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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 23 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 95 65 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.58% 5.77% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 84.07% 35.91% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 3
10th Percentile £34,000 - £61,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £83,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £36,500 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.18% -69.58% +140.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 -
90th Percentile £62,250 £62,500 -
North West median annual salary £53,125 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.19% -16.00% +13.64%

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 113 181 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.97% 16.07% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 21 102 43
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,498 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,610 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% +25.87%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £52,375
90th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £65,000
North West median annual salary £39,000 £42,500 £52,300
% change year-on-year -8.24% -18.74% +23.06%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +17 19 £46,250 -22.92% 4
Chester - 4 £60,000 - 7
Knutsford -1 3 £40,500 - 3
Lymm - 3 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Crewe -8 1 - -
Frodsham - 1 - -
Runcorn - 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Widnes - 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 (4.21%) SAS
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.05%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) AWS
1 23 (24.21%) Azure
2 21 (22.11%) GCP
3 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.05%) NuGet
3 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (69.47%) VPN
2 39 (41.05%) Cisco IOS
3 28 (29.47%) DNS
4 1 (1.05%) DHCP
4 1 (1.05%) Firewall
4 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Git
1 2 (2.11%) GitLab
1 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.05%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (90.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 71 (74.74%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (33.68%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Legal
6 1 (1.05%) Automotive
6 1 (1.05%) Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (41.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (30.53%) Developer
3 27 (28.42%) Software Developer
4 22 (23.16%) Senior
5 20 (21.05%) Senior Software Engineer
5 20 (21.05%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Data Manager
6 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse Manager
7 2 (2.11%) C# Developer
7 2 (2.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (2.11%) Senior Developer
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Developer
8 1 (1.05%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (1.05%) Infrastructure Support
8 1 (1.05%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
8 1 (1.05%) IT Support
8 1 (1.05%) IT Support Specialist
8 1 (1.05%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (42.11%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (24.21%) .NET
3 20 (21.05%) Node.js
4 1 (1.05%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.05%) Blazor
4 1 (1.05%) CSS
4 1 (1.05%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.05%) gRPC
4 1 (1.05%) HTML
4 1 (1.05%) OAuth
4 1 (1.05%) React
4 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 86 (90.53%) Cyberattack
2 20 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 67 (70.53%) Android
2 45 (47.37%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (72.63%) Mathematics
2 66 (69.47%) Line Management
3 49 (51.58%) Agile
4 45 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (44.21%) DevOps
6 40 (42.11%) Risk Management
7 39 (41.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (41.05%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (41.05%) Storage Management
7 39 (41.05%) Task Automation
8 27 (28.42%) Android Development
8 27 (28.42%) Design Patterns
8 27 (28.42%) OO
8 27 (28.42%) OOP
9 21 (22.11%) Mentoring
9 21 (22.11%) Microservices
10 20 (21.05%) Cloud Security
10 20 (21.05%) Data Engineering
10 20 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (21.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 92 (96.84%) Python
2 49 (51.58%) Java
3 48 (50.53%) Go
4 47 (49.47%) C++
5 40 (42.11%) Bash
5 40 (42.11%) PowerShell
6 21 (22.11%) JavaScript
7 20 (21.05%) Rust
8 3 (3.16%) C#
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.11%) SQL
10 1 (1.05%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.05%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (49.47%) DV Cleared
1 47 (49.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 20 (21.05%) AWS Certified Developer
2 20 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.16%) Degree
4 1 (1.05%) CCNA
4 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.05%) MCSE
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 69 (72.63%) Docker
2 40 (42.11%) Hyper-V
3 39 (41.05%) VMware NSX
3 39 (41.05%) vSphere
4 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (69.47%) Ansible
2 39 (41.05%) Terraform
3 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (42.11%) Cisco
2 39 (41.05%) 3PAR
2 39 (41.05%) Juniper
2 39 (41.05%) Splunk
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (1.05%) Acronis
4 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.05%) Google
4 1 (1.05%) Kaseya
4 1 (1.05%) Meraki
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.05%) Sage
4 1 (1.05%) SonicWALL
4 1 (1.05%) WatchGuard