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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 63 50
Rank change year-on-year -50 -13 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 187 337 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.75% 3.65% 5.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.71% 29.28% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 136 192 310
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,620 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 700 1,151 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.55% 12.46% 14.73%
Number of salaries quoted 563 582 977
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £44,263
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -3.98% +2.94%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,449 £75,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -48 84 £57,500 +9.52% 71
Yorkshire -20 67 £34,000 -28.42% 46
North East +5 36 £51,500 -8.44% 24
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 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.67%) Apache
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.07%) CMS
4 2 (1.07%) nginx
4 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (32.62%) Azure
2 50 (26.74%) AWS
3 35 (18.72%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (10.16%) GCP
5 17 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (4.28%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.28%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (3.74%) IaaS
8 6 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.67%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.67%) dbt
9 5 (2.67%) PaaS
9 5 (2.67%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.14%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.14%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.90%) Firewall
2 24 (12.83%) DNS
2 24 (12.83%) TCP/IP
2 24 (12.83%) VPN
3 22 (11.76%) VLAN
3 22 (11.76%) VoIP
4 16 (8.56%) Ethernet
5 11 (5.88%) DHCP
6 10 (5.35%) SAN
7 9 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (4.28%) Internet
8 8 (4.28%) LAN
8 8 (4.28%) WAN
9 7 (3.74%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (3.74%) Wireless
10 5 (2.67%) DMZ
10 5 (2.67%) HTTP
10 5 (2.67%) SSL
10 5 (2.67%) STUN
11 4 (2.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.37%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.95%) MySQL
4 12 (6.42%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.21%) Redis
7 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.14%) Big Data
8 4 (2.14%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.60%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.07%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (14.44%) Git
2 13 (6.95%) JIRA
3 12 (6.42%) GitLab
4 11 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 10 (5.35%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.07%) Maven
8 2 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.53%) Ant
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.53%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.53%) git-flow
9 1 (0.53%) JUnit
9 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 65 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.09%) Finance
3 15 (8.02%) Manufacturing
4 13 (6.95%) Retail
5 9 (4.81%) Marketing
5 9 (4.81%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (4.81%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.21%) Advertising
6 6 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.67%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.60%) Electronics
10 2 (1.07%) Law
10 2 (1.07%) Military
10 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (24.06%) Senior
2 20 (10.70%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 15 (8.02%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.42%) Applications Engineer
5 12 (6.42%) Applications Support
5 12 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (5.88%) Support Technician
7 10 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Analyst
8 9 (4.81%) Graduate
8 9 (4.81%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) IT Support
8 9 (4.81%) Logistics Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Site Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Coordinator
9 8 (4.28%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.28%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.35%) Node.js
2 9 (4.81%) CSS
3 8 (4.28%) .NET
4 7 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.67%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.67%) Django
6 5 (2.67%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (2.67%) React
7 4 (2.14%) REST
7 4 (2.14%) SAP Basis
8 3 (1.60%) gRPC
8 3 (1.60%) HTML
8 3 (1.60%) Material-UI
8 3 (1.60%) RESTful
8 3 (1.60%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (1.60%) SAPUI5
8 3 (1.60%) Spring
8 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 18 (9.63%) Embedded Systems
3 16 (8.56%) FPGA
4 10 (5.35%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.28%) Clustering
5 8 (4.28%) LIMS
5 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.14%) NHS
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Replication
10 2 (1.07%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.07%) SCADA
11 1 (0.53%) Analogue Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 102 (54.55%) Windows
2 44 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 15 (8.02%) Unix
4 12 (6.42%) Mac OS
5 11 (5.88%) Debian
5 11 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.35%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (3.21%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.67%) CentOS
10 4 (2.14%) SUSE
11 3 (1.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.60%) VMS
12 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.53%) Fedora
12 1 (0.53%) Solaris
12 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (20.32%) CI/CD
2 38 (20.32%) DevOps
3 36 (19.25%) Computer Science
3 36 (19.25%) Containerisation
4 35 (18.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (13.90%) ITIL
6 25 (13.37%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (10.70%) Agile
8 19 (10.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (10.16%) Software Engineering
9 18 (9.63%) Mentoring
10 17 (9.09%) Change Management
10 17 (9.09%) Coaching
11 15 (8.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.49%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (6.95%) Customer Service
14 12 (6.42%) Microservices
15 11 (5.88%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.27%) Python
2 36 (19.25%) SQL
3 29 (15.51%) Java
4 24 (12.83%) C
5 20 (10.70%) Bash
6 15 (8.02%) PowerShell
7 14 (7.49%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.88%) C++
8 11 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.81%) Go
10 8 (4.28%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.74%) C#
11 7 (3.74%) PHP
12 6 (3.21%) Perl
13 5 (2.67%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.53%) ABAP
14 1 (0.53%) Delphi
14 1 (0.53%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.53%) Groovy
14 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (19.25%) Degree
2 19 (10.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.56%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.49%) HND
5 10 (5.35%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.35%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.28%) HNC
6 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.67%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.60%) CISSP
10 2 (1.07%) CEH
10 2 (1.07%) GCIA
11 1 (0.53%) GCFA
11 1 (0.53%) GCIH
11 1 (0.53%) PhD
11 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.67%) ISO 9001
2 5 (2.67%) QA
3 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (14.97%) Active Directory
1 28 (14.97%) Docker
2 21 (11.23%) Hyper-V
3 8 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.74%) vSphere
5 6 (3.21%) Firmware
6 5 (2.67%) Kamailio
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.60%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.53%) HDFS
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 37 (19.79%) Terraform
3 35 (18.72%) Ansible
4 21 (11.23%) Grafana
5 17 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.81%) Control-M
6 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.67%) Puppet
8 3 (1.60%) Argo
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.07%) Nagios
9 2 (1.07%) Plesk
9 2 (1.07%) Podman
9 2 (1.07%) Rancher
10 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (25.67%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.58%) VMware
3 15 (8.02%) SonicWALL
4 10 (5.35%) Google
4 10 (5.35%) Splunk
5 9 (4.81%) Dell
5 9 (4.81%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.28%) HP
6 8 (4.28%) Supermicro
7 7 (3.74%) Apple
7 7 (3.74%) Sage
8 6 (3.21%) Allen-Bradley
8 6 (3.21%) Siemens
8 6 (3.21%) Toshiba
9 5 (2.67%) Cisco
9 5 (2.67%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.67%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.14%) SAP
11 3 (1.60%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow