Linux Specialist Jobs in Manchester

Linux Specialist
North West > Manchester

The median Linux Specialist salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.039% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £60,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 2,302 4,383 3,242
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 95.08% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 2,903 2,271
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,375 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,900 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,575 £83,000 £84,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Linux Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in Manchester

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Linux Specialist in Manchester

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 11 August 2025, Linux Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Linux Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat