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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 57 43
Rank change year-on-year -88 -14 +18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 172 296 689
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.18% 4.45% 4.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.62% 30.93% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 133 227 515
10th Percentile £27,600 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 834 957 2,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.74% 14.39% 13.70%
Number of salaries quoted 636 638 1,689
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £57,250
90th Percentile £65,448 £76,840 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.43%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -74 90 £55,000 - 66
Yorkshire -76 48 £34,000 -20.00% 44
North East -18 34 £48,445 -20.58% 31
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 (2.91%) Apache
2 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (30.23%) AWS
2 42 (24.42%) Azure
3 24 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (12.21%) GCP
5 16 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.65%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.07%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (4.07%) dbt
9 7 (4.07%) Pulumi
10 6 (3.49%) GitHub
10 6 (3.49%) IaaS
10 6 (3.49%) PaaS
11 5 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (2.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.91%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.91%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.28%) Firewall
2 26 (15.12%) DNS
2 26 (15.12%) TCP/IP
3 23 (13.37%) VPN
4 16 (9.30%) Ethernet
5 14 (8.14%) DHCP
6 13 (7.56%) VLAN
6 13 (7.56%) VoIP
7 12 (6.98%) Internet
8 9 (5.23%) LAN
8 9 (5.23%) WAN
9 7 (4.07%) HTTP
9 7 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.91%) DMZ
10 5 (2.91%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.91%) SSL
10 5 (2.91%) STUN
11 4 (2.33%) AMQP
11 4 (2.33%) BGP
11 4 (2.33%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.21%) SQL Server
3 16 (9.30%) MySQL
4 14 (8.14%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.65%) Redis
7 7 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.33%) Big Data
8 4 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.33%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.74%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (12.79%) Git
2 12 (6.98%) GitLab
3 10 (5.81%) Bitbucket
4 9 (5.23%) JIRA
5 5 (2.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.33%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.58%) GDB
8 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.58%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.58%) WinDbg
General
1 53 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.88%) Retail
3 15 (8.72%) Manufacturing
4 12 (6.98%) Finance
5 10 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.65%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.91%) Advertising
10 3 (1.74%) Law
10 3 (1.74%) Marketing
10 3 (1.74%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.16%) Electronics
11 2 (1.16%) Military
11 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Games
12 1 (0.58%) German Language
12 1 (0.58%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (22.67%) Senior
2 23 (13.37%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (10.47%) Support Engineer
4 17 (9.88%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.98%) IT Support
6 11 (6.40%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Analyst
8 9 (5.23%) Developer
8 9 (5.23%) Graduate
8 9 (5.23%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Logistics Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.65%) Site Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Software Engineering Graduate
10 7 (4.07%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.23%) Node.js
2 7 (4.07%) Django
2 7 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (3.49%) REST
4 5 (2.91%) .NET
4 5 (2.91%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.91%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.33%) gRPC
5 4 (2.33%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.33%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.33%) React
5 4 (2.33%) RESTful
5 4 (2.33%) Spring
5 4 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.33%) Swagger
6 3 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.74%) SAP Basis
7 2 (1.16%) HTML
7 2 (1.16%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.47%) Driving Licence
2 16 (9.30%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (9.30%) FPGA
3 8 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.91%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.33%) NHS
7 4 (2.33%) PKI
7 4 (2.33%) SCADA
7 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.74%) LIMS
8 3 (1.74%) Replication
9 2 (1.16%) IoT
9 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 88 (51.16%) Windows
2 43 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (10.47%) Unix
4 11 (6.40%) Debian
5 7 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.49%) CentOS
6 6 (3.49%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.74%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.74%) SUSE
8 3 (1.74%) VMS
9 2 (1.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.58%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.58%) Fedora
10 1 (0.58%) Solaris
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (19.19%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.60%) Containerisation
4 32 (18.60%) ITIL
5 29 (16.86%) DevOps
6 24 (13.95%) Agile
7 21 (12.21%) Software Engineering
8 19 (11.05%) Computer Science
9 18 (10.47%) Mentoring
10 17 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (8.14%) Coaching
12 14 (8.14%) Observability
12 14 (8.14%) Service Delivery
13 12 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.98%) Incident Response
14 11 (6.40%) Microservices
15 10 (5.81%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.00%) Python
2 24 (13.95%) SQL
3 23 (13.37%) Java
4 19 (11.05%) C
5 16 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.98%) Bash
6 12 (6.98%) Go
7 11 (6.40%) C++
8 10 (5.81%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.81%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.65%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.49%) PHP
11 5 (2.91%) C#
12 4 (2.33%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.74%) Perl
14 1 (0.58%) ABAP
14 1 (0.58%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 24 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.79%) Degree
3 15 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.72%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.56%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (2.91%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.91%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.33%) CCNA
7 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.74%) HNC
8 3 (1.74%) HND
9 2 (1.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.58%) CEH
10 1 (0.58%) LPIC
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.58%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.65%) GDPR
2 7 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.91%) QA
4 4 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (17.44%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.21%) Docker
3 12 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.40%) vSphere
5 10 (5.81%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.91%) Firmware
8 4 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (22.09%) Terraform
2 37 (21.51%) Ansible
3 33 (19.19%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.72%) Grafana
5 13 (7.56%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.49%) Control-M
6 6 (3.49%) Puppet
7 5 (2.91%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.33%) WSUS
9 3 (1.74%) Rancher
10 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.16%) Nagios
10 2 (1.16%) Plesk
10 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.58%) Argo
11 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.58%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.58%) Podman
11 1 (0.58%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 34 (19.77%) VMware
2 30 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.98%) Google
3 12 (6.98%) Splunk
4 10 (5.81%) Cisco
5 9 (5.23%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.91%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.33%) Apple
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle
7 4 (2.33%) Sage
7 4 (2.33%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.33%) SAP
7 4 (2.33%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.16%) BMC
8 2 (1.16%) Draytek
8 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.16%) Qualys
9 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.58%) Cognos
9 1 (0.58%) McAfee