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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 19 43
Rank change year-on-year -139 +24 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 188 833 771
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.01% 11.14% 4.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.44% 54.34% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 146 229 540
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,200 £33,675
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £70,938 £68,250 £65,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 877 1,533 2,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.73% 20.49% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 665 739 1,758
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,313 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -116 103 £55,000 - 58
Yorkshire -90 58 £50,000 +17.65% 38
North East -39 27 £47,500 -24.60% 23
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 (2.13%) Apache
1 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (42.02%) AWS
2 52 (27.66%) Azure
3 21 (11.17%) GCP
4 18 (9.57%) Azure AKS
5 17 (9.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.98%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (6.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (6.91%) GitHub
10 12 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.79%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.19%) IaaS
12 6 (3.19%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.19%) Serverless
13 5 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.30%) Firewall
2 20 (10.64%) DNS
3 17 (9.04%) VPN
4 12 (6.38%) Ethernet
4 12 (6.38%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.85%) DHCP
5 11 (5.85%) Internet
6 9 (4.79%) VLAN
6 9 (4.79%) VoIP
7 7 (3.72%) HTTP
7 7 (3.72%) LAN
7 7 (3.72%) WAN
8 5 (2.66%) DMZ
8 5 (2.66%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.66%) SSL
8 5 (2.66%) STUN
9 4 (2.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (2.13%) SSH
9 4 (2.13%) VPLS
9 4 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.15%) SQL Server
2 32 (17.02%) MySQL
2 32 (17.02%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.77%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.60%) Big Data
6 3 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.83%) GitLab
2 19 (10.11%) Git
3 13 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.32%) JIRA
5 8 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.19%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (2.13%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.53%) GDB
10 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.53%) WinDbg
General
1 42 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.17%) Law
3 15 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.91%) Retail
6 12 (6.38%) Aerospace
7 11 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (5.85%) Finance
7 11 (5.85%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.53%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Electronics
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) German Language
12 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (20.21%) Senior
2 27 (14.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (13.30%) Linux Engineer
4 18 (9.57%) Administrator
5 15 (7.98%) DBA
6 14 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.45%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.91%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) SQL DBA
9 11 (5.85%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (5.85%) IT Support
10 10 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Developer
10 10 (5.32%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.79%) Analyst
12 7 (3.72%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.04%) Node.js
2 8 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (4.26%) REST
3 7 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (3.72%) Web Services
4 5 (2.66%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.13%) RESTful
6 3 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.60%) gRPC
6 3 (1.60%) JSON
6 3 (1.60%) Laravel
6 3 (1.60%) Material-UI
6 3 (1.60%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.60%) React
6 3 (1.60%) Spring
6 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.60%) Swagger
6 3 (1.60%) YAML
7 2 (1.06%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.51%) Replication
2 12 (6.38%) Driving Licence
2 12 (6.38%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (6.38%) FPGA
3 7 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.66%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
5 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.13%) PKI
5 4 (2.13%) SCADA
6 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.60%) NHS
6 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.06%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.06%) Life Science
7 2 (1.06%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 82 (43.62%) Windows
2 31 (16.49%) Unix
3 28 (14.89%) Windows Server
4 17 (9.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.32%) Debian
6 9 (4.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.66%) CentOS
8 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.60%) AIX
9 3 (1.60%) Solaris
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.53%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.60%) CI/CD
2 44 (23.40%) DevOps
3 40 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.09%) Agile
6 29 (15.43%) Containerisation
7 26 (13.83%) Mentoring
8 23 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (12.23%) Microservices
9 22 (11.70%) Software Engineering
10 21 (11.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (10.64%) High Availability
11 20 (10.64%) ITIL
12 19 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (10.11%) Test Automation
13 17 (9.04%) Scrum
14 16 (8.51%) Coaching
15 12 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 11 (5.85%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.72%) Python
2 34 (18.09%) Java
3 32 (17.02%) SQL
4 20 (10.64%) Bash
5 16 (8.51%) C
5 16 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.91%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.38%) Go
8 10 (5.32%) C++
8 10 (5.32%) Groovy
9 8 (4.26%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.19%) C#
10 6 (3.19%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.66%) Perl
11 5 (2.66%) PHP
11 5 (2.66%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.53%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 27 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.45%) Degree
2 14 (7.45%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.19%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.13%) CCNA
8 4 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.53%) GCIA
9 1 (0.53%) GCIH
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.53%) LPIC
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.53%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) GDPR
2 8 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.19%) QA
4 4 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (12.23%) Docker
2 21 (11.17%) Active Directory
3 16 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.32%) vSphere
5 7 (3.72%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.72%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.60%) iptables
8 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (30.85%) Terraform
2 42 (22.34%) Ansible
3 39 (20.74%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.98%) Grafana
5 14 (7.45%) Argo
6 12 (6.38%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.32%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.19%) Puppet
9 4 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.13%) Control-M
9 4 (2.13%) WSUS
10 3 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.60%) Packer
10 3 (1.60%) Podman
10 3 (1.60%) Rancher
10 3 (1.60%) systemd
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.06%) Nagios
12 1 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 25 (13.30%) VMware
2 17 (9.04%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.51%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.38%) Splunk
5 6 (3.19%) Cisco
6 5 (2.66%) Google
6 5 (2.66%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.13%) IBM
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle
8 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.60%) Mirantis
8 3 (1.60%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.06%) BMC
9 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.06%) Qualys
10 1 (0.53%) Cognos
10 1 (0.53%) Dell
10 1 (0.53%) McAfee
10 1 (0.53%) SAP