Linux Jobs in the North East

Linux
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 48 6
Rank change year-on-year -18 -42 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 53 73 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.92% 5.68% 15.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.29% 41.48% 56.97%
Number of salaries quoted 39 52 153
10th Percentile £37,184 £32,086 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £36,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £78,125 £58,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 249 176 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.71% 13.69% 27.25%
Number of salaries quoted 205 144 319
10th Percentile £24,200 £26,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £57,500
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North East

Linux
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Linux in the North East

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in the North East

Linux
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Tyne and Wear -5 34 £52,500 +10.13% 10
Durham -19 14 £52,500 +31.25% 2
Northumberland - 2 £60,000 -
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (11.32%) Confluence
2 5 (9.43%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.77%) Apache
5 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) AWS
2 8 (15.09%) Azure
3 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (7.55%) SaaS
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.77%) Slack
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
1 2 (3.77%) HTTPS
1 2 (3.77%) SSL
2 1 (1.89%) DHCP
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
2 1 (1.89%) Network Security
2 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.55%) MySQL
3 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) GitLab
2 6 (11.32%) JIRA
3 5 (9.43%) Artifactory
3 5 (9.43%) Eclipse
3 5 (9.43%) Gradle
3 5 (9.43%) Maven
4 2 (3.77%) Git
General
1 13 (24.53%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Automotive
3 3 (5.66%) Electronics
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Senior
2 14 (26.42%) Developer
3 10 (18.87%) Lead
3 10 (18.87%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) Software Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Embedded Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Embedded Linux Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Lead Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Unix Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Spring
2 5 (9.43%) EDI
2 5 (9.43%) OSGi
3 4 (7.55%) AWS CDK
3 4 (7.55%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (5.66%) SOAP
4 3 (5.66%) Yocto
5 2 (3.77%) .NET
5 2 (3.77%) LAPP Stack
5 2 (3.77%) REST
5 2 (3.77%) Web Services
6 1 (1.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (9.43%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (7.55%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Robotics
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) Windows
2 8 (15.09%) Unix
3 6 (11.32%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (7.55%) AIX
4 4 (7.55%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Mentoring
2 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (16.98%) Front End Development
4 8 (15.09%) Coaching
4 8 (15.09%) DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) Service Management
5 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.21%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (11.32%) ITIL
6 6 (11.32%) Migration
6 6 (11.32%) Time Management
7 5 (9.43%) Change Management
7 5 (9.43%) Operational Stability
7 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.43%) User Experience
8 4 (7.55%) Containerisation
8 4 (7.55%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (7.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) Java
2 5 (9.43%) C
2 5 (9.43%) COBOL
2 5 (9.43%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 4 (7.55%) PHP
3 4 (7.55%) SQL
4 3 (5.66%) Python
5 2 (3.77%) Bash
5 2 (3.77%) C#
5 2 (3.77%) C++
5 2 (3.77%) VB
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) GDPR
1 5 (9.43%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.66%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (5.66%) Firmware
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Terraform
2 6 (11.32%) Ansible
3 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Micro Focus
2 3 (5.66%) EMC
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) VMware
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.89%) BMC
4 1 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.89%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) PagerDuty