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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 59 48
Rank change year-on-year -38 -11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 214 413 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.27% 3.44% 5.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.38% 31.77% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 167 239 320
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £35,500 £38,820 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,875 £69,800
90th Percentile £71,250 £74,144 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 754 1,300 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.01% 10.82% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 615 683 989
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,843 £75,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -37 95 £53,750 +2.38% 54
Yorkshire -16 82 £34,500 -18.82% 27
North East +12 37 £60,000 +7.14% 16
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 21 (9.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.87%) Apache
2 4 (1.87%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.40%) CMS
3 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.05%) Azure
2 55 (25.70%) AWS
3 46 (21.50%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.88%) GCP
5 18 (8.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (6.54%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (3.27%) AWS CodeBuild
8 7 (3.27%) IaaS
9 6 (2.80%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.80%) Route 53
9 6 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.34%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.34%) dbt
10 5 (2.34%) PaaS
10 5 (2.34%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (16.82%) Firewall
2 33 (15.42%) DNS
2 33 (15.42%) VoIP
3 29 (13.55%) TCP/IP
3 29 (13.55%) VPN
4 28 (13.08%) VLAN
5 21 (9.81%) DHCP
6 17 (7.94%) SAN
7 12 (5.61%) Ethernet
8 10 (4.67%) LAN
8 10 (4.67%) WAN
9 9 (4.21%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (4.21%) Wireless
10 8 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.80%) Modbus
11 6 (2.80%) RS-485
12 5 (2.34%) DMZ
12 5 (2.34%) STUN
13 4 (1.87%) HTTP
13 4 (1.87%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.07%) MySQL
3 11 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.80%) Redis
6 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.40%) Big Data
8 3 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.40%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.40%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.47%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 23 (10.75%) Git
2 15 (7.01%) GitLab
2 15 (7.01%) JIRA
3 14 (6.54%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.61%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.80%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.80%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.34%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.93%) Maven
8 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.47%) Ant
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.47%) git-flow
9 1 (0.47%) JUnit
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 77 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.88%) Finance
3 17 (7.94%) Manufacturing
4 12 (5.61%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.67%) Marketing
6 9 (4.21%) Retail
7 8 (3.74%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.74%) Electronics
7 8 (3.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.27%) Military
9 6 (2.80%) Advertising
10 5 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Games
13 2 (0.93%) Law
14 1 (0.47%) Banking
14 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (22.90%) Senior
2 29 (13.55%) Support Engineer
3 25 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.75%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (8.41%) Support Technician
6 15 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.01%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.61%) Applications Engineer
7 12 (5.61%) Applications Support
7 12 (5.61%) Developer
8 11 (5.14%) IT Support
9 10 (4.67%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (4.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) Technical Support
9 10 (4.67%) Technical Support Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) 1st Line Support
10 9 (4.21%) Analyst
10 9 (4.21%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (5.14%) .NET
2 11 (5.14%) CSS
3 9 (4.21%) Node.js
4 6 (2.80%) React
5 5 (2.34%) Django
5 5 (2.34%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.34%) HTML
6 4 (1.87%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.87%) Laravel
6 4 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.87%) SAP Basis
6 4 (1.87%) Vue
7 3 (1.40%) gRPC
7 3 (1.40%) REST
7 3 (1.40%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (1.40%) SAPUI5
8 2 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.93%) Kafka
8 2 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.15%) Driving Licence
2 20 (9.35%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (6.54%) Clustering
4 12 (5.61%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.61%) FPGA
5 8 (3.74%) LIMS
5 8 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.80%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (2.80%) CAN bus
8 5 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.87%) NHS
10 3 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.40%) Replication
11 2 (0.93%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (57.01%) Windows
2 59 (27.57%) Windows Server
3 21 (9.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (7.94%) Unix
5 16 (7.48%) Mac OS
6 15 (7.01%) Windows 10
7 13 (6.07%) Debian
8 11 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (4.21%) Ubuntu
10 6 (2.80%) CentOS
10 6 (2.80%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.87%) SUSE
13 3 (1.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.93%) VMS
15 1 (0.47%) Android
15 1 (0.47%) Fedora
15 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (20.56%) CI/CD
2 44 (20.56%) Containerisation
2 44 (20.56%) DevOps
3 36 (16.82%) Computer Science
4 31 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (11.68%) Mentoring
8 23 (10.75%) ITIL
9 21 (9.81%) Agile
10 19 (8.88%) Software Engineering
11 18 (8.41%) Coaching
12 15 (7.01%) Change Management
12 15 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (7.01%) Microservices
13 14 (6.54%) Migration
13 14 (6.54%) Network Management
13 14 (6.54%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (6.07%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.70%) Python
2 37 (17.29%) SQL
3 29 (13.55%) Java
4 27 (12.62%) PowerShell
5 24 (11.21%) Bash
6 22 (10.28%) C
7 17 (7.94%) C++
7 17 (7.94%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.14%) C#
9 9 (4.21%) PHP
10 7 (3.27%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.80%) Perl
12 5 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.34%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.93%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.93%) Go
14 1 (0.47%) ABAP
14 1 (0.47%) Delphi
14 1 (0.47%) Groovy
14 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 42 (19.63%) Degree
2 20 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.01%) Security Cleared
5 14 (6.54%) HND
6 9 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.21%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (4.21%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.74%) HNC
8 6 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.80%) CCNA
8 6 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.80%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.34%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.80%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.34%) ISO 9001
2 5 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
System Software
1 44 (20.56%) Active Directory
2 37 (17.29%) Docker
3 36 (16.82%) Hyper-V
4 18 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (6.07%) vSphere
6 11 (5.14%) Firmware
7 8 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.80%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.34%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.93%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.47%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.47%) HDFS
11 1 (0.47%) Postfix
11 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (19.16%) Kubernetes
2 34 (15.89%) Ansible
3 33 (15.42%) Terraform
4 26 (12.15%) Grafana
5 19 (8.88%) Prometheus
6 17 (7.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (5.14%) Control-M
8 6 (2.80%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (2.34%) SCCM
9 5 (2.34%) SCOM
9 5 (2.34%) WSUS
10 4 (1.87%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.40%) Argo
11 3 (1.40%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.40%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.40%) Puppet
12 2 (0.93%) Nagios
12 2 (0.93%) Plesk
12 2 (0.93%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (36.45%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.69%) VMware
3 22 (10.28%) SonicWALL
4 14 (6.54%) Dell
5 13 (6.07%) Cisco
5 13 (6.07%) Google
5 13 (6.07%) HP
5 13 (6.07%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.07%) Supermicro
6 11 (5.14%) Splunk
7 9 (4.21%) Apple
7 9 (4.21%) Sage
8 7 (3.27%) Oracle
9 6 (2.80%) Allen-Bradley
9 6 (2.80%) Siemens
9 6 (2.80%) Toshiba
10 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.87%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.87%) SAP
11 4 (1.87%) SolarWinds