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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 61 42
Rank change year-on-year -68 -19 +19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 179 306 646
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.30% 4.14% 4.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.70% 30.09% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 135 206 508
10th Percentile £27,700 £29,875 £33,563
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,025 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,063 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,940 £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 825 1,017 1,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.97% 13.76% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 637 583 1,635
10th Percentile £26,150 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,250
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 £64,250 £74,258 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -9.52%

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 7 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 7 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 -64 91 £55,000 +4.76% 65
Yorkshire -69 48 £34,000 -20.00% 37
North East -3 40 £51,500 -15.57% 23
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 (3.35%) Apache
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.12%) JBoss
4 2 (1.12%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (30.17%) AWS
2 48 (26.82%) Azure
3 26 (14.53%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (12.29%) GCP
5 15 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.03%) OpenShift
8 8 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.91%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (3.91%) dbt
9 7 (3.91%) Pulumi
10 6 (3.35%) GitHub
10 6 (3.35%) IaaS
10 6 (3.35%) PaaS
11 5 (2.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.79%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.79%) Sentry
12 4 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.08%) DNS
1 27 (15.08%) Firewall
1 27 (15.08%) TCP/IP
2 25 (13.97%) VPN
3 16 (8.94%) Ethernet
4 14 (7.82%) DHCP
5 13 (7.26%) VLAN
5 13 (7.26%) VoIP
6 12 (6.70%) Internet
7 9 (5.03%) LAN
7 9 (5.03%) WAN
7 9 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (3.91%) HTTP
9 5 (2.79%) DMZ
9 5 (2.79%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.79%) SSL
9 5 (2.79%) STUN
10 4 (2.23%) AMQP
10 4 (2.23%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (2.23%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.53%) SQL Server
2 24 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.94%) MySQL
4 14 (7.82%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.47%) Redis
7 7 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.23%) Big Data
8 4 (2.23%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.23%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.68%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (15.08%) Git
2 14 (7.82%) JIRA
3 13 (7.26%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.70%) GitLab
5 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.68%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.68%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.12%) Maven
8 2 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.56%) Ant
9 1 (0.56%) git-flow
9 1 (0.56%) JUnit
9 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Selenium
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.50%) Retail
3 16 (8.94%) Finance
4 15 (8.38%) Manufacturing
5 10 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.47%) Aerospace
7 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.91%) Advertising
9 6 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.35%) Marketing
10 3 (1.68%) Law
10 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.12%) Electronics
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 (21.79%) Senior
2 23 (12.85%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (10.06%) Support Engineer
4 14 (7.82%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.70%) IT Support
6 11 (6.15%) Analyst
6 11 (6.15%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Developer
7 10 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Graduate
8 9 (5.03%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Logistics Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Senior Operations Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Site Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Software Engineering Graduate
9 8 (4.47%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.59%) Node.js
2 7 (3.91%) Django
2 7 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (3.35%) .NET
3 6 (3.35%) REST
4 5 (2.79%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.79%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (2.79%) React
5 4 (2.23%) gRPC
5 4 (2.23%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.23%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.23%) RESTful
5 4 (2.23%) SAP Basis
5 4 (2.23%) Spring
5 4 (2.23%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.23%) Swagger
6 3 (1.68%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.68%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.06%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.94%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (8.94%) FPGA
3 9 (5.03%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.47%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.91%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.79%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.79%) LIMS
6 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.23%) NHS
7 4 (2.23%) PKI
7 4 (2.23%) Replication
7 4 (2.23%) SCADA
8 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 96 (53.63%) Windows
2 44 (24.58%) Windows Server
3 18 (10.06%) Unix
4 11 (6.15%) Debian
5 8 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.35%) CentOS
6 6 (3.35%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.79%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.23%) SUSE
9 3 (1.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (1.68%) VMS
10 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.56%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.56%) Fedora
11 1 (0.56%) Solaris
11 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (19.55%) Containerisation
2 35 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (18.99%) CI/CD
3 34 (18.99%) ITIL
4 31 (17.32%) DevOps
5 24 (13.41%) Computer Science
6 21 (11.73%) Agile
7 18 (10.06%) Software Engineering
8 17 (9.50%) Mentoring
9 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (7.82%) Coaching
11 14 (7.82%) Observability
11 14 (7.82%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (7.82%) Service Delivery
12 12 (6.70%) Change Management
12 12 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (6.70%) Microservices
13 11 (6.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 44 (24.58%) Python
2 27 (15.08%) SQL
3 25 (13.97%) Java
4 19 (10.61%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.06%) C
6 17 (9.50%) Bash
7 12 (6.70%) Go
8 11 (6.15%) JavaScript
9 10 (5.59%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.47%) C++
10 8 (4.47%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.35%) C#
11 6 (3.35%) PHP
12 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.56%) ABAP
13 1 (0.56%) Delphi
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (15.08%) Degree
2 21 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 18 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.70%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.79%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.79%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.79%) HNC
8 5 (2.79%) HND
9 4 (2.23%) CCNA
9 4 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.12%) CISSP
11 1 (0.56%) GCIA
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.56%) PhD
11 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.47%) GDPR
2 7 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.79%) QA
4 4 (2.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.88%) Active Directory
2 22 (12.29%) Docker
3 12 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.15%) vSphere
5 10 (5.59%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.47%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.79%) Firmware
8 4 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (21.79%) Ansible
2 38 (21.23%) Terraform
3 36 (20.11%) Kubernetes
4 19 (10.61%) Grafana
5 16 (8.94%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.03%) Control-M
7 7 (3.91%) Puppet
8 5 (2.79%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.23%) WSUS
10 3 (1.68%) Rancher
11 2 (1.12%) Argo
11 2 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.12%) Nagios
11 2 (1.12%) Plesk
11 2 (1.12%) Podman
11 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.56%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (19.55%) Microsoft
1 35 (19.55%) VMware
2 13 (7.26%) Google
3 12 (6.70%) Splunk
4 10 (5.59%) Cisco
5 9 (5.03%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.79%) SAP
6 5 (2.79%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.23%) Apple
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle
7 4 (2.23%) Sage
7 4 (2.23%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.23%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.12%) Adobe
8 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.12%) BMC
8 2 (1.12%) Draytek
8 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.12%) Qualys
9 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto