Linux Job Trends in Cheshire

Linux
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -51 +9 +33
Permanent jobs citing Linux 20 95 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 1.08% 12.84% 5.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.22% 82.61% 36.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 31
10th Percentile £28,950 £34,000 -
25th Percentile £35,375 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% +19.18% -69.58%
75th Percentile £52,813 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £56,375 £62,250 £62,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% -16.00%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 90 115 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.87% 15.54% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 82 23 102
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £28,498
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,930 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £63,000 £60,875
North West median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -17.59%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Warrington -29 10 £50,000 +8.11% 3
Knutsford +2 5 £29,000 -28.40% 3
Chester -8 1 - - 5
Neston - 1 - -
Northwich - 1 £52,500 -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) Bluetooth
2 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (10.00%) Wireless
2 2 (10.00%) ZigBee
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.00%) SSH
3 1 (5.00%) VLAN
3 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Db2
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Electronics
2 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Games
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Legal Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Systems Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Junior
3 2 (10.00%) Principal Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cryptography Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Junior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (10.00%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (10.00%) Clustering
3 2 (10.00%) FPGA
3 2 (10.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) CUDA
4 1 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (10.00%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (15.00%) High Availability
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) AI
3 2 (10.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Schematic Capture
3 2 (10.00%) Service Management
3 2 (10.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) C
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) C++
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Embedded C
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Ceph
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.00%) Sybase
2 1 (5.00%) VMware