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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 15 53
Rank change year-on-year -85 +38 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 382 1,005 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.60% 10.76% 3.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.76% 60.87% 34.92%
Number of salaries quoted 274 162 257
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -7.77% -6.36%
75th Percentile £74,987 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £67,500 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 1,166 1,651 1,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.87% 17.68% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 901 653 775
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -8.90%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -88 196 £57,500 +15.00% 140
Yorkshire -24 105 £42,500 -2.86% 50
North East -9 81 £70,000 +7.69% 38
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 9 (2.36%) Apache
2 8 (2.09%) IIS
3 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.26%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 140 (36.65%) AWS
2 102 (26.70%) Azure
3 46 (12.04%) GitHub
4 40 (10.47%) GCP
5 27 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (4.97%) Azure AKS
10 17 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.93%) Serverless
12 14 (3.66%) OpenShift
13 13 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.36%) Amazon S3
15 9 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (2.09%) Entra ID
16 8 (2.09%) PaaS
17 7 (1.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.64%) TCP/IP
2 31 (8.12%) DNS
3 21 (5.50%) DHCP
4 20 (5.24%) Firewall
5 18 (4.71%) VPN
6 13 (3.40%) Internet
7 9 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (2.09%) VLAN
9 7 (1.83%) LAN
10 6 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (1.57%) SAN
10 6 (1.57%) WAN
11 5 (1.31%) SSL
11 5 (1.31%) VSAN
12 4 (1.05%) SSH
13 3 (0.79%) AMQP
13 3 (0.79%) Wireless
14 2 (0.52%) Bluetooth
14 2 (0.52%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.71%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.92%) MySQL
3 26 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.79%) Big Data
6 3 (0.79%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.79%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.52%) Redis
7 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Db2
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (12.83%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.57%) Git
3 41 (10.73%) GitLab
4 23 (6.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (3.93%) JIRA
6 10 (2.62%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.36%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.83%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.26%) Maven
General
1 82 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.66%) Public Sector
3 52 (13.61%) Law
4 27 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.24%) Finance
7 16 (4.19%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.66%) Aerospace
9 13 (3.40%) Retail
10 10 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.31%) Advertising
11 5 (1.31%) Electronics
12 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Games
14 1 (0.26%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
14 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (20.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (19.11%) Senior
3 51 (13.35%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.83%) Linux Engineer
5 47 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 44 (11.52%) Administrator
7 29 (7.59%) Database Engineer
7 29 (7.59%) Principal Engineer
8 25 (6.54%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (6.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 24 (6.28%) Systems Administrator
10 23 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (4.97%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.45%) Developer
12 17 (4.45%) IT Support
12 17 (4.45%) Lead
12 17 (4.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (4.19%) DBA
13 16 (4.19%) Linux Administrator
14 15 (3.93%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (25.13%) Terraform
2 18 (4.71%) Node.js
2 18 (4.71%) Web Services
3 10 (2.62%) React
4 9 (2.36%) REST
5 7 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.83%) JSON
5 7 (1.83%) Kafka
5 7 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (1.31%) HTML
7 4 (1.05%) .NET
7 4 (1.05%) Spring
7 4 (1.05%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.05%) YAML
8 3 (0.79%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.79%) gRPC
8 3 (0.79%) Laravel
8 3 (0.79%) Swagger
8 3 (0.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.95%) Replication
3 19 (4.97%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (4.19%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.09%) Life Science
7 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.57%) Social Media
9 5 (1.31%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.05%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.52%) Cybercrime
11 2 (0.52%) IoT
11 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 117 (30.63%) Windows
2 62 (16.23%) Unix
3 51 (13.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (9.95%) Windows Server
5 26 (6.81%) CentOS
6 20 (5.24%) Ubuntu
7 12 (3.14%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.62%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.09%) AIX
9 8 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.57%) Debian
11 3 (0.79%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.79%) Solaris
11 3 (0.79%) VMS
12 2 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.26%) Android
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (31.94%) CI/CD
2 116 (30.37%) DevOps
3 103 (26.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (24.08%) Software Engineering
5 82 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (20.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 76 (19.90%) Platform Engineering
8 74 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (18.32%) Mentoring
10 68 (17.80%) Agile
11 53 (13.87%) Containerisation
12 45 (11.78%) Continuous Integration
13 43 (11.26%) AI
13 43 (11.26%) High Availability
13 43 (11.26%) Microservices
14 42 (10.99%) Coaching
14 42 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (8.90%) Computer Science
16 33 (8.64%) Test Automation
17 32 (8.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 94 (24.61%) Python
2 51 (13.35%) SQL
3 48 (12.57%) Shell Script
4 47 (12.30%) Bash
5 37 (9.69%) Java
6 31 (8.12%) PowerShell
7 30 (7.85%) C++
8 21 (5.50%) Groovy
9 20 (5.24%) Rust
10 15 (3.93%) Go
11 12 (3.14%) C
12 8 (2.09%) C#
13 7 (1.83%) JavaScript
14 6 (1.57%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.05%) Bicep
15 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.79%) PHP
17 2 (0.52%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.52%) Korn
18 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.69%) Degree
4 34 (8.90%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.36%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.05%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.79%) RHCE
10 3 (0.79%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.52%) IBM AIX Certification
11 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.52%) MCSE
12 1 (0.26%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.26%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.66%) QA
2 5 (1.31%) SLA
3 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.79%) GDPR
4 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (21.99%) Docker
2 21 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (2.09%) vSphere
5 7 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.57%) iptables
7 4 (1.05%) Ceph
7 4 (1.05%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.52%) UAG
9 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.26%) Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 88 (23.04%) Kubernetes
2 73 (19.11%) Ansible
3 21 (5.50%) Argo
4 19 (4.97%) Progress Chef
4 19 (4.97%) Puppet
5 13 (3.40%) Grafana
6 12 (3.14%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.62%) WSUS
8 9 (2.36%) Podman
9 6 (1.57%) SCCM
10 4 (1.05%) Istio
10 4 (1.05%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.79%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.79%) Control-M
11 3 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.79%) Nessus
11 3 (0.79%) Packer
11 3 (0.79%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.79%) systemd
Vendors
1 53 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.42%) Red Hat
3 29 (7.59%) VMware
4 23 (6.02%) Google
5 14 (3.66%) Oracle
6 10 (2.62%) Dell
7 9 (2.36%) Veeam
8 8 (2.09%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.83%) NetApp
9 7 (1.83%) Splunk
10 6 (1.57%) Aruba
10 6 (1.57%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.57%) HP
10 6 (1.57%) Pega
10 6 (1.57%) SonicWALL
11 5 (1.31%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.31%) IBM
11 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.31%) Thales
11 5 (1.31%) YouTube