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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 22 42
Rank change year-on-year -131 +20 +19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 181 659 773
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.00% 9.28% 4.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.95% 49.40% 35.38%
Number of salaries quoted 136 225 544
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £33,225
25th Percentile £40,938 £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 £60,000 £60,000 £55,686
% change year-on-year - +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 1,334 2,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.76% 18.79% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 657 708 1,756
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £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 £69,006 £74,258 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 28 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 28 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 -113 100 £55,000 - 42
Yorkshire -88 56 £50,000 +17.65% 34
North East -40 25 £46,500 -23.77% 17
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 (2.76%) Apache
2 4 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (40.33%) AWS
2 48 (26.52%) Azure
3 18 (9.94%) GCP
4 16 (8.84%) Azure AKS
5 15 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.52%) GitHub
10 9 (4.97%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.87%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.87%) Serverless
12 6 (3.31%) IaaS
13 5 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.92%) Firewall
2 20 (11.05%) DNS
3 17 (9.39%) VPN
4 16 (8.84%) Ethernet
5 13 (7.18%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.63%) Internet
7 11 (6.08%) DHCP
8 9 (4.97%) VLAN
8 9 (4.97%) VoIP
9 7 (3.87%) HTTP
9 7 (3.87%) LAN
9 7 (3.87%) WAN
10 5 (2.76%) DMZ
10 5 (2.76%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.76%) SSH
10 5 (2.76%) SSL
10 5 (2.76%) STUN
11 4 (2.21%) AMQP
11 4 (2.21%) VPLS
11 4 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.57%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (12.71%) MongoDB
2 23 (12.71%) SQL Server
3 22 (12.15%) MySQL
4 6 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.21%) Big Data
6 4 (2.21%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.66%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.66%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.66%) Redis
8 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (13.26%) GitLab
2 20 (11.05%) Git
3 10 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.42%) JIRA
5 6 (3.31%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.21%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.21%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.66%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.55%) GDB
10 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.55%) WinDbg
General
1 45 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.29%) Retail
3 14 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.18%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.63%) Law
6 11 (6.08%) Aerospace
6 11 (6.08%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.42%) Finance
8 7 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Electronics
11 2 (1.10%) Military
11 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.55%) Advertising
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) German Language
12 1 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (21.55%) Senior
2 28 (15.47%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (6.63%) IT Support
5 12 (6.63%) Senior DevOps
5 12 (6.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.08%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.08%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.52%) Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Administrator
9 7 (3.87%) Analyst
9 7 (3.87%) Graduate
9 7 (3.87%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) Logistics Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.39%) Node.js
2 9 (4.97%) REST
3 8 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.76%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (2.21%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.21%) gRPC
6 4 (2.21%) Material-UI
6 4 (2.21%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.21%) React
6 4 (2.21%) RESTful
6 4 (2.21%) Spring
6 4 (2.21%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.21%) Swagger
6 4 (2.21%) Web Services
7 3 (1.66%) JSON
7 3 (1.66%) Laravel
7 3 (1.66%) YAML
8 2 (1.10%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Embedded Systems
1 16 (8.84%) FPGA
2 14 (7.73%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.87%) Replication
5 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.76%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.21%) NHS
6 4 (2.21%) PKI
6 4 (2.21%) SCADA
6 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.10%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.10%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 80 (44.20%) Windows
2 31 (17.13%) Windows Server
3 29 (16.02%) Unix
4 16 (8.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.08%) Debian
6 10 (5.52%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.31%) CentOS
8 4 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.66%) AIX
9 3 (1.66%) Solaris
9 3 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.55%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (24.31%) CI/CD
2 39 (21.55%) DevOps
3 38 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (19.34%) Agile
5 33 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.92%) Containerisation
7 26 (14.36%) Mentoring
8 23 (12.71%) ITIL
9 22 (12.15%) Microservices
10 21 (11.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (11.60%) Software Engineering
11 20 (11.05%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (9.39%) Coaching
12 17 (9.39%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.84%) Scrum
14 15 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (7.18%) Service Delivery
16 12 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (6.08%) High Availability
17 11 (6.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.97%) Python
2 32 (17.68%) Java
3 23 (12.71%) SQL
4 18 (9.94%) Bash
5 17 (9.39%) C
6 14 (7.73%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.63%) Go
8 10 (5.52%) C++
9 9 (4.97%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.42%) JavaScript
11 7 (3.87%) Groovy
12 6 (3.31%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.76%) Perl
13 5 (2.76%) PHP
14 4 (2.21%) C#
14 4 (2.21%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.55%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 26 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.29%) DV Cleared
3 14 (7.73%) Degree
4 11 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.31%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.21%) CCNA
7 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.10%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) CEH
9 1 (0.55%) GCIA
9 1 (0.55%) GCIH
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) LPIC
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) GDPR
2 8 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.87%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 18 (9.94%) Docker
3 16 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.42%) vSphere
5 7 (3.87%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.87%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.66%) iptables
8 2 (1.10%) Firmware
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (29.28%) Terraform
2 41 (22.65%) Ansible
3 35 (19.34%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.18%) Grafana
5 12 (6.63%) Argo
5 12 (6.63%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.87%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.87%) Puppet
7 4 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.21%) WSUS
8 3 (1.66%) Packer
8 3 (1.66%) Podman
8 3 (1.66%) Rancher
8 3 (1.66%) systemd
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (1.10%) Control-M
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.10%) Nagios
10 1 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.55%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 26 (14.36%) VMware
2 18 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.29%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.63%) Splunk
5 7 (3.87%) Cisco
6 6 (3.31%) Google
7 5 (2.76%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.21%) IBM
8 4 (2.21%) Oracle
8 4 (2.21%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.66%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.66%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.10%) BMC
10 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.10%) Qualys
11 1 (0.55%) Adobe
11 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.55%) Cognos
11 1 (0.55%) McAfee
11 1 (0.55%) SAP