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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 12 43
Rank change year-on-year -151 +31 +18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 183 1,067 773
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.95% 13.48% 4.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.45% 59.68% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 149 214 541
10th Percentile £33,000 £26,960 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,777 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 895 1,788 2,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.65% 22.58% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 684 714 1,748
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,817 £72,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -128 101 £55,000 - 57
Yorkshire -75 53 £52,500 +23.53% 31
North East -34 29 £47,500 -24.60% 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 4 (2.19%) Apache
1 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (42.62%) AWS
2 55 (30.05%) Azure
3 20 (10.93%) GCP
4 18 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (9.84%) Azure AKS
5 17 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.20%) GitHub
7 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (7.10%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.83%) IaaS
11 7 (3.83%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.28%) Serverless
13 5 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.11%) Firewall
2 19 (10.38%) DNS
3 17 (9.29%) VPN
4 12 (6.56%) TCP/IP
5 11 (6.01%) DHCP
6 10 (5.46%) Internet
7 9 (4.92%) VLAN
7 9 (4.92%) VoIP
8 8 (4.37%) LAN
8 8 (4.37%) WAN
9 6 (3.28%) HTTP
10 5 (2.73%) DMZ
10 5 (2.73%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.73%) STUN
11 4 (2.19%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.19%) Ethernet
11 4 (2.19%) MPLS
11 4 (2.19%) SSL
11 4 (2.19%) VPLS
11 4 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.58%) SQL Server
2 32 (17.49%) MySQL
2 32 (17.49%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (12.57%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.64%) Big Data
6 3 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.64%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) Power BI
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (14.21%) GitLab
2 17 (9.29%) Git
3 15 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.37%) JIRA
5 6 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.73%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.64%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.55%) GDB
9 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.55%) WinDbg
General
1 36 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.48%) Law
3 17 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.56%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.01%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.01%) Retail
6 10 (5.46%) Finance
7 6 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.64%) Advertising
8 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.55%) Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) German Language
10 1 (0.55%) Local Government
10 1 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (20.22%) Senior
2 27 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (12.02%) Linux Engineer
4 21 (11.48%) Administrator
5 15 (8.20%) DBA
5 15 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.10%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) SQL DBA
8 12 (6.56%) Support Engineer
9 11 (6.01%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (6.01%) IT Support
10 10 (5.46%) Developer
11 7 (3.83%) Analyst
11 7 (3.83%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.74%) Node.js
2 8 (4.37%) REST
2 8 (4.37%) Web Services
3 7 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.73%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (2.73%) JSON
5 4 (2.19%) HTML
5 4 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.19%) RESTful
6 3 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.64%) gRPC
6 3 (1.64%) Laravel
6 3 (1.64%) Material-UI
6 3 (1.64%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.64%) React
6 3 (1.64%) Spring
6 3 (1.64%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.64%) Swagger
6 3 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.74%) Replication
2 9 (4.92%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.19%) FPGA
6 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.19%) PKI
6 4 (2.19%) SCADA
7 3 (1.64%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.09%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) IoT
8 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.09%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 79 (43.17%) Windows
2 29 (15.85%) Unix
3 28 (15.30%) Windows Server
4 19 (10.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.46%) Debian
6 9 (4.92%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.73%) CentOS
8 4 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.64%) AIX
9 3 (1.64%) Solaris
9 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.55%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.42%) CI/CD
2 46 (25.14%) DevOps
3 41 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (18.03%) Agile
6 29 (15.85%) Containerisation
6 29 (15.85%) Mentoring
7 23 (12.57%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (12.57%) Microservices
7 23 (12.57%) Software Engineering
8 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (10.93%) High Availability
10 19 (10.38%) ITIL
10 19 (10.38%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.29%) Scrum
12 16 (8.74%) Coaching
13 12 (6.56%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (6.56%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.05%) Python
2 30 (16.39%) Java
3 29 (15.85%) SQL
4 21 (11.48%) Bash
5 19 (10.38%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.10%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.56%) C
7 12 (6.56%) Go
8 11 (6.01%) Groovy
9 9 (4.92%) C++
10 7 (3.83%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
12 5 (2.73%) C#
12 5 (2.73%) Perl
12 5 (2.73%) PHP
13 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.09%) Rust
14 1 (0.55%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 28 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.65%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.56%) Degree
3 12 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.28%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.19%) CCNA
7 4 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.55%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.92%) GDPR
1 9 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.19%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.19%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (13.66%) Docker
2 19 (10.38%) Active Directory
3 16 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.92%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.92%) vSphere
5 7 (3.83%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.64%) iptables
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (32.24%) Terraform
2 42 (22.95%) Ansible
3 39 (21.31%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.65%) Argo
5 12 (6.56%) Grafana
6 11 (6.01%) Progress Chef
7 10 (5.46%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.28%) Puppet
9 4 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.19%) WSUS
10 3 (1.64%) Packer
10 3 (1.64%) Podman
10 3 (1.64%) Rancher
10 3 (1.64%) systemd
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (1.09%) Control-M
11 2 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.09%) Nagios
12 1 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 24 (13.11%) VMware
2 19 (10.38%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.84%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.56%) Splunk
5 5 (2.73%) Cisco
5 5 (2.73%) Google
5 5 (2.73%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.19%) IBM
6 4 (2.19%) Oracle
7 3 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.64%) Mirantis
7 3 (1.64%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.09%) BMC
8 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.09%) Qualys
9 1 (0.55%) Adobe
9 1 (0.55%) Cognos
9 1 (0.55%) McAfee
9 1 (0.55%) SAP