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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 22 41
Rank change year-on-year -132 +19 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 186 713 770
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.00% 9.91% 4.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.53% 50.46% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 139 228 541
10th Percentile £31,850 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £51,364
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £70,625 £69,063 £66,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,038 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% -12.31%

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 864 1,413 2,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.67% 19.65% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 652 735 1,751
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,875 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -111 103 £55,500 +0.91% 57
Yorkshire -90 58 £50,000 +14.29% 38
North East -32 25 £45,500 -25.41% 20
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 (2.69%) Apache
2 4 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (42.47%) AWS
2 51 (27.42%) Azure
3 20 (10.75%) GCP
4 18 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (9.68%) Azure AKS
5 16 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (6.99%) GitHub
9 12 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.84%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.76%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.76%) Serverless
12 6 (3.23%) IaaS
13 5 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.98%) Firewall
2 20 (10.75%) DNS
3 17 (9.14%) VPN
4 16 (8.60%) Ethernet
5 13 (6.99%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.45%) Internet
7 11 (5.91%) DHCP
8 9 (4.84%) VLAN
8 9 (4.84%) VoIP
9 7 (3.76%) HTTP
9 7 (3.76%) LAN
9 7 (3.76%) WAN
10 5 (2.69%) DMZ
10 5 (2.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.69%) SSH
10 5 (2.69%) SSL
10 5 (2.69%) STUN
11 4 (2.15%) AMQP
11 4 (2.15%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.15%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.20%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (15.59%) SQL Server
3 27 (14.52%) MySQL
4 25 (13.44%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.15%) Big Data
7 4 (2.15%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.15%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.61%) Redis
9 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.98%) GitLab
2 20 (10.75%) Git
3 13 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.30%) JIRA
5 6 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.15%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.15%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.54%) GDB
10 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 42 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.60%) Law
3 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.99%) Retail
6 11 (5.91%) Aerospace
6 11 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.91%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.76%) Finance
8 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Military
10 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) German Language
11 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (22.04%) Senior
2 25 (13.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (13.44%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps
3 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 14 (7.53%) Software Engineer
4 13 (6.99%) Administrator
5 12 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (5.91%) IT Support
7 10 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.38%) DBA
7 10 (5.38%) Developer
7 10 (5.38%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.30%) Analyst
9 7 (3.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) SQL DBA
9 7 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.22%) Node.js
2 9 (4.84%) REST
3 8 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (3.76%) Web Services
5 6 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.69%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (2.15%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.15%) gRPC
7 4 (2.15%) Material-UI
7 4 (2.15%) OpenAPI
7 4 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.15%) React
7 4 (2.15%) RESTful
7 4 (2.15%) Spring
7 4 (2.15%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.15%) Swagger
8 3 (1.61%) JSON
8 3 (1.61%) Laravel
8 3 (1.61%) YAML
9 2 (1.08%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.60%) Embedded Systems
1 16 (8.60%) FPGA
2 12 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 11 (5.91%) Replication
4 7 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.69%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.69%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.15%) PKI
7 4 (2.15%) SCADA
7 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.61%) NHS
9 2 (1.08%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) IoT
9 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 81 (43.55%) Windows
2 31 (16.67%) Unix
2 31 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (5.91%) Debian
5 10 (5.38%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.23%) CentOS
7 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.61%) AIX
8 3 (1.61%) Solaris
8 3 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.54%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.81%) CI/CD
2 42 (22.58%) DevOps
3 41 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (20.43%) Agile
5 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.13%) Containerisation
7 28 (15.05%) Mentoring
8 24 (12.90%) Microservices
9 23 (12.37%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (12.37%) Software Engineering
10 22 (11.83%) ITIL
11 21 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (10.22%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (10.22%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.68%) Coaching
13 18 (9.68%) Scrum
14 16 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (8.06%) High Availability
16 12 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 11 (5.91%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.42%) Python
2 33 (17.74%) Java
3 25 (13.44%) SQL
4 18 (9.68%) Bash
5 17 (9.14%) C
6 14 (7.53%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.45%) Go
8 10 (5.38%) C++
8 10 (5.38%) Groovy
9 9 (4.84%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.30%) JavaScript
10 8 (4.30%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.69%) Perl
11 5 (2.69%) PHP
11 5 (2.69%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.15%) C#
13 1 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 28 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.06%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.45%) Degree
3 12 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.23%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.15%) CCNA
7 4 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CEH
8 1 (0.54%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) GCIA
8 1 (0.54%) GCIH
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) LPIC
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.84%) GDPR
2 8 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.23%) QA
4 4 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (11.83%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.29%) Docker
3 16 (8.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.30%) vSphere
5 7 (3.76%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.76%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.61%) iptables
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (30.65%) Terraform
2 41 (22.04%) Ansible
3 38 (20.43%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.53%) Argo
5 13 (6.99%) Grafana
6 12 (6.45%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.38%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.76%) Puppet
9 4 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.15%) WSUS
10 3 (1.61%) Packer
10 3 (1.61%) Podman
10 3 (1.61%) Rancher
10 3 (1.61%) systemd
11 2 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (1.08%) Control-M
11 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.08%) Nagios
12 1 (0.54%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.54%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) VMware
2 15 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.06%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.45%) Splunk
4 6 (3.23%) Cisco
4 6 (3.23%) Google
5 5 (2.69%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.15%) IBM
6 4 (2.15%) Oracle
6 4 (2.15%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.61%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.61%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.08%) BMC
8 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.08%) Qualys
9 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.54%) Cognos
9 1 (0.54%) Dell
9 1 (0.54%) McAfee
9 1 (0.54%) SAP