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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 15 42
Rank change year-on-year -113 +27 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 263 1,086 698
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.25% 11.52% 4.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.44% 58.89% 36.11%
Number of salaries quoted 209 241 453
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,886 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -13.39%

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 1,076 1,844 1,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.11% 19.56% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 842 826 1,440
10th Percentile £27,161 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £54,688 £51,240 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £46,958
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.56% -10.56%

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 July 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 July 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 -114 126 £55,000 +2.33% 74
Yorkshire -64 72 £65,000 +52.94% 27
North East -3 65 £70,000 +7.69% 25
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 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.90%) Apache
3 3 (1.14%) IIS
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.76%) nginx
4 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (36.88%) AWS
2 71 (27.00%) Azure
3 32 (12.17%) GitHub
4 26 (9.89%) GCP
5 21 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.60%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (6.08%) Azure AKS
10 13 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.42%) IaaS
12 8 (3.04%) Serverless
13 7 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.66%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.28%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.28%) PaaS
15 5 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
16 4 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.17%) Firewall
2 21 (7.98%) TCP/IP
3 18 (6.84%) VPN
4 16 (6.08%) DNS
5 10 (3.80%) DHCP
6 9 (3.42%) VLAN
7 8 (3.04%) VoIP
8 7 (2.66%) LAN
9 6 (2.28%) WAN
10 5 (1.90%) DMZ
10 5 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.90%) STUN
10 5 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.52%) SSH
12 3 (1.14%) Asterisk PBX
12 3 (1.14%) MPLS
12 3 (1.14%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.14%) VPLS
12 3 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 40 (15.21%) MySQL
3 27 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.84%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.76%) Big Data
6 2 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.76%) Redis
6 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.38%) Power BI
7 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (12.17%) GitLab
2 31 (11.79%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.22%) Git
4 15 (5.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (3.80%) JIRA
6 8 (3.04%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.28%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.28%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.14%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.38%) GDB
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.38%) WinDbg
General
1 49 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.83%) Law
3 35 (13.31%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.32%) Finance
6 9 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.66%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Advertising
10 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Electronics
11 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) German Language
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (21.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (20.91%) Senior
3 35 (13.31%) Linux Engineer
4 30 (11.41%) Administrator
5 23 (8.75%) Software Engineer
6 22 (8.37%) Senior DevOps
7 21 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.98%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (7.98%) Principal Engineer
7 21 (7.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 17 (6.46%) Database Engineer
9 15 (5.70%) Developer
9 15 (5.70%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.32%) C++ Software Engineer
10 14 (5.32%) DBA
11 13 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.56%) SQL DBA
13 11 (4.18%) Rust Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Rust Software Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.46%) Node.js
2 13 (4.94%) Web Services
3 8 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.04%) REST
4 7 (2.66%) JSON
5 5 (1.90%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.90%) Kafka
5 5 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.90%) React
6 4 (1.52%) HTML
6 4 (1.52%) Laravel
6 4 (1.52%) YAML
7 3 (1.14%) .NET
7 3 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.14%) Vue
8 2 (0.76%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.76%) LESS
8 2 (0.76%) Sass
8 2 (0.76%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.27%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.75%) Replication
3 12 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.56%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.04%) Life Science
5 6 (2.28%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.52%) PKI
7 2 (0.76%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.38%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.38%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 77 (29.28%) Windows
2 39 (14.83%) Unix
3 32 (12.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (9.89%) Windows Server
5 16 (6.08%) Ubuntu
6 14 (5.32%) CentOS
7 12 (4.56%) Debian
8 6 (2.28%) AIX
9 5 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.14%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.14%) Solaris
12 2 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.38%) VMS
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.56%) CI/CD
2 81 (30.80%) DevOps
3 55 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (19.39%) Software Engineering
6 49 (18.63%) Platform Engineering
7 48 (18.25%) Agile
8 39 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 37 (14.07%) AI
10 35 (13.31%) Containerisation
11 34 (12.93%) High Availability
12 33 (12.55%) Mentoring
13 32 (12.17%) Microservices
14 31 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (10.65%) Computer Science
16 25 (9.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 25 (9.51%) Test Automation
17 24 (9.13%) Scrum
18 22 (8.37%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 75 (28.52%) Python
2 37 (14.07%) Bash
3 33 (12.55%) SQL
4 32 (12.17%) Java
5 29 (11.03%) C++
6 25 (9.51%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.60%) Rust
8 19 (7.22%) Shell Script
9 16 (6.08%) Groovy
10 9 (3.42%) Go
11 6 (2.28%) C
11 6 (2.28%) C#
12 5 (1.90%) Perl
13 4 (1.52%) PHP
14 3 (1.14%) JavaScript
15 2 (0.76%) Bicep
16 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.41%) Degree
3 28 (10.65%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.51%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.42%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.14%) CCNA
10 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.38%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.38%) LPIC
12 1 (0.38%) RHCE
12 1 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.90%) GDPR
2 4 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.14%) QA
4 2 (0.76%) NIST
4 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (17.49%) Docker
2 19 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.04%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.66%) vSphere
6 6 (2.28%) iptables
7 4 (1.52%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.38%) KVM
Systems Management
1 75 (28.52%) Terraform
2 61 (23.19%) Kubernetes
3 52 (19.77%) Ansible
4 18 (6.84%) Argo
5 14 (5.32%) Grafana
5 14 (5.32%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.18%) Puppet
7 10 (3.80%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.28%) WSUS
9 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.14%) Control-M
9 3 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.14%) Packer
9 3 (1.14%) systemd
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.76%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) linkerd
11 1 (0.38%) Nessus
11 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.98%) Red Hat
2 21 (7.98%) VMware
3 9 (3.42%) Google
4 6 (2.28%) Pega
4 6 (2.28%) Splunk
5 5 (1.90%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.90%) Cisco
6 4 (1.52%) Dell
6 4 (1.52%) IBM
7 3 (1.14%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.14%) Aruba
7 3 (1.14%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.14%) HP
7 3 (1.14%) NetApp
7 3 (1.14%) Oracle
7 3 (1.14%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.14%) SonicWALL
7 3 (1.14%) Veeam
8 2 (0.76%) Mirantis