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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 16 60
Rank change year-on-year -85 +44 -14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 388 995 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.62% 10.38% 3.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.54% 60.34% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 273 151 237
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £34,200
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £70,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -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 1,157 1,649 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.82% 17.21% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 885 640 693
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -9.19%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -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 9 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 9 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 -85 202 £57,500 +9.52% 124
Yorkshire -17 108 £42,500 +3.03% 66
North East -12 78 £71,991 +19.99% 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 10 (2.58%) Apache
2 9 (2.32%) IIS
3 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) 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
1 140 (36.08%) AWS
2 103 (26.55%) Azure
3 46 (11.86%) GitHub
4 43 (11.08%) GCP
5 27 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (4.64%) Azure AKS
10 17 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.87%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (3.09%) Serverless
13 9 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.06%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.06%) PaaS
15 7 (1.80%) IaaS
15 7 (1.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.76%) TCP/IP
2 33 (8.51%) DNS
3 20 (5.15%) DHCP
3 20 (5.15%) VPN
4 17 (4.38%) Internet
5 16 (4.12%) Firewall
6 10 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (2.32%) VLAN
8 6 (1.55%) LAN
8 6 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (1.55%) SAN
8 6 (1.55%) SSL
9 5 (1.29%) VSAN
9 5 (1.29%) WAN
10 3 (0.77%) AMQP
11 2 (0.52%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.52%) SSH
11 2 (0.52%) VoIP
11 2 (0.52%) Wireless
11 2 (0.52%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.72%) SQL Server
2 56 (14.43%) MySQL
3 25 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.03%) 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 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.52%) Redis
7 2 (0.52%) 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 49 (12.63%) Git
2 46 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.05%) GitLab
4 23 (5.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (3.09%) JIRA
6 7 (1.80%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.55%) 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 80 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.46%) Public Sector
3 49 (12.63%) Law
4 31 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.93%) Finance
6 22 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.87%) Aerospace
9 14 (3.61%) Retail
10 10 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.29%) Advertising
11 5 (1.29%) Electronics
12 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Games
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Legal
14 1 (0.26%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 91 (23.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 84 (21.65%) Senior
3 52 (13.40%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (11.60%) Linux Engineer
6 42 (10.82%) Administrator
7 34 (8.76%) Senior DevOps
8 33 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 29 (7.47%) Database Engineer
9 29 (7.47%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.67%) Systems Administrator
12 19 (4.90%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 19 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.64%) IT Support
13 18 (4.64%) Lead
14 16 (4.12%) DBA
14 16 (4.12%) IT Engineer
15 15 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (3.87%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (23.97%) Terraform
2 18 (4.64%) Web Services
3 17 (4.38%) Node.js
4 10 (2.58%) React
5 7 (1.80%) Kafka
6 6 (1.55%) REST
7 5 (1.29%) HTML
8 4 (1.03%) .NET
8 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.03%) JSON
8 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.03%) Spring
8 4 (1.03%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.77%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.77%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.77%) gRPC
9 3 (0.77%) Laravel
9 3 (0.77%) Material-UI
9 3 (0.77%) Swagger
9 3 (0.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.28%) Replication
3 21 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (4.64%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.58%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.80%) Life Science
8 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.55%) Social Media
9 5 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.03%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.52%) Cybercrime
11 2 (0.52%) IoT
11 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 121 (31.19%) Windows
2 61 (15.72%) Unix
3 47 (12.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (9.54%) Windows Server
5 26 (6.70%) CentOS
6 19 (4.90%) Ubuntu
7 14 (3.61%) Mac OS
8 11 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.80%) AIX
12 6 (1.55%) Debian
13 3 (0.77%) CoreOS
13 3 (0.77%) VMS
14 2 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (32.99%) CI/CD
2 127 (32.73%) DevOps
3 114 (29.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (23.97%) Software Engineering
5 84 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 83 (21.39%) Platform Engineering
7 82 (21.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 80 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (20.10%) Mentoring
10 71 (18.30%) Agile
11 56 (14.43%) Containerisation
12 50 (12.89%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (11.86%) AI
13 46 (11.86%) Coaching
14 45 (11.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 42 (10.82%) High Availability
16 39 (10.05%) Microservices
17 36 (9.28%) Scrum
18 34 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 34 (8.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (24.48%) Python
2 51 (13.14%) Shell Script
2 51 (13.14%) SQL
3 49 (12.63%) Bash
4 35 (9.02%) Java
5 34 (8.76%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.73%) C++
7 20 (5.15%) Rust
8 18 (4.64%) Go
8 18 (4.64%) Groovy
9 12 (3.09%) C
10 8 (2.06%) C#
11 7 (1.80%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.55%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.03%) Bicep
13 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.77%) PHP
15 2 (0.52%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 83 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.54%) Degree
4 36 (9.28%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.84%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.29%) 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 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.52%) IBM AIX Certification
11 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.52%) MCSE
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.26%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.26%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.09%) QA
2 5 (1.29%) SLA
3 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.52%) GDPR
4 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (22.16%) Docker
2 20 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.58%) Hyper-V
3 10 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (2.06%) vSphere
5 7 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.29%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.03%) Ceph
7 4 (1.03%) iptables
8 2 (0.52%) UAG
9 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.26%) Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 85 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 72 (18.56%) Ansible
3 20 (5.15%) Argo
3 20 (5.15%) Puppet
4 19 (4.90%) Progress Chef
5 11 (2.84%) Grafana
5 11 (2.84%) WSUS
6 10 (2.58%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.06%) Podman
8 6 (1.55%) SCCM
9 5 (1.29%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.03%) Istio
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 (0.52%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 64 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.76%) Red Hat
3 27 (6.96%) VMware
4 26 (6.70%) Google
5 14 (3.61%) Oracle
6 11 (2.84%) Dell
7 10 (2.58%) Veeam
8 9 (2.32%) HP
8 9 (2.32%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.06%) NetApp
10 7 (1.80%) Aruba
10 7 (1.80%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.80%) SonicWALL
10 7 (1.80%) Splunk
11 6 (1.55%) Pega
11 6 (1.55%) Thales
11 6 (1.55%) YouTube
12 5 (1.29%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.29%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.29%) ServiceNow