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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 14 43
Rank change year-on-year -136 +29 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 209 1,072 806
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 13.01% 4.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.96% 61.05% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 170 220 543
10th Percentile £36,025 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £62,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £71,000
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 997 1,756 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.98% 21.31% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 778 736 1,731
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -3.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -117 107 £52,500 -4.55% 65
Yorkshire -73 55 £55,000 +25.71% 25
North East -21 47 £69,310 +6.63% 18
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 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.96%) Apache
2 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.96%) nginx
2 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.19%) AWS
2 65 (31.10%) Azure
3 22 (10.53%) GitHub
4 21 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.05%) GCP
5 19 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (8.13%) Azure AKS
6 17 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.83%) IaaS
9 8 (3.83%) Serverless
10 5 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.39%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.39%) PaaS
10 5 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.96%) Firewall
2 19 (9.09%) DNS
3 18 (8.61%) VPN
4 13 (6.22%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.26%) DHCP
6 9 (4.31%) LAN
6 9 (4.31%) VLAN
6 9 (4.31%) VoIP
7 8 (3.83%) Internet
7 8 (3.83%) WAN
8 5 (2.39%) DMZ
8 5 (2.39%) HTTP
8 5 (2.39%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.39%) STUN
9 4 (1.91%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.91%) BGP
9 4 (1.91%) MPLS
9 4 (1.91%) Network Security
9 4 (1.91%) VPLS
9 4 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 32 (15.31%) MySQL
3 31 (14.83%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (10.05%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.96%) Big Data
7 2 (0.96%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.96%) Redis
8 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.48%) Power BI
8 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (11.96%) GitLab
2 21 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.66%) Git
4 9 (4.31%) JIRA
5 7 (3.35%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.87%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.87%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.44%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.48%) GDB
10 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.48%) WinDbg
General
1 34 (16.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.96%) Law
3 20 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.74%) Finance
6 11 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.78%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.35%) Retail
9 5 (2.39%) Advertising
10 4 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.48%) Banking
13 1 (0.48%) German Language
13 1 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (21.05%) Senior
2 35 (16.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (12.92%) Administrator
4 21 (10.05%) Linux Engineer
5 19 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (8.61%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.18%) Senior DevOps
7 15 (7.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) DBA
8 14 (6.70%) Developer
9 13 (6.22%) Support Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) C++ Software Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) SQL DBA
11 11 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (5.26%) IT Support
12 10 (4.78%) Systems Administrator
13 9 (4.31%) Analyst
13 9 (4.31%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.13%) Node.js
2 12 (5.74%) Web Services
3 8 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.83%) REST
4 7 (3.35%) JSON
5 5 (2.39%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.91%) .NET
6 4 (1.91%) HTML
6 4 (1.91%) Laravel
6 4 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.91%) React
6 4 (1.91%) YAML
7 3 (1.44%) Vue
8 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.96%) Kafka
8 2 (0.96%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (0.96%) Sass
8 2 (0.96%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.66%) Replication
2 14 (6.70%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.83%) Driving Licence
3 8 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.91%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.91%) PKI
5 3 (1.44%) Cyberattack
5 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.44%) Life Science
6 2 (0.96%) Digital Signage
6 2 (0.96%) IoT
6 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.96%) SCADA
6 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.96%) Smart City
7 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 77 (36.84%) Windows
2 28 (13.40%) Unix
3 27 (12.92%) Windows Server
4 21 (10.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.78%) Debian
5 10 (4.78%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (2.39%) CentOS
8 3 (1.44%) AIX
8 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.96%) Solaris
9 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.48%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.75%) CI/CD
2 54 (25.84%) DevOps
3 43 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (20.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (18.18%) Agile
5 38 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 31 (14.83%) AI
6 31 (14.83%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (13.40%) Containerisation
7 28 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (11.96%) Mentoring
9 23 (11.00%) High Availability
9 23 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (11.00%) Microservices
10 21 (10.05%) Computer Science
11 20 (9.57%) Test Automation
12 19 (9.09%) Mathematics
13 18 (8.61%) Scrum
14 17 (8.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.71%) Python
2 27 (12.92%) Java
2 27 (12.92%) SQL
3 26 (12.44%) Bash
3 26 (12.44%) PowerShell
4 22 (10.53%) C++
5 16 (7.66%) Rust
6 15 (7.18%) Groovy
7 12 (5.74%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.31%) Go
9 8 (3.83%) C
9 8 (3.83%) C#
10 5 (2.39%) Perl
10 5 (2.39%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.91%) PHP
12 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 35 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.48%) Degree
3 18 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (8.13%) DV Cleared
5 15 (7.18%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.83%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.91%) CCNA
8 4 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.48%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.31%) GDPR
2 7 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.44%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (15.31%) Docker
2 21 (10.05%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.31%) vSphere
6 6 (2.87%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.91%) iptables
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (28.71%) Terraform
2 46 (22.01%) Kubernetes
3 38 (18.18%) Ansible
4 16 (7.66%) Argo
5 14 (6.70%) Progress Chef
6 12 (5.74%) Grafana
7 9 (4.31%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.35%) Puppet
9 4 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.91%) WSUS
10 3 (1.44%) Control-M
10 3 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.44%) Packer
10 3 (1.44%) systemd
11 2 (0.96%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.96%) Podman
12 1 (0.48%) linkerd
12 1 (0.48%) Rancher
12 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.53%) VMware
3 18 (8.61%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.31%) Splunk
5 5 (2.39%) Cisco
5 5 (2.39%) Google
6 4 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.91%) IBM
6 4 (1.91%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.44%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle
8 2 (0.96%) Mirantis
8 2 (0.96%) Qualys
8 2 (0.96%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.48%) Cognos
9 1 (0.48%) Dell
9 1 (0.48%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.48%) McAfee
9 1 (0.48%) Pega
9 1 (0.48%) SAP