Linux Jobs in Manchester

Linux
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 261 384 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.02% 7.15% 6.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.86% 51.82% 46.79%
Number of salaries quoted 100 221 188
10th Percentile £37,375 £38,084 £26,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,343 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 436 741 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.07% 13.79% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 240 527 434
10th Percentile £27,950 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £77,542
North West median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Oldham - 18 £40,750 -
Stockport -3 13 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Bury +4 12 £60,000 +41.18% 12
Cheadle +7 9 - -
Heywood - 9 - -
Sale - 9 - -
Dukinfield - 8 - -
Altrincham - 8 - - 11
Ashton-under-Lyne - 7 - - 13
Stalybridge - 7 - -
Wigan - 6 - -
Bolton -30 5 - - 14
Rochdale +2 4 - -
Salford -9 3 £69,384 +4.73% 4
Littleborough - 2 - -
Linux
North West

Linux
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.53%) Apache
1 4 (1.53%) IIS
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.15%) GemFire
2 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 119 (45.59%) AWS
2 116 (44.44%) Azure
3 104 (39.85%) GCP
4 11 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.92%) AWS CodeBuild
7 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.53%) GitHub
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.15%) Apigee
9 3 (1.15%) dbt
9 3 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.15%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (27.59%) VPN
2 43 (16.48%) Cisco IOS
3 39 (14.94%) DNS
4 10 (3.83%) DHCP
5 7 (2.68%) Wireless
6 5 (1.92%) NAS
6 5 (1.92%) SAN
6 5 (1.92%) SSH
6 5 (1.92%) VSAN
7 4 (1.53%) Firewall
7 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.77%) HTTP
8 2 (0.77%) Internet
9 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.38%) FTP
9 1 (0.38%) LAN
9 1 (0.38%) OSPF
9 1 (0.38%) VLAN
9 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.07%) MySQL
6 7 (2.68%) Redis
7 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.15%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.15%) Big Data
9 3 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
9 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.38%) DB2
10 1 (0.38%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (6.13%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.98%) Git
3 7 (2.68%) JIRA
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.53%) Appium
5 4 (1.53%) Fiddler
5 4 (1.53%) JMeter
5 4 (1.53%) LoadRunner
5 4 (1.53%) Postman
5 4 (1.53%) Selenium
6 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.15%) JUnit
6 3 (1.15%) Maven
6 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.77%) GitLab
8 1 (0.38%) CMake
8 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 161 (61.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 90 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (21.46%) Finance
4 36 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 16 (6.13%) Banking
6 11 (4.21%) Retail
7 9 (3.45%) Law
7 9 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.07%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.30%) Cantonese Language
9 6 (2.30%) Electronics
9 6 (2.30%) Games
9 6 (2.30%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Advertising
11 2 (0.77%) Front Office
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 101 (38.70%) Senior
2 96 (36.78%) Software Engineer
3 91 (34.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 59 (22.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 40 (15.33%) Developer
6 26 (9.96%) Software Developer
7 12 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.21%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (3.83%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) Analyst
10 8 (3.07%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.68%) Applications Support
11 7 (2.68%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (2.68%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 7 (2.68%) Support Analyst
12 6 (2.30%) Lead
12 6 (2.30%) Linux Support
12 6 (2.30%) Linux Support Engineer
13 5 (1.92%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (32.57%) .NET
2 83 (31.80%) Node.js
3 48 (18.39%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.45%) Middleware
5 7 (2.68%) Spring
6 5 (1.92%) Kafka
7 4 (1.53%) Django
7 4 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.53%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.15%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.15%) Laravel
8 3 (1.15%) RESTful
9 2 (0.77%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.77%) CSS
9 2 (0.77%) HTML
9 2 (0.77%) Vue
9 2 (0.77%) Web Services
10 1 (0.38%) OpenCL
10 1 (0.38%) React
10 1 (0.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 151 (57.85%) Cyberattack
2 84 (32.18%) Linux Command Line
3 83 (31.80%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.68%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 7 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.30%) Device Driver
7 6 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.53%) EMV
8 4 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.15%) Clustering
9 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.15%) Derivative
10 2 (0.77%) Equities
10 2 (0.77%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 78 (29.89%) Windows
2 73 (27.97%) Android
3 13 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.60%) Unix
5 10 (3.83%) CentOS
6 8 (3.07%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.92%) Debian
9 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (49.04%) Agile
2 103 (39.46%) Software Engineering
3 100 (38.31%) Mentoring
4 91 (34.87%) Cloud Security
5 89 (34.10%) User Experience
6 88 (33.72%) Microservices
6 88 (33.72%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 84 (32.18%) Machine Learning
9 82 (31.42%) Data Engineering
9 82 (31.42%) Scrum
10 74 (28.35%) DevOps
11 69 (26.44%) Line Management
11 69 (26.44%) Mathematics
12 66 (25.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 49 (18.77%) Platform Engineering
14 46 (17.62%) Task Automation
15 43 (16.48%) Risk Management
15 43 (16.48%) Storage Management
16 32 (12.26%) OO
Programming Languages
1 179 (68.58%) Python
2 121 (46.36%) Java
3 119 (45.59%) C++
4 114 (43.68%) Go
5 98 (37.55%) JavaScript
6 82 (31.42%) Rust
7 50 (19.16%) Bash
8 48 (18.39%) PowerShell
9 29 (11.11%) SQL
10 10 (3.83%) C
10 10 (3.83%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.07%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.68%) C-shell
12 7 (2.68%) Korn
12 7 (2.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) C#
13 1 (0.38%) Ruby
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 120 (45.98%) Security Cleared
2 108 (41.38%) DV Cleared
3 87 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 83 (31.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 82 (31.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 19 (7.28%) Degree
7 12 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.68%) PhD
10 6 (2.30%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.53%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.15%) Linux+ Certification
13 3 (1.15%) RHCE
14 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.83%) QA
2 6 (2.30%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.15%) GDPR
3 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (35.63%) Docker
2 50 (19.16%) VMware NSX
3 48 (18.39%) Hyper-V
4 44 (16.86%) vSphere
5 12 (4.60%) Active Directory
6 9 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (1.15%) Dovecot
8 3 (1.15%) Postfix
9 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 81 (31.03%) Ansible
1 81 (31.03%) Terraform
2 17 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.45%) Puppet
4 7 (2.68%) Grafana
4 7 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.15%) Istio
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.77%) Salt
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Automic
8 1 (0.38%) Consul
8 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.38%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (18.01%) Splunk
2 44 (16.86%) Cisco
3 43 (16.48%) 3PAR
3 43 (16.48%) Juniper
4 27 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 20 (7.66%) Oracle
6 15 (5.75%) VMware
7 10 (3.83%) Google
8 4 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.15%) Okta
9 3 (1.15%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.15%) Solace
9 3 (1.15%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.77%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.38%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.38%) Imperva
11 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.38%) Veeam