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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 17 42
Rank change year-on-year -133 +25 +18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 187 898 772
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.01% 11.85% 4.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.23% 56.41% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 144 226 540
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,375 £33,675
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,364
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £56,754
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.72% -12.69%

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 881 1,592 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.78% 21.01% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 665 734 1,758
10th Percentile £26,425 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -123 101 £55,000 - 59
Yorkshire -82 59 £50,000 +17.65% 34
North East -33 27 £47,500 -24.60% 25
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 4 (2.14%) Apache
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.71%) AWS
2 53 (28.34%) Azure
3 21 (11.23%) GCP
4 18 (9.63%) Azure AKS
5 17 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.02%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (6.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (6.95%) GitHub
10 12 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.81%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.21%) IaaS
12 6 (3.21%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.21%) Serverless
13 5 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.83%) Firewall
2 19 (10.16%) DNS
3 17 (9.09%) VPN
4 12 (6.42%) Ethernet
4 12 (6.42%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.88%) DHCP
6 10 (5.35%) Internet
7 9 (4.81%) VLAN
7 9 (4.81%) VoIP
8 7 (3.74%) LAN
8 7 (3.74%) WAN
9 6 (3.21%) HTTP
10 5 (2.67%) DMZ
10 5 (2.67%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.67%) STUN
11 4 (2.14%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.14%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.14%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (2.14%) VPLS
11 4 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.25%) SQL Server
2 32 (17.11%) MySQL
2 32 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.83%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.60%) Big Data
6 3 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.90%) GitLab
2 19 (10.16%) Git
3 13 (6.95%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.35%) JIRA
5 8 (4.28%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.21%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.21%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.53%) GDB
10 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.53%) WinDbg
General
1 40 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Law
3 16 (8.56%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.95%) Retail
6 12 (6.42%) Aerospace
7 11 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (5.88%) Finance
8 10 (5.35%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.07%) Advertising
12 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.53%) Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Games
13 1 (0.53%) German Language
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
13 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (20.32%) Senior
2 27 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (12.83%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (10.16%) Administrator
5 15 (8.02%) DBA
6 14 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.49%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.95%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) IT Support
8 12 (6.42%) SQL DBA
9 11 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (5.88%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Analyst
12 7 (3.74%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.09%) Node.js
2 8 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (4.28%) REST
3 7 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (3.74%) Web Services
4 5 (2.67%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.14%) JSON
5 4 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.14%) RESTful
6 3 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.60%) gRPC
6 3 (1.60%) HTML
6 3 (1.60%) Laravel
6 3 (1.60%) Material-UI
6 3 (1.60%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.60%) React
6 3 (1.60%) Spring
6 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.60%) Swagger
6 3 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.56%) Replication
2 12 (6.42%) Driving Licence
2 12 (6.42%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (6.42%) FPGA
3 7 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.14%) PKI
5 4 (2.14%) SCADA
6 3 (1.60%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.60%) NHS
6 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.07%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.07%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 80 (42.78%) Windows
2 31 (16.58%) Unix
3 27 (14.44%) Windows Server
4 18 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.35%) Debian
6 9 (4.81%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.67%) CentOS
8 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.60%) AIX
9 3 (1.60%) Solaris
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.53%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 45 (24.06%) DevOps
3 40 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (18.18%) Agile
5 29 (15.51%) Containerisation
6 27 (14.44%) Mentoring
7 24 (12.83%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (12.30%) Microservices
9 22 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 21 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (10.70%) High Availability
12 19 (10.16%) ITIL
12 19 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (10.16%) Test Automation
13 17 (9.09%) Scrum
14 15 (8.02%) Coaching
15 11 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
15 11 (5.88%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.41%) Python
2 33 (17.65%) Java
3 31 (16.58%) SQL
4 20 (10.70%) Bash
5 17 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 15 (8.02%) C
7 13 (6.95%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.42%) Go
9 10 (5.35%) Groovy
10 9 (4.81%) C++
11 8 (4.28%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.74%) JavaScript
13 6 (3.21%) C#
14 5 (2.67%) Perl
14 5 (2.67%) PHP
15 4 (2.14%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.53%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 27 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.49%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.95%) Degree
4 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.21%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.14%) CCNA
8 4 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.53%) LPIC
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.81%) GDPR
2 8 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (12.83%) Docker
2 19 (10.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (8.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.35%) vSphere
5 8 (4.28%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.74%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.60%) iptables
9 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (31.02%) Terraform
2 42 (22.46%) Ansible
3 39 (20.86%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.49%) Argo
4 14 (7.49%) Grafana
5 11 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.35%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.21%) Puppet
8 4 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.14%) Control-M
8 4 (2.14%) WSUS
9 3 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.60%) Packer
9 3 (1.60%) Podman
9 3 (1.60%) Rancher
9 3 (1.60%) systemd
10 2 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.07%) Nagios
11 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (12.83%) VMware
2 18 (9.63%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 11 (5.88%) Splunk
5 5 (2.67%) Cisco
5 5 (2.67%) Google
6 4 (2.14%) IBM
6 4 (2.14%) Oracle
6 4 (2.14%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.60%) Mirantis
7 3 (1.60%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.07%) BMC
8 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.07%) Qualys
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) Cognos
9 1 (0.53%) McAfee
9 1 (0.53%) SAP