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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 15 55
Rank change year-on-year -87 +40 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 375 1,014 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.57% 10.80% 3.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.08% 60.47% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 276 172 271
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £62,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £69,750 £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 1,169 1,677 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.88% 17.86% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 910 679 822
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -10.30%
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 20 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 20 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 -84 191 £57,500 +9.52% 115
Yorkshire -22 103 £42,500 -2.86% 39
North East -5 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 (2.40%) Apache
2 8 (2.13%) IIS
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 132 (35.20%) AWS
2 94 (25.07%) Azure
3 45 (12.00%) GitHub
4 35 (9.33%) GCP
5 26 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (5.07%) Azure AKS
7 19 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.00%) Serverless
9 14 (3.73%) OpenShift
10 13 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.40%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.40%) Entra ID
13 8 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.87%) OCI
14 7 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.80%) TCP/IP
2 32 (8.53%) DNS
3 22 (5.87%) DHCP
3 22 (5.87%) Firewall
4 19 (5.07%) VPN
5 9 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.13%) Internet
6 8 (2.13%) LAN
6 8 (2.13%) VLAN
7 7 (1.87%) WAN
8 6 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (1.60%) SAN
9 5 (1.33%) SSL
9 5 (1.33%) VSAN
10 4 (1.07%) SSH
11 3 (0.80%) AMQP
11 3 (0.80%) Wireless
12 2 (0.53%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.53%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.53%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 55 (14.67%) MySQL
3 26 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.80%) Big Data
6 3 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.27%) Db2
8 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.27%) Power BI
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (12.80%) Jenkins
2 42 (11.20%) Git
3 40 (10.67%) GitLab
4 23 (6.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.47%) JIRA
6 10 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.87%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 80 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 53 (14.13%) Law
4 21 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.33%) Finance
5 20 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.27%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.73%) Aerospace
8 13 (3.47%) Retail
9 10 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.33%) Advertising
11 4 (1.07%) Electronics
12 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.53%) Automotive
13 2 (0.53%) Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (19.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (19.20%) Senior
3 52 (13.87%) Software Engineer
4 50 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
5 45 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 44 (11.73%) Administrator
7 29 (7.73%) Database Engineer
7 29 (7.73%) Principal Engineer
8 25 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (6.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 24 (6.40%) Systems Administrator
10 23 (6.13%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.07%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.80%) Lead
13 17 (4.53%) Developer
13 17 (4.53%) IT Support
14 16 (4.27%) DBA
14 16 (4.27%) Linux Administrator
15 15 (4.00%) IT Engineer
15 15 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.80%) Terraform
2 18 (4.80%) Node.js
2 18 (4.80%) Web Services
3 10 (2.67%) React
4 9 (2.40%) REST
5 7 (1.87%) JSON
5 7 (1.87%) Kafka
5 7 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.33%) HTML
8 4 (1.07%) .NET
8 4 (1.07%) Spring
8 4 (1.07%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.07%) YAML
9 3 (0.80%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.80%) gRPC
9 3 (0.80%) Laravel
9 3 (0.80%) Material-UI
9 3 (0.80%) Swagger
9 3 (0.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.13%) Replication
3 16 (4.27%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.13%) Life Science
7 7 (1.87%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.60%) Social Media
9 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.53%) Cybercrime
11 2 (0.53%) IoT
11 2 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 117 (31.20%) Windows
2 60 (16.00%) Unix
3 51 (13.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (10.67%) Windows Server
5 26 (6.93%) CentOS
6 21 (5.60%) Ubuntu
7 12 (3.20%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.67%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (2.13%) AIX
11 6 (1.60%) Debian
12 3 (0.80%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.80%) Solaris
12 3 (0.80%) VMS
13 2 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.53%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (30.93%) CI/CD
2 109 (29.07%) DevOps
3 94 (25.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (24.80%) Software Engineering
5 84 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 71 (18.93%) Platform Engineering
8 67 (17.87%) Agile
9 64 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 47 (12.53%) Containerisation
11 43 (11.47%) High Availability
11 43 (11.47%) Microservices
12 40 (10.67%) AI
12 40 (10.67%) Coaching
12 40 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
13 37 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (8.80%) Computer Science
14 33 (8.80%) Test Automation
15 32 (8.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (24.80%) Python
2 51 (13.60%) SQL
3 45 (12.00%) Bash
4 42 (11.20%) Shell Script
5 36 (9.60%) Java
6 31 (8.27%) C++
7 29 (7.73%) PowerShell
8 21 (5.60%) Groovy
9 20 (5.33%) Rust
10 15 (4.00%) Go
11 12 (3.20%) C
12 8 (2.13%) C#
13 6 (1.60%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.60%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.07%) Bicep
14 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.80%) PHP
16 2 (0.53%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.53%) Korn
16 2 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.60%) Degree
4 34 (9.07%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.40%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.07%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.80%) RHCE
10 3 (0.80%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.53%) IBM AIX Certification
11 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.53%) MCSE
12 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.27%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.73%) QA
2 5 (1.33%) SLA
3 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.80%) GDPR
4 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (20.80%) Docker
2 23 (6.13%) Active Directory
3 22 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.13%) vSphere
6 7 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.60%) iptables
8 4 (1.07%) Ceph
9 3 (0.80%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.53%) UAG
11 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.27%) Firmware
11 1 (0.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 85 (22.67%) Kubernetes
2 71 (18.93%) Ansible
3 21 (5.60%) Argo
4 19 (5.07%) Progress Chef
5 18 (4.80%) Puppet
6 12 (3.20%) Grafana
7 11 (2.93%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.67%) WSUS
9 9 (2.40%) Podman
10 6 (1.60%) SCCM
11 4 (1.07%) Istio
11 4 (1.07%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.80%) Control-M
12 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.80%) Nessus
12 3 (0.80%) Packer
12 3 (0.80%) SCVMM
12 3 (0.80%) systemd
Vendors
1 48 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.60%) Red Hat
3 30 (8.00%) VMware
4 18 (4.80%) Google
5 13 (3.47%) Oracle
6 11 (2.93%) Dell
7 9 (2.40%) Veeam
8 8 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.87%) NetApp
9 7 (1.87%) Splunk
10 6 (1.60%) Aruba
10 6 (1.60%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.60%) HP
10 6 (1.60%) Pega
10 6 (1.60%) SonicWALL
11 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.33%) IBM
11 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.33%) Thales
12 4 (1.07%) New Relic