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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 38 58
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 -25
Permanent jobs citing Linux 101 65 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.10% 4.20% 3.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.16% 35.14% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9 39 16
10th Percentile - £26,250 £20,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,625 £40,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% - +31.09%
75th Percentile - £57,677 £87,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £120,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,847 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.14% +2.57% -

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 126 185 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.34% 11.97% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 30 126 126
10th Percentile £30,700 £24,807 £22,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £25,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +14.67% +12.55%
75th Percentile £47,167 £55,000 £48,000
90th Percentile £57,750 £61,875 £57,500
North West median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.11% - +5.88%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +26 24 £48,306 -19.49% 17
Chester +22 3 £60,000 +71.43% 12
Lymm - 3 - -
Crewe - 2 - - 3
Knutsford - 2 £80,000 - 5
Wilmslow - 2 - - 1
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 1
Frodsham - 1 - -
Runcorn - 1 - -
Widnes - 1 - - 2
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 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.97%) SAS
1 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.75%) AWS
1 25 (24.75%) Azure
2 21 (20.79%) GCP
3 3 (2.97%) Entra ID
3 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.98%) NuGet
4 2 (1.98%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 66 (65.35%) VPN
2 39 (38.61%) Cisco IOS
3 30 (29.70%) DNS
4 4 (3.96%) Firewall
5 3 (2.97%) DHCP
5 3 (2.97%) VoIP
6 2 (1.98%) Broadband
6 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.98%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Git
1 2 (1.98%) Jaeger
General
1 88 (87.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 73 (72.28%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (29.70%) Finance
4 7 (6.93%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Automotive
5 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.98%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (38.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (28.71%) Developer
3 27 (26.73%) Senior
3 27 (26.73%) Software Developer
4 20 (19.80%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (19.80%) Software Engineer
5 4 (3.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 4 (3.96%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (2.97%) Data Manager
6 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse Manager
6 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 3 (2.97%) IT Support
6 3 (2.97%) IT Support Specialist
6 3 (2.97%) Support Specialist
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Developer
7 2 (1.98%) Lead
7 2 (1.98%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (1.98%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (40.59%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (21.78%) .NET
3 20 (19.80%) Node.js
4 2 (1.98%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.98%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.98%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.98%) Kafka
4 2 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.98%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 86 (85.15%) Cyberattack
2 20 (19.80%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (19.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (65.35%) Android
2 50 (49.50%) Windows
3 3 (2.97%) Unix
3 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (67.33%) Mathematics
2 66 (65.35%) Line Management
3 51 (50.50%) Agile
4 46 (45.54%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (43.56%) DevOps
6 41 (40.59%) Task Automation
7 39 (38.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (38.61%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (38.61%) Risk Management
7 39 (38.61%) Storage Management
8 27 (26.73%) Android Development
8 27 (26.73%) Design Patterns
8 27 (26.73%) OO
8 27 (26.73%) OOP
9 22 (21.78%) Mentoring
9 22 (21.78%) Microservices
10 20 (19.80%) Machine Learning
10 20 (19.80%) Scrum
10 20 (19.80%) Software Engineering
10 20 (19.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 95 (94.06%) Python
2 49 (48.51%) Go
2 49 (48.51%) Java
3 47 (46.53%) C++
4 46 (45.54%) PowerShell
5 45 (44.55%) Bash
6 24 (23.76%) JavaScript
7 20 (19.80%) Rust
8 2 (1.98%) C#
8 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (46.53%) DV Cleared
1 47 (46.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.78%) AWS Certification
3 20 (19.80%) AWS Certified Developer
3 20 (19.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.94%) Degree
5 3 (2.97%) CCNA
5 3 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.97%) MCSE
5 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.97%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 70 (69.31%) Docker
2 43 (42.57%) Hyper-V
3 39 (38.61%) VMware NSX
3 39 (38.61%) vSphere
4 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (67.33%) Ansible
2 41 (40.59%) Terraform
3 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.96%) SCCM
4 4 (3.96%) SCOM
4 4 (3.96%) SCOrch
5 2 (1.98%) Argo
5 2 (1.98%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (41.58%) Cisco
2 39 (38.61%) 3PAR
2 39 (38.61%) Juniper
2 39 (38.61%) Splunk
3 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.97%) Acronis
4 3 (2.97%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.97%) Kaseya
4 3 (2.97%) Meraki
4 3 (2.97%) Oracle
4 3 (2.97%) Sage
4 3 (2.97%) SonicWALL
4 3 (2.97%) WatchGuard
5 2 (1.98%) Google
6 1 (0.99%) VMware