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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 15 43
Rank change year-on-year -111 +28 +18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 260 1,094 762
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.25% 11.62% 4.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.23% 59.20% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 210 245 513
10th Percentile £37,375 £27,000 £33,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £74,258 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.70%

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 1,073 1,848 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.15% 19.64% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 841 820 1,634
10th Percentile £27,161 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,985 £70,000 £66,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 July 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 July 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 -119 128 £52,500 -2.33% 102
Yorkshire -60 70 £57,500 +35.29% 32
North East -14 62 £69,310 +6.63% 22
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 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.15%) IIS
4 2 (0.77%) nginx
4 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 102 (39.23%) AWS
2 73 (28.08%) Azure
3 31 (11.92%) GitHub
4 26 (10.00%) GCP
5 21 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (6.54%) Azure AKS
9 13 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.46%) IaaS
11 9 (3.46%) Serverless
12 8 (3.08%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.69%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.69%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.31%) PaaS
15 5 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.54%) Firewall
2 21 (8.08%) TCP/IP
3 20 (7.69%) DNS
3 20 (7.69%) VPN
4 13 (5.00%) DHCP
5 10 (3.85%) VLAN
6 9 (3.46%) LAN
6 9 (3.46%) VoIP
7 8 (3.08%) WAN
8 7 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.92%) DMZ
9 5 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.92%) STUN
10 4 (1.54%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (1.54%) BGP
10 4 (1.54%) Internet
10 4 (1.54%) MPLS
10 4 (1.54%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.54%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 43 (16.54%) MySQL
3 31 (11.92%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.15%) Big Data
6 3 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.77%) Redis
7 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.38%) Power BI
8 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (12.69%) GitLab
2 30 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.08%) Git
4 14 (5.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (3.46%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.46%) JIRA
6 6 (2.31%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.31%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.38%) GDB
9 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.38%) WinDbg
General
1 46 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.62%) Law
3 33 (12.69%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.00%) Finance
6 10 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.46%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.92%) Advertising
8 5 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Electronics
10 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Banking
11 1 (0.38%) German Language
11 1 (0.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (20.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 54 (20.77%) Senior
2 30 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (10.77%) Administrator
4 22 (8.46%) Platform Engineer
4 22 (8.46%) Software Engineer
5 20 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 20 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.31%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (6.54%) Database Engineer
9 16 (6.15%) Support Engineer
10 15 (5.77%) DBA
10 15 (5.77%) Developer
11 13 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.62%) IT Support
12 12 (4.62%) SQL DBA
13 11 (4.23%) IT Engineer
13 11 (4.23%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.92%) Node.js
2 13 (5.00%) Web Services
3 9 (3.46%) REST
4 8 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.69%) JSON
6 6 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.92%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (1.92%) Kafka
7 5 (1.92%) React
8 4 (1.54%) .NET
8 4 (1.54%) HTML
8 4 (1.54%) Laravel
8 4 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.54%) YAML
9 3 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.15%) gRPC
9 3 (1.15%) Material-UI
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAPI
9 3 (1.15%) Spring
9 3 (1.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.85%) Replication
3 12 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.69%) Life Science
6 6 (2.31%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.54%) PKI
8 3 (1.15%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.77%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.77%) SCADA
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 83 (31.92%) Windows
2 36 (13.85%) Unix
3 31 (11.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (11.15%) Windows Server
5 17 (6.54%) Ubuntu
6 15 (5.77%) CentOS
7 13 (5.00%) Debian
8 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.54%) AIX
10 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.15%) Solaris
11 2 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.38%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 78 (30.00%) DevOps
3 55 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (20.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (19.23%) Agile
6 49 (18.85%) Software Engineering
7 47 (18.08%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (13.85%) AI
9 36 (13.85%) Containerisation
9 36 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 33 (12.69%) High Availability
11 32 (12.31%) Mentoring
11 32 (12.31%) Microservices
12 30 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (9.62%) Computer Science
13 25 (9.62%) Test Automation
14 24 (9.23%) Scrum
15 23 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (8.08%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 73 (28.08%) Python
2 37 (14.23%) Bash
3 33 (12.69%) Java
3 33 (12.69%) SQL
4 27 (10.38%) PowerShell
5 26 (10.00%) C++
6 19 (7.31%) Shell Script
7 18 (6.92%) Rust
8 16 (6.15%) Groovy
9 8 (3.08%) C#
9 8 (3.08%) Go
10 6 (2.31%) C
11 5 (1.92%) Perl
12 4 (1.54%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.54%) PHP
13 2 (0.77%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.77%) Degree
3 27 (10.38%) DV Cleared
4 24 (9.23%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.46%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.54%) CCNA
10 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.38%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.38%) LPIC
12 1 (0.38%) RHCE
12 1 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.69%) GDPR
2 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.15%) QA
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (17.69%) Docker
2 22 (8.46%) Active Directory
3 18 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.46%) vSphere
6 8 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.31%) iptables
7 6 (2.31%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.38%) KVM
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (28.46%) Terraform
2 62 (23.85%) Kubernetes
3 54 (20.77%) Ansible
4 18 (6.92%) Argo
5 15 (5.77%) Progress Chef
6 13 (5.00%) Grafana
6 13 (5.00%) Puppet
7 10 (3.85%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.69%) WSUS
9 4 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.15%) Control-M
10 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.15%) Packer
10 3 (1.15%) systemd
11 2 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.77%) Podman
12 1 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.38%) Rancher
12 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.23%) VMware
3 21 (8.08%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.46%) Google
5 7 (2.69%) Splunk
6 6 (2.31%) Pega
7 5 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.92%) Cisco
8 4 (1.54%) Dell
8 4 (1.54%) IBM
8 4 (1.54%) Oracle
9 3 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.15%) Aruba
9 3 (1.15%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.15%) HP
9 3 (1.15%) NetApp
9 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.15%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.15%) SonicWALL
9 3 (1.15%) Veeam