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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 12 41
Rank change year-on-year -145 +29 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 187 1,071 774
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.00% 13.94% 4.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.15% 60.89% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 145 218 543
10th Percentile £32,200 £27,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,677
90th Percentile £81,500 £76,840 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -13.46%

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 884 1,759 2,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.72% 22.89% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 669 721 1,754
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -132 102 £55,000 - 60
Yorkshire -86 58 £50,000 +14.29% 36
North East -33 27 £47,500 -24.60% 20
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 (2.14%) Apache
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.18%) AWS
2 52 (27.81%) Azure
3 20 (10.70%) GCP
4 18 (9.63%) Azure AKS
5 17 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.02%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (6.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (6.95%) GitHub
10 12 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.81%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.74%) IaaS
13 6 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.21%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.21%) Serverless
14 5 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.83%) Firewall
2 19 (10.16%) DNS
3 17 (9.09%) VPN
4 12 (6.42%) Ethernet
4 12 (6.42%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.88%) DHCP
6 10 (5.35%) Internet
7 9 (4.81%) VLAN
7 9 (4.81%) VoIP
8 7 (3.74%) LAN
8 7 (3.74%) WAN
9 6 (3.21%) HTTP
10 5 (2.67%) DMZ
10 5 (2.67%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.67%) STUN
11 4 (2.14%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.14%) BGP
11 4 (2.14%) SSH
11 4 (2.14%) SSL
11 4 (2.14%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 32 (17.11%) MySQL
2 32 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.83%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.60%) Big Data
6 3 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.90%) GitLab
2 18 (9.63%) Git
3 13 (6.95%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.28%) JIRA
5 6 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.67%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.53%) GDB
9 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.53%) WinDbg
General
1 38 (20.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Law
3 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.95%) Retail
5 12 (6.42%) Aerospace
6 11 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.35%) Finance
8 9 (4.81%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.07%) Advertising
12 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.53%) Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Electronics
13 1 (0.53%) Games
13 1 (0.53%) German Language
13 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (20.32%) Senior
2 26 (13.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (12.83%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (10.16%) Administrator
5 15 (8.02%) DBA
6 14 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.49%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 14 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.42%) SQL DBA
8 11 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (5.88%) IT Support
8 11 (5.88%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Developer
10 7 (3.74%) Analyst
10 7 (3.74%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.09%) Node.js
2 8 (4.28%) REST
3 7 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (3.74%) Web Services
4 5 (2.67%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.14%) JSON
5 4 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.14%) RESTful
6 3 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.60%) gRPC
6 3 (1.60%) HTML
6 3 (1.60%) Laravel
6 3 (1.60%) Material-UI
6 3 (1.60%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.60%) React
6 3 (1.60%) Spring
6 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.60%) Swagger
6 3 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.56%) Replication
2 12 (6.42%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (6.42%) FPGA
3 11 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.21%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.14%) PKI
7 4 (2.14%) SCADA
8 3 (1.60%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.07%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) IoT
9 2 (1.07%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 79 (42.25%) Windows
2 30 (16.04%) Unix
3 27 (14.44%) Windows Server
4 18 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.35%) Debian
6 9 (4.81%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.67%) CentOS
8 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.60%) AIX
9 3 (1.60%) Solaris
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.53%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 45 (24.06%) DevOps
3 39 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.18%) Agile
6 29 (15.51%) Mentoring
7 27 (14.44%) Containerisation
8 23 (12.30%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (12.30%) Microservices
8 23 (12.30%) Software Engineering
9 22 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (10.70%) High Availability
12 19 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (10.16%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.63%) ITIL
14 17 (9.09%) Scrum
15 16 (8.56%) Coaching
16 11 (5.88%) SIEM
16 11 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.88%) Python
2 32 (17.11%) Java
3 31 (16.58%) SQL
4 20 (10.70%) Bash
5 16 (8.56%) PowerShell
6 15 (8.02%) C
7 13 (6.95%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.42%) Go
9 10 (5.35%) C++
9 10 (5.35%) Groovy
10 8 (4.28%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.74%) JavaScript
12 5 (2.67%) C#
12 5 (2.67%) Perl
12 5 (2.67%) PHP
13 4 (2.14%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.53%) Delphi
14 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.49%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.95%) Degree
4 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.74%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.21%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.14%) CCNA
8 4 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.53%) LPIC
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.81%) GDPR
2 8 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.67%) QA
4 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (12.30%) Docker
2 19 (10.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (8.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.81%) vSphere
5 8 (4.28%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.74%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.60%) iptables
9 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (30.48%) Terraform
2 41 (21.93%) Ansible
3 37 (19.79%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.49%) Argo
5 12 (6.42%) Grafana
6 10 (5.35%) Progress Chef
6 10 (5.35%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.21%) Puppet
8 4 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.14%) WSUS
9 3 (1.60%) Packer
9 3 (1.60%) Podman
9 3 (1.60%) Rancher
9 3 (1.60%) systemd
10 2 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.07%) Control-M
10 2 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.07%) Nagios
11 1 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 23 (12.30%) VMware
2 17 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.42%) Splunk
4 5 (2.67%) Cisco
4 5 (2.67%) Google
5 4 (2.14%) IBM
5 4 (2.14%) Oracle
5 4 (2.14%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.60%) Mirantis
6 3 (1.60%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.07%) BMC
7 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.07%) Qualys
8 1 (0.53%) Adobe
8 1 (0.53%) Cognos
8 1 (0.53%) Dell
8 1 (0.53%) SAP