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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 24 41
Rank change year-on-year -133 +17 +21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 181 589 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 8.61% 4.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.97% 47.16% 34.93%
Number of salaries quoted 139 235 549
10th Percentile £30,600 £29,750 £32,900
25th Percentile £39,125 £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 £70,000 £69,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £75,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 863 1,249 2,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.97% 18.26% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 661 704 1,781
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,625 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,134 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% -0.86% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,875 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,875 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 18 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 18 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 -112 100 £55,000 - 37
Yorkshire -92 50 £50,000 +17.65% 38
North East -26 31 £46,500 -23.77% 28
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 (3.31%) Apache
2 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (35.36%) AWS
2 44 (24.31%) Azure
3 20 (11.05%) GCP
4 18 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.97%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.97%) Azure AKS
7 8 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.42%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.42%) Serverless
8 7 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.31%) GitHub
9 6 (3.31%) IaaS
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (2.76%) dbt
10 5 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.02%) Firewall
2 22 (12.15%) DNS
3 19 (10.50%) VPN
4 18 (9.94%) TCP/IP
5 16 (8.84%) Ethernet
6 13 (7.18%) DHCP
7 12 (6.63%) Internet
8 10 (5.52%) VLAN
8 10 (5.52%) VoIP
9 8 (4.42%) LAN
9 8 (4.42%) WAN
10 7 (3.87%) HTTP
11 5 (2.76%) AMQP
11 5 (2.76%) DMZ
11 5 (2.76%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.76%) SSL
11 5 (2.76%) STUN
12 4 (2.21%) MPLS
12 4 (2.21%) SD-WAN
12 4 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.81%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.39%) MongoDB
2 17 (9.39%) MySQL
2 17 (9.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.31%) Redis
6 5 (2.76%) Big Data
6 5 (2.76%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.76%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.66%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.10%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 20 (11.05%) Git
2 17 (9.39%) GitLab
3 8 (4.42%) JIRA
4 6 (3.31%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.55%) GDB
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.55%) WinDbg
General
1 48 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.29%) Retail
3 13 (7.18%) Manufacturing
4 12 (6.63%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.97%) Finance
7 8 (4.42%) Law
8 7 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.10%) Electronics
11 2 (1.10%) Military
12 1 (0.55%) Advertising
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) German Language
12 1 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (23.76%) Senior
2 29 (16.02%) Linux Engineer
3 16 (8.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (8.84%) Software Engineer
4 14 (7.73%) Support Engineer
5 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (6.63%) IT Support
6 11 (6.08%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.52%) Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Logistics Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Operations Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.08%) Node.js
2 10 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (5.52%) REST
3 6 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.76%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.76%) Django
4 5 (2.76%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (2.76%) gRPC
4 5 (2.76%) Material-UI
4 5 (2.76%) OpenAPI
4 5 (2.76%) React
4 5 (2.76%) Spring
4 5 (2.76%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.76%) Swagger
5 4 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.21%) RESTful
6 3 (1.66%) .NET
6 3 (1.66%) JSON
6 3 (1.66%) Laravel
6 3 (1.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Embedded Systems
1 16 (8.84%) FPGA
2 15 (8.29%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.76%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.21%) NHS
7 4 (2.21%) PKI
7 4 (2.21%) Replication
7 4 (2.21%) SCADA
7 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.10%) IoT
9 2 (1.10%) Life Science
9 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (45.30%) Windows
2 39 (21.55%) Windows Server
3 25 (13.81%) Unix
4 16 (8.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (6.63%) Debian
6 10 (5.52%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.87%) CentOS
8 4 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.66%) Solaris
10 2 (1.10%) AIX
10 2 (1.10%) SUSE
10 2 (1.10%) VMS
10 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.55%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
2 36 (19.89%) CI/CD
2 36 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (19.34%) DevOps
4 33 (18.23%) Agile
5 28 (15.47%) ITIL
6 25 (13.81%) Containerisation
7 24 (13.26%) Mentoring
8 21 (11.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (10.50%) Software Engineering
10 17 (9.39%) Microservices
11 16 (8.84%) Coaching
12 14 (7.73%) Service Delivery
12 14 (7.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (7.18%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (7.18%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (6.08%) Computer Science
14 11 (6.08%) Incident Response
14 11 (6.08%) Observability
15 10 (5.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.97%) Python
2 27 (14.92%) Java
3 20 (11.05%) SQL
4 17 (9.39%) Bash
4 17 (9.39%) C
5 15 (8.29%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.63%) Go
7 10 (5.52%) C++
8 9 (4.97%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.31%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.76%) Perl
10 5 (2.76%) PHP
11 4 (2.21%) C#
12 3 (1.66%) Groovy
13 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.55%) ABAP
14 1 (0.55%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 31 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.94%) DV Cleared
3 15 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.73%) Degree
5 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.76%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.21%) CCNA
9 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.10%) CISSP
11 1 (0.55%) CEH
11 1 (0.55%) GCIA
11 1 (0.55%) GCIH
11 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.55%) LPIC
11 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) GDPR
2 8 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.87%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 18 (9.94%) Docker
3 16 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.97%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.97%) vSphere
5 8 (4.42%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.66%) Firmware
8 2 (1.10%) iptables
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (25.41%) Terraform
2 42 (23.20%) Ansible
3 33 (18.23%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.63%) Grafana
5 11 (6.08%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.87%) Puppet
7 5 (2.76%) Argo
8 4 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.21%) WSUS
9 3 (1.66%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.66%) Packer
9 3 (1.66%) Podman
9 3 (1.66%) Rancher
10 2 (1.10%) Control-M
10 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.10%) Nagios
10 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.10%) systemd
11 1 (0.55%) Plesk
11 1 (0.55%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 33 (18.23%) VMware
2 24 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.29%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.63%) Splunk
5 10 (5.52%) Google
6 8 (4.42%) Cisco
7 5 (2.76%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.76%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.21%) IBM
9 3 (1.66%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.66%) Mirantis
9 3 (1.66%) Oracle
9 3 (1.66%) SAP
10 2 (1.10%) BMC
10 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.10%) Qualys
11 1 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.55%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.55%) Thales