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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 11 42
Rank change year-on-year -158 +31 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 186 1,060 783
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.92% 13.35% 4.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.58% 59.58% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 156 206 535
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,000 £33,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £74,258 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -13.39%

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 950 1,779 2,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.72% 22.41% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 744 694 1,738
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -1.06%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,640
England median annual salary £45,000 £43,710 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -135 100 £55,000 - 61
Yorkshire -85 50 £50,000 +17.65% 24
North East -32 36 £47,500 -24.60% 20
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 4 (2.15%) Apache
1 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.08%) nginx
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.86%) AWS
2 59 (31.72%) Azure
3 20 (10.75%) GCP
4 19 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (9.14%) Azure AKS
5 17 (9.14%) GitHub
5 17 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.30%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.30%) Serverless
11 7 (3.76%) IaaS
12 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.23%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.44%) Firewall
2 18 (9.68%) DNS
3 17 (9.14%) VPN
4 13 (6.99%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.91%) DHCP
6 10 (5.38%) Internet
7 9 (4.84%) VLAN
7 9 (4.84%) VoIP
8 8 (4.30%) LAN
8 8 (4.30%) WAN
9 5 (2.69%) DMZ
9 5 (2.69%) HTTP
9 5 (2.69%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.69%) STUN
10 4 (2.15%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (2.15%) Network Security
10 4 (2.15%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (2.15%) VPLS
10 4 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.74%) SQL Server
2 31 (16.67%) MySQL
2 31 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.61%) Big Data
5 3 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.61%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.61%) Redis
6 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.54%) Power BI
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.98%) GitLab
2 18 (9.68%) Git
3 17 (9.14%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.84%) JIRA
5 7 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.69%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.69%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.54%) GDB
10 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 34 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.83%) Law
3 19 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.91%) Aerospace
4 11 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.38%) Finance
6 8 (4.30%) Retail
7 5 (2.69%) Advertising
8 4 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) German Language
11 1 (0.54%) Local Government
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (19.89%) Senior
2 32 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (11.83%) Administrator
4 21 (11.29%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (8.60%) Software Engineer
6 15 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (7.53%) DBA
7 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.99%) Support Engineer
9 12 (6.45%) Developer
9 12 (6.45%) SQL DBA
10 11 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (5.91%) IT Support
11 8 (4.30%) Analyst
11 8 (4.30%) IT Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.14%) Node.js
2 8 (4.30%) REST
2 8 (4.30%) Web Services
3 7 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (3.76%) JSON
3 7 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.23%) HTML
5 5 (2.69%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (2.15%) Laravel
6 4 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.15%) React
6 4 (2.15%) YAML
7 3 (1.61%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.61%) gRPC
7 3 (1.61%) Material-UI
7 3 (1.61%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.61%) RESTful
7 3 (1.61%) Spring
7 3 (1.61%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.60%) Replication
2 11 (5.91%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.84%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.30%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.15%) PKI
7 3 (1.61%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.61%) Life Science
7 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.08%) IoT
8 2 (1.08%) SCADA
8 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.08%) Smart City
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 75 (40.32%) Windows
2 26 (13.98%) Unix
2 26 (13.98%) Windows Server
3 20 (10.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (5.91%) Debian
4 11 (5.91%) Ubuntu
5 6 (3.23%) CentOS
5 6 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.61%) AIX
6 3 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.08%) Solaris
7 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.54%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.96%) CI/CD
2 50 (26.88%) DevOps
3 41 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (18.82%) Agile
6 29 (15.59%) Software Engineering
7 26 (13.98%) Containerisation
7 26 (13.98%) Mentoring
8 25 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (13.44%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (12.90%) Microservices
10 20 (10.75%) High Availability
10 20 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (10.22%) AI
11 19 (10.22%) Test Automation
12 18 (9.68%) ITIL
12 18 (9.68%) Scrum
13 15 (8.06%) Coaching
14 14 (7.53%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 56 (30.11%) Python
2 27 (14.52%) Java
2 27 (14.52%) SQL
3 24 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 23 (12.37%) Bash
5 15 (8.06%) C++
6 12 (6.45%) Shell Script
7 11 (5.91%) C
7 11 (5.91%) Go
7 11 (5.91%) Groovy
8 8 (4.30%) Rust
9 7 (3.76%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.23%) C#
10 6 (3.23%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.69%) Perl
11 5 (2.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) Bicep
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.14%) Degree
2 17 (9.14%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.23%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.15%) CCNA
8 4 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.54%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.84%) GDPR
2 7 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.61%) QA
5 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (12.90%) Docker
2 20 (10.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.91%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.30%) vSphere
6 6 (3.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.15%) iptables
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (31.18%) Terraform
2 41 (22.04%) Kubernetes
3 39 (20.97%) Ansible
4 15 (8.06%) Argo
5 10 (5.38%) Grafana
5 10 (5.38%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.30%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.23%) Puppet
8 4 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.15%) WSUS
9 3 (1.61%) Packer
9 3 (1.61%) systemd
10 2 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.08%) Control-M
10 2 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.08%) Podman
10 2 (1.08%) Rancher
11 1 (0.54%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.29%) VMware
3 17 (9.14%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.38%) Splunk
5 5 (2.69%) Cisco
5 5 (2.69%) Google
6 4 (2.15%) IBM
6 4 (2.15%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.61%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.61%) Oracle
7 3 (1.61%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.08%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.08%) Qualys
8 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) Adobe
9 1 (0.54%) Cognos
9 1 (0.54%) Dell
9 1 (0.54%) McAfee
9 1 (0.54%) SAP