Linux Jobs in Cheshire

Linux
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 33 64
Rank change year-on-year +13 +31 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 103 79 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.78% 4.57% 1.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.47% 32.24% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9 45 9
10th Percentile - £26,250 -
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £20,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +15.79% +13.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £62,500 -
North West median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% +14.29%

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 128 245 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.16% 14.17% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 30 156 96
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,920 £23,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% -0.13%
75th Percentile £55,202 £55,000 £48,000
90th Percentile £60,375 £61,250 £55,000
North West median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% +11.76%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Warrington +23 23 £41,653 -30.58% 6
Chester +16 4 £60,000 +71.43% 9
Knutsford +9 3 £61,750 - 4
Crewe +6 3 - - 1
Lymm - 3 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Widnes - 1 - -
Runcorn - 1 - -
Frodsham - 1 - -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (3.88%) SAS
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.91%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.18%) AWS
2 27 (26.21%) Azure
3 22 (21.36%) GCP
4 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.91%) NuGet
5 2 (1.94%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (64.08%) VPN
2 39 (37.86%) Cisco IOS
3 30 (29.13%) DNS
4 4 (3.88%) Firewall
5 3 (2.91%) DHCP
5 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.91%) VoIP
6 2 (1.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.88%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.94%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Git
2 2 (1.94%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (85.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 73 (70.87%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (30.10%) Finance
4 8 (7.77%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Automotive
5 3 (2.91%) Legal
5 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (37.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (30.10%) Developer
3 27 (26.21%) Senior
3 27 (26.21%) Software Developer
4 20 (19.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (19.42%) Software Engineer
5 4 (3.88%) C# Developer
5 4 (3.88%) Data Manager
5 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 4 (3.88%) Senior C# Developer
5 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
6 3 (2.91%) AWS Developer
6 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 3 (2.91%) IT Support
6 3 (2.91%) IT Support Specialist
6 3 (2.91%) Support Specialist
7 2 (1.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (1.94%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (39.81%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (23.30%) .NET
3 20 (19.42%) Node.js
4 3 (2.91%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.91%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.91%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.94%) Kafka
5 2 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.94%) REST
6 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.97%) Blazor
6 1 (0.97%) CSS
6 1 (0.97%) gRPC
6 1 (0.97%) HTML
6 1 (0.97%) OAuth
6 1 (0.97%) React
6 1 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 86 (83.50%) Cyberattack
2 20 (19.42%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (19.42%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 67 (65.05%) Android
2 49 (47.57%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) Unix
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.99%) Mathematics
2 66 (64.08%) Line Management
3 53 (51.46%) Agile
4 48 (46.60%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (44.66%) DevOps
6 41 (39.81%) Task Automation
7 40 (38.83%) Risk Management
8 39 (37.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 39 (37.86%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (37.86%) Storage Management
9 27 (26.21%) Android Development
9 27 (26.21%) Design Patterns
9 27 (26.21%) OO
9 27 (26.21%) OOP
10 23 (22.33%) Mentoring
10 23 (22.33%) Microservices
11 20 (19.42%) Data Engineering
11 20 (19.42%) Machine Learning
11 20 (19.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (19.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 95 (92.23%) Python
2 50 (48.54%) Java
3 49 (47.57%) Go
4 47 (45.63%) C++
5 44 (42.72%) PowerShell
6 43 (41.75%) Bash
7 25 (24.27%) JavaScript
8 20 (19.42%) Rust
9 4 (3.88%) C#
10 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.97%) SQL
11 1 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (45.63%) DV Cleared
1 47 (45.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Certification
3 20 (19.42%) AWS Certified Developer
3 20 (19.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.85%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) CCNA
5 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.91%) MCSE
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 72 (69.90%) Docker
2 43 (41.75%) Hyper-V
3 39 (37.86%) VMware NSX
3 39 (37.86%) vSphere
4 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (66.02%) Ansible
2 41 (39.81%) Terraform
3 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.94%) Argo
4 2 (1.94%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.94%) SCCM
4 2 (1.94%) SCOM
4 2 (1.94%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (40.78%) Cisco
2 39 (37.86%) 3PAR
2 39 (37.86%) Juniper
2 39 (37.86%) Splunk
3 5 (4.85%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.85%) Oracle
4 3 (2.91%) Acronis
4 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.91%) Google
4 3 (2.91%) Kaseya
4 3 (2.91%) Meraki
4 3 (2.91%) Sage
4 3 (2.91%) SonicWALL
4 3 (2.91%) WatchGuard
5 1 (0.97%) VMware