Linux Engineer Jobs in the North West

Linux Engineer
England > North West

The median Linux Engineer salary in the North West is £43,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 283 290
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 10 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.041% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.043% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 5
10th Percentile - - £44,100
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £46,688 £60,000 £59,500
90th Percentile £58,250 - £70,900
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% +4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 6,933 9,216 7,073
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.65% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,092 7,079 4,124
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,550 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the North West

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the North West

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the North West

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +81 9 £42,500 -22.73% 4
Lancashire - 1 £55,000 - 2
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Linux Engineer 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 North West region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (60.00%) SSH
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 5 (50.00%) Telematics
4 5 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (50.00%) Vehicle Telematics
4 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (40.00%) CentOS
6 3 (30.00%) AWS
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
6 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (30.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
7 2 (20.00%) Azure
7 2 (20.00%) Postfix
7 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Open Source
7 2 (20.00%) Puppet
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (20.00%) Terraform
7 2 (20.00%) Server Management
7 2 (20.00%) Social Skills

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) SSH
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) FTP
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) EDI
1 1 (10.00%) LAMP
1 1 (10.00%) Loki
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) CentOS
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (10.00%) AIX
5 1 (10.00%) Debian
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Telematics
2 5 (50.00%) Vehicle Telematics
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source
3 2 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Server Building
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) AWK
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (10.00%) RHCE
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (20.00%) Postfix
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Dovecot
2 1 (10.00%) KVM
2 1 (10.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Puppet
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios
2 1 (10.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (20.00%) PagerDuty
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Okta
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Tenable