Linux Jobs in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 43 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 -35
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1,072 850 887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.22% 4.25% 5.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.77% 36.97% 38.13%
Number of salaries quoted 214 544 504
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,870
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,375 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,258 £72,433 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £63,066
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.79% +5.11%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,764 2,299 2,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.17% 11.50% 14.76%
Number of salaries quoted 732 1,732 1,439
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +3.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +21 953 £55,000 +4.76% 266
Yorkshire -26 97 £42,500 -5.56% 131
North East +14 22 £65,000 +23.81% 52
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.84%) Apache
2 9 (0.84%) IIS
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.65%) Confluence
4 6 (0.56%) nginx
5 4 (0.37%) SAS
6 3 (0.28%) GemFire
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.19%) CMS
7 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 251 (23.41%) AWS
2 247 (23.04%) Azure
3 206 (19.22%) GCP
4 24 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (1.31%) SaaS
6 12 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (0.93%) GitHub
7 10 (0.93%) Pulumi
8 9 (0.84%) AWS CodeBuild
8 9 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (0.75%) Entra ID
10 7 (0.65%) OCI
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (0.56%) dbt
12 5 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (0.47%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 658 (61.38%) VPN
2 416 (38.81%) DNS
3 272 (25.37%) Cisco IOS
4 29 (2.71%) Firewall
5 24 (2.24%) DHCP
6 20 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.59%) Wireless
8 14 (1.31%) SAN
9 10 (0.93%) LAN
9 10 (0.93%) NAS
10 8 (0.75%) WAN
11 6 (0.56%) VoIP
12 5 (0.47%) Modbus
12 5 (0.47%) RS-485
12 5 (0.47%) SSH
12 5 (0.47%) VSAN
13 4 (0.37%) Broadband
14 3 (0.28%) VLAN
15 2 (0.19%) Internet
15 2 (0.19%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 26 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.77%) NoSQL
4 16 (1.49%) Redis
5 14 (1.31%) MySQL
6 11 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.65%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.28%) Apache Ignite
12 3 (0.28%) Big Data
12 3 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.093%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.093%) Cloud Spanner
13 1 (0.093%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.093%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.093%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (2.24%) Git
1 24 (2.24%) Jenkins
2 18 (1.68%) JIRA
3 8 (0.75%) SonarQube
4 7 (0.65%) JUnit
4 7 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.56%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.56%) GitLab
6 5 (0.47%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.47%) Maven
6 5 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.37%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.37%) Eclipse RCP
7 4 (0.37%) JMeter
7 4 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.37%) Postman
7 4 (0.37%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 832 (77.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 672 (62.69%) Analytical Skills
3 429 (40.02%) Finance
4 81 (7.56%) Social Skills
5 28 (2.61%) Law
6 20 (1.87%) Banking
7 18 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.31%) Electronics
10 13 (1.21%) Retail
11 10 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.56%) Cantonese Language
12 6 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (0.56%) Marketing
12 6 (0.56%) Military
13 5 (0.47%) Games
14 4 (0.37%) Advertising
14 4 (0.37%) Automotive
14 4 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 414 (38.62%) Developer
2 388 (36.19%) Software Developer
3 277 (25.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 221 (20.62%) Senior
5 194 (18.10%) Software Engineer
6 184 (17.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 35 (3.26%) Analyst
8 29 (2.71%) Support Analyst
9 26 (2.43%) Support Engineer
10 21 (1.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (1.77%) 2nd Line Support
11 19 (1.77%) IT Support
12 17 (1.59%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (1.49%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 15 (1.40%) Lead
14 15 (1.40%) Linux Engineer
15 14 (1.31%) IT Analyst
15 14 (1.31%) IT Support Analyst
16 11 (1.03%) Technical Support
17 10 (0.93%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (24.63%) Elastic Stack
2 180 (16.79%) .NET
3 173 (16.14%) Node.js
4 18 (1.68%) Middleware
5 10 (0.93%) Django
6 9 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (0.84%) Spring
7 8 (0.75%) CSS
7 8 (0.75%) HTML
8 7 (0.65%) Kafka
9 6 (0.56%) Hibernate
9 6 (0.56%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.47%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.47%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.47%) Laravel
10 5 (0.47%) RESTful
11 4 (0.37%) JSP
11 4 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.37%) REST
11 4 (0.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 811 (75.65%) Cyberattack
2 181 (16.88%) Self-Motivation
3 180 (16.79%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (1.31%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.12%) Cloud Native
6 10 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (0.84%) Security Posture
8 8 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 7 (0.65%) Operational Technology
9 7 (0.65%) Product Ownership
9 7 (0.65%) SCADA
10 6 (0.56%) Clustering
10 6 (0.56%) Device Driver
10 6 (0.56%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.47%) Analogue Electronics
11 5 (0.47%) CAN bus
11 5 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.37%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 644 (60.07%) Android
2 386 (36.01%) Windows
3 46 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.80%) Unix
5 20 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.77%) Mac OS X
7 17 (1.59%) Windows 10
8 11 (1.03%) CentOS
9 9 (0.84%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.56%) Debian
12 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.37%) Solaris
14 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.19%) zOS
15 1 (0.093%) AIX
15 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (60.26%) Mathematics
2 639 (59.61%) Line Management
3 605 (56.44%) Agile
4 404 (37.69%) OO
5 395 (36.85%) OOP
6 392 (36.57%) Design Patterns
7 388 (36.19%) Android Development
8 328 (30.60%) Problem-Solving
9 323 (30.13%) DevOps
10 287 (26.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 264 (24.63%) Task Automation
12 258 (24.07%) Platform Engineering
13 254 (23.69%) Storage Management
14 253 (23.60%) Risk Management
15 216 (20.15%) Mentoring
16 202 (18.84%) Software Engineering
17 188 (17.54%) Microservices
18 185 (17.26%) Cloud Security
19 180 (16.79%) User Experience
20 179 (16.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 908 (84.70%) Python
2 594 (55.41%) Java
3 577 (53.82%) C++
4 572 (53.36%) Go
5 286 (26.68%) PowerShell
6 279 (26.03%) Bash
7 205 (19.12%) JavaScript
8 176 (16.42%) Rust
9 58 (5.41%) SQL
10 16 (1.49%) C
10 16 (1.49%) C#
11 12 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.84%) PHP
13 8 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.65%) C-shell
14 7 (0.65%) Korn
15 5 (0.47%) Perl
16 4 (0.37%) Ada
16 4 (0.37%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 586 (54.66%) Security Cleared
2 561 (52.33%) DV Cleared
3 184 (17.16%) AWS Certification
4 173 (16.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (16.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 60 (5.60%) Degree
7 26 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.59%) SC Cleared
10 16 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.31%) MCSA
12 11 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.03%) CCNP
13 10 (0.93%) PhD
14 7 (0.65%) MCSE
14 7 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 5 (0.47%) A+ Certification
16 5 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.68%) QA
2 8 (0.75%) GDPR
3 7 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.28%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.093%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.093%) NCSC
7 1 (0.093%) NIST
7 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 686 (63.99%) Docker
2 273 (25.47%) Hyper-V
3 258 (24.07%) VMware NSX
4 257 (23.97%) vSphere
5 58 (5.41%) Active Directory
6 23 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.56%) Firmware
9 4 (0.37%) NFS
10 3 (0.28%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.28%) Postfix
10 3 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.19%) KVM
11 2 (0.19%) SRDF
11 2 (0.19%) Xen
12 1 (0.093%) pfSense
12 1 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 676 (63.06%) Ansible
2 315 (29.38%) Terraform
3 39 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 16 (1.49%) Puppet
5 15 (1.40%) Grafana
6 14 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.03%) SCCM
8 7 (0.65%) SCOM
9 6 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.47%) Argo
10 5 (0.47%) Istio
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.37%) Control-M
11 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.37%) PaperCut
11 4 (0.37%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 283 (26.40%) Cisco
2 256 (23.88%) Splunk
3 252 (23.51%) Juniper
4 251 (23.41%) 3PAR
5 64 (5.97%) Microsoft
6 50 (4.66%) VMware
7 41 (3.82%) Oracle
8 22 (2.05%) Google
9 15 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.47%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.37%) NetApp
12 4 (0.37%) Veeam
13 3 (0.28%) Acronis
13 3 (0.28%) EMC
13 3 (0.28%) IBM
13 3 (0.28%) Sage
13 3 (0.28%) SonicWALL
13 3 (0.28%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.28%) WatchGuard
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