Linux Jobs in Cumbria

Linux
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 35 19
Rank change year-on-year -72 -16 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5 10 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cumbria 0.23% 2.10% 9.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.71% 38.46% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 18
10th Percentile - £35,750 -
25th Percentile - £44,313 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +55.56% +80.00%
75th Percentile - - £47,500
90th Percentile - £71,750 -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

All Operating Systems
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14 26 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cumbria 0.64% 5.46% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 27
10th Percentile £29,800 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% - +80.00%
75th Percentile £50,250 £70,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £55,300 £76,250 -
North West median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.11% - +5.88%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cumbria

Linux
Salary Trend in Cumbria

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

Salary trend for Linux in Cumbria

Linux
Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 17 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
Carlisle +4 2 £30,000 -57.14% 1
Grange-over-Sands - 1 - -
Barrow-in-Furness - 1 - -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Broadband
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) ModSecurity
1 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) GitOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (20.00%) OWASP
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) cPanel
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Google