Linux Jobs in West Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 38 58
Rank change year-on-year -31 +20 -32
Permanent jobs citing Linux 39 150 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.81% 4.78% 5.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.03% 39.68% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 36 105 130
10th Percentile - £34,400 £29,900
25th Percentile £26,750 £40,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £66,631
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £46,304 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.21% -2.52% -9.52%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 229 378 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.51% 12.04% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 135 296 335
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £30,453 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £42,000 £57,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £73,331 £65,625 £77,645
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £42,250
% change year-on-year -18.75% -5.33% -6.11%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 2025. 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
Leeds -17 32 £30,500 -39.00% 129
Bradford +8 1 £55,000 +43.79% 110
Todmorden - 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 £65,000 -
Sowerby Bridge - 1 - -
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 10 (25.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.69%) IIS
2 3 (7.69%) nginx
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) IaaS
2 4 (10.26%) SaaS
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
3 3 (7.69%) GitHub
3 3 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (5.13%) Apigee
4 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.56%) OCI
5 1 (2.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 19 (48.72%) Cisco IOS
2 10 (25.64%) Wireless
3 6 (15.38%) DNS
4 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.69%) DHCP
5 3 (7.69%) VPN
6 2 (5.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Redis
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) JUnit
3 2 (5.13%) Maven
3 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (48.72%) Law
2 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Finance
2 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Legal
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Analyst
2 17 (43.59%) Support Analyst
3 16 (41.03%) 2nd Line Support
3 16 (41.03%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 9 (23.08%) IT Analyst
4 9 (23.08%) IT Support
4 9 (23.08%) IT Support Analyst
5 7 (17.95%) Developer
6 6 (15.38%) Senior
7 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Django Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Python/Django Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
1 3 (7.69%) Django
1 3 (7.69%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) FastAPI
2 2 (5.13%) Flask
2 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
2 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.13%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) RESTful
2 2 (5.13%) Spring
2 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Cyberattack
2 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (74.36%) Windows
2 19 (48.72%) Mac OS X
3 14 (35.90%) Windows Server
4 10 (25.64%) Windows 10
5 5 (12.82%) Unix
6 2 (5.13%) Android
6 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Service Delivery
2 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.38%) OO
4 5 (12.82%) Agile
4 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
4 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
4 5 (12.82%) Microservices
5 4 (10.26%) DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) OOP
5 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (7.69%) Information Management
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (7.69%) Release Automation
6 3 (7.69%) SDLC
6 3 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (87.18%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.38%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) Bash
5 4 (10.26%) Go
5 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.69%) Bicep
7 2 (5.13%) C#
7 2 (5.13%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (25.64%) CCNP
2 10 (25.64%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 10 (25.64%) MCSA
3 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 26 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) Docker
3 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) pfSense
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Ansible
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 5 (12.82%) SCCM
4 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
5 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 3 (7.69%) HAProxy
5 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.13%) Istio
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (5.13%) SCOM
6 2 (5.13%) WSUS
7 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Cisco
2 6 (15.38%) VMware
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.56%) Commvault
6 1 (2.56%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) Veeam