Linux Jobs in Blackburn

Linux
Lancashire > Blackburn

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Blackburn 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 -
Permanent jobs citing Linux 12 7 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 4.24% 7.45% 7.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.16% 31.82% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £21,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £22,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -51.11% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,500
90th Percentile - £52,500 -
Lancashire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +38.69%

All Operating Systems
Blackburn

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 Blackburn.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 19 22 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 6.71% 23.40% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 4
10th Percentile - £21,000 £23,436
25th Percentile £41,250 £22,489 £23,799
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £23,076 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +106.92% -3.85% -25.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £36,125 £29,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £37,950 £40,450
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -18.95% +58.33%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackburn

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Blackburn

Linux
Salary Trend in Blackburn

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

Salary trend for Linux in Blackburn

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackburn 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 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) DNS
2 7 (58.33%) VPN
3 5 (41.67%) DHCP
3 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 5 (41.67%) IPv4
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 5 (41.67%) VLAN
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (58.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) IT Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Android
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (58.33%) Line Management
1 7 (58.33%) Mathematics
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Android Development
2 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity
2 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
2 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (41.67%) OO
2 5 (41.67%) OOP
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) C++
2 5 (41.67%) Go
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
1 7 (58.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Veeam
2 2 (16.67%) 3PAR
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Juniper
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) VMware