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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 14 45
Rank change year-on-year -113 +31 +12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 260 1,088 762
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.25% 11.56% 4.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.34% 59.07% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 207 242 513
10th Percentile £37,000 £27,000 £33,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £74,221 £71,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.70%

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 1,068 1,842 2,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.13% 19.57% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 834 818 1,635
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,563 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,985 £70,000 £66,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 July 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 July 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 -113 128 £52,500 -2.33% 100
Yorkshire -56 70 £65,000 +52.94% 54
North East -16 62 £69,310 +6.63% 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 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.15%) IIS
4 2 (0.77%) nginx
4 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 99 (38.08%) AWS
2 74 (28.46%) Azure
3 31 (11.92%) GitHub
4 26 (10.00%) GCP
5 21 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (7.31%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (6.54%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.46%) IaaS
12 9 (3.46%) Serverless
13 8 (3.08%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.69%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.69%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (2.31%) PaaS
16 4 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.92%) Firewall
2 21 (8.08%) TCP/IP
3 19 (7.31%) VPN
4 18 (6.92%) DNS
5 12 (4.62%) DHCP
6 10 (3.85%) VLAN
7 8 (3.08%) LAN
7 8 (3.08%) VoIP
8 7 (2.69%) WAN
9 6 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.92%) DMZ
10 5 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.92%) STUN
11 3 (1.15%) AMQP
11 3 (1.15%) Asterisk PBX
11 3 (1.15%) Internet
11 3 (1.15%) MPLS
11 3 (1.15%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.15%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 43 (16.54%) MySQL
3 30 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.31%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.15%) Big Data
6 3 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.77%) Redis
7 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.38%) Power BI
8 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (12.31%) GitLab
2 30 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.69%) Git
4 14 (5.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (3.85%) JIRA
6 9 (3.46%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.31%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.31%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.38%) GDB
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.38%) WinDbg
General
1 46 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.62%) Law
3 33 (12.69%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.00%) Finance
6 10 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.46%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Retail
9 4 (1.54%) Advertising
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Electronics
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) German Language
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 55 (21.15%) Senior
2 54 (20.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (12.69%) Linux Engineer
4 29 (11.15%) Administrator
5 22 (8.46%) Software Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) Senior DevOps
7 20 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 19 (7.31%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) Database Engineer
10 15 (5.77%) DBA
10 15 (5.77%) Support Engineer
11 14 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (5.38%) Developer
12 13 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (4.62%) SQL DBA
14 11 (4.23%) Infrastructure Support
14 11 (4.23%) IT Support
15 10 (3.85%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.92%) Node.js
2 13 (5.00%) Web Services
3 9 (3.46%) REST
4 8 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.69%) JSON
6 6 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.92%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (1.92%) Kafka
7 5 (1.92%) React
8 4 (1.54%) HTML
8 4 (1.54%) Laravel
8 4 (1.54%) YAML
9 3 (1.15%) .NET
9 3 (1.15%) gRPC
9 3 (1.15%) Material-UI
9 3 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.15%) Spring
9 3 (1.15%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.15%) Swagger
9 3 (1.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.85%) Replication
3 12 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.69%) Life Science
6 6 (2.31%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.15%) PKI
9 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.77%) SCADA
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 80 (30.77%) Windows
2 36 (13.85%) Unix
3 32 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (11.15%) Windows Server
5 17 (6.54%) Ubuntu
6 15 (5.77%) CentOS
7 13 (5.00%) Debian
8 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.92%) AIX
10 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.15%) Solaris
11 2 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.38%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 78 (30.00%) DevOps
3 55 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (20.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (19.23%) Agile
6 49 (18.85%) Software Engineering
7 46 (17.69%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (13.85%) AI
11 35 (13.46%) Containerisation
12 34 (13.08%) High Availability
13 32 (12.31%) Microservices
14 31 (11.92%) Mentoring
15 30 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
16 25 (9.62%) Computer Science
16 25 (9.62%) Test Automation
17 24 (9.23%) Scrum
18 23 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 21 (8.08%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 74 (28.46%) Python
2 38 (14.62%) Bash
3 34 (13.08%) SQL
4 33 (12.69%) Java
5 27 (10.38%) PowerShell
6 26 (10.00%) C++
7 19 (7.31%) Shell Script
8 18 (6.92%) Rust
9 16 (6.15%) Groovy
10 7 (2.69%) C#
10 7 (2.69%) Go
11 5 (1.92%) C
11 5 (1.92%) Perl
12 4 (1.54%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.54%) PHP
13 2 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 51 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.77%) Degree
3 27 (10.38%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.62%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.46%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.15%) CCNA
11 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.38%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.38%) LPIC
13 1 (0.38%) RHCE
13 1 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.69%) GDPR
2 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.15%) QA
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (17.31%) Docker
2 21 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.69%) vSphere
6 6 (2.31%) iptables
7 4 (1.54%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.38%) KVM
Systems Management
1 73 (28.08%) Terraform
2 61 (23.46%) Kubernetes
3 52 (20.00%) Ansible
4 18 (6.92%) Argo
5 15 (5.77%) Progress Chef
6 13 (5.00%) Grafana
6 13 (5.00%) Puppet
7 9 (3.46%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.31%) WSUS
9 3 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.15%) Control-M
9 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.15%) Packer
9 3 (1.15%) systemd
10 2 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.77%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) Istio
11 1 (0.38%) linkerd
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.46%) Red Hat
2 22 (8.46%) VMware
3 9 (3.46%) Google
4 6 (2.31%) Pega
5 5 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.92%) Cisco
5 5 (1.92%) Splunk
6 4 (1.54%) Dell
6 4 (1.54%) IBM
6 4 (1.54%) Oracle
7 3 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.15%) Aruba
7 3 (1.15%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.15%) HP
7 3 (1.15%) NetApp
7 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.15%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.15%) SonicWALL
7 3 (1.15%) Veeam