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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 24 58
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 68 55 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 8.67% 5.99% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.69% 35.03% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 2
10th Percentile £39,550 - -
25th Percentile £46,500 £32,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile - £55,000 -
North West median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +2.38% -14.63% +11.82%

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 99 157 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.63% 17.10% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34 81 49
10th Percentile £28,125 £28,498 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,805 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +6.67% -3.85%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £55,000
North West median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -15.00% +17.65%

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 +13 6 £57,500 +9.52% 7
Knutsford -3 4 £43,500 -
Chester -2 2 £62,500 +28.21% 7
Lymm - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Crewe -4 1 - - 4
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 1
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 (1.47%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.29%) AWS
2 23 (33.82%) Azure
3 22 (32.35%) GCP
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.94%) SaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.47%) IaaS
6 1 (1.47%) NuGet
6 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (57.35%) Cisco IOS
1 39 (57.35%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) GitLab
1 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (1.47%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (86.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (60.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Finance
4 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (57.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (32.35%) Senior
3 20 (29.41%) Senior Software Engineer
3 20 (29.41%) Software Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Help Desk Manager
4 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (4.41%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (4.41%) IT Manager
5 2 (2.94%) C# Developer
5 2 (2.94%) Developer
5 2 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.94%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (2.94%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Developer
6 1 (1.47%) Data Manager
6 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse Manager
6 1 (1.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (58.82%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (33.82%) .NET
3 21 (30.88%) Node.js
4 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.47%) Blazor
4 1 (1.47%) CSS
4 1 (1.47%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.47%) gRPC
4 1 (1.47%) HTML
4 1 (1.47%) OAuth
4 1 (1.47%) React
4 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (86.76%) Cyberattack
2 20 (29.41%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (29.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 45 (66.18%) Windows
2 40 (58.82%) Android
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (61.76%) DevOps
2 41 (60.29%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (58.82%) Mathematics
3 40 (58.82%) Risk Management
4 39 (57.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (57.35%) Line Management
4 39 (57.35%) Platform Engineering
4 39 (57.35%) Storage Management
4 39 (57.35%) Task Automation
5 22 (32.35%) Agile
6 21 (30.88%) Mentoring
6 21 (30.88%) Microservices
7 20 (29.41%) Cloud Security
7 20 (29.41%) Data Engineering
7 20 (29.41%) Machine Learning
7 20 (29.41%) Scrum
7 20 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 20 (29.41%) User Experience
8 4 (5.88%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 63 (92.65%) Python
2 40 (58.82%) Bash
3 39 (57.35%) PowerShell
4 23 (33.82%) Java
5 21 (30.88%) Go
5 21 (30.88%) JavaScript
6 20 (29.41%) C++
6 20 (29.41%) Rust
7 3 (4.41%) C#
8 2 (2.94%) SQL
9 1 (1.47%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.47%) PHP
9 1 (1.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) AWS Certification
1 20 (29.41%) AWS Certified Developer
1 20 (29.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 20 (29.41%) DV Cleared
1 20 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 43 (63.24%) Docker
2 39 (57.35%) Hyper-V
2 39 (57.35%) VMware NSX
2 39 (57.35%) vSphere
3 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (57.35%) Ansible
1 39 (57.35%) Terraform
2 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (61.76%) Cisco
2 39 (57.35%) 3PAR
2 39 (57.35%) Juniper
2 39 (57.35%) Splunk
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle
3 3 (4.41%) VMware
4 2 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics