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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +40 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,016 496 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.80% 3.52% 5.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.55% 35.25% 33.41%
Number of salaries quoted 173 270 359
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,725 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,890 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £69,500 £71,991 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

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 1,678 1,407 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.84% 9.98% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 678 823 1,052
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,056 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £47,131
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -9.82% +10.90%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £77,375
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +33 904 £53,125 +1.19% 92
Yorkshire -11 96 £43,750 -2.78% 50
North East -2 16 £65,000 +16.07% 23
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (0.79%) IIS
3 4 (0.39%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.39%) CMS
3 4 (0.39%) SAS
3 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.20%) Apache
4 2 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.098%) JBoss
5 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.098%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 245 (24.11%) Azure
2 233 (22.93%) AWS
3 186 (18.31%) GCP
4 36 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (1.57%) Entra ID
6 13 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (1.08%) SaaS
8 9 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (0.89%) IaaS
9 8 (0.79%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (0.79%) Route 53
9 8 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (0.49%) OCI
10 5 (0.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (0.39%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.39%) Cloudflare
11 4 (0.39%) GitHub
11 4 (0.39%) PaaS
12 3 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 667 (65.65%) VPN
2 422 (41.54%) DNS
3 259 (25.49%) Cisco IOS
4 35 (3.44%) Firewall
5 32 (3.15%) VoIP
6 25 (2.46%) VLAN
7 24 (2.36%) DHCP
8 23 (2.26%) TCP/IP
9 16 (1.57%) SAN
10 9 (0.89%) Modbus
10 9 (0.89%) RS-485
11 7 (0.69%) LAN
11 7 (0.69%) WAN
11 7 (0.69%) Wireless
12 5 (0.49%) DMZ
12 5 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (0.49%) SSH
12 5 (0.49%) STUN
12 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.18%) MySQL
3 4 (0.39%) Big Data
3 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.39%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
3 4 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.098%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.098%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.098%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.098%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.098%) Redis
5 1 (0.098%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.48%) Git
3 13 (1.28%) GitLab
4 11 (1.08%) JIRA
5 8 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.49%) Maven
7 5 (0.49%) Selenium
7 5 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.39%) Appium
8 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.39%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.39%) JMeter
8 4 (0.39%) JUnit
8 4 (0.39%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.39%) Postman
8 4 (0.39%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 818 (80.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 653 (64.27%) Analytical Skills
3 409 (40.26%) Finance
4 70 (6.89%) Social Skills
5 15 (1.48%) Telecoms
6 12 (1.18%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.08%) Electronics
8 9 (0.89%) Law
8 9 (0.89%) Marketing
9 7 (0.69%) Military
10 6 (0.59%) Banking
10 6 (0.59%) Cantonese Language
10 6 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
10 6 (0.59%) Retail
11 5 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.49%) Games
11 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.39%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 400 (39.37%) Developer
2 390 (38.39%) Software Developer
3 281 (27.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 207 (20.37%) Senior
5 179 (17.62%) Software Engineer
6 177 (17.42%) Senior Software Engineer
7 32 (3.15%) Support Engineer
8 18 (1.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (1.77%) Support Technician
9 17 (1.67%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (1.18%) Technical Support
11 11 (1.08%) Analyst
11 11 (1.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (1.08%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (1.08%) IT Support
12 10 (0.98%) 2nd Line Support
12 10 (0.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 10 (0.98%) Technical Engineer
12 10 (0.98%) Technical Support Engineer
13 9 (0.89%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (26.08%) Elastic Stack
2 179 (17.62%) .NET
3 175 (17.22%) Node.js
4 11 (1.08%) CSS
5 5 (0.49%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (0.49%) HTML
6 4 (0.39%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.39%) Laravel
6 4 (0.39%) React
6 4 (0.39%) Spring
6 4 (0.39%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.39%) Vue
7 3 (0.30%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.30%) RESTful
8 2 (0.20%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.20%) JSON
8 2 (0.20%) Kafka
8 2 (0.20%) Middleware
8 2 (0.20%) Web Services
9 1 (0.098%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 811 (79.82%) Cyberattack
2 183 (18.01%) Self-Motivation
3 180 (17.72%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (1.67%) Clustering
5 14 (1.38%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (0.89%) Analogue Electronics
7 9 (0.89%) CAN bus
8 8 (0.79%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.49%) LIMS
10 5 (0.49%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.49%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.49%) SCADA
11 4 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.39%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.39%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 640 (62.99%) Android
2 371 (36.52%) Windows
3 48 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (2.07%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.48%) Debian
6 15 (1.48%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.18%) Unix
9 10 (0.98%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.89%) CentOS
10 9 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.59%) Mac OS X
12 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.098%) Solaris
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (63.68%) Mathematics
2 640 (62.99%) Line Management
3 579 (56.99%) Agile
4 393 (38.68%) OO
5 389 (38.29%) OOP
6 388 (38.19%) Android Development
6 388 (38.19%) Design Patterns
7 308 (30.31%) DevOps
7 308 (30.31%) Problem-Solving
8 287 (28.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 259 (25.49%) Platform Engineering
10 258 (25.39%) Storage Management
11 257 (25.30%) Task Automation
12 252 (24.80%) Risk Management
13 203 (19.98%) Mentoring
14 183 (18.01%) Microservices
14 183 (18.01%) Software Engineering
15 180 (17.72%) User Experience
16 178 (17.52%) Cloud Security
17 177 (17.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 884 (87.01%) Python
2 583 (57.38%) Java
3 574 (56.50%) C++
4 564 (55.51%) Go
5 288 (28.35%) PowerShell
6 283 (27.85%) Bash
7 197 (19.39%) JavaScript
8 172 (16.93%) Rust
9 40 (3.94%) SQL
10 15 (1.48%) C
11 9 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.79%) C#
12 8 (0.79%) PHP
13 7 (0.69%) Perl
14 4 (0.39%) Bicep
15 3 (0.30%) C-shell
15 3 (0.30%) Korn
15 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.20%) Embedded C++
16 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 565 (55.61%) Security Cleared
2 564 (55.51%) DV Cleared
3 184 (18.11%) AWS Certification
4 172 (16.93%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (16.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (4.33%) Degree
6 28 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.08%) HND
8 11 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.69%) CCNA
10 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.59%) MCSA
12 5 (0.49%) HNC
12 5 (0.49%) MCSE
12 5 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.39%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.08%) QA
2 5 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (0.49%) ISO 9001
2 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
3 2 (0.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.098%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
System Software
1 669 (65.85%) Docker
2 288 (28.35%) Hyper-V
3 262 (25.79%) vSphere
4 253 (24.90%) VMware NSX
5 46 (4.53%) Active Directory
6 18 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.89%) Firmware
9 8 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.49%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.098%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.098%) HDFS
11 1 (0.098%) Postfix
11 1 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 673 (66.24%) Ansible
2 290 (28.54%) Terraform
3 34 (3.35%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.87%) Grafana
4 19 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.98%) SCCM
7 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 7 (0.69%) SCOM
7 7 (0.69%) WSUS
8 6 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.49%) Puppet
10 4 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.39%) PaperCut
11 3 (0.30%) Argo
11 3 (0.30%) Control-M
11 3 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.30%) Istio
12 1 (0.098%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.098%) Podman
Vendors
1 269 (26.48%) Cisco
2 263 (25.89%) Splunk
3 251 (24.70%) 3PAR
3 251 (24.70%) Juniper
4 74 (7.28%) Microsoft
5 32 (3.15%) VMware
6 25 (2.46%) Oracle
7 19 (1.87%) SonicWALL
8 14 (1.38%) Dell
9 13 (1.28%) HP
9 13 (1.28%) Supermicro
10 11 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.59%) Allen-Bradley
11 6 (0.59%) Apple
11 6 (0.59%) Sage
11 6 (0.59%) Siemens
11 6 (0.59%) Toshiba
12 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.49%) Google
12 5 (0.49%) Salesforce