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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -92 -14 +18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 182 282 772
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.10% 4.40% 4.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.92% 30.29% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 144 237 547
10th Percentile £28,975 £29,750 £32,800
25th Percentile £38,063 £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 £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,686
% change year-on-year - +7.75% -14.33%

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 870 931 2,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.27% 14.53% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 670 692 1,774
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,625 £29,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,525 £76,840 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -73 99 £55,000 - 58
Yorkshire -79 51 £47,500 +11.76% 41
North East -24 32 £47,500 -22.13% 27
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 (3.30%) Apache
2 5 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (34.07%) AWS
2 44 (24.18%) Azure
3 21 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (10.99%) GCP
5 15 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.95%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.40%) Azure AKS
7 8 (4.40%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.40%) Serverless
8 7 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.30%) GitHub
10 5 (2.75%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (2.75%) dbt
10 5 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.75%) IaaS
10 5 (2.75%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 31 (17.03%) Firewall
2 23 (12.64%) DNS
3 20 (10.99%) VPN
4 19 (10.44%) TCP/IP
5 16 (8.79%) Ethernet
6 14 (7.69%) DHCP
7 12 (6.59%) Internet
8 11 (6.04%) VLAN
8 11 (6.04%) VoIP
9 9 (4.95%) LAN
9 9 (4.95%) WAN
10 7 (3.85%) HTTP
11 5 (2.75%) AMQP
11 5 (2.75%) DMZ
11 5 (2.75%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.75%) SSH
11 5 (2.75%) SSL
11 5 (2.75%) STUN
12 4 (2.20%) Asterisk PBX
12 4 (2.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (9.89%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.79%) MongoDB
3 16 (8.79%) MySQL
4 9 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.30%) Redis
7 5 (2.75%) Big Data
7 5 (2.75%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (2.75%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.65%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.10%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 22 (12.09%) Git
2 16 (8.79%) GitLab
3 9 (4.95%) JIRA
4 8 (4.40%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.30%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.20%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.20%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.55%) GDB
10 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.55%) WinDbg
General
1 54 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.79%) Retail
3 14 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.49%) Finance
6 9 (4.95%) Aerospace
7 8 (4.40%) Law
8 7 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.65%) Advertising
11 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Electronics
12 2 (1.10%) Military
13 1 (0.55%) Banking
13 1 (0.55%) Games
13 1 (0.55%) German Language
13 1 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (22.53%) Senior
2 29 (15.93%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (9.34%) Software Engineer
4 15 (8.24%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.59%) IT Support
7 11 (6.04%) Developer
7 11 (6.04%) Infrastructure Support
8 10 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Graduate
10 8 (4.40%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (4.40%) Logistics Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Site Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) Analyst
11 7 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.04%) Node.js
2 10 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (5.49%) REST
3 6 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.75%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.75%) Django
4 5 (2.75%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (2.75%) gRPC
4 5 (2.75%) Material-UI
4 5 (2.75%) OpenAPI
4 5 (2.75%) React
4 5 (2.75%) Spring
4 5 (2.75%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.75%) Swagger
5 4 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.20%) RESTful
6 3 (1.65%) .NET
6 3 (1.65%) JSON
6 3 (1.65%) Laravel
6 3 (1.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.79%) Driving Licence
1 16 (8.79%) Embedded Systems
1 16 (8.79%) FPGA
2 8 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.75%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.75%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.20%) NHS
6 4 (2.20%) PKI
6 4 (2.20%) Replication
6 4 (2.20%) SCADA
6 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.10%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.10%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 83 (45.60%) Windows
2 42 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 24 (13.19%) Unix
4 13 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (6.59%) Debian
6 10 (5.49%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.85%) CentOS
8 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.65%) Solaris
10 2 (1.10%) SUSE
10 2 (1.10%) VMS
10 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.55%) AIX
11 1 (0.55%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 33 (18.13%) DevOps
5 32 (17.58%) Agile
6 30 (16.48%) ITIL
7 28 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 22 (12.09%) Mentoring
9 21 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (10.99%) Software Engineering
11 17 (9.34%) Coaching
12 16 (8.79%) Microservices
12 16 (8.79%) Service Delivery
13 15 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (7.14%) Computer Science
16 12 (6.59%) Incident Response
16 12 (6.59%) Observability
17 11 (6.04%) Continuous Integration
18 10 (5.49%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 46 (25.27%) Python
2 28 (15.38%) Java
3 21 (11.54%) SQL
4 18 (9.89%) C
5 16 (8.79%) Bash
6 15 (8.24%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.59%) Go
8 11 (6.04%) C++
9 10 (5.49%) JavaScript
9 10 (5.49%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.85%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.75%) Perl
11 5 (2.75%) PHP
12 4 (2.20%) C#
13 3 (1.65%) Groovy
13 3 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.55%) ABAP
14 1 (0.55%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 29 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.34%) DV Cleared
3 16 (8.79%) Degree
4 15 (8.24%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.30%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.20%) CCNA
8 4 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.10%) CISSP
11 1 (0.55%) CEH
11 1 (0.55%) GCIA
11 1 (0.55%) GCIH
11 1 (0.55%) LPIC
11 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.95%) GDPR
2 8 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.85%) QA
4 4 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 18 (9.89%) Docker
3 17 (9.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.49%) Hyper-V
4 10 (5.49%) vSphere
5 8 (4.40%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.75%) Firmware
6 5 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.10%) iptables
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (24.73%) Terraform
2 41 (22.53%) Ansible
3 35 (19.23%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.69%) Grafana
5 13 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.85%) Puppet
7 4 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.20%) Argo
7 4 (2.20%) Control-M
7 4 (2.20%) WSUS
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.65%) Packer
8 3 (1.65%) Podman
8 3 (1.65%) Rancher
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.10%) Nagios
9 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.10%) systemd
10 1 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.55%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 36 (19.78%) VMware
2 25 (13.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.59%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.59%) Splunk
4 10 (5.49%) Cisco
4 10 (5.49%) Google
5 5 (2.75%) SaltStack
5 5 (2.75%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.20%) IBM
7 3 (1.65%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.65%) Mirantis
7 3 (1.65%) Oracle
7 3 (1.65%) SAP
8 2 (1.10%) Apple
8 2 (1.10%) BMC
8 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.10%) Qualys
8 2 (1.10%) Sage
8 2 (1.10%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian