Linux Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 29
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 6 15 22
As % of all permanent jobs in North Yorkshire 1.47% 2.10% 5.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.35% 30.00% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 21
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £25,375 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,750 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% -31.82% -29.03%
75th Percentile £43,094 £52,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £49,125 £65,250 £61,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £34,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% -4.35%

All Operating Systems
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 31 50 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 7.60% 7.01% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 24 33 61
10th Percentile £25,375 £23,650 £24,250
25th Percentile £26,032 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £49,850 £58,500 £61,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £39,086 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.85% -8.03% -5.56%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Linux job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Linux
Salary Trend in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in North Yorkshire

Linux
Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
York +8 5 £25,750 -31.33% 3
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) 1st Line Support
1 4 (66.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Driving Licence
1 4 (66.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow