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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 53 41
Rank change year-on-year -95 -12 +21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 178 290 744
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.14% 4.55% 4.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.60% 31.28% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 141 239 537
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,364
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £67,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -12.31%

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 864 927 2,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.55% 14.54% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 663 676 1,737
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,063 £30,625 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,179 £76,840 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -70 94 £55,000 - 58
Yorkshire -83 51 £36,000 -15.29% 41
North East -18 33 £47,500 -24.60% 27
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 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.81%) Apache
3 4 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.58%) AWS
2 42 (23.60%) Azure
3 25 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (11.24%) GCP
5 16 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.49%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.93%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.93%) dbt
9 7 (3.93%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.93%) Pulumi
9 7 (3.93%) Serverless
10 6 (3.37%) GitHub
11 5 (2.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (2.81%) IaaS
11 5 (2.81%) PaaS
11 5 (2.81%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.98%) Firewall
2 26 (14.61%) DNS
3 25 (14.04%) TCP/IP
4 23 (12.92%) VPN
5 16 (8.99%) Ethernet
6 15 (8.43%) DHCP
7 12 (6.74%) Internet
7 12 (6.74%) VLAN
7 12 (6.74%) VoIP
8 10 (5.62%) LAN
8 10 (5.62%) WAN
9 7 (3.93%) HTTP
10 6 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.81%) DMZ
11 5 (2.81%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.81%) SSL
11 5 (2.81%) STUN
12 4 (2.25%) BGP
12 4 (2.25%) SSH
12 4 (2.25%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.24%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.99%) MySQL
4 13 (7.30%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.49%) Redis
7 4 (2.25%) Big Data
7 4 (2.25%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.25%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.12%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 24 (13.48%) Git
2 13 (7.30%) GitLab
3 10 (5.62%) JIRA
4 9 (5.06%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.37%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.56%) GDB
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.56%) WinDbg
General
1 54 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.99%) Retail
3 14 (7.87%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.18%) Finance
5 10 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.49%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Law
7 7 (3.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.25%) Advertising
10 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.12%) Electronics
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Military
11 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Banking
12 1 (0.56%) German Language
12 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (21.91%) Senior
2 25 (14.04%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (9.55%) Support Engineer
4 16 (8.99%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.74%) Developer
5 12 (6.74%) IT Support
6 11 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Analyst
9 8 (4.49%) Graduate
9 8 (4.49%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.49%) Logistics Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
1 9 (5.06%) REST
2 8 (4.49%) Node.js
3 7 (3.93%) Django
4 6 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.81%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (2.25%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.25%) gRPC
6 4 (2.25%) Material-UI
6 4 (2.25%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.25%) React
6 4 (2.25%) RESTful
6 4 (2.25%) Spring
6 4 (2.25%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.25%) Swagger
7 3 (1.69%) .NET
7 3 (1.69%) JSON
7 3 (1.69%) Laravel
7 3 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.55%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.99%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (8.99%) FPGA
3 8 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.81%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.81%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) NHS
6 4 (2.25%) PKI
6 4 (2.25%) SCADA
6 4 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.69%) Replication
8 2 (1.12%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.12%) IoT
8 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.12%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 85 (47.75%) Windows
2 44 (24.72%) Windows Server
3 20 (11.24%) Unix
4 11 (6.18%) Debian
5 9 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.49%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.37%) CentOS
8 5 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.12%) Solaris
9 2 (1.12%) SUSE
9 2 (1.12%) VMS
9 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.56%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 38 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (19.66%) CI/CD
4 32 (17.98%) DevOps
5 31 (17.42%) ITIL
6 29 (16.29%) Containerisation
7 28 (15.73%) Agile
8 20 (11.24%) Software Engineering
9 19 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (10.67%) Mentoring
10 17 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (8.99%) Computer Science
11 16 (8.99%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (8.43%) Service Delivery
13 14 (7.87%) Coaching
13 14 (7.87%) Observability
14 12 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (6.74%) Incident Response
14 12 (6.74%) Microservices
15 10 (5.62%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.40%) Python
2 24 (13.48%) Java
3 23 (12.92%) SQL
4 18 (10.11%) C
5 16 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.87%) Bash
7 12 (6.74%) Go
8 11 (6.18%) C++
9 10 (5.62%) JavaScript
9 10 (5.62%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.93%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.37%) PHP
12 5 (2.81%) Perl
13 4 (2.25%) C#
13 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.69%) Groovy
15 1 (0.56%) ABAP
15 1 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 29 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.67%) Degree
3 16 (8.99%) DV Cleared
3 16 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.81%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.25%) CCNA
7 4 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.12%) CISSP
8 2 (1.12%) HNC
8 2 (1.12%) HND
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) LPIC
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) GDPR
2 8 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.93%) QA
4 4 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (17.42%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.24%) Docker
3 16 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.18%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.62%) vSphere
6 8 (4.49%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.81%) Firmware
7 5 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 42 (23.60%) Terraform
2 40 (22.47%) Ansible
3 34 (19.10%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.87%) Grafana
5 13 (7.30%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.37%) Puppet
7 5 (2.81%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.81%) Control-M
8 4 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.25%) WSUS
9 3 (1.69%) Packer
9 3 (1.69%) Rancher
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.12%) Nagios
10 2 (1.12%) Plesk
10 2 (1.12%) Podman
10 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.56%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 35 (19.66%) VMware
2 30 (16.85%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.74%) Splunk
4 11 (6.18%) Google
5 10 (5.62%) Cisco
6 9 (5.06%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.81%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.25%) IBM
8 4 (2.25%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.69%) Apple
9 3 (1.69%) Oracle
9 3 (1.69%) Sage
9 3 (1.69%) SAP
9 3 (1.69%) SonicWALL
10 2 (1.12%) BMC
10 2 (1.12%) Draytek
10 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.12%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.12%) Qualys