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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 61 44
Rank change year-on-year -55 -17 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 187 310 575
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 3.90% 4.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.83% 29.44% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 137 177 464
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,350
% change year-on-year - +2.83% -10.23%

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 753 1,053 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.13% 13.24% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 594 515 1,461
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,250 £57,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,144 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,004 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.47% +9.48% -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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -46 93 £55,000 +4.76% 74
Yorkshire -45 57 £34,000 -24.44% 32
North East +1 37 £51,500 -10.43% 18
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 (3.21%) Apache
2 4 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.07%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.07%) JBoss
4 2 (1.07%) nginx
4 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (29.41%) AWS
2 48 (25.67%) Azure
3 27 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (10.70%) GCP
5 16 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.81%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.67%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.67%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.67%) dbt
9 5 (2.67%) Pulumi
10 4 (2.14%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.14%) IaaS
10 4 (2.14%) PaaS
10 4 (2.14%) Serverless
11 3 (1.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.90%) DNS
2 24 (12.83%) VPN
3 22 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 20 (10.70%) Firewall
5 16 (8.56%) Ethernet
6 15 (8.02%) DHCP
7 12 (6.42%) Internet
8 11 (5.88%) VLAN
8 11 (5.88%) VoIP
9 10 (5.35%) LAN
9 10 (5.35%) WAN
9 10 (5.35%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.67%) HTTP
10 5 (2.67%) SSL
11 4 (2.14%) AMQP
11 4 (2.14%) BGP
11 4 (2.14%) MPLS
11 4 (2.14%) SSH
11 4 (2.14%) VPLS
11 4 (2.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.37%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.09%) MySQL
4 14 (7.49%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.21%) Redis
7 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.67%) Big Data
7 5 (2.67%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.14%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.14%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.97%) Git
2 14 (7.49%) GitLab
3 13 (6.95%) JIRA
4 12 (6.42%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.67%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.07%) Maven
7 2 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) Ant
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) JUnit
8 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.63%) Retail
3 16 (8.56%) Finance
3 16 (8.56%) Manufacturing
4 9 (4.81%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (4.28%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.74%) Advertising
6 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.74%) Marketing
7 6 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.07%) Electronics
9 2 (1.07%) Military
9 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Games
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (22.99%) Senior
2 19 (10.16%) Linux Engineer
3 16 (8.56%) Support Engineer
4 14 (7.49%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.42%) IT Support
6 11 (5.88%) Analyst
6 11 (5.88%) Developer
6 11 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (4.81%) Graduate
7 9 (4.81%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 9 (4.81%) Logistics Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Infrastructure Manager
8 8 (4.28%) Infrastructure Support
8 8 (4.28%) Operations Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Site Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Software Engineering Graduate
8 8 (4.28%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.88%) Node.js
2 9 (4.81%) CSS
3 8 (4.28%) .NET
4 7 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.21%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.21%) React
5 6 (3.21%) REST
6 5 (2.67%) Django
6 5 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.14%) gRPC
7 4 (2.14%) Material-UI
7 4 (2.14%) OpenAPI
7 4 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.14%) RESTful
7 4 (2.14%) SAP Basis
7 4 (2.14%) Spring
7 4 (2.14%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.14%) Swagger
8 3 (1.60%) HTML
8 3 (1.60%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.56%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (8.56%) FPGA
3 9 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.21%) LIMS
5 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.67%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.14%) NHS
7 4 (2.14%) PKI
7 4 (2.14%) Replication
7 4 (2.14%) SCADA
7 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.07%) IoT
9 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.07%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 100 (53.48%) Windows
2 43 (22.99%) Windows Server
3 15 (8.02%) Unix
4 10 (5.35%) Debian
5 8 (4.28%) Mac OS
5 8 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.74%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.21%) CentOS
8 5 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.14%) SUSE
10 3 (1.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (1.60%) VMS
11 2 (1.07%) Windows 10
11 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.53%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.53%) Fedora
12 1 (0.53%) Solaris
12 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (19.25%) CI/CD
3 35 (18.72%) Containerisation
3 35 (18.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (18.18%) ITIL
5 33 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 32 (17.11%) DevOps
7 22 (11.76%) Agile
8 19 (10.16%) Software Engineering
9 18 (9.63%) Mentoring
10 17 (9.09%) Change Management
11 16 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (8.56%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (8.02%) Coaching
13 14 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (6.95%) Microservices
14 13 (6.95%) Service Delivery
14 13 (6.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (6.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.74%) Python
2 32 (17.11%) SQL
3 30 (16.04%) Java
4 24 (12.83%) C
5 22 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 19 (10.16%) Bash
7 13 (6.95%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.35%) Go
10 8 (4.28%) C#
10 8 (4.28%) C++
10 8 (4.28%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.74%) PHP
12 6 (3.21%) Perl
13 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.53%) ABAP
14 1 (0.53%) Bicep
14 1 (0.53%) Delphi
14 1 (0.53%) Groovy
14 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (19.25%) Degree
2 20 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.95%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.42%) HND
6 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.21%) HNC
7 6 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.67%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.14%) CCNA
9 4 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.60%) CISSP
11 2 (1.07%) CEH
11 2 (1.07%) GCIA
12 1 (0.53%) GCFE
12 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.74%) GDPR
1 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.67%) QA
3 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.11%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.83%) Docker
3 12 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.88%) vSphere
5 10 (5.35%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.28%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.67%) Firmware
8 4 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.53%) HDFS
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (21.39%) Ansible
2 39 (20.86%) Kubernetes
3 36 (19.25%) Terraform
4 19 (10.16%) Grafana
5 16 (8.56%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.81%) Control-M
7 7 (3.74%) Puppet
8 4 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.14%) WSUS
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.60%) Rancher
10 2 (1.07%) Argo
10 2 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.07%) Nagios
10 2 (1.07%) Plesk
10 2 (1.07%) Podman
10 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 38 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 35 (18.72%) VMware
3 14 (7.49%) Splunk
4 11 (5.88%) Google
5 9 (4.81%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.28%) Cisco
7 6 (3.21%) Allen-Bradley
7 6 (3.21%) Siemens
7 6 (3.21%) Toshiba
8 5 (2.67%) SAP
8 5 (2.67%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.14%) Apple
9 4 (2.14%) Oracle
9 4 (2.14%) Sage
9 4 (2.14%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.14%) SonicWALL
10 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.07%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.07%) Nexthink