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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 14 43
Rank change year-on-year -118 +29 +13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 265 1,086 739
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.27% 11.55% 4.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.65% 59.05% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 211 241 492
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,000 £32,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £73,886 £71,125
England median annual salary £62,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.79% +9.09% -12.85%

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 1,075 1,839 2,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.15% 19.56% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 842 821 1,570
10th Percentile £27,016 £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 £54,688 £51,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £66,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -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 18 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 18 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 -111 129 £52,500 -2.33% 60
Yorkshire -61 71 £65,000 +52.94% 25
North East -9 65 £70,000 +7.69% 18
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 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.89%) Apache
3 3 (1.13%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 98 (36.98%) AWS
2 72 (27.17%) Azure
3 32 (12.08%) GitHub
4 25 (9.43%) GCP
5 21 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (7.17%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.04%) Azure AKS
8 16 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (4.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.40%) IaaS
11 8 (3.02%) Serverless
12 7 (2.64%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.64%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.26%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.26%) PaaS
14 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.70%) Firewall
2 21 (7.92%) TCP/IP
3 18 (6.79%) VPN
4 17 (6.42%) DNS
5 11 (4.15%) DHCP
6 9 (3.40%) VLAN
7 8 (3.02%) LAN
7 8 (3.02%) VoIP
8 7 (2.64%) WAN
9 5 (1.89%) DMZ
9 5 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.89%) STUN
9 5 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.51%) SSH
11 3 (1.13%) BGP
11 3 (1.13%) Internet
11 3 (1.13%) MPLS
11 3 (1.13%) SAN
11 3 (1.13%) VPLS
11 3 (1.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.74%) SQL Server
2 41 (15.47%) MySQL
3 28 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.79%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.89%) 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%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.75%) Redis
6 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.38%) Power BI
7 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (12.08%) GitLab
2 31 (11.70%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.55%) Git
4 15 (5.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (3.77%) JIRA
6 8 (3.02%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.26%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.26%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.13%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.38%) GDB
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.38%) WinDbg
General
1 48 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.34%) Law
3 35 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.28%) Finance
6 9 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.64%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.89%) Retail
10 4 (1.51%) Advertising
11 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Electronics
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.38%) Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Front Office
13 1 (0.38%) German Language
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 56 (21.13%) DevOps Engineer
1 56 (21.13%) Senior
2 35 (13.21%) Linux Engineer
3 29 (10.94%) Administrator
4 23 (8.68%) Software Engineer
5 22 (8.30%) Senior DevOps
6 21 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (7.92%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (7.92%) Principal Engineer
6 21 (7.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.42%) Database Engineer
8 16 (6.04%) Developer
9 15 (5.66%) DBA
9 15 (5.66%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.53%) SQL DBA
13 11 (4.15%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.15%) Rust Engineer
13 11 (4.15%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.42%) Node.js
2 13 (4.91%) Web Services
3 8 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.02%) REST
4 7 (2.64%) JSON
5 5 (1.89%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.89%) Kafka
5 5 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.89%) React
6 4 (1.51%) HTML
6 4 (1.51%) Laravel
6 4 (1.51%) YAML
7 3 (1.13%) .NET
7 3 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.13%) Vue
8 2 (0.75%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.75%) gRPC
8 2 (0.75%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (0.75%) Material-UI
8 2 (0.75%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.68%) Replication
3 12 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.64%) Life Science
6 6 (2.26%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.51%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.51%) PKI
8 3 (1.13%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) SCADA
9 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.38%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 80 (30.19%) Windows
2 39 (14.72%) Unix
3 33 (12.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (10.57%) Windows Server
5 16 (6.04%) Ubuntu
6 15 (5.66%) CentOS
7 12 (4.53%) Debian
8 6 (2.26%) AIX
8 6 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.13%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.13%) Solaris
10 2 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.38%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.32%) CI/CD
2 80 (30.19%) DevOps
3 54 (20.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (19.25%) Software Engineering
5 49 (18.49%) Agile
6 48 (18.11%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (13.96%) AI
8 37 (13.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (12.83%) Containerisation
9 34 (12.83%) High Availability
9 34 (12.83%) Mentoring
10 32 (12.08%) Microservices
11 31 (11.70%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (10.57%) Computer Science
13 25 (9.43%) Test Automation
14 24 (9.06%) Scrum
14 24 (9.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (8.68%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.92%) Python
2 38 (14.34%) Bash
3 34 (12.83%) SQL
4 32 (12.08%) Java
5 29 (10.94%) C++
6 26 (9.81%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.55%) Rust
8 19 (7.17%) Shell Script
9 16 (6.04%) Groovy
10 8 (3.02%) Go
11 7 (2.64%) C#
12 6 (2.26%) C
13 5 (1.89%) Perl
14 4 (1.51%) PHP
15 3 (1.13%) JavaScript
16 2 (0.75%) Bicep
17 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.70%) Degree
3 28 (10.57%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.40%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.13%) CCNA
10 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.38%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.38%) LPIC
12 1 (0.38%) RHCE
12 1 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.89%) GDPR
1 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.13%) QA
4 2 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (17.36%) Docker
2 20 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.40%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.64%) vSphere
6 6 (2.26%) iptables
7 4 (1.51%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.38%) KVM
Systems Management
1 73 (27.55%) Terraform
2 60 (22.64%) Kubernetes
3 52 (19.62%) Ansible
4 18 (6.79%) Argo
5 15 (5.66%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.91%) Grafana
7 12 (4.53%) Puppet
8 9 (3.40%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.26%) WSUS
10 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.13%) Control-M
10 3 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.13%) Packer
10 3 (1.13%) systemd
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.75%) Podman
12 1 (0.38%) linkerd
12 1 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.30%) Red Hat
3 21 (7.92%) VMware
4 8 (3.02%) Google
5 6 (2.26%) Pega
5 6 (2.26%) Splunk
6 5 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco
7 4 (1.51%) Dell
7 4 (1.51%) IBM
7 4 (1.51%) Oracle
8 3 (1.13%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.13%) Aruba
8 3 (1.13%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.13%) HP
8 3 (1.13%) NetApp
8 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.13%) SonicWALL
8 3 (1.13%) Veeam
9 2 (0.75%) Mirantis