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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 16 58
Rank change year-on-year -82 +42 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 387 999 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.60% 10.41% 3.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.48% 60.69% 34.06%
Number of salaries quoted 274 155 242
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £74,987 £62,500 £62,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £67,500 £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 1,156 1,646 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.79% 17.15% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 888 637 707
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -87 200 £58,750 +14.63% 155
Yorkshire -15 107 £42,500 -5.56% 72
North East -12 80 £70,996 +18.33% 54
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 (2.33%) Apache
2 8 (2.07%) IIS
3 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.26%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 141 (36.43%) AWS
2 106 (27.39%) Azure
3 46 (11.89%) GitHub
4 43 (11.11%) GCP
5 27 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (4.91%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (3.62%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (3.10%) Serverless
14 9 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (2.07%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.07%) PaaS
16 7 (1.81%) IaaS
16 7 (1.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.53%) DNS
1 33 (8.53%) TCP/IP
2 20 (5.17%) DHCP
2 20 (5.17%) VPN
3 17 (4.39%) Firewall
3 17 (4.39%) Internet
4 9 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.07%) VLAN
6 6 (1.55%) LAN
6 6 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.55%) SAN
6 6 (1.55%) SSL
7 5 (1.29%) VSAN
7 5 (1.29%) WAN
8 3 (0.78%) AMQP
8 3 (0.78%) Wireless
9 2 (0.52%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.52%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.52%) SSH
9 2 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.50%) SQL Server
2 55 (14.21%) MySQL
3 26 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.78%) Big Data
6 3 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.52%) Redis
7 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Db2
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (12.40%) Git
2 46 (11.89%) Jenkins
3 40 (10.34%) GitLab
4 23 (5.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (3.10%) JIRA
6 7 (1.81%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
General
1 79 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.76%) Public Sector
3 49 (12.66%) Law
4 31 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (5.43%) Finance
7 16 (4.13%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.88%) Aerospace
9 14 (3.62%) Retail
10 10 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.29%) Advertising
11 5 (1.29%) Electronics
12 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Games
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (23.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 84 (21.71%) Senior
3 52 (13.44%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (11.63%) Linux Engineer
6 42 (10.85%) Administrator
7 35 (9.04%) Senior DevOps
8 34 (8.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 29 (7.49%) Database Engineer
9 29 (7.49%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.68%) Systems Administrator
12 19 (4.91%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.65%) Lead
13 18 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.39%) IT Support
15 16 (4.13%) DBA
16 15 (3.88%) Developer
16 15 (3.88%) IT Engineer
17 14 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (23.77%) Terraform
2 18 (4.65%) Node.js
2 18 (4.65%) Web Services
3 10 (2.58%) React
4 7 (1.81%) Kafka
5 6 (1.55%) REST
6 5 (1.29%) HTML
7 4 (1.03%) .NET
7 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.03%) JSON
7 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.03%) Spring
7 4 (1.03%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.78%) gRPC
8 3 (0.78%) Laravel
8 3 (0.78%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.78%) Swagger
8 3 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.30%) Replication
3 21 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (4.39%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.58%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.81%) Life Science
9 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.55%) Social Media
10 5 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (1.29%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.03%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.52%) ARM Cortex
12 2 (0.52%) CSOC
12 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 120 (31.01%) Windows
2 63 (16.28%) Unix
3 48 (12.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (9.56%) Windows Server
5 26 (6.72%) CentOS
6 18 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 13 (3.36%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.81%) AIX
11 6 (1.55%) Debian
12 3 (0.78%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.78%) VMS
13 2 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (33.07%) CI/CD
2 127 (32.82%) DevOps
3 111 (28.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (24.03%) Software Engineering
5 83 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 82 (21.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 82 (21.19%) Platform Engineering
7 80 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (20.41%) Mentoring
9 71 (18.35%) Agile
10 55 (14.21%) Containerisation
11 51 (13.18%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (12.14%) Coaching
13 45 (11.63%) AI
13 45 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 42 (10.85%) High Availability
15 40 (10.34%) Microservices
16 37 (9.56%) Scrum
17 35 (9.04%) Test Automation
18 34 (8.79%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 93 (24.03%) Python
2 51 (13.18%) Shell Script
2 51 (13.18%) SQL
3 47 (12.14%) Bash
4 34 (8.79%) Java
5 33 (8.53%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.75%) C++
7 20 (5.17%) Rust
8 18 (4.65%) Groovy
9 17 (4.39%) Go
10 12 (3.10%) C
11 8 (2.07%) C#
12 7 (1.81%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.55%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.03%) Bicep
14 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.78%) PHP
16 2 (0.52%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 51 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.56%) Degree
4 34 (8.79%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.58%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.29%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.78%) RHCE
10 3 (0.78%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.52%) IBM AIX Certification
11 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.52%) MCSE
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.26%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.10%) QA
2 5 (1.29%) SLA
3 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.52%) GDPR
4 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (21.96%) Docker
2 20 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.07%) vSphere
6 7 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.03%) Ceph
7 4 (1.03%) iptables
7 4 (1.03%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.52%) UAG
9 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.26%) Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 84 (21.71%) Kubernetes
2 70 (18.09%) Ansible
3 21 (5.43%) Argo
4 19 (4.91%) Progress Chef
4 19 (4.91%) Puppet
5 11 (2.84%) Grafana
6 10 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.58%) WSUS
7 8 (2.07%) Podman
8 6 (1.55%) SCCM
9 4 (1.03%) Istio
9 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.78%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.78%) Control-M
10 3 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.78%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.78%) Nessus
10 3 (0.78%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 62 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.79%) Red Hat
3 26 (6.72%) Google
3 26 (6.72%) VMware
4 14 (3.62%) Oracle
5 10 (2.58%) Dell
6 9 (2.33%) Veeam
7 8 (2.07%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.81%) HP
8 7 (1.81%) NetApp
8 7 (1.81%) Splunk
9 6 (1.55%) Aruba
9 6 (1.55%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.55%) Pega
9 6 (1.55%) SonicWALL
9 6 (1.55%) Thales
9 6 (1.55%) YouTube
10 5 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.29%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.29%) ServiceNow