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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 62 41
Rank change year-on-year -60 -21 +19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 189 294 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.45% 3.89% 4.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.63% 29.40% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 140 181 472
10th Percentile £27,950 £33,750 £34,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £76,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 800 1,000 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.12% 13.24% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 621 516 1,507
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,375 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,372 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.08% +10.26% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -57 96 £55,000 +4.76% 67
Yorkshire -53 54 £34,000 -24.44% 29
North East 0 39 £51,500 -15.57% 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 6 (3.17%) Apache
2 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.06%) JBoss
3 2 (1.06%) nginx
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (30.69%) AWS
2 50 (26.46%) Azure
3 27 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (11.64%) GCP
5 19 (10.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (3.70%) dbt
8 7 (3.70%) Pulumi
9 6 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.17%) IaaS
9 6 (3.17%) PaaS
10 5 (2.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (2.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.65%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (2.65%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.65%) GitHub
10 5 (2.65%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.29%) DNS
2 26 (13.76%) Firewall
2 26 (13.76%) VPN
3 25 (13.23%) TCP/IP
4 16 (8.47%) Ethernet
5 15 (7.94%) DHCP
6 13 (6.88%) VLAN
6 13 (6.88%) VoIP
7 12 (6.35%) Internet
8 10 (5.29%) LAN
8 10 (5.29%) WAN
9 9 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (3.17%) HTTP
11 5 (2.65%) DMZ
11 5 (2.65%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.65%) SSL
11 5 (2.65%) STUN
12 4 (2.12%) AMQP
12 4 (2.12%) SSH
12 4 (2.12%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.76%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.47%) MySQL
4 14 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.23%) Redis
7 7 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.12%) Big Data
8 4 (2.12%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.12%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.12%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (14.29%) Git
2 15 (7.94%) GitLab
3 13 (6.88%) Bitbucket
3 13 (6.88%) JIRA
4 6 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.59%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.06%) Maven
7 2 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) Ant
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) JUnit
8 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.99%) Retail
3 16 (8.47%) Finance
3 16 (8.47%) Manufacturing
4 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (4.23%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.70%) Advertising
7 7 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.17%) Marketing
9 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.06%) Electronics
10 2 (1.06%) Law
10 2 (1.06%) Military
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (23.28%) Senior
2 21 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 14 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 13 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.35%) IT Support
7 11 (5.82%) Analyst
7 11 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.82%) Infrastructure Support
8 10 (5.29%) Developer
8 10 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Graduate
9 9 (4.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Logistics Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (4.23%) Operations Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Software Engineering Graduate
10 8 (4.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.29%) Node.js
2 8 (4.23%) CSS
3 7 (3.70%) Django
3 7 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.17%) .NET
4 6 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.17%) REST
5 5 (2.65%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.65%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.65%) React
6 4 (2.12%) gRPC
6 4 (2.12%) Material-UI
6 4 (2.12%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.12%) RESTful
6 4 (2.12%) SAP Basis
6 4 (2.12%) Spring
6 4 (2.12%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.12%) Swagger
7 3 (1.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.47%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (8.47%) FPGA
3 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.65%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.65%) LIMS
5 5 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.12%) NHS
6 4 (2.12%) PKI
6 4 (2.12%) Replication
6 4 (2.12%) SCADA
7 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.06%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.06%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 99 (52.38%) Windows
2 44 (23.28%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.99%) Unix
4 13 (6.88%) Debian
5 8 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.23%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.17%) CentOS
6 6 (3.17%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.12%) SUSE
9 3 (1.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (1.59%) VMS
10 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.53%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.53%) Fedora
11 1 (0.53%) Solaris
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (19.58%) CI/CD
3 37 (19.58%) Containerisation
4 34 (17.99%) DevOps
4 34 (17.99%) ITIL
5 30 (15.87%) Computer Science
6 22 (11.64%) Agile
7 18 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 18 (9.52%) Software Engineering
8 17 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (8.99%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (8.47%) Change Management
10 15 (7.94%) Coaching
10 15 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (7.41%) Observability
11 14 (7.41%) Service Delivery
12 13 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.98%) Python
2 32 (16.93%) SQL
3 31 (16.40%) Java
4 23 (12.17%) C
5 22 (11.64%) PowerShell
6 21 (11.11%) Bash
7 11 (5.82%) Go
7 11 (5.82%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.82%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.23%) C++
8 8 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.17%) C#
9 6 (3.17%) PHP
10 5 (2.65%) Perl
11 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.53%) ABAP
12 1 (0.53%) Delphi
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 33 (17.46%) Degree
2 22 (11.64%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.88%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.88%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.29%) HND
6 6 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.65%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.65%) HNC
7 5 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.12%) CCNA
8 4 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.06%) CISSP
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.53%) PhD
10 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.53%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.23%) GDPR
2 7 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.65%) QA
4 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (17.46%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.23%) Docker
3 12 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.82%) vSphere
5 10 (5.29%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.65%) Firmware
8 4 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (22.22%) Ansible
2 40 (21.16%) Kubernetes
2 40 (21.16%) Terraform
3 20 (10.58%) Grafana
4 17 (8.99%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.76%) Control-M
6 7 (3.70%) Puppet
7 5 (2.65%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.12%) WSUS
9 3 (1.59%) Rancher
10 2 (1.06%) Argo
10 2 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.06%) Nagios
10 2 (1.06%) Plesk
10 2 (1.06%) Podman
10 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 37 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 35 (18.52%) VMware
3 14 (7.41%) Splunk
4 13 (6.88%) Google
5 10 (5.29%) Cisco
6 9 (4.76%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.65%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (2.65%) SAP
7 5 (2.65%) Siemens
7 5 (2.65%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.65%) Toshiba
8 4 (2.12%) Apple
8 4 (2.12%) Oracle
8 4 (2.12%) Sage
8 4 (2.12%) SaltStack
8 4 (2.12%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.06%) BMC
9 2 (1.06%) Draytek
9 2 (1.06%) Qualys