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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -95 +38 +6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 352 1,037 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.53% 11.09% 3.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.61% 59.53% 36.48%
Number of salaries quoted 268 199 285
10th Percentile £35,000 £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% -16.67%
75th Percentile £74,990 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £75,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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 1,150 1,742 1,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.98% 18.63% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 906 742 889
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -14.12% -10.53%
75th Percentile £55,938 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,985 £66,250 £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 5 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 5 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 -88 176 £57,500 +6.98% 113
Yorkshire -39 100 £42,500 -2.86% 43
North East -6 76 £70,000 +7.69% 38
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 6 (1.70%) Apache
1 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.42%) IIS
3 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.28%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 119 (33.81%) AWS
2 82 (23.30%) Azure
3 40 (11.36%) GitHub
4 30 (8.52%) GCP
5 26 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.11%) Azure AKS
10 17 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (3.98%) Serverless
12 13 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (3.69%) OpenShift
13 11 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.84%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.99%) PaaS
16 6 (1.70%) Entra ID
16 6 (1.70%) IaaS
17 5 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.52%) TCP/IP
2 26 (7.39%) DNS
3 23 (6.53%) Firewall
4 17 (4.83%) DHCP
5 15 (4.26%) VPN
6 8 (2.27%) LAN
7 7 (1.99%) WAN
7 7 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.70%) SAN
8 6 (1.70%) VLAN
9 5 (1.42%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (1.42%) VSAN
10 4 (1.14%) SSH
10 4 (1.14%) SSL
11 3 (0.85%) Internet
11 3 (0.85%) Wireless
12 2 (0.57%) AMQP
12 2 (0.57%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.57%) ZigBee
13 1 (0.28%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.48%) SQL Server
2 53 (15.06%) MySQL
3 25 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.57%) Big Data
6 2 (0.57%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.28%) Db2
7 1 (0.28%) Power BI
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (12.78%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.51%) GitLab
3 35 (9.94%) Git
4 20 (5.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (3.41%) JIRA
6 10 (2.84%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.99%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.99%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.85%) 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 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.77%) Law
3 49 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.68%) Finance
5 19 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.13%) Retail
9 10 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.99%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.42%) Advertising
12 3 (0.85%) Electronics
12 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.57%) Automotive
13 2 (0.57%) Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Games
14 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (20.74%) Senior
2 65 (18.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (14.49%) Linux Engineer
4 49 (13.92%) Software Engineer
5 42 (11.93%) Administrator
6 39 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (8.24%) Database Engineer
8 26 (7.39%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (7.39%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (7.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 22 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
11 16 (4.55%) DBA
11 16 (4.55%) Developer
11 16 (4.55%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.26%) Lead
12 15 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.98%) C++ Software Engineer
13 14 (3.98%) IT Support
13 14 (3.98%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (24.43%) Terraform
2 17 (4.83%) Node.js
2 17 (4.83%) Web Services
3 9 (2.56%) React
4 8 (2.27%) REST
5 7 (1.99%) JSON
5 7 (1.99%) Kafka
6 6 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.42%) HTML
8 4 (1.14%) .NET
8 4 (1.14%) YAML
9 3 (0.85%) Laravel
9 3 (0.85%) Spring
9 3 (0.85%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.85%) Vue
10 2 (0.57%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.57%) gRPC
10 2 (0.57%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (0.57%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.80%) Replication
2 35 (9.94%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.26%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.27%) Life Science
7 7 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.70%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.70%) Social Media
9 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.57%) Clustering
12 2 (0.57%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.57%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.57%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 108 (30.68%) Windows
2 56 (15.91%) Unix
3 43 (12.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (10.51%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.25%) CentOS
6 17 (4.83%) Ubuntu
7 11 (3.13%) Mac OS
8 9 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.27%) AIX
9 8 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.42%) Debian
11 3 (0.85%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.85%) Solaris
11 3 (0.85%) VMS
12 2 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (29.55%) CI/CD
2 98 (27.84%) DevOps
3 89 (25.28%) Software Engineering
4 80 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 62 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 60 (17.05%) Agile
10 56 (15.91%) Mentoring
11 43 (12.22%) High Availability
12 41 (11.65%) AI
12 41 (11.65%) Containerisation
13 39 (11.08%) Microservices
14 36 (10.23%) Coaching
14 36 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (9.38%) Computer Science
16 31 (8.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (8.81%) Test Automation
17 30 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.28%) Python
2 51 (14.49%) SQL
3 41 (11.65%) Bash
4 38 (10.80%) Shell Script
5 34 (9.66%) C++
5 34 (9.66%) Java
6 27 (7.67%) PowerShell
7 20 (5.68%) Groovy
7 20 (5.68%) Rust
8 12 (3.41%) C
8 12 (3.41%) Go
9 7 (1.99%) C#
10 6 (1.70%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.14%) Perl
12 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.85%) Bicep
13 3 (0.85%) PHP
14 2 (0.57%) Korn
15 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 72 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 41 (11.65%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.38%) Degree
4 32 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.56%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.85%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.85%) RHCE
9 3 (0.85%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.57%) IBM AIX Certification
11 1 (0.28%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.28%) VCAP
11 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.41%) QA
2 4 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.85%) GDPR
3 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.85%) SLA
4 2 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (18.75%) Docker
2 20 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.69%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.27%) vSphere
6 6 (1.70%) iptables
6 6 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.14%) Ceph
8 3 (0.85%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.28%) Firmware
9 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 80 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 63 (17.90%) Ansible
3 21 (5.97%) Argo
4 18 (5.11%) Progress Chef
5 17 (4.83%) Puppet
6 12 (3.41%) Grafana
7 11 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.27%) WSUS
9 7 (1.99%) Podman
10 4 (1.14%) Istio
10 4 (1.14%) SCCM
11 3 (0.85%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.85%) Control-M
11 3 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.85%) Nessus
11 3 (0.85%) Packer
11 3 (0.85%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.85%) systemd
12 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 38 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 26 (7.39%) VMware
4 13 (3.69%) Oracle
5 11 (3.13%) Google
6 9 (2.56%) Dell
7 7 (1.99%) Splunk
7 7 (1.99%) Veeam
8 6 (1.70%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.70%) Pega
9 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.42%) IBM
9 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.14%) Aruba
10 4 (1.14%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.14%) HP
10 4 (1.14%) NetApp
10 4 (1.14%) New Relic
10 4 (1.14%) SonicWALL
11 3 (0.85%) AppDynamics