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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 52 41
Rank change year-on-year -86 -11 +21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 175 307 707
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.18% 4.59% 4.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.56% 31.42% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 137 238 528
10th Percentile £27,800 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 851 977 2,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.72% 14.60% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 649 662 1,716
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £57,250
90th Percentile £66,217 £76,840 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -12.38%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -69 92 £55,000 - 60
Yorkshire -82 48 £34,000 -20.00% 44
North East -15 35 £48,445 -20.58% 29
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 5 (2.86%) Apache
1 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) JBoss
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
3 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (30.29%) AWS
2 43 (24.57%) Azure
3 26 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (12.00%) GCP
5 16 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.57%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (4.00%) dbt
9 7 (4.00%) Pulumi
10 6 (3.43%) GitHub
10 6 (3.43%) IaaS
10 6 (3.43%) PaaS
11 5 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.86%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.86%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.14%) Firewall
2 27 (15.43%) DNS
3 26 (14.86%) TCP/IP
4 24 (13.71%) VPN
5 16 (9.14%) Ethernet
6 15 (8.57%) DHCP
7 13 (7.43%) VLAN
7 13 (7.43%) VoIP
8 12 (6.86%) Internet
9 10 (5.71%) LAN
9 10 (5.71%) WAN
10 7 (4.00%) HTTP
10 7 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.86%) DMZ
11 5 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.86%) SSL
11 5 (2.86%) STUN
12 4 (2.29%) AMQP
12 4 (2.29%) BGP
12 4 (2.29%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (12.57%) SQL Server
3 16 (9.14%) MySQL
4 14 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.57%) Redis
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.29%) Big Data
8 4 (2.29%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.29%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.71%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.14%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 22 (12.57%) Git
2 12 (6.86%) GitLab
3 10 (5.71%) Bitbucket
4 9 (5.14%) JIRA
5 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.29%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.57%) GDB
8 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.57%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.57%) WinDbg
General
1 52 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.14%) Retail
3 14 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 12 (6.86%) Finance
5 10 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.57%) Aerospace
7 7 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.43%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.86%) Advertising
10 4 (2.29%) Law
11 3 (1.71%) Marketing
11 3 (1.71%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.14%) Electronics
12 2 (1.14%) Military
12 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Games
13 1 (0.57%) German Language
Job Titles
1 41 (23.43%) Senior
2 24 (13.71%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (10.29%) Support Engineer
4 17 (9.71%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.86%) IT Support
6 11 (6.29%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.71%) Developer
8 9 (5.14%) Analyst
8 9 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Graduate
9 8 (4.57%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.57%) Logistics Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Site Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.14%) Node.js
2 7 (4.00%) Django
2 7 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (3.43%) REST
4 5 (2.86%) .NET
4 5 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.86%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (2.29%) gRPC
5 4 (2.29%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.29%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.29%) React
5 4 (2.29%) RESTful
5 4 (2.29%) Spring
5 4 (2.29%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.29%) Swagger
6 3 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.71%) Laravel
7 2 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.14%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Driving Licence
2 16 (9.14%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (9.14%) FPGA
3 8 (4.57%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.43%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.86%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.29%) NHS
7 4 (2.29%) PKI
7 4 (2.29%) SCADA
7 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.71%) LIMS
9 2 (1.14%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.14%) IoT
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 89 (50.86%) Windows
2 44 (25.14%) Windows Server
3 18 (10.29%) Unix
4 11 (6.29%) Debian
5 7 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.43%) CentOS
7 5 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.71%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.71%) VMS
9 2 (1.14%) SUSE
9 2 (1.14%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.57%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.57%) Fedora
10 1 (0.57%) Solaris
10 1 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
1 36 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (18.86%) CI/CD
3 32 (18.29%) Containerisation
3 32 (18.29%) ITIL
4 29 (16.57%) DevOps
5 25 (14.29%) Agile
6 21 (12.00%) Software Engineering
7 19 (10.86%) Mentoring
8 18 (10.29%) Computer Science
8 18 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (9.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (9.14%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (8.00%) Coaching
11 14 (8.00%) Observability
11 14 (8.00%) Service Delivery
12 13 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.86%) Incident Response
14 11 (6.29%) Microservices
15 10 (5.71%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.14%) Python
2 24 (13.71%) SQL
3 22 (12.57%) Java
4 18 (10.29%) C
5 16 (9.14%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.86%) Bash
6 12 (6.86%) Go
7 11 (6.29%) C++
8 10 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.00%) PHP
9 7 (4.00%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.86%) C#
11 4 (2.29%) Perl
11 4 (2.29%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.57%) ABAP
12 1 (0.57%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 25 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.00%) Degree
3 16 (9.14%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (7.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.29%) CCNA
8 4 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.71%) HNC
9 3 (1.71%) HND
10 2 (1.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.57%) CEH
11 1 (0.57%) LPIC
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.57%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) GDPR
2 7 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.86%) QA
4 4 (2.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (18.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.00%) Docker
3 14 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.29%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.29%) vSphere
5 9 (5.14%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.86%) Firmware
6 5 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (21.71%) Terraform
2 37 (21.14%) Ansible
3 33 (18.86%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.57%) Grafana
5 13 (7.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.43%) Control-M
6 6 (3.43%) Puppet
7 5 (2.86%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.29%) WSUS
9 3 (1.71%) Rancher
10 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.14%) Nagios
10 2 (1.14%) Plesk
10 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.57%) Podman
11 1 (0.57%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (20.57%) VMware
2 32 (18.29%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.86%) Google
3 12 (6.86%) Splunk
4 10 (5.71%) Cisco
5 9 (5.14%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.86%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.29%) Apple
7 4 (2.29%) Oracle
7 4 (2.29%) Sage
7 4 (2.29%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.29%) SonicWALL
8 3 (1.71%) SAP
9 2 (1.14%) BMC
9 2 (1.14%) Draytek
9 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.14%) Qualys
10 1 (0.57%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.57%) Thales