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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 15 43
Rank change year-on-year -116 +28 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 267 1,083 661
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.27% 11.46% 4.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.61% 58.83% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 210 240 425
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,975 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £64,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,923 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -12.91%

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 1,085 1,841 1,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.15% 19.48% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 845 825 1,377
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £51,240 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,986 £67,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%

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 24 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 24 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 -118 129 £55,000 +2.33% 64
Yorkshire -61 73 £56,250 +40.63% 31
North East -2 65 £70,000 +7.69% 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 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.87%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 98 (36.70%) AWS
2 73 (27.34%) Azure
3 33 (12.36%) GitHub
4 26 (9.74%) GCP
5 21 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (5.99%) Azure AKS
9 13 (4.87%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.37%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.37%) Serverless
11 8 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.00%) IaaS
11 8 (3.00%) PaaS
12 7 (2.62%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.61%) Firewall
2 22 (8.24%) TCP/IP
3 17 (6.37%) DNS
4 16 (5.99%) VPN
5 11 (4.12%) DHCP
6 8 (3.00%) VLAN
7 7 (2.62%) LAN
8 6 (2.25%) VoIP
8 6 (2.25%) WAN
9 5 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.50%) DMZ
10 4 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (1.50%) SSH
10 4 (1.50%) STUN
11 3 (1.12%) HTTP
11 3 (1.12%) SAN
11 3 (1.12%) Wireless
12 2 (0.75%) BGP
12 2 (0.75%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 39 (14.61%) MySQL
3 27 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.74%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.75%) Big Data
6 2 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.75%) Redis
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) Power BI
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 31 (11.61%) GitLab
3 23 (8.61%) Git
4 15 (5.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (4.12%) JIRA
6 8 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.37%) GDB
10 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.37%) WinDbg
General
1 53 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.61%) Law
3 34 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.62%) Finance
5 14 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.62%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.25%) Retail
10 4 (1.50%) Advertising
10 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.75%) Electronics
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Automotive
13 1 (0.37%) Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Front Office
13 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (21.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (20.60%) Senior
3 37 (13.86%) Linux Engineer
4 33 (12.36%) Administrator
5 26 (9.74%) Software Engineer
6 22 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (8.24%) Senior DevOps
7 21 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (7.87%) Principal Engineer
7 21 (7.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 17 (6.37%) Database Engineer
9 14 (5.24%) C++ Software Engineer
9 14 (5.24%) DBA
9 14 (5.24%) Developer
9 14 (5.24%) Systems Administrator
10 13 (4.87%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.49%) SQL DBA
12 11 (4.12%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.37%) Node.js
2 13 (4.87%) Web Services
3 8 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.62%) JSON
4 7 (2.62%) REST
5 5 (1.87%) Kafka
5 5 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.87%) React
6 4 (1.50%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (1.50%) HTML
6 4 (1.50%) YAML
7 3 (1.12%) .NET
7 3 (1.12%) Laravel
7 3 (1.12%) Vue
8 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.75%) Django
8 2 (0.75%) LESS
8 2 (0.75%) Sass
8 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.49%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.99%) Replication
3 12 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.00%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.00%) Life Science
5 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.50%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.12%) PKI
6 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.12%) Social Media
7 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.37%) Cybercrime
8 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.37%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 75 (28.09%) Windows
2 39 (14.61%) Unix
3 33 (12.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (10.11%) Windows Server
5 16 (5.99%) Ubuntu
6 15 (5.62%) CentOS
7 11 (4.12%) Debian
8 6 (2.25%) AIX
8 6 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.75%) VMS
13 1 (0.37%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (32.58%) CI/CD
2 85 (31.84%) DevOps
3 56 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (20.60%) Software Engineering
5 50 (18.73%) Agile
5 50 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
6 40 (14.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (14.23%) AI
9 36 (13.48%) Containerisation
10 33 (12.36%) High Availability
10 33 (12.36%) Mentoring
11 32 (11.99%) Microservices
12 31 (11.61%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (11.24%) Computer Science
14 26 (9.74%) Test Automation
15 25 (9.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 24 (8.99%) Scrum
17 21 (7.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 77 (28.84%) Python
2 37 (13.86%) Bash
3 34 (12.73%) SQL
4 33 (12.36%) Java
5 31 (11.61%) C++
6 24 (8.99%) PowerShell
7 21 (7.87%) Shell Script
8 20 (7.49%) Rust
9 16 (5.99%) Groovy
10 9 (3.37%) Go
11 8 (3.00%) C
12 6 (2.25%) C#
13 5 (1.87%) Perl
14 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
14 3 (1.12%) PHP
15 2 (0.75%) Bicep
15 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.24%) Degree
3 28 (10.49%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.36%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.37%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.75%) CCNA
10 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.37%) LPIC
11 1 (0.37%) RHCE
11 1 (0.37%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.87%) GDPR
2 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.12%) QA
4 2 (0.75%) NIST
4 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (18.35%) Docker
2 17 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.37%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.62%) vSphere
6 6 (2.25%) iptables
6 6 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.75%) Ceph
8 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.37%) KVM
Systems Management
1 76 (28.46%) Terraform
2 63 (23.60%) Kubernetes
3 54 (20.22%) Ansible
4 20 (7.49%) Argo
5 14 (5.24%) Grafana
5 14 (5.24%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.49%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.12%) Puppet
8 6 (2.25%) WSUS
9 4 (1.50%) Podman
10 3 (1.12%) Control-M
10 3 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.12%) Istio
10 3 (1.12%) Packer
10 3 (1.12%) systemd
11 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.75%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.75%) Nessus
Vendors
1 26 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.99%) Red Hat
3 21 (7.87%) VMware
4 9 (3.37%) Google
5 6 (2.25%) Dell
5 6 (2.25%) Pega
6 5 (1.87%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.87%) Splunk
7 4 (1.50%) Cisco
7 4 (1.50%) IBM
7 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.50%) Veeam
8 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.12%) Aruba
8 3 (1.12%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.12%) HP
8 3 (1.12%) NetApp
8 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.12%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.75%) SaltStack