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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 16 45
Rank change year-on-year -102 +29 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 292 1,082 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.35% 11.29% 3.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.26% 58.64% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 228 240 361
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,431 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,801 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -9.45%

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 1,112 1,845 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.15% 19.24% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 870 830 1,135
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -111 138 £53,750 - 76
Yorkshire -51 82 £48,300 +24.65% 32
North East -2 72 £70,000 +7.69% 24
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 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.71%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) IIS
4 3 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.34%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.99%) AWS
2 80 (27.40%) Azure
3 35 (11.99%) GitHub
4 30 (10.27%) GCP
5 23 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.14%) Azure AKS
10 13 (4.45%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (4.11%) OpenShift
11 12 (4.11%) Serverless
12 9 (3.08%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.08%) PaaS
13 8 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.74%) IaaS
14 7 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.27%) Firewall
2 28 (9.59%) TCP/IP
3 23 (7.88%) DNS
4 16 (5.48%) DHCP
5 14 (4.79%) VPN
6 9 (3.08%) LAN
7 8 (2.74%) VLAN
7 8 (2.74%) WAN
8 6 (2.05%) SAN
8 6 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.71%) VoIP
9 5 (1.71%) VSAN
10 4 (1.37%) SSH
11 3 (1.03%) DMZ
11 3 (1.03%) HTTP
11 3 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.03%) STUN
11 3 (1.03%) Wireless
12 2 (0.68%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.68%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.81%) SQL Server
2 45 (15.41%) MySQL
3 27 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.16%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.68%) Big Data
6 2 (0.68%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.68%) Redis
7 1 (0.34%) Power BI
7 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (12.67%) Jenkins
2 33 (11.30%) GitLab
3 29 (9.93%) Git
4 17 (5.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (3.77%) JIRA
6 8 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.74%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.05%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.03%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) GDB
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.34%) WinDbg
General
1 63 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.41%) Law
3 35 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.82%) Finance
5 16 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.08%) Retail
9 7 (2.40%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Advertising
12 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Automotive
14 1 (0.34%) Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Front Office
14 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 62 (21.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (20.55%) Senior
3 38 (13.01%) Administrator
3 38 (13.01%) Linux Engineer
4 30 (10.27%) Software Engineer
5 25 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (8.22%) Senior DevOps
7 23 (7.88%) Database Engineer
7 23 (7.88%) Principal Engineer
7 23 (7.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 20 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.51%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (5.14%) DBA
11 14 (4.79%) C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (4.45%) Developer
12 13 (4.45%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.11%) SQL DBA
14 11 (3.77%) Linux Administrator
14 11 (3.77%) Rust Software Engineer
14 11 (3.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.82%) Node.js
2 13 (4.45%) Web Services
3 8 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.40%) JSON
4 7 (2.40%) REST
5 6 (2.05%) React
6 5 (1.71%) Kafka
6 5 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.37%) HTML
7 4 (1.37%) YAML
8 3 (1.03%) .NET
8 3 (1.03%) FreeSWITCH
8 3 (1.03%) Laravel
8 3 (1.03%) Vue
9 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.68%) gRPC
9 2 (0.68%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.68%) Sass
9 2 (0.68%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.62%) Cloud Native
1 31 (10.62%) Replication
2 14 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (3.42%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.74%) Life Science
6 6 (2.05%) Social Media
7 5 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.68%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.68%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.68%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.68%) PKI
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 82 (28.08%) Windows
2 41 (14.04%) Unix
3 37 (12.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 35 (11.99%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.51%) CentOS
6 17 (5.82%) Ubuntu
7 9 (3.08%) Debian
7 9 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.05%) AIX
9 6 (2.05%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.03%) CoreOS
10 3 (1.03%) Solaris
10 3 (1.03%) VMS
11 2 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.34%) Android
12 1 (0.34%) SUSE
12 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.19%) CI/CD
1 94 (32.19%) DevOps
2 65 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (21.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (20.89%) Software Engineering
5 54 (18.49%) Platform Engineering
6 53 (18.15%) Agile
7 49 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 40 (13.70%) AI
9 40 (13.70%) High Availability
10 38 (13.01%) Mentoring
11 36 (12.33%) Containerisation
12 34 (11.64%) Microservices
13 33 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (10.96%) Computer Science
15 29 (9.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 28 (9.59%) Test Automation
17 24 (8.22%) Scrum
18 23 (7.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 82 (28.08%) Python
2 41 (14.04%) SQL
3 40 (13.70%) Bash
4 33 (11.30%) Java
5 32 (10.96%) C++
6 29 (9.93%) Shell Script
7 26 (8.90%) PowerShell
8 20 (6.85%) Rust
9 16 (5.48%) Groovy
10 10 (3.42%) Go
11 9 (3.08%) C
12 6 (2.05%) C#
13 5 (1.71%) Perl
14 3 (1.03%) Bicep
14 3 (1.03%) JavaScript
14 3 (1.03%) PHP
14 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.96%) Degree
3 31 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 30 (10.27%) DV Cleared
5 23 (7.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.08%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.34%) LPIC
10 1 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (1.37%) GDPR
1 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.03%) QA
2 3 (1.03%) SLA
3 2 (0.68%) NIST
3 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (18.84%) Docker
2 21 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.45%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.08%) vSphere
6 6 (2.05%) iptables
6 6 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.37%) Ceph
9 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.34%) Firmware
10 1 (0.34%) KVM
Systems Management
1 80 (27.40%) Terraform
2 67 (22.95%) Kubernetes
3 58 (19.86%) Ansible
4 21 (7.19%) Argo
5 14 (4.79%) Grafana
5 14 (4.79%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.45%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.11%) Puppet
8 7 (2.40%) WSUS
9 5 (1.71%) Podman
10 4 (1.37%) Istio
11 3 (1.03%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.03%) Control-M
11 3 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.03%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.03%) Nessus
11 3 (1.03%) Packer
11 3 (1.03%) SCCM
11 3 (1.03%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.03%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.59%) Red Hat
3 25 (8.56%) VMware
4 11 (3.77%) Google
5 8 (2.74%) Dell
6 6 (2.05%) Pega
6 6 (2.05%) Splunk
6 6 (2.05%) Veeam
7 5 (1.71%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.71%) Cisco
7 5 (1.71%) Oracle
7 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.03%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.03%) HP
8 3 (1.03%) IBM
8 3 (1.03%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.03%) McAfee
8 3 (1.03%) NetApp
8 3 (1.03%) SonicWALL