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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 54 42
Rank change year-on-year -95 -12 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 177 284 748
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 4.45% 4.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.63% 30.70% 34.92%
Number of salaries quoted 141 234 540
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,364
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £67,594
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year - +6.19% -13.08%

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 858 925 2,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.48% 14.50% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 661 675 1,746
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,125 £30,625 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,840 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -13.88%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -71 94 £55,000 - 58
Yorkshire -86 51 £36,000 -15.29% 41
North East -14 32 £47,500 -26.92% 27
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 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.82%) Apache
3 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.77%) AWS
2 41 (23.16%) Azure
3 24 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (11.30%) GCP
5 16 (9.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.95%) dbt
9 7 (3.95%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.95%) Pulumi
9 7 (3.95%) Serverless
10 6 (3.39%) GitHub
11 5 (2.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.82%) IaaS
11 5 (2.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.08%) Firewall
2 25 (14.12%) DNS
3 24 (13.56%) TCP/IP
4 22 (12.43%) VPN
5 16 (9.04%) Ethernet
6 15 (8.47%) DHCP
7 12 (6.78%) Internet
7 12 (6.78%) VLAN
7 12 (6.78%) VoIP
8 10 (5.65%) LAN
8 10 (5.65%) WAN
9 7 (3.95%) HTTP
10 5 (2.82%) DMZ
10 5 (2.82%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.82%) SSL
10 5 (2.82%) STUN
10 5 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.26%) AMQP
11 4 (2.26%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.73%) SQL Server
3 15 (8.47%) MySQL
4 13 (7.34%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.52%) Redis
7 4 (2.26%) Big Data
7 4 (2.26%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.26%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.13%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.13%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 23 (12.99%) Git
2 13 (7.34%) GitLab
3 10 (5.65%) JIRA
4 9 (5.08%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.39%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.26%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.26%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.13%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.56%) GDB
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.56%) WinDbg
General
1 55 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.04%) Retail
3 14 (7.91%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.21%) Finance
5 10 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.52%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.95%) Law
7 7 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.26%) Advertising
10 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.13%) Electronics
11 2 (1.13%) Military
11 2 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) German Language
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (22.03%) Senior
2 26 (14.69%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (9.60%) Support Engineer
4 16 (9.04%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.78%) IT Support
6 11 (6.21%) Developer
6 11 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.21%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Analyst
9 8 (4.52%) Graduate
9 8 (4.52%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Logistics Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
1 9 (5.08%) REST
2 7 (3.95%) Django
2 7 (3.95%) Node.js
3 6 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.82%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.26%) gRPC
5 4 (2.26%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.26%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.26%) React
5 4 (2.26%) RESTful
5 4 (2.26%) Spring
5 4 (2.26%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.26%) Swagger
6 3 (1.69%) .NET
6 3 (1.69%) JSON
6 3 (1.69%) Laravel
6 3 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Driving Licence
2 16 (9.04%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (9.04%) FPGA
3 8 (4.52%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.82%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.26%) NHS
6 4 (2.26%) PKI
6 4 (2.26%) SCADA
6 4 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.69%) Replication
8 2 (1.13%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.13%) IoT
8 2 (1.13%) Life Science
8 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 83 (46.89%) Windows
2 43 (24.29%) Windows Server
3 21 (11.86%) Unix
4 11 (6.21%) Debian
5 10 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.52%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.39%) CentOS
8 5 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.69%) Solaris
10 2 (1.13%) SUSE
10 2 (1.13%) VMS
10 2 (1.13%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.56%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
2 38 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (19.21%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.08%) DevOps
5 31 (17.51%) ITIL
6 28 (15.82%) Agile
6 28 (15.82%) Containerisation
7 19 (10.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (10.73%) Mentoring
7 19 (10.73%) Software Engineering
8 17 (9.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 16 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (8.47%) Computer Science
10 15 (8.47%) Service Delivery
11 14 (7.91%) Coaching
11 14 (7.91%) Observability
12 12 (6.78%) Incident Response
12 12 (6.78%) Microservices
13 11 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (5.65%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.55%) Python
2 24 (13.56%) Java
3 22 (12.43%) SQL
4 18 (10.17%) C
5 16 (9.04%) PowerShell
6 15 (8.47%) Bash
7 12 (6.78%) Go
8 11 (6.21%) C++
9 10 (5.65%) TypeScript
10 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
11 7 (3.95%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.82%) Perl
12 5 (2.82%) PHP
13 4 (2.26%) C#
13 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.69%) Groovy
15 1 (0.56%) ABAP
15 1 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 29 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.17%) Degree
3 16 (9.04%) DV Cleared
3 16 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.82%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.26%) CCNA
7 4 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) GCIA
9 1 (0.56%) GCIH
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.56%) LPIC
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) GDPR
2 8 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.95%) QA
4 4 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (16.95%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.30%) Docker
3 16 (9.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.21%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.65%) vSphere
6 8 (4.52%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.82%) Firmware
7 5 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 42 (23.73%) Terraform
2 40 (22.60%) Ansible
3 34 (19.21%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.91%) Grafana
5 13 (7.34%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.39%) Puppet
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.82%) Control-M
8 4 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.26%) WSUS
9 3 (1.69%) Packer
9 3 (1.69%) Podman
9 3 (1.69%) Rancher
10 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.13%) Nagios
10 2 (1.13%) Plesk
10 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.56%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (20.34%) VMware
2 28 (15.82%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.78%) Splunk
4 11 (6.21%) Google
5 10 (5.65%) Cisco
5 10 (5.65%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.82%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.26%) IBM
7 4 (2.26%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.69%) Apple
8 3 (1.69%) Mirantis
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle
8 3 (1.69%) Sage
8 3 (1.69%) SAP
8 3 (1.69%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.13%) BMC
9 2 (1.13%) Draytek
9 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.13%) Qualys