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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	95	27	61
Rank change year-on-year	-68	+34	-13
Permanent jobs citing Linux	393	682	424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	1.63%	7.47%	3.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category	33.56%	51.20%	33.78%
Number of salaries quoted	278	150	230
10^th Percentile	£35,000	£28,000	£32,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,750	£38,918
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£47,500	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+26.32%	-9.52%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£62,500	£63,938
90^th Percentile	£101,250	£70,125	£71,991
England median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	+4.17%	-4.00%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	1,171	1,332	1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	4.87%	14.60%	9.81%
Number of salaries quoted	890	633	649
10^th Percentile	£27,250	£26,000	£25,700
25^th Percentile	£30,500	£29,500	£31,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£41,000	£35,000	£42,500
Median % change year-on-year	+17.14%	-17.65%	-5.56%
75^th Percentile	£57,500	£50,000	£56,250
90^th Percentile	£74,985	£64,850	£67,500
England median annual salary	£45,000	£41,355	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+8.81%	-17.29%	-4.76%

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 Salary Trend in the North of England

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 18 October 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 18 October 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	-80	204	£60,000	+11.63%	111
Yorkshire	-10	110	£42,500	+9.68%	69
North East	-14	79	£71,991	+19.99%	36
Linux England

Linux Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing Linux also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region with a requirement for Linux.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	36.1%	142
2	CI/CD	33.6%	132
3	DevOps	33.1%	130
4	Infrastructure as Code	31.3%	123
5	Windows	30.3%	119
6	Terraform	24.9%	98
7	Azure	24.7%	97
7	Python	24.7%	97
9	Software Engineering	23.9%	94
10	Docker	23.2%	91
11	Kubernetes	22.6%	89
11	Platform Engineering	22.6%	89
11	Security Cleared	22.6%	89
14	Infrastructure Engineering	22.4%	88
15	Continuous Improvement	21.6%	85
16	Problem-Solving	20.9%	82
17	Ansible	19.6%	77
18	Mentoring	19.3%	76
19	Agile	17.0%	67
19	Microsoft	17.0%	67
21	SQL Server	15.3%	60
22	SC Cleared	15.0%	59
23	Unix	14.8%	58
24	Containerisation	14.2%	56
25	MySQL	14.0%	55
26	Git	13.7%	54
27	Shell Script	13.5%	53
27	SQL	13.5%	53
29	Jenkins	13.2%	52
30	Bash	13.0%	51

Linux Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Operating Systems

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Windows	30.3%	119
2	Unix	14.8%	58
3	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	12.0%	47
4	Windows Server	9.9%	39
5	CentOS	7.1%	28
6	Ubuntu	4.8%	19
7	macOS	3.6%	14
8	Windows Server 2016	3.1%	12
9	Embedded Linux	2.5%	10
10	Windows Server 2019	2.0%	8
11	AIX	1.5%	6
12	Debian	1.3%	5
13	CoreOS	0.8%	3
13	VMS	0.8%	3
15	FreeRTOS	0.5%	2
15	Windows 10	0.5%	2
15	Windows 7	0.5%	2
18	Android	0.3%	1
18	Apple iOS	0.3%	1
18	Oracle Linux	0.3%	1