Linux Jobs in Lancashire

Linux
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +39 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 553 38 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 23.97% 2.85% 3.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 94.37% 30.65% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 10 37 21
10th Percentile £40,540 £27,126 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,965 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +72.73%
75th Percentile £51,240 £67,968 £48,750
90th Percentile £51,491 £85,000 £53,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 586 124 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 25.40% 9.31% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 39 112 72
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,614 £24,100
25th Percentile £32,110 £26,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +58.33%
75th Percentile £46,324 £55,000 £52,438
90th Percentile £54,000 £67,968 £60,875
North West median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Preston -22 10 £46,300 -7.40% 7
Blackburn -29 10 £42,500 +93.18%
Accrington - 7 - -
Chorley - 7 - - 1
Darwen - 7 - -
Skelmersdale - 6 - -
Rossendale - 5 - -
Blackpool -28 4 - -
Clitheroe - 4 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 4 - -
Ormskirk - 4 - -
Burnley +8 3 - - 2
Colne - 3 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 3 - -
Nelson - 3 - -
Lancaster +12 2 £42,384 +29.16% 2
Bacup - 2 - -
Barnoldswick - 1 - -
Fleetwood - 1 - -
Morecambe - 1 - -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.36%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 71 (12.84%) Azure
2 70 (12.66%) AWS
2 70 (12.66%) GCP
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 471 (85.17%) VPN
2 309 (55.88%) DNS
3 163 (29.48%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (0.72%) Firewall
5 3 (0.54%) DHCP
5 3 (0.54%) IPv4
5 3 (0.54%) LAN
5 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.54%) VLAN
6 1 (0.18%) FTP
6 1 (0.18%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.18%) SSH
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.18%) MySQL
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
1 3 (0.54%) Git
1 3 (0.54%) Robot Framework
2 2 (0.36%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.18%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (0.18%) GitLab
3 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.18%) JIRA
3 1 (0.18%) JUnit
3 1 (0.18%) NetBeans
General
1 541 (97.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 471 (85.17%) Analytical Skills
3 305 (55.15%) Finance
4 4 (0.72%) Social Skills
5 3 (0.54%) Military
5 3 (0.54%) Retail
5 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 305 (55.15%) Developer
1 305 (55.15%) Software Developer
2 166 (30.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 75 (13.56%) Software Engineer
4 71 (12.84%) Senior
5 70 (12.66%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (0.54%) IT Engineer
6 3 (0.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (0.54%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (0.54%) Test Engineer
7 2 (0.36%) Analyst
7 2 (0.36%) SOC Analyst
8 1 (0.18%) Administrator
8 1 (0.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (0.18%) Junior Software Engineer
8 1 (0.18%) Security Engineer
8 1 (0.18%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (0.18%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (0.18%) Unix Administrator
8 1 (0.18%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (29.48%) Elastic Stack
2 70 (12.66%) .NET
2 70 (12.66%) Node.js
3 4 (0.72%) XML
4 3 (0.54%) SOAP
5 1 (0.18%) CSS
5 1 (0.18%) EDI
5 1 (0.18%) HTML
5 1 (0.18%) JSP
5 1 (0.18%) LAMP
5 1 (0.18%) Loki
5 1 (0.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 538 (97.29%) Cyberattack
2 74 (13.38%) Linux Command Line
3 70 (12.66%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (0.72%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.54%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.36%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.36%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.18%) Life Science
7 1 (0.18%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 468 (84.63%) Android
2 175 (31.65%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) Unix
4 3 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) AIX
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (84.81%) Mathematics
2 468 (84.63%) Line Management
3 378 (68.35%) Agile
4 310 (56.06%) OO
5 305 (55.15%) Android Development
5 305 (55.15%) Design Patterns
5 305 (55.15%) OOP
6 167 (30.20%) DevOps
6 167 (30.20%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (30.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 165 (29.84%) Task Automation
9 163 (29.48%) Platform Engineering
9 163 (29.48%) Risk Management
9 163 (29.48%) Storage Management
10 75 (13.56%) Mentoring
10 75 (13.56%) Software Engineering
11 73 (13.20%) Scrum
12 70 (12.66%) Data Engineering
12 70 (12.66%) Microservices
12 70 (12.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 546 (98.73%) Python
2 380 (68.72%) Java
3 376 (67.99%) C++
4 375 (67.81%) Go
5 169 (30.56%) PowerShell
6 166 (30.02%) Bash
7 73 (13.20%) JavaScript
8 71 (12.84%) Rust
9 4 (0.72%) SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Ada
10 1 (0.18%) AWK
10 1 (0.18%) C
10 1 (0.18%) C#
10 1 (0.18%) Korn
10 1 (0.18%) Perl
10 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 376 (67.99%) Security Cleared
2 375 (67.81%) DV Cleared
3 70 (12.66%) AWS Certification
3 70 (12.66%) AWS Certified Developer
3 70 (12.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (1.27%) Degree
5 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 468 (84.63%) Docker
2 166 (30.02%) Hyper-V
3 163 (29.48%) VMware NSX
3 163 (29.48%) vSphere
4 3 (0.54%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) KVM
5 1 (0.18%) Postfix
5 1 (0.18%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 468 (84.63%) Ansible
2 163 (29.48%) Terraform
3 1 (0.18%) Grafana
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.18%) Nagios
3 1 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 164 (29.66%) Cisco
1 164 (29.66%) Juniper
2 163 (29.48%) 3PAR
2 163 (29.48%) Splunk
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle
4 3 (0.54%) Veeam
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.36%) VMware
6 1 (0.18%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.18%) IBM
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.18%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.18%) SAP
6 1 (0.18%) Tenable