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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 60 45
Rank change year-on-year -42 -15 +14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 192 327 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.67% 3.70% 4.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.19% 29.57% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 139 179 405
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,637 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £79,282 £74,816 £80,000
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 733 1,106 1,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.36% 12.51% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 583 530 1,293
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,531 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.30% +2.35%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £70,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,048 £49,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% +2.14% -6.67%

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 28 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 28 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 -49 94 £55,000 +4.76% 73
Yorkshire -40 61 £34,000 -28.42% 45
North East 0 37 £51,500 -10.43% 22
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 (3.13%) Apache
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.04%) nginx
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.69%) AWS
2 53 (27.60%) Azure
3 29 (15.10%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (10.94%) GCP
5 18 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.21%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.60%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (2.60%) dbt
10 5 (2.60%) IaaS
10 5 (2.60%) PaaS
10 5 (2.60%) Pulumi
11 4 (2.08%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.08%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.08%) Serverless
12 3 (1.56%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.06%) DNS
2 24 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 23 (11.98%) VPN
4 21 (10.94%) Firewall
5 16 (8.33%) Ethernet
6 14 (7.29%) VLAN
7 13 (6.77%) DHCP
8 12 (6.25%) Internet
8 12 (6.25%) VoIP
8 12 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (4.17%) LAN
9 8 (4.17%) WAN
10 6 (3.13%) HTTP
10 6 (3.13%) SSL
11 5 (2.60%) SAN
12 4 (2.08%) AMQP
12 4 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (2.08%) SSH
12 4 (2.08%) Wireless
13 3 (1.56%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.85%) MySQL
4 14 (7.29%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.13%) Redis
7 5 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.60%) Big Data
7 5 (2.60%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.08%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.08%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (15.10%) Git
2 14 (7.29%) GitLab
3 13 (6.77%) JIRA
4 12 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.69%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.04%) Maven
8 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.52%) Ant
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.52%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.52%) git-flow
9 1 (0.52%) JUnit
9 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 60 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.85%) Finance
2 17 (8.85%) Manufacturing
2 17 (8.85%) Retail
3 9 (4.69%) Marketing
3 9 (4.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 8 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.65%) Advertising
5 7 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Electronics
9 2 (1.04%) Law
9 2 (1.04%) Military
9 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (23.96%) Senior
2 19 (9.90%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (7.29%) Software Engineer
3 14 (7.29%) Support Engineer
4 11 (5.73%) IT Support
5 10 (5.21%) Analyst
5 10 (5.21%) Developer
5 10 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (5.21%) Site Engineer
5 10 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (4.69%) Applications Engineer
6 9 (4.69%) Applications Support
6 9 (4.69%) Graduate
6 9 (4.69%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 9 (4.69%) Logistics Engineer
6 9 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
7 8 (4.17%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 8 (4.17%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.73%) Node.js
2 9 (4.69%) .NET
2 9 (4.69%) CSS
3 7 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.13%) React
4 6 (3.13%) REST
5 5 (2.60%) Django
6 4 (2.08%) gRPC
6 4 (2.08%) Material-UI
6 4 (2.08%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.08%) RESTful
6 4 (2.08%) SAP Basis
6 4 (2.08%) Spring
6 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.08%) Swagger
7 3 (1.56%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (1.56%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.90%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (8.33%) FPGA
3 11 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.17%) LIMS
4 8 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.60%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.08%) NHS
7 4 (2.08%) Replication
8 3 (1.56%) Clustering
8 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.56%) SCADA
8 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.04%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 105 (54.69%) Windows
2 41 (21.35%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.81%) Unix
4 10 (5.21%) Mac OS
5 9 (4.69%) Debian
6 8 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (3.65%) CentOS
8 6 (3.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.60%) Windows 10
10 4 (2.08%) SUSE
11 3 (1.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.56%) VMS
12 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.52%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.52%) Fedora
13 1 (0.52%) Solaris
13 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (20.31%) CI/CD
3 37 (19.27%) DevOps
3 37 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 35 (18.23%) Computer Science
6 33 (17.19%) ITIL
7 23 (11.98%) Agile
8 19 (9.90%) Mentoring
8 19 (9.90%) Software Engineering
9 18 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (8.85%) Change Management
10 17 (8.85%) Coaching
11 16 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (7.29%) Microservices
12 14 (7.29%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (6.25%) Observability
14 11 (5.73%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.13%) Python
2 37 (19.27%) SQL
3 31 (16.15%) Java
4 24 (12.50%) C
5 21 (10.94%) Bash
5 21 (10.94%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.29%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.73%) Go
9 9 (4.69%) C#
10 8 (4.17%) C++
10 8 (4.17%) PHP
10 8 (4.17%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.13%) Perl
12 4 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) ABAP
13 1 (0.52%) Bicep
13 1 (0.52%) Delphi
13 1 (0.52%) Groovy
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (19.79%) Degree
2 19 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.29%) HND
5 12 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 11 (5.73%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.17%) HNC
8 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.60%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.56%) CISSP
11 3 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.04%) CCNA
12 2 (1.04%) CEH
12 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.04%) GCIA
13 1 (0.52%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.60%) GDPR
2 5 (2.60%) QA
3 3 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.04%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 27 (14.06%) Docker
3 14 (7.29%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.21%) vSphere
6 6 (3.13%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.60%) Firmware
8 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (1.04%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.52%) HDFS
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (22.40%) Kubernetes
2 41 (21.35%) Ansible
3 39 (20.31%) Terraform
4 21 (10.94%) Grafana
5 17 (8.85%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.69%) Control-M
7 7 (3.65%) Puppet
8 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.56%) Argo
9 3 (1.56%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.56%) Rancher
10 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.04%) Nagios
10 2 (1.04%) Plesk
10 2 (1.04%) Podman
10 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.04%) WSUS
11 1 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.52%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 41 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.71%) VMware
3 13 (6.77%) Splunk
4 11 (5.73%) Google
5 10 (5.21%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.65%) SonicWALL
7 6 (3.13%) Allen-Bradley
7 6 (3.13%) Cisco
7 6 (3.13%) Siemens
7 6 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 6 (3.13%) Toshiba
8 5 (2.60%) SAP
9 4 (2.08%) Apple
9 4 (2.08%) Oracle
9 4 (2.08%) Sage
9 4 (2.08%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.56%) Dell
10 3 (1.56%) HP
10 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.56%) Supermicro