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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 11 41
Rank change year-on-year -142 +30 +21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 201 1,060 791
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.02% 13.23% 4.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.96% 61.17% 35.30%
Number of salaries quoted 166 208 536
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.93%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £74,258 £72,433
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.70%

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 959 1,733 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.87% 21.62% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 751 716 1,727
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -3.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -124 107 £53,750 -2.27% 54
Yorkshire -71 54 £50,000 +17.65% 22
North East -24 40 £48,445 -25.47% 17
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 (1.99%) Apache
1 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.49%) nginx
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 83 (41.29%) AWS
2 64 (31.84%) Azure
3 21 (10.45%) GCP
4 20 (9.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.95%) GitHub
5 18 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (8.46%) Azure AKS
6 17 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.47%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.48%) Serverless
10 8 (3.98%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.48%) IaaS
12 6 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.99%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.44%) Firewall
2 18 (8.96%) DNS
3 17 (8.46%) VPN
4 13 (6.47%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.47%) DHCP
6 10 (4.98%) Internet
7 9 (4.48%) LAN
7 9 (4.48%) VLAN
7 9 (4.48%) VoIP
8 8 (3.98%) WAN
9 5 (2.49%) DMZ
9 5 (2.49%) HTTP
9 5 (2.49%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.49%) STUN
10 4 (1.99%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (1.99%) BGP
10 4 (1.99%) MPLS
10 4 (1.99%) Network Security
10 4 (1.99%) VPLS
10 4 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.41%) SQL Server
2 35 (17.41%) MySQL
3 34 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (11.94%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.99%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.49%) Big Data
7 3 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.49%) Redis
8 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Power BI
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (12.94%) GitLab
2 20 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.45%) Git
4 9 (4.48%) JIRA
5 7 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.49%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.49%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.50%) GDB
10 1 (0.50%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.50%) WinDbg
General
1 36 (17.91%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.44%) Law
3 19 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.47%) Aerospace
4 11 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.98%) Finance
6 8 (3.98%) Retail
7 5 (2.49%) Advertising
8 4 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.50%) Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.50%) German Language
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (19.90%) Senior
2 32 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (11.94%) Administrator
4 21 (10.45%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (8.46%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) DBA
7 14 (6.97%) Developer
7 14 (6.97%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (6.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Support Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) SQL DBA
10 11 (5.47%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (5.47%) IT Support
11 10 (4.98%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (4.48%) Analyst
12 9 (4.48%) C++ Software Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.96%) Node.js
2 11 (5.47%) Web Services
3 9 (4.48%) REST
4 7 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (3.48%) JSON
4 7 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (2.99%) HTML
6 5 (2.49%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (2.49%) Laravel
6 5 (2.49%) React
7 4 (1.99%) .NET
7 4 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.99%) YAML
8 3 (1.49%) gRPC
8 3 (1.49%) LAMP
8 3 (1.49%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (1.49%) Material-UI
8 3 (1.49%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.49%) RESTful
8 3 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.96%) Replication
2 13 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.48%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.99%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.99%) PKI
7 3 (1.49%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.49%) Life Science
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.00%) IoT
8 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.00%) SCADA
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 76 (37.81%) Windows
2 27 (13.43%) Windows Server
3 26 (12.94%) Unix
4 22 (10.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.47%) Debian
5 11 (5.47%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.99%) CentOS
6 6 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.49%) AIX
7 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.00%) Solaris
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.50%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.86%) CI/CD
2 52 (25.87%) DevOps
3 44 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (17.91%) Agile
6 34 (16.92%) Software Engineering
7 29 (14.43%) Containerisation
8 28 (13.93%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (12.94%) AI
9 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (12.94%) Mentoring
10 25 (12.44%) Microservices
11 24 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (11.44%) High Availability
13 22 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (9.95%) Test Automation
15 18 (8.96%) ITIL
15 18 (8.96%) Scrum
16 17 (8.46%) Computer Science
17 15 (7.46%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 60 (29.85%) Python
2 28 (13.93%) SQL
3 27 (13.43%) Java
4 24 (11.94%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.44%) Bash
6 18 (8.96%) C++
7 14 (6.97%) Groovy
8 12 (5.97%) Shell Script
9 11 (5.47%) C
9 11 (5.47%) Go
9 11 (5.47%) Rust
10 7 (3.48%) C#
10 7 (3.48%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.99%) PHP
12 5 (2.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.50%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.95%) Degree
3 17 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 14 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.48%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.99%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.99%) CCNA
9 4 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.50%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) GDPR
2 7 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.49%) QA
5 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (13.43%) Docker
2 21 (10.45%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.47%) Hyper-V
5 8 (3.98%) vSphere
6 6 (2.99%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.99%) iptables
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (30.35%) Terraform
2 44 (21.89%) Kubernetes
3 39 (19.40%) Ansible
4 15 (7.46%) Argo
5 13 (6.47%) Progress Chef
6 10 (4.98%) Grafana
7 8 (3.98%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.99%) Puppet
9 4 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.99%) WSUS
10 3 (1.49%) Packer
10 3 (1.49%) systemd
11 2 (1.00%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (1.00%) Control-M
11 2 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.00%) Podman
11 2 (1.00%) Rancher
12 1 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.50%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.45%) VMware
3 19 (9.45%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.98%) Splunk
5 5 (2.49%) Cisco
5 5 (2.49%) Google
6 4 (1.99%) IBM
6 4 (1.99%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle
7 3 (1.49%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.00%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.00%) Qualys
8 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.50%) BMC
9 1 (0.50%) Cognos
9 1 (0.50%) Dell
9 1 (0.50%) McAfee
9 1 (0.50%) SAP