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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 15 50
Rank change year-on-year -100 +35 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 329 1,070 552
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.47% 11.18% 3.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.48% 58.63% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 249 227 324
10th Percentile £36,000 £27,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £38,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £76,075 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £70,649 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -9.45%

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 1,825 1,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.14% 19.06% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 901 808 1,066
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,250
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 £53,750 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £66,250 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +8.43% -14.43% -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 21 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 21 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 -103 161 £57,000 +7.29% 60
Yorkshire -45 93 £42,500 +16.44% 25
North East -1 75 £70,000 +7.69% 22
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 (1.52%) Apache
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.22%) IIS
3 3 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.61%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) nginx
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 113 (34.35%) AWS
2 76 (23.10%) Azure
3 40 (12.16%) GitHub
4 31 (9.42%) GCP
5 25 (7.60%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.47%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (4.26%) Serverless
12 13 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (3.95%) OpenShift
13 10 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.74%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.13%) PaaS
16 6 (1.82%) IaaS
17 5 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (1.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.51%) TCP/IP
2 25 (7.60%) Firewall
3 22 (6.69%) DNS
4 16 (4.86%) DHCP
5 10 (3.04%) VPN
6 8 (2.43%) LAN
7 7 (2.13%) WAN
8 6 (1.82%) SAN
8 6 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.52%) VLAN
9 5 (1.52%) VSAN
10 4 (1.22%) SSH
11 3 (0.91%) Wireless
12 2 (0.61%) AMQP
12 2 (0.61%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.61%) HTTP
12 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.61%) SSL
12 2 (0.61%) ZigBee
13 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.33%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.50%) MySQL
3 25 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.61%) Big Data
6 2 (0.61%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Db2
7 1 (0.30%) Power BI
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (13.37%) Jenkins
2 36 (10.94%) GitLab
3 34 (10.33%) Git
4 20 (6.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.95%) JIRA
6 10 (3.04%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.82%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.91%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.30%) GDB
10 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.30%) WinDbg
General
1 68 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.81%) Law
3 43 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.08%) Finance
5 17 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.56%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.34%) Retail
9 10 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.13%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.52%) Advertising
12 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Electronics
12 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.61%) Automotive
13 2 (0.61%) Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Games
13 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (20.36%) Senior
2 66 (20.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (13.37%) Linux Engineer
4 40 (12.16%) Administrator
4 40 (12.16%) Software Engineer
5 32 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (8.81%) Database Engineer
7 26 (7.90%) Principal Engineer
7 26 (7.90%) Senior DevOps
8 25 (7.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 21 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.08%) Systems Administrator
11 16 (4.86%) DBA
11 16 (4.86%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.56%) Developer
13 14 (4.26%) C++ Software Engineer
14 12 (3.65%) Linux Administrator
14 12 (3.65%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.65%) SQL DBA
15 11 (3.34%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (26.14%) Terraform
2 17 (5.17%) Node.js
3 16 (4.86%) Web Services
4 8 (2.43%) React
5 7 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.13%) JSON
5 7 (2.13%) REST
6 6 (1.82%) Kafka
7 5 (1.52%) HTML
7 5 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.22%) .NET
8 4 (1.22%) YAML
9 3 (0.91%) Laravel
9 3 (0.91%) Vue
10 2 (0.61%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.61%) gRPC
10 2 (0.61%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (0.61%) Material-UI
10 2 (0.61%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.55%) Replication
2 34 (10.33%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.95%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.04%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.74%) Life Science
7 7 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.82%) Social Media
9 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.61%) Clustering
12 2 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.61%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.61%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 89 (27.05%) Windows
2 48 (14.59%) Unix
3 43 (13.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (10.94%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.69%) CentOS
6 16 (4.86%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.43%) AIX
8 8 (2.43%) Mac OS
9 7 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.82%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (1.52%) Debian
12 3 (0.91%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.91%) Solaris
12 3 (0.91%) VMS
13 2 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (30.09%) CI/CD
1 99 (30.09%) DevOps
2 78 (23.71%) Software Engineering
3 76 (23.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (18.54%) Platform Engineering
7 55 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (16.41%) Agile
9 48 (14.59%) Mentoring
10 44 (13.37%) High Availability
11 40 (12.16%) AI
11 40 (12.16%) Containerisation
12 38 (11.55%) Microservices
13 33 (10.03%) Computer Science
14 32 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (9.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (9.42%) Test Automation
16 30 (9.12%) Coaching
17 29 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 88 (26.75%) Python
2 50 (15.20%) SQL
3 40 (12.16%) Bash
4 38 (11.55%) Shell Script
5 34 (10.33%) C++
6 33 (10.03%) Java
7 25 (7.60%) PowerShell
8 20 (6.08%) Rust
9 19 (5.78%) Groovy
10 13 (3.95%) Go
11 12 (3.65%) C
12 7 (2.13%) C#
13 5 (1.52%) Perl
13 5 (1.52%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.22%) JavaScript
15 3 (0.91%) Bicep
15 3 (0.91%) PHP
15 3 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.61%) Korn
17 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 70 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 38 (11.55%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.03%) Degree
3 33 (10.03%) DV Cleared
4 23 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.74%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.91%) RHCE
8 3 (0.91%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.61%) IBM AIX Certification
9 2 (0.61%) 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 7 (2.13%) QA
2 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.91%) GDPR
3 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.91%) SLA
4 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (19.45%) Docker
2 19 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.95%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.43%) vSphere
6 6 (1.82%) iptables
6 6 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.22%) Ceph
9 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 78 (23.71%) Kubernetes
2 64 (19.45%) Ansible
3 21 (6.38%) Argo
4 17 (5.17%) Progress Chef
4 17 (5.17%) Puppet
5 13 (3.95%) Grafana
6 12 (3.65%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.13%) Podman
7 7 (2.13%) WSUS
8 4 (1.22%) Istio
8 4 (1.22%) SCCM
9 3 (0.91%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.91%) Control-M
9 3 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.91%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.91%) Nessus
9 3 (0.91%) Packer
9 3 (0.91%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.91%) systemd
10 2 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.73%) Red Hat
3 25 (7.60%) VMware
4 11 (3.34%) Google
5 8 (2.43%) Dell
6 7 (2.13%) Oracle
6 7 (2.13%) Splunk
7 6 (1.82%) Pega
7 6 (1.82%) Veeam
8 5 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.52%) IBM
8 5 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.22%) New Relic
10 3 (0.91%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.91%) Aruba
10 3 (0.91%) Cisco
10 3 (0.91%) HP
10 3 (0.91%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.91%) NetApp