Linux Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 71 43
Rank change year-on-year -19 -28 +23
Permanent jobs citing Linux 36 42 110
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.00% 2.77% 5.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.95% 17.07% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28 26 98
10th Percentile - £28,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,344 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £51,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -18.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £63,313 £71,991 £82,548
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £93,316
Yorkshire median annual salary £34,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% -4.35%

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 103 246 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.73% 16.23% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 80 102 279
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,000 £27,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £38,224 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -23.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £38,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.03% -10.00% -5.56%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Linux
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 December 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 31 December 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 -8 29 £35,000 -30.00% 8
Bradford -19 3 £77,500 +158.33% 1
Pontefract - 2 £58,250 -
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) Firewall
1 9 (25.00%) VLAN
2 8 (22.22%) SAN
2 8 (22.22%) VoIP
3 4 (11.11%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (8.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (30.56%) Retail
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 8 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Graduate
1 9 (25.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Logistics Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Senior
1 9 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering Graduate
2 8 (22.22%) Support Technician
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Support Technician
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Technician
4 3 (8.33%) Consultant
4 3 (8.33%) Customer Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Field Support Technician
4 3 (8.33%) IT Support
4 3 (8.33%) IT Technician
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
4 3 (8.33%) Principal SAP Consultant
4 3 (8.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 3 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) SAP Basis
1 3 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
1 3 (8.33%) SAPUI5
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Clustering
1 8 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 4 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (11.11%) FPGA
3 3 (8.33%) Replication
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) SCADA
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (63.89%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) SUSE
4 3 (8.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Computer Science
1 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (25.00%) Logistics
3 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 6 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 4 (11.11%) Migration
7 3 (8.33%) Business Continuity
7 3 (8.33%) Business Strategy
7 3 (8.33%) High Availability
7 3 (8.33%) Incident Response
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
8 2 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 10 (27.78%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 8 (22.22%) C
3 8 (22.22%) C++
3 8 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.89%) Bash
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) Delphi
7 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CEH
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) GCFA
4 1 (2.78%) GCFE
4 1 (2.78%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.56%) Terraform
5 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) Dell
2 8 (22.22%) HP
2 8 (22.22%) SonicWALL
2 8 (22.22%) Supermicro
3 3 (8.33%) SAP
4 2 (5.56%) Nexthink
4 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.56%) VMware