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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 15 52
Rank change year-on-year -94 +37 +9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 322 1,081 561
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.45% 11.20% 3.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.02% 58.72% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 244 237 335
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £38,820
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,269 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.82%

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 1,149 1,841 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.19% 19.07% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 891 823 1,092
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% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £66,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -8.57%

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 14 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 14 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 -99 157 £55,000 +3.53% 122
Yorkshire -48 89 £42,500 +13.33% 41
North East -5 76 £70,000 +7.69% 39
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 (1.55%) Apache
1 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.24%) IIS
3 3 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) nginx
4 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.31%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 110 (34.16%) AWS
2 79 (24.53%) Azure
3 38 (11.80%) GitHub
4 32 (9.94%) GCP
5 25 (7.76%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.28%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (4.04%) OpenShift
11 13 (4.04%) Serverless
12 9 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.80%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.48%) IaaS
14 7 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (2.17%) PaaS
15 5 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.70%) Firewall
1 28 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 22 (6.83%) DNS
3 16 (4.97%) DHCP
4 11 (3.42%) VPN
5 8 (2.48%) LAN
6 7 (2.17%) VLAN
6 7 (2.17%) WAN
7 6 (1.86%) SAN
7 6 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.55%) VSAN
9 4 (1.24%) SSH
10 3 (0.93%) HTTP
10 3 (0.93%) VoIP
10 3 (0.93%) Wireless
11 2 (0.62%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.62%) DMZ
11 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.62%) STUN
11 2 (0.62%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.32%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.84%) MySQL
3 25 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.59%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.62%) Big Data
6 2 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.31%) Db2
7 1 (0.31%) Power BI
7 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 32 (9.94%) GitLab
3 30 (9.32%) Git
4 17 (5.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (4.04%) JIRA
6 9 (2.80%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.86%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.31%) GDB
11 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.31%) WinDbg
General
1 67 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.84%) Law
3 39 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.21%) Finance
5 17 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 14 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.42%) Retail
9 10 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.17%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.55%) Advertising
11 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Electronics
12 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.62%) Automotive
13 2 (0.62%) Banking
13 2 (0.62%) Games
14 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (20.19%) Senior
2 63 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (13.35%) Linux Engineer
4 40 (12.42%) Administrator
5 38 (11.80%) Software Engineer
6 32 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (9.01%) Database Engineer
8 25 (7.76%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (7.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
11 21 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (6.21%) Systems Administrator
13 16 (4.97%) DBA
14 15 (4.66%) Developer
15 14 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
16 13 (4.04%) Principal DevOps Engineer
17 12 (3.73%) Linux Administrator
17 12 (3.73%) Software Developer
17 12 (3.73%) SQL DBA
18 11 (3.42%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.28%) Node.js
2 16 (4.97%) Web Services
3 8 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (2.48%) React
4 7 (2.17%) JSON
4 7 (2.17%) REST
5 6 (1.86%) Kafka
6 5 (1.55%) HTML
6 5 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.24%) .NET
7 4 (1.24%) YAML
8 3 (0.93%) Laravel
8 3 (0.93%) Vue
9 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.62%) FreeSWITCH
9 2 (0.62%) gRPC
9 2 (0.62%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.62%) Sass
9 2 (0.62%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.80%) Replication
2 31 (9.63%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.73%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.80%) Life Science
7 7 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.86%) Social Media
9 5 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.62%) Clustering
12 2 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.62%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.62%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 87 (27.02%) Windows
2 46 (14.29%) Unix
3 40 (12.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (11.49%) Windows Server
5 19 (5.90%) CentOS
6 16 (4.97%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.48%) AIX
9 7 (2.17%) Debian
9 7 (2.17%) Mac OS
9 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.93%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.93%) Solaris
11 3 (0.93%) VMS
12 2 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (29.81%) DevOps
2 95 (29.50%) CI/CD
3 75 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (23.29%) Software Engineering
4 72 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (17.70%) Platform Engineering
7 55 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 53 (16.46%) Agile
9 46 (14.29%) High Availability
9 46 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 40 (12.42%) AI
10 40 (12.42%) Containerisation
11 35 (10.87%) Microservices
12 33 (10.25%) Computer Science
13 32 (9.94%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 30 (9.32%) Test Automation
15 29 (9.01%) Coaching
16 25 (7.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 90 (27.95%) Python
2 52 (16.15%) SQL
3 42 (13.04%) Bash
4 38 (11.80%) Shell Script
5 34 (10.56%) C++
6 33 (10.25%) Java
7 27 (8.39%) PowerShell
8 20 (6.21%) Rust
9 19 (5.90%) Groovy
10 14 (4.35%) Go
11 12 (3.73%) C
12 7 (2.17%) C#
13 5 (1.55%) Perl
13 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.24%) JavaScript
15 3 (0.93%) Bicep
15 3 (0.93%) PHP
15 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.62%) Korn
17 1 (0.31%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 65 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.25%) Degree
4 30 (9.32%) DV Cleared
5 23 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.80%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.93%) RHCE
9 3 (0.93%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.62%) IBM AIX Certification
10 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.31%) VCAP
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.55%) QA
2 4 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.93%) GDPR
3 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.93%) SLA
4 2 (0.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (18.94%) Docker
2 21 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.04%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.48%) vSphere
6 6 (1.86%) iptables
6 6 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.24%) Ceph
9 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.31%) Firmware
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
Systems Management
1 83 (25.78%) Terraform
2 74 (22.98%) Kubernetes
3 61 (18.94%) Ansible
4 21 (6.52%) Argo
5 17 (5.28%) Progress Chef
5 17 (5.28%) Puppet
6 14 (4.35%) Grafana
7 13 (4.04%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.17%) Podman
8 7 (2.17%) WSUS
9 4 (1.24%) Istio
9 4 (1.24%) SCCM
10 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.93%) Control-M
10 3 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.93%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.93%) Nessus
10 3 (0.93%) Packer
10 3 (0.93%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.93%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.94%) Red Hat
3 25 (7.76%) VMware
4 11 (3.42%) Google
5 8 (2.48%) Dell
6 7 (2.17%) Oracle
6 7 (2.17%) Splunk
7 6 (1.86%) Pega
7 6 (1.86%) Veeam
8 5 (1.55%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.55%) Cisco
8 5 (1.55%) IBM
8 5 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.24%) New Relic
10 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.93%) Aruba
10 3 (0.93%) HP
10 3 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.93%) NetApp