 8 (3.96%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.97%) CCNA
8 6 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.48%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (2.48%) ISO 9001
1 5 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.98%) QA
3 2 (0.99%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 44 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 36 (17.82%) Hyper-V
3 34 (16.83%) Docker
4 17 (8.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (6.44%) vSphere
6 12 (5.94%) Firmware
7 8 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.47%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (2.97%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (2.48%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.99%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.50%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.50%) HDFS
12 1 (0.50%) Postfix
12 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.36%) Ansible
2 29 (14.36%) Terraform
3 26 (12.87%) Grafana
4 19 (9.41%) Prometheus
5 18 (8.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (5.45%) Control-M
7 6 (2.97%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (2.48%) SCCM
8 5 (2.48%) SCOM
8 5 (2.48%) WSUS
9 4 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.98%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.49%) Puppet
11 2 (0.99%) Argo
11 2 (0.99%) Plesk
12 1 (0.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 80 (39.60%) Microsoft
2 38 (18.81%) VMware
3 22 (10.89%) SonicWALL
4 14 (6.93%) Cisco
4 14 (6.93%) Dell
5 13 (6.44%) Google
5 13 (6.44%) HP
5 13 (6.44%) Supermicro
6 11 (5.45%) Red Hat
6 11 (5.45%) Splunk
7 9 (4.46%) Apple
7 9 (4.46%) Sage
8 8 (3.96%) Oracle
9 6 (2.97%) Allen-Bradley
9 6 (2.97%) Siemens
9 6 (2.97%) Toshiba
10 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.48%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.98%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.98%) SAP