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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 16 57
Rank change year-on-year -84 +41 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 390 996 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.62% 10.40% 3.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.56% 60.62% 33.99%
Number of salaries quoted 277 153 250
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £74,987 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £67,500 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 1,162 1,643 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.82% 17.16% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 892 639 746
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,600 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -17.65% -6.59%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,563
90th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,603
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,355 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.81% -17.29% -4.76%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -82 203 £58,750 +14.63% 145
Yorkshire -14 106 £42,500 -6.59% 61
North East -8 81 £70,000 +16.67% 37
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 9 (2.31%) Apache
2 8 (2.05%) IIS
3 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.26%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 143 (36.67%) AWS
2 106 (27.18%) Azure
3 46 (11.79%) GitHub
4 43 (11.03%) GCP
5 27 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (4.87%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (3.59%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (3.08%) Serverless
14 8 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.05%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.05%) PaaS
15 7 (1.79%) IaaS
15 7 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.46%) TCP/IP
2 32 (8.21%) DNS
3 20 (5.13%) DHCP
4 19 (4.87%) VPN
5 18 (4.62%) Firewall
6 17 (4.36%) Internet
7 9 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (2.05%) VLAN
9 6 (1.54%) LAN
9 6 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (1.54%) SAN
9 6 (1.54%) SSL
10 5 (1.28%) VSAN
10 5 (1.28%) WAN
11 3 (0.77%) AMQP
11 3 (0.77%) SSH
11 3 (0.77%) Wireless
12 2 (0.51%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.51%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.51%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 56 (14.36%) MySQL
3 26 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.77%) Big Data
6 3 (0.77%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.77%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.51%) Redis
7 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Db2
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (12.31%) Git
2 46 (11.79%) Jenkins
3 40 (10.26%) GitLab
4 23 (5.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (3.08%) JIRA
6 7 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.54%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
General
1 78 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.64%) Public Sector
3 50 (12.82%) Law
4 31 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.13%) Finance
7 16 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.85%) Aerospace
9 14 (3.59%) Retail
10 10 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.28%) Advertising
11 5 (1.28%) Electronics
12 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Games
14 1 (0.26%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
14 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (21.28%) Senior
3 52 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 48 (12.31%) Linux Engineer
6 43 (11.03%) Administrator
7 34 (8.72%) Senior DevOps
8 33 (8.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 29 (7.44%) Database Engineer
9 29 (7.44%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.90%) Systems Administrator
11 19 (4.87%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.62%) Lead
12 18 (4.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (4.36%) IT Support
14 16 (4.10%) DBA
15 15 (3.85%) Developer
15 15 (3.85%) IT Engineer
15 15 (3.85%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (23.85%) Terraform
2 18 (4.62%) Node.js
2 18 (4.62%) Web Services
3 10 (2.56%) React
4 7 (1.79%) Kafka
5 6 (1.54%) REST
6 5 (1.28%) HTML
7 4 (1.03%) .NET
7 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.03%) JSON
7 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.03%) Spring
7 4 (1.03%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.77%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.77%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.77%) gRPC
8 3 (0.77%) Laravel
8 3 (0.77%) Material-UI
8 3 (0.77%) Swagger
8 3 (0.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.49%) Replication
3 21 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (4.10%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.79%) Life Science
9 6 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.54%) Social Media
10 5 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (1.28%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.28%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.03%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.51%) Analogue Electronics
12 2 (0.51%) ARM Cortex
12 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 119 (30.51%) Windows
2 65 (16.67%) Unix
3 51 (13.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (9.49%) Windows Server
5 26 (6.67%) CentOS
6 19 (4.87%) Ubuntu
7 12 (3.08%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.05%) AIX
9 8 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.54%) Debian
11 3 (0.77%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.77%) VMS
12 2 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.51%) Solaris
12 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.51%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.26%) SUSE
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (32.82%) CI/CD
2 126 (32.31%) DevOps
3 111 (28.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (23.85%) Software Engineering
5 83 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 82 (21.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 81 (20.77%) Platform Engineering
8 80 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (20.26%) Mentoring
10 71 (18.21%) Agile
11 55 (14.10%) Containerisation
12 51 (13.08%) Continuous Integration
13 47 (12.05%) Coaching
14 45 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 44 (11.28%) AI
16 42 (10.77%) High Availability
17 40 (10.26%) Microservices
18 37 (9.49%) Scrum
19 35 (8.97%) Test Automation
20 34 (8.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 93 (23.85%) Python
2 51 (13.08%) Shell Script
2 51 (13.08%) SQL
3 48 (12.31%) Bash
4 34 (8.72%) Java
5 32 (8.21%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.69%) C++
7 20 (5.13%) Rust
8 18 (4.62%) Groovy
9 17 (4.36%) Go
10 12 (3.08%) C
11 8 (2.05%) C#
12 7 (1.79%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.54%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.03%) Bicep
14 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.77%) PHP
16 2 (0.51%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.49%) Degree
4 34 (8.72%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.31%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.28%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.77%) RHCE
10 3 (0.77%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.51%) IBM AIX Certification
11 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.51%) MCSE
12 1 (0.26%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.26%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.08%) QA
2 5 (1.28%) SLA
3 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (22.05%) Docker
2 20 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.82%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.05%) vSphere
6 7 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.28%) iptables
8 4 (1.03%) Ceph
8 4 (1.03%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.51%) UAG
10 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.26%) Firmware
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 85 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 71 (18.21%) Ansible
3 21 (5.38%) Argo
4 19 (4.87%) Progress Chef
4 19 (4.87%) Puppet
5 12 (3.08%) Grafana
6 11 (2.82%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.56%) WSUS
8 9 (2.31%) Podman
9 6 (1.54%) SCCM
10 4 (1.03%) Istio
10 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.77%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.77%) Control-M
11 3 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.77%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.77%) Nessus
11 3 (0.77%) SCVMM
12 2 (0.51%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.51%) systemd
Vendors
1 60 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.23%) Red Hat
3 27 (6.92%) VMware
4 26 (6.67%) Google
5 14 (3.59%) Oracle
6 10 (2.56%) Dell
7 9 (2.31%) Veeam
8 8 (2.05%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.79%) NetApp
9 7 (1.79%) Splunk
10 6 (1.54%) Aruba
10 6 (1.54%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.54%) HP
10 6 (1.54%) Pega
10 6 (1.54%) SonicWALL
10 6 (1.54%) Thales
10 6 (1.54%) YouTube
11 5 (1.28%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.03%) Fortinet