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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 13 49
Rank change year-on-year -94 +36 +11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 344 1,060 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.50% 11.11% 3.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.94% 58.99% 36.24%
Number of salaries quoted 262 216 303
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £33,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -15.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £61,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,125 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.88% +4.78% -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 1,149 1,797 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.01% 18.84% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 905 786 970
10th Percentile £27,350 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,813 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -12.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £55,563
90th Percentile £74,985 £67,500 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 30 August 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 August 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 -93 170 £57,500 +6.98% 63
Yorkshire -36 98 £42,500 - 35
North East -4 76 £70,000 +7.69% 23
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 (1.74%) Apache
1 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.45%) IIS
3 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
4 2 (0.58%) nginx
4 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.29%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 117 (34.01%) AWS
2 80 (23.26%) Azure
3 41 (11.92%) GitHub
4 31 (9.01%) GCP
5 26 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.23%) Azure AKS
10 17 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (4.07%) Serverless
12 13 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (3.78%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.62%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.03%) PaaS
16 6 (1.74%) Entra ID
16 6 (1.74%) IaaS
17 5 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.01%) TCP/IP
2 25 (7.27%) DNS
2 25 (7.27%) Firewall
3 17 (4.94%) DHCP
4 13 (3.78%) VPN
5 8 (2.33%) LAN
6 7 (2.03%) WAN
6 7 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.74%) SAN
7 6 (1.74%) VLAN
8 5 (1.45%) VSAN
9 4 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (1.16%) SSH
10 3 (0.87%) SSL
10 3 (0.87%) Wireless
11 2 (0.58%) AMQP
11 2 (0.58%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.58%) HTTP
11 2 (0.58%) Internet
11 2 (0.58%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.86%) SQL Server
2 52 (15.12%) MySQL
3 25 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.23%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.58%) Big Data
6 2 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.29%) Db2
7 1 (0.29%) Power BI
7 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (13.08%) Jenkins
2 36 (10.47%) GitLab
3 34 (9.88%) Git
4 20 (5.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.78%) JIRA
6 10 (2.91%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.74%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.29%) GDB
10 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.29%) WinDbg
General
1 71 (20.64%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.41%) Law
3 46 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.81%) Finance
5 18 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.36%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.20%) Retail
9 10 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.45%) Advertising
12 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Electronics
12 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.58%) Automotive
13 2 (0.58%) Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Games
13 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 70 (20.35%) Senior
2 66 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (13.95%) Linux Engineer
4 45 (13.08%) Software Engineer
5 41 (11.92%) Administrator
6 36 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (8.43%) Database Engineer
8 26 (7.56%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (7.56%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 22 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (6.10%) Systems Administrator
12 16 (4.65%) DBA
12 16 (4.65%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.36%) Developer
14 14 (4.07%) C++ Software Engineer
15 13 (3.78%) IT Support
15 13 (3.78%) Linux Administrator
15 13 (3.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.49%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (25.29%) Terraform
2 17 (4.94%) Node.js
2 17 (4.94%) Web Services
3 8 (2.33%) React
4 7 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.03%) JSON
4 7 (2.03%) REST
5 6 (1.74%) Kafka
6 5 (1.45%) HTML
6 5 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.16%) .NET
7 4 (1.16%) YAML
8 3 (0.87%) Laravel
8 3 (0.87%) Vue
9 2 (0.58%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.58%) gRPC
9 2 (0.58%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.58%) Sass
9 2 (0.58%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.05%) Replication
2 34 (9.88%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.36%) Driving Licence
4 14 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.62%) Life Science
7 7 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.74%) Social Media
9 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.87%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.58%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.58%) Cybercrime
11 2 (0.58%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 102 (29.65%) Windows
2 53 (15.41%) Unix
3 43 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (10.76%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.40%) CentOS
6 17 (4.94%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.91%) Mac OS
8 9 (2.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.33%) AIX
9 8 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (2.03%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (1.45%) Debian
12 3 (0.87%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.87%) Solaris
12 3 (0.87%) VMS
13 2 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (29.65%) CI/CD
2 99 (28.78%) DevOps
3 84 (24.42%) Software Engineering
4 78 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (18.31%) Platform Engineering
7 59 (17.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 57 (16.57%) Agile
9 52 (15.12%) Mentoring
10 44 (12.79%) High Availability
11 41 (11.92%) Containerisation
12 40 (11.63%) AI
13 38 (11.05%) Microservices
14 35 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (9.59%) Coaching
15 33 (9.59%) Computer Science
16 32 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 31 (9.01%) Test Automation
18 29 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.87%) Python
2 50 (14.53%) SQL
3 41 (11.92%) Bash
4 38 (11.05%) Shell Script
5 34 (9.88%) C++
6 33 (9.59%) Java
7 26 (7.56%) PowerShell
8 20 (5.81%) Groovy
8 20 (5.81%) Rust
9 13 (3.78%) Go
10 12 (3.49%) C
11 7 (2.03%) C#
12 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.16%) JavaScript
13 4 (1.16%) Perl
14 3 (0.87%) Bicep
14 3 (0.87%) PHP
14 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.58%) Korn
16 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 71 (20.64%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.59%) Degree
4 32 (9.30%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.62%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.87%) RHCE
9 3 (0.87%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.58%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.58%) IBM AIX Certification
10 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.29%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.29%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.29%) VCAP
11 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.91%) QA
2 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.87%) GDPR
3 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.87%) SLA
4 2 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (18.90%) Docker
2 20 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.78%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.33%) vSphere
6 6 (1.74%) iptables
6 6 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.16%) Ceph
8 3 (0.87%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.29%) Firmware
9 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 79 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 64 (18.60%) Ansible
3 21 (6.10%) Argo
4 18 (5.23%) Progress Chef
5 17 (4.94%) Puppet
6 13 (3.78%) Grafana
7 12 (3.49%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.33%) WSUS
9 7 (2.03%) Podman
10 4 (1.16%) Istio
10 4 (1.16%) SCCM
11 3 (0.87%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.87%) Control-M
11 3 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.87%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.87%) Nessus
11 3 (0.87%) Packer
11 3 (0.87%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.87%) systemd
12 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 37 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.30%) Red Hat
3 26 (7.56%) VMware
4 11 (3.20%) Google
5 10 (2.91%) Oracle
6 9 (2.62%) Dell
7 7 (2.03%) Splunk
7 7 (2.03%) Veeam
8 6 (1.74%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.74%) Pega
9 5 (1.45%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.45%) IBM
9 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.16%) Aruba
10 4 (1.16%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.16%) HP
10 4 (1.16%) NetApp
10 4 (1.16%) New Relic
10 4 (1.16%) SonicWALL
11 3 (0.87%) McAfee