Linux Jobs in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 43 58
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 -35
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,084 854 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.96% 4.15% 5.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.06% 36.86% 37.71%
Number of salaries quoted 228 546 494
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £29,475
25th Percentile £38,268 £40,000 £38,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,258 £70,625 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 1,805 2,317 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.91% 11.26% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 766 1,726 1,425
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -4.49% +5.33%
75th Percentile £53,563 £56,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North of England.

Salary trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 June 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 22 June 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 +22 957 £55,000 +4.76% 419
Yorkshire -27 106 £42,500 -5.56% 229
North East +12 21 £65,000 +23.81% 53
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.83%) Apache
3 9 (0.83%) IIS
4 7 (0.65%) Confluence
5 6 (0.55%) nginx
6 4 (0.37%) SAS
7 3 (0.28%) GemFire
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.18%) CMS
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.092%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 255 (23.52%) AWS
2 253 (23.34%) Azure
3 205 (18.91%) GCP
4 31 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (1.29%) SaaS
6 13 (1.20%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (0.92%) AWS CodeBuild
8 10 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (0.92%) Pulumi
9 9 (0.83%) GitHub
10 8 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (0.65%) OCI
12 6 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (0.55%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (0.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 6 (0.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (0.55%) dbt
13 5 (0.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 660 (60.89%) VPN
2 421 (38.84%) DNS
3 272 (25.09%) Cisco IOS
4 35 (3.23%) Firewall
5 29 (2.68%) DHCP
6 22 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.66%) SAN
8 15 (1.38%) Wireless
9 12 (1.11%) VoIP
10 10 (0.92%) LAN
10 10 (0.92%) NAS
11 8 (0.74%) WAN
12 7 (0.65%) VLAN
13 5 (0.46%) Modbus
13 5 (0.46%) RS-485
13 5 (0.46%) SSH
13 5 (0.46%) VSAN
14 4 (0.37%) Broadband
15 2 (0.18%) HTTP
15 2 (0.18%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
1 27 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.48%) Redis
4 14 (1.29%) MySQL
5 11 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.65%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.28%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.28%) Big Data
11 3 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.092%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.092%) Cloud Spanner
12 1 (0.092%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.092%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.092%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (1.94%) Git
1 21 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 18 (1.66%) JIRA
3 8 (0.74%) SonarQube
4 7 (0.65%) JUnit
4 7 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.55%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.55%) GitLab
6 5 (0.46%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.46%) Maven
6 5 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.37%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.37%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (0.37%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.37%) JMeter
7 4 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.37%) Postman
7 4 (0.37%) Selenium
7 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 832 (76.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 670 (61.81%) Analytical Skills
3 428 (39.48%) Finance
4 83 (7.66%) Social Skills
5 28 (2.58%) Law
6 19 (1.75%) Banking
6 19 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 16 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.20%) Retail
9 11 (1.01%) Electronics
10 10 (0.92%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.74%) Military
12 6 (0.55%) Cantonese Language
12 6 (0.55%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (0.55%) Marketing
13 5 (0.46%) Games
14 4 (0.37%) Advertising
14 4 (0.37%) Automotive
14 4 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 414 (38.19%) Developer
2 388 (35.79%) Software Developer
3 285 (26.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 221 (20.39%) Senior
5 191 (17.62%) Software Engineer
6 181 (16.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 35 (3.23%) Analyst
8 29 (2.68%) Support Analyst
8 29 (2.68%) Support Engineer
9 21 (1.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (1.94%) IT Support
10 20 (1.85%) 2nd Line Support
11 17 (1.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (1.48%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 16 (1.48%) Linux Engineer
13 15 (1.38%) Lead
14 14 (1.29%) IT Analyst
14 14 (1.29%) IT Support Analyst
15 11 (1.01%) Technical Support
16 10 (0.92%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (24.45%) Elastic Stack
2 180 (16.61%) .NET
3 173 (15.96%) Node.js
4 18 (1.66%) Middleware
5 10 (0.92%) Django
6 9 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (0.83%) Spring
7 8 (0.74%) CSS
7 8 (0.74%) HTML
8 7 (0.65%) Kafka
9 6 (0.55%) Hibernate
9 6 (0.55%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.46%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.46%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.46%) Laravel
10 5 (0.46%) RESTful
11 4 (0.37%) JSP
11 4 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.37%) REST
11 4 (0.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 811 (74.82%) Cyberattack
2 183 (16.88%) Self-Motivation
3 180 (16.61%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (1.29%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 10 (0.92%) Clustering
7 9 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (0.83%) Security Posture
8 8 (0.74%) Driving Licence
8 8 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 7 (0.65%) Operational Technology
9 7 (0.65%) Product Ownership
9 7 (0.65%) SCADA
10 6 (0.55%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.46%) Analogue Electronics
11 5 (0.46%) CAN bus
11 5 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.37%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 644 (59.41%) Android
2 397 (36.62%) Windows
3 55 (5.07%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.86%) Unix
5 23 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.94%) Windows 10
7 19 (1.75%) Mac OS X
8 14 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (1.11%) CentOS
10 11 (1.01%) Mac OS
10 11 (1.01%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.65%) Debian
12 5 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.37%) Solaris
14 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.18%) zOS
16 1 (0.092%) AIX
16 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (59.78%) Mathematics
2 639 (58.95%) Line Management
3 605 (55.81%) Agile
4 404 (37.27%) OO
5 395 (36.44%) OOP
6 392 (36.16%) Design Patterns
7 388 (35.79%) Android Development
8 331 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
9 324 (29.89%) DevOps
10 295 (27.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 264 (24.35%) Task Automation
12 258 (23.80%) Platform Engineering
13 256 (23.62%) Storage Management
14 253 (23.34%) Risk Management
15 217 (20.02%) Mentoring
16 199 (18.36%) Software Engineering
17 188 (17.34%) Microservices
18 184 (16.97%) Cloud Security
19 180 (16.61%) User Experience
20 179 (16.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 909 (83.86%) Python
2 594 (54.80%) Java
3 575 (53.04%) C++
4 572 (52.77%) Go
5 291 (26.85%) PowerShell
6 280 (25.83%) Bash
7 205 (18.91%) JavaScript
8 176 (16.24%) Rust
9 58 (5.35%) SQL
10 16 (1.48%) C#
11 13 (1.20%) C
12 12 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.83%) PHP
14 8 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.65%) C-shell
15 7 (0.65%) Korn
16 5 (0.46%) Perl
17 4 (0.37%) Ada
17 4 (0.37%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 584 (53.87%) Security Cleared
2 561 (51.75%) DV Cleared
3 187 (17.25%) AWS Certification
4 172 (15.87%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (15.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 62 (5.72%) Degree
6 32 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.57%) SC Cleared
10 14 (1.29%) MCSA
11 12 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.01%) CCNP
12 11 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (0.92%) PhD
14 8 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.65%) CCNA
15 7 (0.65%) MCSE
15 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.46%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.57%) QA
2 9 (0.83%) GDPR
3 7 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.55%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.28%) SLA
7 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.092%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.092%) NCSC
8 1 (0.092%) NIST
8 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.092%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 687 (63.38%) Docker
2 283 (26.11%) Hyper-V
3 259 (23.89%) vSphere
4 258 (23.80%) VMware NSX
5 66 (6.09%) Active Directory
6 28 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 18 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.46%) Firmware
8 5 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.37%) Dovecot
9 4 (0.37%) NFS
9 4 (0.37%) Postfix
10 3 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.18%) KVM
11 2 (0.18%) SRDF
11 2 (0.18%) Xen
12 1 (0.092%) pfSense
12 1 (0.092%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 679 (62.64%) Ansible
2 314 (28.97%) Terraform
3 40 (3.69%) Kubernetes
4 16 (1.48%) Grafana
4 16 (1.48%) Puppet
5 15 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.29%) SCCM
7 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.92%) SCOM
9 6 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (0.55%) WSUS
10 5 (0.46%) Argo
10 5 (0.46%) Istio
10 5 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.37%) PaperCut
11 4 (0.37%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 287 (26.48%) Cisco
2 257 (23.71%) Splunk
3 252 (23.25%) Juniper
4 251 (23.15%) 3PAR
5 79 (7.29%) Microsoft
6 55 (5.07%) VMware
7 44 (4.06%) Oracle
8 22 (2.03%) Google
9 19 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.65%) Fortinet
10 7 (0.65%) SonicWALL
11 6 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.55%) Dell
12 5 (0.46%) HP
13 4 (0.37%) NetApp
13 4 (0.37%) Okta
13 4 (0.37%) Ping Identity
13 4 (0.37%) Supermicro
13 4 (0.37%) Veeam
14 3 (0.28%) Meraki