Linux Jobs in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 60 21
Rank change year-on-year +20 -39 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 829 968 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.80% 5.51% 9.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.91% 40.43% 46.79%
Number of salaries quoted 549 531 960
10th Percentile £33,600 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £65,313 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,246 2,394 3,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.01% 13.63% 20.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 1,541 2,470
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North of England.

Salary trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +25 522 £52,500 - 88
Yorkshire +10 253 £47,500 -5.00% 53
North East -15 54 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (6.15%) Apache
2 34 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.29%) ArcGIS
4 19 (2.29%) IIS
5 14 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 12 (1.45%) Captiva
6 12 (1.45%) FileNet
6 12 (1.45%) GeoServer
6 12 (1.45%) WebLogic
6 12 (1.45%) WebSphere
7 10 (1.21%) Confluence
7 10 (1.21%) nginx
8 9 (1.09%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.48%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) SAS
12 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 316 (38.12%) Azure
2 246 (29.67%) AWS
3 78 (9.41%) GCP
3 78 (9.41%) IBM Cloud
4 73 (8.81%) Serverless
5 65 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (5.07%) Azure API Management
8 41 (4.95%) Azure Functions
8 41 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 41 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 32 (3.86%) GitHub
10 31 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (3.26%) SaaS
12 25 (3.02%) OpenShift
13 24 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.29%) Amazon S3
16 17 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (16.04%) Firewall
2 72 (8.69%) DNS
3 59 (7.12%) VPN
4 56 (6.76%) TCP/IP
5 54 (6.51%) WAN
6 53 (6.39%) DHCP
7 50 (6.03%) LAN
8 45 (5.43%) SAN
9 34 (4.10%) Network Security
10 33 (3.98%) SSL
11 30 (3.62%) Internet
12 26 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (2.77%) NAS
13 23 (2.77%) Wireless
14 21 (2.53%) MQTT
14 21 (2.53%) SD-WAN
15 15 (1.81%) IPsec
15 15 (1.81%) SNMP
15 15 (1.81%) VLAN
16 14 (1.69%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (13.75%) MongoDB
3 106 (12.79%) NoSQL
4 78 (9.41%) DB2
4 78 (9.41%) SQL Server
5 76 (9.17%) Relational Database
6 73 (8.81%) MySQL
7 23 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.29%) GIS
8 19 (2.29%) Oracle Database
8 19 (2.29%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.29%) Redis
9 18 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (2.17%) Big Data
10 12 (1.45%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.45%) QGIS
11 11 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (0.72%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (7.36%) JIRA
2 48 (5.79%) Git
3 43 (5.19%) GitLab
4 41 (4.95%) Jenkins
5 25 (3.02%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.69%) IBM UrbanCode
7 12 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.33%) Subversion
9 7 (0.84%) Eclipse
9 7 (0.84%) Gradle
9 7 (0.84%) Maven
9 7 (0.84%) PHPUnit
9 7 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.72%) GDB
11 5 (0.60%) Clang
11 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.48%) CMake
12 4 (0.48%) GCC
13 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 157 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.87%) Public Sector
3 110 (13.27%) Finance
4 53 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.58%) Banking
7 30 (3.62%) Aerospace
8 25 (3.02%) Retail
9 23 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 23 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.93%) Electronics
12 15 (1.81%) Law
13 13 (1.57%) Automotive
13 13 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
15 8 (0.97%) Military
16 7 (0.84%) Front Office
16 7 (0.84%) Games
17 6 (0.72%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 175 (21.11%) Senior
2 167 (20.14%) Developer
3 154 (18.58%) Software Engineer
4 81 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 75 (9.05%) Lead
6 60 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (6.76%) Embedded Engineer
8 54 (6.51%) Full Stack Developer
9 46 (5.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 44 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
11 43 (5.19%) Full Stack Engineer
12 41 (4.95%) Azure Developer
13 39 (4.70%) Support Engineer
14 38 (4.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (4.46%) Analyst
16 35 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
17 33 (3.98%) IT Engineer
17 33 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
17 33 (3.98%) Software Developer
18 31 (3.74%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (16.65%) React
2 125 (15.08%) CSS
3 123 (14.84%) HTML
4 119 (14.35%) REST
5 104 (12.55%) .NET
6 102 (12.30%) AngularJS
7 99 (11.94%) Vue
8 95 (11.46%) Node.js
9 90 (10.86%) Web Services
10 89 (10.74%) jQuery
11 86 (10.37%) ASP.NET
12 78 (9.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 78 (9.41%) Backbone.js
12 78 (9.41%) Ember.js
12 78 (9.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 41 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (3.14%) Spring Boot
15 25 (3.02%) Laravel
16 22 (2.65%) Spring
17 20 (2.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 80 (9.65%) Algorithms
3 79 (9.53%) Blockchain
4 78 (9.41%) Data Structures
5 68 (8.20%) Data Centre
5 68 (8.20%) Public Cloud
6 37 (4.46%) e-Learning
7 32 (3.86%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.38%) IoT
8 28 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (3.02%) Embedded Systems
10 21 (2.53%) Private Cloud
11 18 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.81%) PMI
13 13 (1.57%) Cloud Native
13 13 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.57%) Replication
14 12 (1.45%) DataPower
15 11 (1.33%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 420 (50.66%) Windows
2 96 (11.58%) Windows Server
3 87 (10.49%) Apple iOS
4 86 (10.37%) Android
5 67 (8.08%) Unix
6 57 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 45 (5.43%) Ubuntu
8 39 (4.70%) Embedded Linux
9 29 (3.50%) Mac OS
10 21 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 18 (2.17%) CentOS
12 18 (2.17%) Debian
13 15 (1.81%) Data ONTAP
14 13 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (1.21%) Windows 10
16 9 (1.09%) AIX
17 8 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
18 7 (0.84%) Mac OS X
19 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (26.66%) Agile
2 194 (23.40%) DevOps
3 190 (22.92%) Software Engineering
4 138 (16.65%) Mentoring
5 134 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (14.60%) OO
7 117 (14.11%) Full Stack Development
8 114 (13.75%) User Experience
9 109 (13.15%) Web Development
10 107 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 103 (12.42%) Coaching
12 99 (11.94%) OOP
13 96 (11.58%) MVC
14 94 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence
15 90 (10.86%) MVVM
16 88 (10.62%) Design Patterns
17 85 (10.25%) CI/CD
18 83 (10.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 79 (9.53%) SOLID
20 78 (9.41%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 223 (26.90%) Python
2 173 (20.87%) SQL
3 169 (20.39%) JavaScript
4 158 (19.06%) Java
5 103 (12.42%) C#
6 93 (11.22%) C
7 66 (7.96%) PowerShell
8 64 (7.72%) C++
9 48 (5.79%) PHP
10 35 (4.22%) Bash
11 23 (2.77%) Rust
12 17 (2.05%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.93%) Embedded C
13 16 (1.93%) TypeScript
14 14 (1.69%) Ruby
15 13 (1.57%) Perl
15 13 (1.57%) VBScript
16 11 (1.33%) Delphi
16 11 (1.33%) Go
16 11 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 111 (13.39%) Degree
2 88 (10.62%) Security Cleared
3 63 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (2.29%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.93%) PMI Certification
11 14 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.57%) CCNA
12 13 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 12 (1.45%) MCSE
14 10 (1.21%) MCSA
15 8 (0.97%) CCNP
16 6 (0.72%) CISSP
16 6 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.60%) JNCIA
17 5 (0.60%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.10%) GDPR
2 19 (2.29%) SLA
3 16 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.21%) QA
5 9 (1.09%) NIST
6 7 (0.84%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 117 (14.11%) Docker
2 99 (11.94%) Active Directory
3 97 (11.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (6.76%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.26%) Firmware
6 17 (2.05%) Embedded Firmware
6 17 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (1.81%) vSphere
8 4 (0.48%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.36%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 123 (14.84%) Ansible
2 111 (13.39%) Kubernetes
3 98 (11.82%) Terraform
4 30 (3.62%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.90%) Puppet
6 23 (2.77%) Progress Chef
7 19 (2.29%) Grafana
8 18 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (2.17%) WSUS
9 17 (2.05%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.81%) SCCM
11 12 (1.45%) Opsgenie
11 12 (1.45%) VxRail
11 12 (1.45%) ZABBIX
12 11 (1.33%) SCOM
13 7 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 6 (0.72%) Nagios
15 5 (0.60%) Plesk
Vendors
1 138 (16.65%) Red Hat
2 133 (16.04%) VMware
3 130 (15.68%) Microsoft
4 117 (14.11%) IBM
5 81 (9.77%) Oracle
6 68 (8.20%) Cisco
7 48 (5.79%) Google
8 31 (3.74%) Veeam
9 30 (3.62%) NetApp
10 22 (2.65%) SolarWinds
11 20 (2.41%) ESRI
12 18 (2.17%) Dell
12 18 (2.17%) SAP
13 17 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 15 (1.81%) SolidFire
15 14 (1.69%) Fortinet
16 13 (1.57%) F5
17 12 (1.45%) Pega
17 12 (1.45%) ServiceNow
17 12 (1.45%) Sparx