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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 21 42
Rank change year-on-year -139 +21 +18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 184 661 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.01% 9.29% 4.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.30% 49.29% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 139 226 546
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £33,375
25th Percentile £40,625 £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 £70,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,686
% change year-on-year +4.17% +7.75% -14.33%

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 864 1,341 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.75% 18.84% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 657 713 1,762
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 £53,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £74,258 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -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 30 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 30 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 -116 102 £55,000 - 37
Yorkshire -89 57 £50,000 +14.29% 26
North East -31 25 £47,500 -22.13% 18
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
Cloud Services
1 76 (41.30%) AWS
2 51 (27.72%) Azure
3 19 (10.33%) GCP
4 18 (9.78%) Azure AKS
5 16 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (7.07%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (5.98%) GitHub
10 10 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.80%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.80%) Serverless
13 6 (3.26%) IaaS
14 5 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.67%) Firewall
2 20 (10.87%) DNS
3 17 (9.24%) VPN
4 16 (8.70%) Ethernet
5 13 (7.07%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.52%) Internet
7 11 (5.98%) DHCP
8 9 (4.89%) VLAN
8 9 (4.89%) VoIP
9 7 (3.80%) HTTP
9 7 (3.80%) LAN
9 7 (3.80%) WAN
10 5 (2.72%) DMZ
10 5 (2.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.72%) SSH
10 5 (2.72%) SSL
10 5 (2.72%) STUN
11 4 (2.17%) AMQP
11 4 (2.17%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (13.59%) MongoDB
3 24 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 22 (11.96%) MySQL
5 6 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
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
8 3 (1.63%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.63%) Redis
9 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (14.13%) GitLab
2 20 (10.87%) Git
3 11 (5.98%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.35%) JIRA
5 6 (3.26%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.17%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.17%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.54%) GDB
10 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 45 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.15%) Retail
4 14 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.07%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.52%) Law
7 11 (5.98%) Aerospace
7 11 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.35%) Finance
9 7 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Electronics
12 2 (1.09%) Military
12 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.54%) Advertising
13 1 (0.54%) Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Games
13 1 (0.54%) German Language
13 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (21.74%) Senior
2 28 (15.22%) Linux Engineer
3 25 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.15%) Software Engineer
5 14 (7.61%) Senior DevOps
5 14 (7.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) IT Support
6 12 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (5.98%) Support Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Developer
9 9 (4.89%) Administrator
10 8 (4.35%) Analyst
11 7 (3.80%) Graduate
11 7 (3.80%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) Logistics Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.33%) Node.js
2 9 (4.89%) REST
3 8 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.72%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.72%) Web Services
6 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.17%) gRPC
6 4 (2.17%) Material-UI
6 4 (2.17%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.17%) React
6 4 (2.17%) RESTful
6 4 (2.17%) Spring
6 4 (2.17%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.17%) Swagger
7 3 (1.63%) JSON
7 3 (1.63%) Laravel
7 3 (1.63%) YAML
8 2 (1.09%) CSS
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%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.80%) Replication
5 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.72%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.17%) NHS
6 4 (2.17%) PKI
6 4 (2.17%) SCADA
6 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.09%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 83 (45.11%) Windows
2 32 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 31 (16.85%) Unix
4 16 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.98%) Debian
6 10 (5.43%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.26%) CentOS
8 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.63%) AIX
9 3 (1.63%) Solaris
9 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.54%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.54%) CI/CD
2 41 (22.28%) DevOps
3 39 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (20.11%) Agile
5 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.22%) Containerisation
6 28 (15.22%) Mentoring
7 24 (13.04%) Microservices
8 23 (12.50%) ITIL
9 22 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (11.96%) Software Engineering
10 21 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (10.33%) Coaching
11 19 (10.33%) Test Automation
12 18 (9.78%) Scrum
13 16 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (7.07%) Service Delivery
15 12 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (5.98%) Computer Science
16 11 (5.98%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.09%) Python
2 34 (18.48%) Java
3 23 (12.50%) SQL
4 18 (9.78%) Bash
5 17 (9.24%) C
6 14 (7.61%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.52%) Go
8 10 (5.43%) C++
9 9 (4.89%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.35%) Groovy
10 8 (4.35%) JavaScript
11 6 (3.26%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.72%) Perl
12 5 (2.72%) PHP
13 4 (2.17%) C#
13 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 25 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.61%) Degree
2 14 (7.61%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (3.26%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.17%) CCNA
6 4 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.09%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) CEH
8 1 (0.54%) GCIA
8 1 (0.54%) GCIH
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) LPIC
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
8 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 19 (10.33%) Docker
3 16 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.35%) vSphere
5 7 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.80%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.63%) iptables
8 2 (1.09%) Firmware
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (30.43%) Terraform
2 41 (22.28%) Ansible
3 36 (19.57%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.61%) Argo
5 13 (7.07%) Grafana
6 12 (6.52%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.35%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.80%) Puppet
9 4 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.17%) WSUS
10 3 (1.63%) Packer
10 3 (1.63%) Podman
10 3 (1.63%) Rancher
10 3 (1.63%) systemd
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (1.09%) Control-M
11 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.09%) Nagios
12 1 (0.54%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.54%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 25 (13.59%) VMware
2 17 (9.24%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.15%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.52%) Splunk
5 7 (3.80%) Cisco
6 6 (3.26%) Google
7 5 (2.72%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.17%) IBM
8 4 (2.17%) Oracle
8 4 (2.17%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.63%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.63%) Mirantis
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%) SAP
11 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow