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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 16 43
Rank change year-on-year -106 +27 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 280 1,085 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.32% 11.40% 4.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.45% 58.81% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 218 242 405
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,144 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,625 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £56,254
% change year-on-year +8.33% +6.66% -10.92%

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 1,100 1,845 1,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.18% 19.38% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 857 829 1,291
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £51,240 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,986 £67,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -111 136 £53,750 - 67
Yorkshire -54 76 £50,000 +29.03% 30
North East -3 68 £70,000 +7.69% 26
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 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.79%) Apache
3 4 (1.43%) IIS
4 3 (1.07%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.71%) nginx
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 104 (37.14%) AWS
2 77 (27.50%) Azure
3 34 (12.14%) GitHub
4 29 (10.36%) GCP
5 21 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.71%) Azure AKS
8 13 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (4.29%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.57%) Serverless
11 9 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.21%) PaaS
12 8 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.86%) IaaS
13 7 (2.50%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.79%) Firewall
2 26 (9.29%) TCP/IP
3 20 (7.14%) DNS
4 16 (5.71%) VPN
5 13 (4.64%) DHCP
6 10 (3.57%) LAN
7 9 (3.21%) WAN
8 8 (2.86%) VLAN
9 6 (2.14%) VoIP
10 5 (1.79%) SAN
10 5 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.43%) DMZ
11 4 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (1.43%) SSH
11 4 (1.43%) STUN
12 3 (1.07%) HTTP
12 3 (1.07%) VSAN
12 3 (1.07%) Wireless
13 2 (0.71%) Asterisk PBX
13 2 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 42 (15.00%) MySQL
3 27 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.43%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.71%) Big Data
6 2 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.71%) Redis
7 1 (0.36%) Power BI
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (12.14%) Jenkins
2 33 (11.79%) GitLab
3 27 (9.64%) Git
4 16 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (3.93%) JIRA
6 8 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.50%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.14%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.07%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.36%) GDB
11 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.36%) WinDbg
General
1 59 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.00%) Law
3 35 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.71%) Finance
5 14 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.50%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.50%) Retail
7 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.79%) Advertising
8 5 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
10 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (20.71%) Senior
3 37 (13.21%) Administrator
3 37 (13.21%) Linux Engineer
4 28 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 23 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (8.21%) Senior DevOps
6 22 (7.86%) Principal Engineer
6 22 (7.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 21 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.14%) Database Engineer
9 18 (6.43%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (5.36%) DBA
11 14 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (5.00%) Developer
12 13 (4.64%) Support Engineer
13 12 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.29%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.29%) SQL DBA
14 11 (3.93%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.07%) Node.js
2 13 (4.64%) Web Services
3 8 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.50%) JSON
4 7 (2.50%) REST
5 6 (2.14%) React
6 5 (1.79%) Kafka
6 5 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.43%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (1.43%) HTML
7 4 (1.43%) YAML
8 3 (1.07%) .NET
8 3 (1.07%) Laravel
8 3 (1.07%) Vue
9 2 (0.71%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.71%) gRPC
9 2 (0.71%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.71%) LESS
9 2 (0.71%) Sass
9 2 (0.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.29%) Replication
3 13 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.86%) Life Science
6 6 (2.14%) Social Media
7 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.43%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.07%) PKI
8 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.36%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.36%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (28.21%) Windows
2 40 (14.29%) Unix
3 36 (12.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (11.07%) Windows Server
5 18 (6.43%) CentOS
6 17 (6.07%) Ubuntu
7 11 (3.93%) Debian
8 8 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.14%) AIX
11 4 (1.43%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.07%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.07%) Solaris
13 2 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.71%) VMS
14 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.50%) CI/CD
2 89 (31.79%) DevOps
3 61 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (21.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (20.71%) Software Engineering
6 52 (18.57%) Agile
6 52 (18.57%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (14.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 40 (14.29%) AI
10 37 (13.21%) High Availability
11 36 (12.86%) Containerisation
12 35 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 33 (11.79%) Microservices
14 32 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (10.71%) Computer Science
16 27 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (9.64%) Test Automation
17 24 (8.57%) Scrum
18 22 (7.86%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 81 (28.93%) Python
2 39 (13.93%) Bash
3 38 (13.57%) SQL
4 33 (11.79%) Java
5 31 (11.07%) C++
6 26 (9.29%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.93%) Shell Script
8 20 (7.14%) Rust
9 16 (5.71%) Groovy
10 10 (3.57%) Go
11 8 (2.86%) C
12 6 (2.14%) C#
13 5 (1.79%) Perl
14 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
14 3 (1.07%) PHP
15 2 (0.71%) Bicep
15 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.71%) Degree
3 29 (10.36%) DV Cleared
4 27 (9.64%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.21%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.71%) CCNA
10 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.36%) LPIC
11 1 (0.36%) RHCE
11 1 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.79%) GDPR
2 4 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.07%) QA
4 2 (0.71%) NIST
4 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (18.21%) Docker
2 21 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.93%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.86%) vSphere
6 6 (2.14%) iptables
6 6 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.07%) Ceph
8 3 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.36%) KVM
Systems Management
1 78 (27.86%) Terraform
2 65 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 56 (20.00%) Ansible
4 21 (7.50%) Argo
5 14 (5.00%) Grafana
5 14 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.64%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.93%) Puppet
8 6 (2.14%) WSUS
9 5 (1.79%) Podman
10 4 (1.43%) Istio
11 3 (1.07%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.07%) Control-M
11 3 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.07%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.07%) Packer
11 3 (1.07%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.07%) systemd
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.71%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.64%) Red Hat
3 23 (8.21%) VMware
4 10 (3.57%) Google
5 7 (2.50%) Dell
6 6 (2.14%) Pega
6 6 (2.14%) Splunk
7 5 (1.79%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.43%) Cisco
8 4 (1.43%) IBM
8 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.43%) Veeam
9 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.07%) Aruba
9 3 (1.07%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.07%) HP
9 3 (1.07%) McAfee
9 3 (1.07%) NetApp
9 3 (1.07%) Oracle
9 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow