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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 22 42
Rank change year-on-year -134 +20 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 185 668 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 9.54% 4.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.41% 49.48% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 138 232 544
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £80,375 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,001
% change year-on-year - +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 864 1,350 2,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.87% 19.27% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 657 721 1,767
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £74,258 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 23 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 23 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 -107 101 £55,000 - 32
Yorkshire -84 56 £50,000 +17.24% 32
North East -41 28 £47,500 -22.13% 24
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 5 (2.70%) Apache
2 4 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.38%) AWS
2 46 (24.86%) Azure
3 17 (9.19%) GCP
4 16 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (8.11%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.41%) GitHub
10 9 (4.86%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.78%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.78%) Serverless
12 6 (3.24%) IaaS
13 4 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.16%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.59%) Firewall
2 20 (10.81%) DNS
3 17 (9.19%) VPN
4 16 (8.65%) Ethernet
5 13 (7.03%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.49%) Internet
7 11 (5.95%) DHCP
8 9 (4.86%) VLAN
8 9 (4.86%) VoIP
9 7 (3.78%) HTTP
9 7 (3.78%) LAN
9 7 (3.78%) WAN
10 5 (2.70%) DMZ
10 5 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.70%) SSL
10 5 (2.70%) STUN
11 4 (2.16%) AMQP
11 4 (2.16%) BGP
11 4 (2.16%) SSH
11 4 (2.16%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.68%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (12.43%) MongoDB
3 22 (11.89%) SQL Server
4 21 (11.35%) MySQL
5 6 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.16%) Big Data
6 4 (2.16%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (2.16%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.62%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.62%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.62%) Redis
8 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.08%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 23 (12.43%) GitLab
2 20 (10.81%) Git
3 10 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.32%) JIRA
5 6 (3.24%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.16%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.54%) GDB
10 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 46 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.11%) Retail
3 13 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (7.03%) Manufacturing
3 13 (7.03%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.95%) Aerospace
4 11 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.95%) Law
5 9 (4.86%) Finance
6 7 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.24%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Electronics
9 2 (1.08%) Military
9 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) German Language
10 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (22.70%) Senior
2 29 (15.68%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (6.49%) IT Support
5 12 (6.49%) Senior DevOps
5 12 (6.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (5.95%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (5.95%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.41%) Developer
8 8 (4.32%) Administrator
9 7 (3.78%) Analyst
9 7 (3.78%) Graduate
9 7 (3.78%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 7 (3.78%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 7 (3.78%) Logistics Engineer
9 7 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.65%) Node.js
2 9 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (4.86%) REST
3 6 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.70%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.16%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.16%) gRPC
5 4 (2.16%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.16%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.16%) React
5 4 (2.16%) RESTful
5 4 (2.16%) Spring
5 4 (2.16%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.16%) Swagger
5 4 (2.16%) Web Services
6 3 (1.62%) .NET
6 3 (1.62%) JSON
6 3 (1.62%) Laravel
6 3 (1.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.65%) Embedded Systems
1 16 (8.65%) FPGA
2 14 (7.57%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.78%) Replication
5 6 (3.24%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.70%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.16%) NHS
7 4 (2.16%) PKI
7 4 (2.16%) SCADA
7 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.08%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.08%) IoT
9 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.08%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 82 (44.32%) Windows
2 33 (17.84%) Windows Server
3 28 (15.14%) Unix
4 16 (8.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.95%) Debian
6 9 (4.86%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.24%) CentOS
8 4 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.62%) AIX
9 3 (1.62%) Solaris
9 3 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.08%) SUSE
10 2 (1.08%) VMS
10 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.54%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.78%) CI/CD
2 39 (21.08%) DevOps
3 38 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (18.38%) Agile
5 33 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.14%) Containerisation
7 25 (13.51%) Mentoring
8 23 (12.43%) ITIL
9 22 (11.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (11.89%) Microservices
10 21 (11.35%) Software Engineering
11 19 (10.27%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (9.19%) Coaching
13 16 (8.65%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (8.65%) Test Automation
14 15 (8.11%) Scrum
15 13 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.03%) High Availability
15 13 (7.03%) Service Delivery
16 11 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.41%) Python
2 32 (17.30%) Java
3 23 (12.43%) SQL
4 17 (9.19%) Bash
4 17 (9.19%) C
5 14 (7.57%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.49%) Go
7 10 (5.41%) C++
8 9 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.32%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.78%) Groovy
11 6 (3.24%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.70%) Perl
12 5 (2.70%) PHP
13 4 (2.16%) C#
13 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.54%) ABAP
14 1 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 28 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.19%) DV Cleared
3 14 (7.57%) Degree
4 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.24%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.16%) CCNA
8 4 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.08%) CISSP
10 1 (0.54%) CEH
10 1 (0.54%) GCIA
10 1 (0.54%) GCIH
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.54%) LPIC
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) GDPR
2 8 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.78%) QA
4 4 (2.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (12.43%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.27%) Docker
3 16 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.86%) vSphere
5 8 (4.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (3.78%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.62%) Firmware
9 2 (1.08%) iptables
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (28.11%) Terraform
2 42 (22.70%) Ansible
3 36 (19.46%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.49%) Grafana
5 11 (5.95%) Argo
5 11 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.78%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.78%) Puppet
7 4 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.16%) WSUS
8 3 (1.62%) Packer
8 3 (1.62%) Podman
8 3 (1.62%) Rancher
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (1.08%) Control-M
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.08%) Nagios
9 2 (1.08%) systemd
10 1 (0.54%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.54%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 32 (17.30%) VMware
2 22 (11.89%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.49%) Splunk
5 8 (4.32%) Cisco
6 6 (3.24%) Google
7 5 (2.70%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.16%) IBM
8 4 (2.16%) Oracle
8 4 (2.16%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.62%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.62%) Mirantis
9 3 (1.62%) SAP
10 2 (1.08%) BMC
10 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.08%) Qualys
11 1 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.54%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.54%) Thales