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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 14 52
Rank change year-on-year -92 +38 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 361 1,028 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.54% 10.93% 3.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.15% 59.59% 36.01%
Number of salaries quoted 272 188 276
10th Percentile £35,125 £28,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £74,987 £63,375 £62,313
90th Percentile £101,250 £71,625 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -7.94%

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 1,159 1,725 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.94% 18.34% 9.90%
Number of salaries quoted 912 724 846
10th Percentile £27,275 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,985 £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 11 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 11 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 -92 186 £58,250 +9.65% 61
Yorkshire -33 99 £42,500 - 30
North East +1 76 £70,000 +7.69% 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 8 (2.22%) Apache
2 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.66%) IIS
4 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 122 (33.80%) AWS
2 85 (23.55%) Azure
3 40 (11.08%) GitHub
4 31 (8.59%) GCP
5 26 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.99%) Azure AKS
8 18 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.16%) Serverless
10 14 (3.88%) OpenShift
11 13 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (2.77%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.94%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.94%) PaaS
16 6 (1.66%) IaaS
17 5 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.59%) TCP/IP
2 28 (7.76%) DNS
3 23 (6.37%) Firewall
4 19 (5.26%) DHCP
5 16 (4.43%) VPN
6 8 (2.22%) LAN
6 8 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.94%) VLAN
7 7 (1.94%) WAN
8 6 (1.66%) SAN
9 5 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (1.39%) VSAN
10 4 (1.11%) SSH
10 4 (1.11%) SSL
11 3 (0.83%) AMQP
11 3 (0.83%) Internet
11 3 (0.83%) Wireless
12 2 (0.55%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.55%) ZigBee
13 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.34%) SQL Server
2 54 (14.96%) MySQL
3 25 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.99%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.83%) Big Data
6 3 (0.83%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.28%) Db2
8 1 (0.28%) Power BI
8 1 (0.28%) Redis
8 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (12.47%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.25%) GitLab
3 35 (9.70%) Git
4 20 (5.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.60%) JIRA
6 10 (2.77%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.94%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.94%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.83%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.28%) GDB
9 1 (0.28%) Maven
9 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.28%) WinDbg
General
1 72 (19.94%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.40%) Law
3 49 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.54%) Finance
5 19 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.43%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.60%) Retail
9 12 (3.32%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.39%) Advertising
12 4 (1.11%) Electronics
13 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.55%) Automotive
14 2 (0.55%) Banking
14 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Games
15 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.28%) Legal Technology
15 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (20.22%) Senior
2 68 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (14.96%) Software Engineer
4 52 (14.40%) Linux Engineer
5 43 (11.91%) Administrator
6 40 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (8.03%) Database Engineer
8 26 (7.20%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (7.20%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (6.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 23 (6.37%) Systems Administrator
11 22 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.71%) Lead
13 16 (4.43%) DBA
13 16 (4.43%) Developer
13 16 (4.43%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.16%) IT Support
14 15 (4.16%) Linux Administrator
14 15 (4.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.88%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (24.38%) Terraform
2 18 (4.99%) Node.js
3 17 (4.71%) Web Services
4 10 (2.77%) React
5 9 (2.49%) REST
6 7 (1.94%) JSON
6 7 (1.94%) Kafka
6 7 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.39%) HTML
9 4 (1.11%) .NET
9 4 (1.11%) Spring
9 4 (1.11%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.11%) YAML
10 3 (0.83%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.83%) gRPC
10 3 (0.83%) Laravel
10 3 (0.83%) Material-UI
10 3 (0.83%) Swagger
10 3 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.53%) Replication
2 36 (9.97%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.16%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.22%) Life Science
7 7 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.66%) Social Media
9 5 (1.39%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (0.83%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.55%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.55%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 112 (31.02%) Windows
2 56 (15.51%) Unix
3 46 (12.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (10.53%) Windows Server
5 23 (6.37%) CentOS
6 19 (5.26%) Ubuntu
7 11 (3.05%) Mac OS
8 9 (2.49%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.22%) AIX
10 6 (1.66%) Debian
11 3 (0.83%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.83%) Solaris
11 3 (0.83%) VMS
12 2 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (29.64%) CI/CD
2 101 (27.98%) DevOps
3 94 (26.04%) Software Engineering
4 82 (22.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (18.01%) Agile
8 64 (17.73%) Platform Engineering
9 63 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 56 (15.51%) Mentoring
11 43 (11.91%) High Availability
12 42 (11.63%) Containerisation
13 41 (11.36%) AI
14 40 (11.08%) Microservices
15 37 (10.25%) Continuous Integration
16 36 (9.97%) Coaching
17 33 (9.14%) Computer Science
18 32 (8.86%) Scrum
19 31 (8.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 31 (8.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (25.21%) Python
2 51 (14.13%) SQL
3 43 (11.91%) Bash
4 38 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 35 (9.70%) Java
6 34 (9.42%) C++
7 27 (7.48%) PowerShell
8 20 (5.54%) Groovy
8 20 (5.54%) Rust
9 14 (3.88%) Go
10 13 (3.60%) C
11 7 (1.94%) C#
12 6 (1.66%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.66%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.11%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.83%) Bicep
14 3 (0.83%) Perl
14 3 (0.83%) PHP
15 2 (0.55%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 44 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.42%) Degree
4 33 (9.14%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.49%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.83%) CREST Certified
8 3 (0.83%) RHCE
8 3 (0.83%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.55%) IBM AIX Certification
9 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.28%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.28%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.32%) QA
2 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.11%) SLA
3 3 (0.83%) GDPR
3 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (19.11%) Docker
2 21 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.60%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.22%) vSphere
6 7 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.66%) iptables
7 6 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.11%) Ceph
9 3 (0.83%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.28%) Firmware
10 1 (0.28%) KVM
10 1 (0.28%) UAG
Systems Management
1 82 (22.71%) Kubernetes
2 67 (18.56%) Ansible
3 21 (5.82%) Argo
4 18 (4.99%) Progress Chef
4 18 (4.99%) Puppet
5 12 (3.32%) Grafana
6 11 (3.05%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.49%) Podman
7 9 (2.49%) WSUS
8 5 (1.39%) SCCM
9 4 (1.11%) Istio
10 3 (0.83%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.83%) Control-M
10 3 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.83%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.83%) Nessus
10 3 (0.83%) Packer
10 3 (0.83%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.83%) systemd
10 3 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.70%) Red Hat
3 28 (7.76%) VMware
4 13 (3.60%) Google
4 13 (3.60%) Oracle
5 10 (2.77%) Dell
6 8 (2.22%) Veeam
7 7 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.94%) Splunk
8 6 (1.66%) Pega
9 5 (1.39%) Aruba
9 5 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.39%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.39%) HP
9 5 (1.39%) IBM
9 5 (1.39%) NetApp
9 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.39%) SonicWALL
10 4 (1.11%) New Relic
11 3 (0.83%) SaltStack