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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 63 49
Rank change year-on-year +30 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 616 406 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.52% 3.26% 5.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.85% 33.09% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 163 228 340
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £35,625 £38,973 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £62,875 £60,688 £69,850
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,991 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year +5.83% -3.92% -0.08%

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 1,261 1,227 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.35% 9.84% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 647 635 1,017
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £51,240 £56,250 £63,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +38 508 £52,500 - 72
Yorkshire -18 76 £36,500 -14.41% 35
North East +6 32 £60,000 +7.14% 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 21 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.65%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.49%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) CMS
3 3 (0.49%) IIS
3 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) JBoss
5 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 245 (39.77%) Azure
2 220 (35.71%) AWS
3 187 (30.36%) GCP
4 44 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 10 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (1.30%) IaaS
10 7 (1.14%) AWS CodeBuild
10 7 (1.14%) Route 53
10 7 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (0.97%) PaaS
12 5 (0.81%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (0.81%) dbt
12 5 (0.81%) Pulumi
12 5 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (0.65%) GitHub
13 4 (0.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 282 (45.78%) VPN
2 251 (40.75%) Cisco IOS
3 38 (6.17%) Firewall
4 36 (5.84%) DNS
5 33 (5.36%) VoIP
6 30 (4.87%) TCP/IP
7 28 (4.55%) VLAN
8 24 (3.90%) DHCP
9 16 (2.60%) SAN
10 10 (1.62%) LAN
10 10 (1.62%) WAN
11 9 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (1.46%) Wireless
12 8 (1.30%) Modbus
12 8 (1.30%) RS-485
12 8 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.81%) DMZ
13 5 (0.81%) STUN
14 4 (0.65%) HTTP
15 2 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.95%) MySQL
3 10 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.97%) Redis
6 5 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.65%) Big Data
7 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.49%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.16%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.16%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.92%) Git
2 15 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.27%) GitLab
4 13 (2.11%) JIRA
5 9 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.65%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.65%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.32%) Maven
9 2 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.16%) Ant
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.16%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.16%) CMake
10 1 (0.16%) git-flow
10 1 (0.16%) JUnit
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 423 (68.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 255 (41.40%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (10.88%) Social Skills
4 18 (2.92%) Finance
5 14 (2.27%) Telecoms
6 12 (1.95%) Marketing
7 10 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.30%) Advertising
8 8 (1.30%) Electronics
9 7 (1.14%) Retail
10 6 (0.97%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.81%) Military
11 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.49%) Games
13 3 (0.49%) Law
14 2 (0.32%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.32%) Mandarin Language
15 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 277 (44.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 217 (35.23%) Senior
3 182 (29.55%) Software Engineer
4 174 (28.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 34 (5.52%) Support Engineer
6 19 (3.08%) Linux Engineer
7 18 (2.92%) Support Technician
8 17 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (2.11%) Technical Engineer
9 13 (2.11%) Technical Support
9 13 (2.11%) Technical Support Engineer
10 12 (1.95%) Developer
11 11 (1.79%) Applications Support
12 10 (1.62%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (1.62%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (1.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (1.46%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (1.30%) Embedded Engineer
14 8 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 8 (1.30%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (42.69%) Elastic Stack
2 182 (29.55%) .NET
3 178 (28.90%) Node.js
4 11 (1.79%) CSS
5 5 (0.81%) Django
5 5 (0.81%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (0.81%) HTML
5 5 (0.81%) React
6 4 (0.65%) Laravel
6 4 (0.65%) SAP Basis
6 4 (0.65%) Vue
7 3 (0.49%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.49%) SAPUI5
8 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.32%) Kafka
8 2 (0.32%) Spring
8 2 (0.32%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.32%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 423 (68.67%) Cyberattack
2 178 (28.90%) Self-Motivation
3 177 (28.73%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (3.08%) Driving Licence
5 15 (2.44%) Clustering
6 12 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.62%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (1.30%) Analogue Electronics
8 8 (1.30%) CAN bus
8 8 (1.30%) LIMS
9 7 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.49%) Replication
11 2 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.32%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.32%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.32%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.32%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 370 (60.06%) Windows
2 252 (40.91%) Android
3 55 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (2.92%) Mac OS
6 15 (2.44%) Windows 10
7 13 (2.11%) Debian
7 13 (2.11%) Unix
8 9 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.81%) CentOS
10 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.65%) SUSE
12 3 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.32%) VMS
14 1 (0.16%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (48.38%) DevOps
2 294 (47.73%) Problem-Solving
3 282 (45.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 264 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 258 (41.88%) Mathematics
5 258 (41.88%) Storage Management
5 258 (41.88%) Task Automation
6 253 (41.07%) Risk Management
7 252 (40.91%) Line Management
8 196 (31.82%) Mentoring
9 188 (30.52%) Agile
10 185 (30.03%) Software Engineering
11 184 (29.87%) Microservices
12 182 (29.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 177 (28.73%) Cloud Security
14 175 (28.41%) Scrum
15 174 (28.25%) Machine Learning
15 174 (28.25%) User Experience
16 172 (27.92%) Data Engineering
17 44 (7.14%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 475 (77.11%) Python
2 279 (45.29%) PowerShell
3 277 (44.97%) Bash
4 194 (31.49%) Java
5 188 (30.52%) C++
6 186 (30.19%) JavaScript
7 173 (28.08%) Go
8 172 (27.92%) Rust
9 32 (5.19%) SQL
10 17 (2.76%) C
11 9 (1.46%) C#
12 8 (1.30%) PHP
13 6 (0.97%) Perl
13 6 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.32%) Bicep
15 2 (0.32%) Embedded C++
16 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 185 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 181 (29.38%) AWS Certification
3 180 (29.22%) DV Cleared
4 172 (27.92%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (27.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (6.66%) Degree
6 19 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.27%) HND
9 10 (1.62%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.30%) HNC
11 7 (1.14%) SC Cleared
12 6 (0.97%) CCNA
12 6 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (0.81%) ISO 9001
1 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.32%) GDPR
2 2 (0.32%) QA
3 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 287 (46.59%) Hyper-V
2 285 (46.27%) Docker
3 264 (42.86%) vSphere
4 253 (41.07%) VMware NSX
5 44 (7.14%) Active Directory
6 18 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (1.79%) Firmware
7 11 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.81%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.16%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.16%) HDFS
11 1 (0.16%) Postfix
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 281 (45.62%) Ansible
1 281 (45.62%) Terraform
2 38 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 24 (3.90%) Grafana
4 18 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.46%) Control-M
6 6 (0.97%) SCCM
6 6 (0.97%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 5 (0.81%) SCOM
7 5 (0.81%) WSUS
8 4 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.32%) Argo
10 2 (0.32%) Plesk
10 2 (0.32%) Puppet
11 1 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 263 (42.69%) Cisco
2 262 (42.53%) Splunk
3 251 (40.75%) 3PAR
3 251 (40.75%) Juniper
4 79 (12.82%) Microsoft
5 37 (6.01%) VMware
6 22 (3.57%) SonicWALL
7 14 (2.27%) Dell
8 13 (2.11%) HP
8 13 (2.11%) Supermicro
9 12 (1.95%) Google
10 10 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.46%) Apple
11 9 (1.46%) Sage
12 8 (1.30%) Oracle
13 6 (0.97%) Allen-Bradley
13 6 (0.97%) Siemens
13 6 (0.97%) Toshiba
14 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.65%) Fortinet