Linux Jobs in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 42 57
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -36
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,065 824 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.20% 4.55% 5.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.14% 36.87% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 206 536 513
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £29,400
25th Percentile £40,188 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £74,629 £72,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 1,771 2,235 2,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.30% 12.34% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,741 1,469
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £67,968 £71,652
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North of England.

Salary trend for Linux in the North of England

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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +19 947 £55,000 +4.76% 600
Yorkshire -23 96 £42,500 -10.05% 412
North East +14 22 £65,000 +23.81% 124
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.85%) Apache
4 8 (0.75%) IIS
5 7 (0.66%) Confluence
6 5 (0.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.38%) SAS
8 3 (0.28%) GemFire
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.094%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.094%) CMS
10 1 (0.094%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.094%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 246 (23.10%) AWS
2 243 (22.82%) Azure
3 205 (19.25%) GCP
4 25 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (1.22%) SaaS
6 11 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (0.94%) GitHub
7 10 (0.94%) Pulumi
8 9 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (0.75%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (0.75%) Entra ID
10 7 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (0.66%) OCI
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (0.56%) dbt
12 5 (0.47%) Apigee
12 5 (0.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 656 (61.60%) VPN
2 415 (38.97%) DNS
3 272 (25.54%) Cisco IOS
4 28 (2.63%) Firewall
5 22 (2.07%) DHCP
6 18 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.60%) Wireless
8 13 (1.22%) SAN
9 11 (1.03%) LAN
10 10 (0.94%) NAS
11 8 (0.75%) WAN
12 6 (0.56%) SSH
13 5 (0.47%) VoIP
13 5 (0.47%) VSAN
14 4 (0.38%) Broadband
14 4 (0.38%) VLAN
15 3 (0.28%) HTTP
15 3 (0.28%) IPv4
15 3 (0.28%) Modbus
15 3 (0.28%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 24 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.78%) NoSQL
4 15 (1.41%) Redis
5 12 (1.13%) MySQL
6 10 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.66%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.28%) Apache Ignite
12 3 (0.28%) Big Data
12 3 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.094%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.094%) Cloud Spanner
13 1 (0.094%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.094%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.094%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (2.44%) Git
2 23 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.50%) JIRA
4 7 (0.66%) JUnit
4 7 (0.66%) SonarQube
4 7 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.56%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.47%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.47%) Maven
6 5 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.38%) Appium
7 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.38%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (0.38%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.38%) GitLab
7 4 (0.38%) JMeter
7 4 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.38%) Postman
7 4 (0.38%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 832 (78.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 673 (63.19%) Analytical Skills
3 428 (40.19%) Finance
4 78 (7.32%) Social Skills
5 28 (2.63%) Law
6 20 (1.88%) Banking
7 19 (1.78%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.31%) Retail
10 13 (1.22%) Electronics
11 11 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.94%) Military
13 6 (0.56%) Cantonese Language
13 6 (0.56%) Games
13 6 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
14 5 (0.47%) Marketing
15 4 (0.38%) Advertising
15 4 (0.38%) Automotive
15 4 (0.38%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 410 (38.50%) Developer
2 388 (36.43%) Software Developer
3 275 (25.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 219 (20.56%) Senior
5 200 (18.78%) Software Engineer
6 186 (17.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 35 (3.29%) Analyst
8 29 (2.72%) Support Analyst
9 22 (2.07%) Support Engineer
10 19 (1.78%) IT Support
11 18 (1.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.60%) 2nd Line Support
12 17 (1.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (1.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 15 (1.41%) Lead
15 14 (1.31%) IT Analyst
15 14 (1.31%) IT Support Analyst
16 13 (1.22%) Linux Engineer
17 11 (1.03%) Administrator
18 10 (0.94%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (24.69%) Elastic Stack
2 178 (16.71%) .NET
3 173 (16.24%) Node.js
4 18 (1.69%) Middleware
5 10 (0.94%) Django
6 9 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (0.85%) Spring
7 7 (0.66%) Kafka
8 6 (0.56%) CSS
8 6 (0.56%) Hibernate
8 6 (0.56%) HTML
8 6 (0.56%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.47%) RESTful
10 4 (0.38%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.38%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.38%) JSP
10 4 (0.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.38%) REST
10 4 (0.38%) XML
11 3 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 811 (76.15%) Cyberattack
2 181 (17.00%) Linux Command Line
2 181 (17.00%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (1.41%) Cloud Native
4 14 (1.31%) Data Centre
5 10 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 9 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (0.85%) Security Posture
7 8 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 7 (0.66%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 7 (0.66%) Operational Technology
8 7 (0.66%) Product Ownership
8 7 (0.66%) SCADA
9 6 (0.56%) Device Driver
10 5 (0.47%) Clustering
10 5 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.38%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 643 (60.38%) Android
2 385 (36.15%) Windows
3 42 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.91%) Unix
5 21 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.78%) Mac OS X
7 17 (1.60%) Windows 10
8 11 (1.03%) CentOS
9 8 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.47%) Debian
11 5 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.38%) Solaris
13 3 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.19%) AIX
14 2 (0.19%) VMS
14 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.19%) zOS
15 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (60.75%) Mathematics
2 639 (60.00%) Line Management
3 607 (57.00%) Agile
4 406 (38.12%) OO
5 394 (37.00%) OOP
6 392 (36.81%) Design Patterns
7 388 (36.43%) Android Development
8 325 (30.52%) Problem-Solving
9 318 (29.86%) DevOps
10 284 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 263 (24.69%) Task Automation
12 259 (24.32%) Platform Engineering
13 253 (23.76%) Storage Management
14 252 (23.66%) Risk Management
15 212 (19.91%) Mentoring
16 208 (19.53%) Software Engineering
17 186 (17.46%) Microservices
18 185 (17.37%) Cloud Security
19 180 (16.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 180 (16.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 909 (85.35%) Python
2 597 (56.06%) Java
3 578 (54.27%) C++
4 572 (53.71%) Go
5 284 (26.67%) PowerShell
6 278 (26.10%) Bash
7 202 (18.97%) JavaScript
8 176 (16.53%) Rust
9 58 (5.45%) SQL
10 16 (1.50%) C
11 15 (1.41%) C#
12 12 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.75%) Korn
13 8 (0.75%) Perl
13 8 (0.75%) PHP
13 8 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.66%) C-shell
15 6 (0.56%) R
16 4 (0.38%) Bicep
16 4 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 586 (55.02%) Security Cleared
2 561 (52.68%) DV Cleared
3 183 (17.18%) AWS Certification
4 173 (16.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (16.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 60 (5.63%) Degree
7 25 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.60%) SC Cleared
10 14 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.31%) MCSA
11 11 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.03%) CCNP
12 10 (0.94%) PhD
13 7 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.66%) MCSE
13 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.78%) QA
2 7 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (0.66%) GDPR
3 6 (0.56%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.19%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.094%) NCSC
6 1 (0.094%) NIST
6 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 681 (63.94%) Docker
2 273 (25.63%) Hyper-V
3 258 (24.23%) VMware NSX
4 255 (23.94%) vSphere
5 56 (5.26%) Active Directory
6 21 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.47%) Firmware
9 4 (0.38%) NFS
9 4 (0.38%) Postfix
10 3 (0.28%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.28%) KVM
10 3 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.19%) SRDF
11 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.19%) Xen
12 1 (0.094%) pfSense
12 1 (0.094%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 675 (63.38%) Ansible
2 315 (29.58%) Terraform
3 36 (3.38%) Kubernetes
4 16 (1.50%) Puppet
5 14 (1.31%) Grafana
5 14 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.94%) SCCM
7 6 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (0.56%) SCOM
8 5 (0.47%) Argo
8 5 (0.47%) Istio
8 5 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.38%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) PaperCut
9 4 (0.38%) SCOrch
10 3 (0.28%) Control-M
10 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 281 (26.38%) Cisco
2 255 (23.94%) Splunk
3 252 (23.66%) Juniper
4 251 (23.57%) 3PAR
5 57 (5.35%) Microsoft
6 47 (4.41%) VMware
7 43 (4.04%) Oracle
8 19 (1.78%) Google
9 17 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.47%) Veeam
12 4 (0.38%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.38%) IBM
12 4 (0.38%) NetApp
13 3 (0.28%) Acronis
13 3 (0.28%) EMC
13 3 (0.28%) Sage
13 3 (0.28%) SonicWALL
13 3 (0.28%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.28%) WatchGuard