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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 14 42
Rank change year-on-year -123 +28 +22
Permanent jobs citing Linux 233 1,078 780
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.15% 12.62% 4.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.49% 60.32% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 191 228 530
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £74,258 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 1,036 1,787 2,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.11% 20.92% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 811 762 1,686
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

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 June 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 June 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 -121 115 £51,250 -6.82% 69
Yorkshire -69 62 £55,000 +29.41% 22
North East -6 56 £69,310 +6.63% 13
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 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.86%) nginx
3 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 89 (38.20%) AWS
2 67 (28.76%) Azure
3 25 (10.73%) GitHub
4 21 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.01%) GCP
5 20 (8.58%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (7.30%) Azure AKS
8 13 (5.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.86%) IaaS
11 8 (3.43%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.43%) Serverless
12 6 (2.58%) PaaS
13 5 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.15%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.15%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.02%) Firewall
2 20 (8.58%) DNS
2 20 (8.58%) VPN
3 16 (6.87%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.15%) DHCP
5 10 (4.29%) VLAN
6 9 (3.86%) LAN
6 9 (3.86%) VoIP
7 8 (3.43%) WAN
8 6 (2.58%) Internet
8 6 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.15%) DMZ
9 5 (2.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.15%) STUN
10 4 (1.72%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (1.72%) BGP
10 4 (1.72%) HTTP
10 4 (1.72%) MPLS
10 4 (1.72%) Network Security
10 4 (1.72%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (19.31%) SQL Server
2 40 (17.17%) MySQL
3 32 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (9.44%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.86%) Big Data
7 2 (0.86%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.86%) Redis
7 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (11.59%) GitLab
2 24 (10.30%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.87%) Git
4 9 (3.86%) Bitbucket
4 9 (3.86%) JIRA
5 8 (3.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.58%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.43%) GDB
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.43%) WinDbg
General
1 37 (15.88%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.73%) Law
3 24 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.15%) Finance
6 11 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.29%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.00%) Retail
9 5 (2.15%) Advertising
10 4 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.43%) Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Electronics
13 1 (0.43%) German Language
13 1 (0.43%) Local Government
13 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (21.89%) Senior
2 42 (18.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (12.02%) Administrator
4 24 (10.30%) Linux Engineer
5 22 (9.44%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (8.58%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.30%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (7.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.44%) DBA
8 15 (6.44%) Developer
8 15 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Database Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Support Engineer
10 13 (5.58%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) IT Support
11 12 (5.15%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) SQL DBA
12 11 (4.72%) Infrastructure Support
12 11 (4.72%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.30%) Node.js
2 13 (5.58%) Web Services
3 8 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.43%) REST
4 7 (3.00%) JSON
5 5 (2.15%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.15%) Kafka
5 5 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.72%) .NET
6 4 (1.72%) HTML
6 4 (1.72%) Laravel
6 4 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.72%) React
6 4 (1.72%) YAML
7 3 (1.29%) Vue
8 2 (0.86%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.86%) LESS
8 2 (0.86%) Sass
8 2 (0.86%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.87%) Replication
2 20 (8.58%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.43%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.72%) Life Science
5 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.72%) PKI
6 3 (1.29%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.86%) Digital Signage
7 2 (0.86%) IoT
7 2 (0.86%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.86%) SCADA
7 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.86%) Smart City
8 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 81 (34.76%) Windows
2 30 (12.88%) Unix
3 29 (12.45%) Windows Server
4 23 (9.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.58%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.15%) Debian
7 7 (3.00%) CentOS
8 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.29%) AIX
10 3 (1.29%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.86%) Solaris
11 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.18%) CI/CD
2 64 (27.47%) DevOps
3 52 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (19.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (18.45%) Agile
5 43 (18.45%) Software Engineering
6 39 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (16.31%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (14.16%) AI
9 31 (13.30%) Containerisation
10 30 (12.88%) High Availability
10 30 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (12.45%) Mentoring
12 27 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (10.73%) Microservices
14 24 (10.30%) Computer Science
15 22 (9.44%) Test Automation
16 21 (9.01%) Mathematics
17 20 (8.58%) Scrum
18 18 (7.73%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 63 (27.04%) Python
2 33 (14.16%) SQL
3 31 (13.30%) Bash
4 29 (12.45%) PowerShell
5 28 (12.02%) Java
6 25 (10.73%) C++
7 18 (7.73%) Rust
7 18 (7.73%) Shell Script
8 16 (6.87%) Groovy
9 8 (3.43%) C#
10 7 (3.00%) C
10 7 (3.00%) Go
11 5 (2.15%) Perl
12 4 (1.72%) PHP
13 3 (1.29%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.59%) Degree
3 20 (8.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (8.15%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.30%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.43%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.72%) CCNA
8 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.86%) GDPR
2 7 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.29%) QA
5 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (16.31%) Docker
2 22 (9.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.86%) vSphere
6 6 (2.58%) iptables
6 6 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.58%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (27.04%) Terraform
2 53 (22.75%) Kubernetes
3 43 (18.45%) Ansible
4 18 (7.73%) Argo
5 15 (6.44%) Progress Chef
6 12 (5.15%) Grafana
7 10 (4.29%) Puppet
8 9 (3.86%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.15%) WSUS
10 4 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.29%) Control-M
11 3 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.29%) Packer
11 3 (1.29%) systemd
12 2 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.86%) Podman
13 1 (0.43%) linkerd
13 1 (0.43%) Rancher
13 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.30%) VMware
3 18 (7.73%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.43%) Splunk
5 6 (2.58%) Google
6 5 (2.15%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.15%) Cisco
7 4 (1.72%) IBM
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle
8 3 (1.29%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.29%) Pega
8 3 (1.29%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.86%) Dell
9 2 (0.86%) Mirantis
9 2 (0.86%) Qualys
9 2 (0.86%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.43%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.43%) HP
10 1 (0.43%) McAfee
10 1 (0.43%) NetApp