Linux Job Trends in Yorkshire

Linux
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 75 65
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 108 87 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.43% 2.60% 2.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.76% 21.48% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 75 65 62
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £34,530
25th Percentile £36,250 £28,000 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -13.51% -11.90%
75th Percentile £74,985 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £91,750 £67,500 £71,991
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -4.00%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 389 405 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.16% 12.11% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 303 277 213
10th Percentile £26,300 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £28,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% -0.04%
75th Percentile £47,375 £47,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £69,390 £63,450 £65,482
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
West Yorkshire -6 67 £65,000 +40.54% 29
South Yorkshire -29 18 £53,000 +15.22% 26
East Yorkshire -5 15 £42,500 +51.79% 5
North Yorkshire +11 4 £27,000 -43.75% 3
Linux
England

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.15%) AWS
2 26 (24.07%) GitHub
3 20 (18.52%) Azure
4 18 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (15.74%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.56%) GCP
8 5 (4.63%) Azure AKS
8 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.85%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.85%) IaaS
9 2 (1.85%) Kong
9 2 (1.85%) OCI
10 1 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.93%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.93%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.04%) TCP/IP
2 11 (10.19%) Internet
3 10 (9.26%) DNS
4 8 (7.41%) Firewall
4 8 (7.41%) VPN
5 7 (6.48%) SSL
6 6 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.85%) DHCP
8 1 (0.93%) LAN
8 1 (0.93%) SAN
8 1 (0.93%) SMS
8 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.96%) MySQL
1 14 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.96%) Git
3 13 (12.04%) GitLab
4 8 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
General
1 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.07%) Law
3 23 (21.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.19%) Manufacturing
4 11 (10.19%) Retail
5 10 (9.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.63%) Advertising
9 3 (2.78%) Finance
10 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) German Language
10 1 (0.93%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (17.59%) Senior
3 18 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.19%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) Graduate
6 10 (9.26%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) IT Support
7 8 (7.41%) Database Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Administrator
8 7 (6.48%) IT Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Network Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) IT Support Technician
9 6 (5.56%) IT Technician
9 6 (5.56%) Lead
9 6 (5.56%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (36.11%) Terraform
2 18 (16.67%) Web Services
3 5 (4.63%) Node.js
4 4 (3.70%) HTML
4 4 (3.70%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) Laravel
5 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Driving Licence
2 13 (12.04%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 11 (10.19%) Replication
5 6 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (5.56%) Life Science
5 6 (5.56%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (1.85%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.93%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 37 (34.26%) Windows
2 20 (18.52%) Unix
3 9 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.41%) CentOS
4 8 (7.41%) macOS
5 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 37 (34.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (29.63%) DevOps
3 32 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
4 29 (26.85%) Mentoring
4 29 (26.85%) Software Engineering
5 28 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (23.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (19.44%) Containerisation
8 20 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (15.74%) Agile
9 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (15.74%) Network Load Balancing
10 15 (13.89%) Coaching
11 14 (12.96%) High Availability
11 14 (12.96%) Scrum
11 14 (12.96%) Software Delivery
12 13 (12.04%) Microservices
12 13 (12.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.70%) Python
2 21 (19.44%) SQL
3 18 (16.67%) Groovy
4 16 (14.81%) Shell Script
5 12 (11.11%) Java
6 6 (5.56%) Bash
7 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.78%) C
8 3 (2.78%) C++
8 3 (2.78%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (31.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.56%) CREST Certified
5 4 (3.70%) Degree
6 3 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 32 (29.63%) Docker
2 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 17 (15.74%) Ansible
4 5 (4.63%) Argo
5 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (1.85%) SCCM
5 2 (1.85%) SCOM
5 2 (1.85%) WSUS
6 1 (0.93%) Nessus
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.63%) Google
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle
3 4 (3.70%) Pega
4 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.78%) VMware
5 2 (1.85%) HP
5 2 (1.85%) Sophos
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) NetApp
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Thales