Ubuntu Job Trends in Cheshire

Ubuntu Linux
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.054% - 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.12% - 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

Ubuntu 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 89 117 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.83% 15.75% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 81 25 102
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £28,498
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £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 £62,250 £60,875
North West median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -17.59%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 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 - 1 £52,500 - 1
Ubuntu
North West

Ubuntu
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (100.00%) VMware