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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 15 52
Rank change year-on-year -92 +37 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 334 1,068 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.48% 11.15% 3.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.92% 58.55% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 253 225 325
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £76,075 £63,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £72,149 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.95%

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 1,155 1,824 1,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.10% 19.04% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 904 808 1,045
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -12.94% -9.57%
75th Percentile £54,063 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,986 £67,500 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,355 £48,500
% change year-on-year +8.81% -14.73% -7.62%

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 24 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 24 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 -95 163 £57,500 +6.98% 53
Yorkshire -33 96 £42,500 +13.33% 28
North East -3 75 £70,000 +7.69% 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 5 (1.50%) Apache
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.20%) IIS
3 3 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.60%) nginx
4 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 114 (34.13%) AWS
2 76 (22.75%) Azure
3 41 (12.28%) GitHub
4 31 (9.28%) GCP
5 26 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (6.89%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.39%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (4.19%) Serverless
12 13 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (3.89%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.69%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.10%) PaaS
16 6 (1.80%) IaaS
17 5 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (1.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.38%) TCP/IP
2 25 (7.49%) Firewall
3 22 (6.59%) DNS
4 16 (4.79%) DHCP
5 10 (2.99%) VPN
6 8 (2.40%) LAN
7 7 (2.10%) WAN
8 6 (1.80%) SAN
8 6 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.50%) VLAN
9 5 (1.50%) VSAN
10 4 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.20%) SSH
11 3 (0.90%) Wireless
12 2 (0.60%) AMQP
12 2 (0.60%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.60%) HTTP
12 2 (0.60%) SSL
12 2 (0.60%) ZigBee
13 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.27%) MySQL
3 25 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.39%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.60%) Big Data
6 2 (0.60%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Db2
7 1 (0.30%) Power BI
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (13.47%) Jenkins
2 36 (10.78%) GitLab
3 34 (10.18%) Git
4 20 (5.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.89%) JIRA
6 10 (2.99%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.10%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.80%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.90%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.30%) GDB
10 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.30%) WinDbg
General
1 69 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.57%) Law
3 43 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.99%) Finance
5 17 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 11 (3.29%) Retail
8 10 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.10%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.50%) Advertising
11 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Electronics
11 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Automotive
12 2 (0.60%) Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Games
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (20.06%) Senior
2 66 (19.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (13.47%) Linux Engineer
4 41 (12.28%) Administrator
4 41 (12.28%) Software Engineer
5 32 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (8.68%) Database Engineer
7 26 (7.78%) Principal Engineer
7 26 (7.78%) Senior DevOps
8 25 (7.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 22 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (6.29%) Systems Administrator
11 16 (4.79%) DBA
11 16 (4.79%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.49%) Developer
13 14 (4.19%) C++ Software Engineer
14 13 (3.89%) Linux Administrator
15 12 (3.59%) IT Support
15 12 (3.59%) Software Developer
15 12 (3.59%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (26.05%) Terraform
2 17 (5.09%) Node.js
2 17 (5.09%) Web Services
3 8 (2.40%) React
4 7 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.10%) JSON
4 7 (2.10%) REST
5 6 (1.80%) Kafka
6 5 (1.50%) HTML
6 5 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.20%) .NET
7 4 (1.20%) YAML
8 3 (0.90%) Laravel
8 3 (0.90%) Vue
9 2 (0.60%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.60%) gRPC
9 2 (0.60%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.60%) Material-UI
9 2 (0.60%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.38%) Replication
2 34 (10.18%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.49%) Driving Licence
4 14 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.69%) Life Science
7 7 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Social Media
9 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.60%) Clustering
12 2 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.60%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.60%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.60%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 92 (27.54%) Windows
2 50 (14.97%) Unix
3 43 (12.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (10.78%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.59%) CentOS
6 16 (4.79%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.99%) Mac OS
8 9 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.40%) AIX
10 7 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.80%) Embedded Linux
12 5 (1.50%) Debian
13 3 (0.90%) CoreOS
13 3 (0.90%) Solaris
13 3 (0.90%) VMS
14 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (29.64%) CI/CD
1 99 (29.64%) DevOps
2 80 (23.95%) Software Engineering
3 77 (23.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 62 (18.56%) Platform Engineering
7 55 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (16.17%) Agile
9 48 (14.37%) Mentoring
10 44 (13.17%) High Availability
11 41 (12.28%) Containerisation
12 40 (11.98%) AI
13 38 (11.38%) Microservices
14 33 (9.88%) Computer Science
15 32 (9.58%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (9.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (9.28%) Test Automation
17 30 (8.98%) Coaching
18 29 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (26.65%) Python
2 50 (14.97%) SQL
3 40 (11.98%) Bash
4 38 (11.38%) Shell Script
5 34 (10.18%) C++
6 33 (9.88%) Java
7 25 (7.49%) PowerShell
8 20 (5.99%) Groovy
8 20 (5.99%) Rust
9 13 (3.89%) Go
10 12 (3.59%) C
11 7 (2.10%) C#
12 5 (1.50%) Perl
12 5 (1.50%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.20%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.90%) Bicep
14 3 (0.90%) PHP
14 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.60%) Korn
16 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 71 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 39 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.88%) Degree
3 33 (9.88%) DV Cleared
4 23 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.69%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.90%) RHCE
8 3 (0.90%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.60%) IBM AIX Certification
9 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.30%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.30%) VCAP
10 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.69%) QA
2 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.90%) GDPR
3 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.90%) SLA
4 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (19.46%) Docker
2 19 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.89%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.40%) vSphere
6 6 (1.80%) iptables
6 6 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.20%) Ceph
9 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 79 (23.65%) Kubernetes
2 64 (19.16%) Ansible
3 21 (6.29%) Argo
4 18 (5.39%) Progress Chef
5 17 (5.09%) Puppet
6 13 (3.89%) Grafana
7 12 (3.59%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.10%) Podman
8 7 (2.10%) WSUS
9 4 (1.20%) Istio
9 4 (1.20%) SCCM
10 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.90%) Control-M
10 3 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.90%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.90%) Nessus
10 3 (0.90%) Packer
10 3 (0.90%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.90%) systemd
11 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.58%) Red Hat
3 25 (7.49%) VMware
4 11 (3.29%) Google
5 8 (2.40%) Dell
6 7 (2.10%) Oracle
6 7 (2.10%) Splunk
7 6 (1.80%) Pega
7 6 (1.80%) Veeam
8 5 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.50%) IBM
8 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.20%) New Relic
10 3 (0.90%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.90%) Aruba
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco
10 3 (0.90%) HP
10 3 (0.90%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.90%) NetApp