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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 16 44
Rank change year-on-year -103 +28 +14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 289 1,082 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.35% 11.37% 3.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.11% 58.74% 36.10%
Number of salaries quoted 227 239 394
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,787 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,852 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -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 1,107 1,842 1,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.18% 19.36% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 868 827 1,258
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,175
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £51,240 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £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 30 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 30 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 -106 137 £55,000 +2.33% 72
Yorkshire -51 81 £50,000 +29.03% 29
North East +1 71 £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 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.73%) Apache
3 4 (1.38%) IIS
4 3 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 108 (37.37%) AWS
2 79 (27.34%) Azure
3 35 (12.11%) GitHub
4 30 (10.38%) GCP
5 23 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.19%) Azure AKS
10 13 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (4.15%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.81%) Serverless
13 9 (3.11%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.11%) PaaS
14 8 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.77%) IaaS
15 7 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (2.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.07%) Firewall
2 27 (9.34%) TCP/IP
3 20 (6.92%) DNS
4 16 (5.54%) VPN
5 13 (4.50%) DHCP
6 10 (3.46%) LAN
7 9 (3.11%) WAN
8 8 (2.77%) VLAN
9 6 (2.08%) SAN
9 6 (2.08%) VoIP
10 5 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.38%) DMZ
11 4 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (1.38%) SSH
11 4 (1.38%) STUN
11 4 (1.38%) VSAN
12 3 (1.04%) HTTP
12 3 (1.04%) Wireless
13 2 (0.69%) BGP
13 2 (0.69%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 44 (15.22%) MySQL
3 27 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.23%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.69%) Big Data
6 2 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.69%) Redis
7 1 (0.35%) Power BI
7 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (12.46%) Jenkins
2 33 (11.42%) GitLab
3 29 (10.03%) Git
4 17 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (3.81%) JIRA
6 8 (2.77%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.42%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.08%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.35%) GDB
11 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.35%) WinDbg
General
1 63 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.22%) Law
3 35 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.88%) Finance
5 15 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.11%) Retail
8 8 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.42%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.73%) Advertising
11 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.69%) Electronics
12 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.35%) Automotive
13 1 (0.35%) Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Front Office
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (21.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (20.42%) Senior
3 38 (13.15%) Administrator
3 38 (13.15%) Linux Engineer
4 30 (10.38%) Software Engineer
5 23 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (7.96%) Principal Engineer
5 23 (7.96%) Senior DevOps
6 22 (7.61%) Database Engineer
6 22 (7.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 20 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (6.57%) Systems Administrator
9 15 (5.19%) DBA
10 14 (4.84%) C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Developer
11 13 (4.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Support Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) SQL DBA
13 11 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.88%) Node.js
2 13 (4.50%) Web Services
3 8 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.42%) JSON
4 7 (2.42%) REST
5 6 (2.08%) React
6 5 (1.73%) Kafka
6 5 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.38%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (1.38%) HTML
7 4 (1.38%) YAML
8 3 (1.04%) .NET
8 3 (1.04%) Laravel
8 3 (1.04%) Vue
9 2 (0.69%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.69%) gRPC
9 2 (0.69%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.69%) Sass
9 2 (0.69%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.03%) Replication
3 14 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.11%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.77%) Life Science
7 6 (2.08%) Social Media
8 5 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.04%) PKI
10 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.69%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.69%) Cybercrime
11 2 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.69%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (28.37%) Windows
2 41 (14.19%) Unix
3 37 (12.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (11.42%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.57%) CentOS
6 16 (5.54%) Ubuntu
7 10 (3.46%) Debian
8 8 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.08%) AIX
11 5 (1.73%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.04%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.04%) Solaris
13 2 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.69%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.69%) VMS
14 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.35%) SUSE
14 1 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (32.18%) CI/CD
1 93 (32.18%) DevOps
2 65 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (21.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (21.11%) Software Engineering
4 54 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
5 52 (17.99%) Agile
6 46 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 40 (13.84%) AI
9 39 (13.49%) High Availability
10 37 (12.80%) Mentoring
11 36 (12.46%) Containerisation
12 34 (11.76%) Microservices
13 32 (11.07%) Computer Science
13 32 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (10.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (9.34%) Test Automation
16 24 (8.30%) Scrum
17 23 (7.96%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 83 (28.72%) Python
2 41 (14.19%) SQL
3 40 (13.84%) Bash
4 33 (11.42%) Java
5 32 (11.07%) C++
6 28 (9.69%) Shell Script
7 27 (9.34%) PowerShell
8 20 (6.92%) Rust
9 16 (5.54%) Groovy
10 10 (3.46%) Go
11 9 (3.11%) C
12 6 (2.08%) C#
13 5 (1.73%) Perl
14 3 (1.04%) Bicep
14 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
14 3 (1.04%) PHP
14 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.07%) Degree
3 30 (10.38%) DV Cleared
4 29 (10.03%) SC Cleared
5 23 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.11%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.69%) CCNA
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.35%) LPIC
12 1 (0.35%) RHCE
12 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.73%) GDPR
2 4 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.04%) QA
4 2 (0.69%) NIST
4 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (18.69%) Docker
2 21 (7.27%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.81%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.11%) vSphere
6 6 (2.08%) iptables
6 6 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.38%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.04%) Ceph
10 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.35%) Firmware
10 1 (0.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 80 (27.68%) Terraform
2 66 (22.84%) Kubernetes
3 58 (20.07%) Ansible
4 21 (7.27%) Argo
5 14 (4.84%) Grafana
5 14 (4.84%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.50%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.15%) Puppet
8 6 (2.08%) WSUS
9 5 (1.73%) Podman
10 4 (1.38%) Istio
11 3 (1.04%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.04%) Control-M
11 3 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.04%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.04%) Nessus
11 3 (1.04%) Packer
11 3 (1.04%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.04%) systemd
12 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 30 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.34%) Red Hat
3 23 (7.96%) VMware
4 11 (3.81%) Google
5 8 (2.77%) Dell
6 6 (2.08%) Pega
6 6 (2.08%) Splunk
7 5 (1.73%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.73%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.73%) Veeam
8 4 (1.38%) Cisco
8 4 (1.38%) Oracle
9 3 (1.04%) Aruba
9 3 (1.04%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.04%) HP
9 3 (1.04%) IBM
9 3 (1.04%) McAfee
9 3 (1.04%) NetApp
9 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.04%) SonicWALL