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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 57 48
Rank change year-on-year -39 -9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 212 390 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.18% 3.54% 5.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.92% 31.38% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 162 232 314
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £35,563 £38,855 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.64%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,813 £69,950
90th Percentile £74,625 £74,144 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 733 1,243 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.53% 11.29% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 588 674 978
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,216
25th Percentile £29,500 £32,000 £31,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £80,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,042 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.07% +0.08% -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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -44 91 £53,750 +4.84% 96
Yorkshire -11 85 £35,000 -17.65% 57
North East +6 36 £55,750 -0.45% 20
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 21 (9.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.89%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
3 3 (1.42%) CMS
3 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (33.02%) Azure
2 51 (24.06%) AWS
3 45 (21.23%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.02%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (8.02%) GCP
5 14 (6.60%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.30%) IaaS
9 6 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (2.83%) AWS CodeBuild
9 6 (2.83%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.36%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.36%) dbt
10 5 (2.36%) PaaS
10 5 (2.36%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.36%) Route 53
10 5 (2.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (16.04%) Firewall
2 32 (15.09%) DNS
2 32 (15.09%) VoIP
3 28 (13.21%) VLAN
4 27 (12.74%) TCP/IP
4 27 (12.74%) VPN
5 19 (8.96%) DHCP
6 16 (7.55%) Ethernet
6 16 (7.55%) SAN
7 10 (4.72%) LAN
7 10 (4.72%) WAN
8 9 (4.25%) Remote Desktop
8 9 (4.25%) Wireless
9 8 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.36%) DMZ
10 5 (2.36%) HTTP
10 5 (2.36%) Modbus
10 5 (2.36%) RS-485
10 5 (2.36%) STUN
11 4 (1.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.13%) MySQL
3 11 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.36%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.36%) Redis
6 4 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.42%) Big Data
7 3 (1.42%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.42%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.47%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (10.38%) Git
2 13 (6.13%) GitLab
2 13 (6.13%) JIRA
3 12 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.19%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.36%) CircleCI
5 5 (2.36%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.89%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.94%) Maven
8 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.47%) Ant
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.47%) git-flow
9 1 (0.47%) JUnit
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 77 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.49%) Finance
3 16 (7.55%) Manufacturing
4 11 (5.19%) Retail
4 11 (5.19%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.25%) Marketing
6 8 (3.77%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (3.30%) Electronics
7 7 (3.30%) Military
8 6 (2.83%) Advertising
9 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Games
12 2 (0.94%) Law
13 1 (0.47%) Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (22.64%) Senior
2 27 (12.74%) Support Engineer
3 23 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.38%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (8.49%) Support Technician
6 15 (7.08%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.66%) Applications Engineer
7 12 (5.66%) Applications Support
7 12 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.19%) IT Support
9 10 (4.72%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (4.72%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.25%) 1st Line Support
10 9 (4.25%) Analyst
10 9 (4.25%) Developer
10 9 (4.25%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (4.25%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (4.25%) Technical Support
10 9 (4.25%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.72%) CSS
1 10 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (4.25%) .NET
2 9 (4.25%) Node.js
3 5 (2.36%) Django
3 5 (2.36%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (2.36%) React
4 4 (1.89%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.89%) HTML
4 4 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.89%) SAP Basis
5 3 (1.42%) Laravel
5 3 (1.42%) REST
5 3 (1.42%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.42%) SAPUI5
5 3 (1.42%) Vue
6 2 (0.94%) gRPC
6 2 (0.94%) Kafka
6 2 (0.94%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.79%) Driving Licence
2 23 (10.85%) Embedded Systems
3 16 (7.55%) FPGA
4 13 (6.13%) Clustering
5 12 (5.66%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.77%) LIMS
6 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.36%) Analogue Electronics
8 5 (2.36%) CAN bus
8 5 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.89%) NHS
10 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) Replication
11 2 (0.94%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 123 (58.02%) Windows
2 60 (28.30%) Windows Server
3 21 (9.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (7.55%) Unix
5 15 (7.08%) Mac OS
5 15 (7.08%) Windows 10
6 12 (5.66%) Debian
7 11 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.77%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.36%) CentOS
9 5 (2.36%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.89%) SUSE
11 3 (1.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.42%) VMS
12 1 (0.47%) Fedora
12 1 (0.47%) Solaris
12 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (20.28%) Containerisation
1 43 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (19.81%) DevOps
3 41 (19.34%) CI/CD
4 35 (16.51%) Computer Science
5 30 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (10.85%) ITIL
9 22 (10.38%) Mentoring
10 19 (8.96%) Agile
10 19 (8.96%) Software Engineering
11 18 (8.49%) Coaching
12 16 (7.55%) Change Management
13 15 (7.08%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (6.60%) Microservices
14 14 (6.60%) Migration
14 14 (6.60%) Network Management
15 13 (6.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (24.53%) Python
2 35 (16.51%) SQL
3 27 (12.74%) Java
4 26 (12.26%) PowerShell
5 23 (10.85%) Bash
6 21 (9.91%) C
7 16 (7.55%) C++
7 16 (7.55%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.77%) C#
8 8 (3.77%) PHP
9 7 (3.30%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.83%) Perl
11 5 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.36%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.94%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.94%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) ABAP
13 1 (0.47%) Delphi
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (19.34%) Degree
2 19 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.08%) Security Cleared
5 14 (6.60%) HND
6 9 (4.25%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.25%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.77%) HNC
8 7 (3.30%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.83%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.36%) CCNA
10 5 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.36%) DBS Check
10 5 (2.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.83%) QA
3 5 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.36%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
System Software
1 43 (20.28%) Active Directory
2 36 (16.98%) Hyper-V
3 33 (15.57%) Docker
4 17 (8.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (6.13%) vSphere
6 10 (4.72%) Firmware
7 8 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (2.36%) Kamailio
10 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.47%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.47%) HDFS
11 1 (0.47%) Postfix
11 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 34 (16.04%) Ansible
3 32 (15.09%) Terraform
4 24 (11.32%) Grafana
5 19 (8.96%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (4.72%) Control-M
8 6 (2.83%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (2.36%) SCCM
9 5 (2.36%) SCOM
9 5 (2.36%) WSUS
10 4 (1.89%) Puppet
11 3 (1.42%) Argo
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.94%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.94%) Nagios
12 2 (0.94%) Plesk
12 2 (0.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 74 (34.91%) Microsoft
2 39 (18.40%) VMware
3 22 (10.38%) SonicWALL
4 14 (6.60%) Dell
5 13 (6.13%) HP
5 13 (6.13%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.13%) Supermicro
6 12 (5.66%) Cisco
7 11 (5.19%) Splunk
8 10 (4.72%) Google
9 9 (4.25%) Apple
9 9 (4.25%) Sage
10 7 (3.30%) Oracle
11 6 (2.83%) Allen-Bradley
11 6 (2.83%) Siemens
11 6 (2.83%) Toshiba
12 5 (2.36%) Salesforce
12 5 (2.36%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.89%) SAP
14 3 (1.42%) Atlassian