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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 22 41
Rank change year-on-year -131 +19 +23
Permanent jobs citing Linux 184 671 766
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 9.60% 4.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.32% 49.67% 35.09%
Number of salaries quoted 139 234 542
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,550
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,688 £66,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 863 1,351 2,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.88% 19.32% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 659 721 1,763
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,625 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £53,125 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £74,258 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -115 101 £55,000 - 40
Yorkshire -90 53 £50,000 +17.65% 35
North East -37 30 £47,500 -22.13% 28
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 (2.72%) Apache
2 4 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (37.50%) AWS
2 46 (25.00%) Azure
3 20 (10.87%) GCP
4 16 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (6.52%) Azure AKS
7 11 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.35%) GitHub
11 7 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.80%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.80%) Serverless
12 6 (3.26%) IaaS
13 5 (2.72%) dbt
13 5 (2.72%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.67%) Firewall
2 20 (10.87%) DNS
3 17 (9.24%) VPN
4 16 (8.70%) Ethernet
4 16 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 12 (6.52%) Internet
6 11 (5.98%) DHCP
7 9 (4.89%) VLAN
7 9 (4.89%) VoIP
8 7 (3.80%) HTTP
8 7 (3.80%) LAN
8 7 (3.80%) WAN
9 5 (2.72%) DMZ
9 5 (2.72%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.72%) SSL
9 5 (2.72%) STUN
10 4 (2.17%) AMQP
10 4 (2.17%) SSH
10 4 (2.17%) VPLS
10 4 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (11.41%) SQL Server
3 20 (10.87%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.87%) MySQL
4 9 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.26%) Redis
7 4 (2.17%) Big Data
7 4 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.17%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.09%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 20 (10.87%) Git
1 20 (10.87%) GitLab
2 8 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.35%) JIRA
3 6 (3.26%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.54%) GDB
8 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 47 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.15%) Retail
3 13 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (7.07%) Manufacturing
4 11 (5.98%) Aerospace
4 11 (5.98%) Law
5 10 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.89%) Finance
7 7 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Military
10 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) German Language
11 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (23.91%) Senior
2 29 (15.76%) Linux Engineer
3 20 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.15%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (6.52%) IT Support
6 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (5.98%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Developer
7 10 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (4.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Administrator
9 8 (4.35%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Analyst
10 7 (3.80%) Graduate
10 7 (3.80%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.07%) Node.js
2 9 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (4.89%) REST
3 6 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.72%) Django
4 5 (2.72%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.17%) gRPC
5 4 (2.17%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.17%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.17%) React
5 4 (2.17%) RESTful
5 4 (2.17%) Spring
5 4 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.17%) Swagger
6 3 (1.63%) .NET
6 3 (1.63%) JSON
6 3 (1.63%) Laravel
6 3 (1.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
1 16 (8.70%) FPGA
2 14 (7.61%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.80%) Replication
5 6 (3.26%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.72%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.72%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.17%) NHS
7 4 (2.17%) PKI
7 4 (2.17%) SCADA
7 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.09%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.09%) IoT
9 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.09%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 80 (43.48%) Windows
2 34 (18.48%) Windows Server
3 28 (15.22%) Unix
4 16 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.98%) Debian
6 9 (4.89%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.26%) CentOS
8 3 (1.63%) AIX
8 3 (1.63%) Solaris
8 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.09%) SUSE
9 2 (1.09%) VMS
9 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.54%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.28%) CI/CD
2 39 (21.20%) DevOps
2 39 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (17.39%) Agile
5 26 (14.13%) Containerisation
6 25 (13.59%) ITIL
7 24 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (10.87%) Software Engineering
10 19 (10.33%) Microservices
11 16 (8.70%) Coaching
11 16 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (8.15%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (7.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (7.07%) High Availability
14 13 (7.07%) Service Delivery
14 13 (7.07%) Test Automation
15 12 (6.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.09%) Python
2 29 (15.76%) Java
3 23 (12.50%) SQL
4 17 (9.24%) Bash
4 17 (9.24%) C
5 14 (7.61%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.52%) Go
7 10 (5.43%) C++
8 9 (4.89%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.35%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.26%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.72%) Groovy
11 5 (2.72%) Perl
11 5 (2.72%) PHP
12 4 (2.17%) C#
12 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.54%) ABAP
13 1 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 31 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.24%) DV Cleared
3 14 (7.61%) Degree
3 14 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.26%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.17%) CCNA
7 4 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.09%) CISSP
9 1 (0.54%) CEH
9 1 (0.54%) GCIA
9 1 (0.54%) GCIH
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.54%) LPIC
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.89%) GDPR
2 8 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.80%) QA
4 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.87%) Docker
3 16 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.89%) vSphere
5 8 (4.35%) VMware NSX
6 7 (3.80%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.63%) Firmware
9 2 (1.09%) iptables
9 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (27.17%) Terraform
2 41 (22.28%) Ansible
3 34 (18.48%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.52%) Grafana
5 11 (5.98%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.35%) Argo
7 6 (3.26%) Puppet
8 4 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.17%) WSUS
9 3 (1.63%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.63%) Packer
9 3 (1.63%) Podman
9 3 (1.63%) Rancher
10 2 (1.09%) Control-M
10 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.09%) Nagios
10 2 (1.09%) systemd
11 1 (0.54%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.54%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 32 (17.39%) VMware
2 22 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.15%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.52%) Splunk
5 9 (4.89%) Google
6 8 (4.35%) Cisco
7 5 (2.72%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.17%) IBM
8 4 (2.17%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.63%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.63%) Mirantis
9 3 (1.63%) Oracle
9 3 (1.63%) SAP
10 2 (1.09%) BMC
10 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.09%) Qualys
11 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.54%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.54%) McAfee
11 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow