Linux Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Linux
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 2.20% 4.55% 1.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.41% 28.57% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £354 - -
25th Percentile £358 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% - -
75th Percentile £388 £488 -
90th Percentile £392 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £360 £508 £555
% change year-on-year -29.06% -8.56% +13.27%

All Operating Systems
Warrington

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 7 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 29.67% 15.91% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 9
10th Percentile £205 £292 £133
25th Percentile £214 £371 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £400 £175
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +128.57% -44.93%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £275
90th Percentile - £503 £455
Cheshire median daily rate £363 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -28.22% -3.81% +45.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £16.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £22.09 £19.75
% change year-on-year -27.57% +11.85% -9.32%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Warrington

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform