Linux Jobs in the North West

Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 35 59
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 -26
Permanent jobs citing Linux 949 529 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.16% 5.11% 5.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.09% 43.79% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 123 316 261
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,617 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,722 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,231 1,208 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.77% 11.68% 14.90%
Number of salaries quoted 342 888 734
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,938
90th Percentile £74,926 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North West

Linux
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Linux in the North West

Linux
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in the North West

Linux
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Lancashire +41 552 £42,500 -15.00% 61
Manchester +9 261 £55,000 +4.76% 265
Cheshire +20 104 £48,306 -12.17% 146
Merseyside +38 27 £40,000 +19.40% 56
Cumbria -73 5 £30,000 -57.14% 6
Linux
England

Linux
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 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (0.63%) Apache
2 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.42%) IIS
3 4 (0.42%) SAS
4 3 (0.32%) GemFire
4 3 (0.32%) nginx
5 2 (0.21%) Confluence
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 216 (22.76%) AWS
2 213 (22.44%) Azure
3 195 (20.55%) GCP
4 19 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (0.84%) Entra ID
6 6 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (0.63%) Pulumi
7 5 (0.53%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (0.42%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.42%) GitHub
9 3 (0.32%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.32%) Apigee
9 3 (0.32%) Cloudflare
9 3 (0.32%) dbt
9 3 (0.32%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 637 (67.12%) VPN
2 399 (42.04%) DNS
3 250 (26.34%) Cisco IOS
4 17 (1.79%) DHCP
5 14 (1.48%) Firewall
6 12 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.74%) Wireless
8 5 (0.53%) NAS
8 5 (0.53%) SAN
8 5 (0.53%) SSH
8 5 (0.53%) VSAN
9 4 (0.42%) LAN
9 4 (0.42%) VLAN
10 3 (0.32%) Broadband
10 3 (0.32%) IPv4
10 3 (0.32%) VoIP
11 2 (0.21%) HTTP
11 2 (0.21%) Internet
12 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.05%) MySQL
5 9 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.84%) Redis
7 7 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.42%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.32%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.32%) Big Data
11 3 (0.32%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Spanner
12 1 (0.11%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.11%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (2.00%) Git
2 16 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.95%) JIRA
4 5 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.42%) Appium
5 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.42%) Fiddler
5 4 (0.42%) Jaeger
5 4 (0.42%) JMeter
5 4 (0.42%) JUnit
5 4 (0.42%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.42%) Postman
5 4 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.42%) Selenium
6 3 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.32%) GitLab
6 3 (0.32%) Maven
6 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
General
1 818 (86.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 659 (69.44%) Analytical Skills
3 413 (43.52%) Finance
4 50 (5.27%) Social Skills
5 16 (1.69%) Banking
6 14 (1.48%) Retail
7 12 (1.26%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.26%) Telecoms
8 9 (0.95%) Law
9 6 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.63%) Cantonese Language
9 6 (0.63%) Electronics
9 6 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (0.53%) Games
11 4 (0.42%) Automotive
11 4 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.42%) Marketing
12 3 (0.32%) Legal
12 3 (0.32%) Military
13 2 (0.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 398 (41.94%) Developer
2 379 (39.94%) Software Developer
3 270 (28.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 202 (21.29%) Senior
5 191 (20.13%) Software Engineer
6 181 (19.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (1.37%) Support Engineer
8 12 (1.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (1.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.16%) Linux Engineer
10 10 (1.05%) Analyst
11 9 (0.95%) Lead
11 9 (0.95%) Security Engineer
12 8 (0.84%) Senior Developer
13 7 (0.74%) Applications Support
13 7 (0.74%) Applications Support Analyst
13 7 (0.74%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 7 (0.74%) Support Analyst
14 6 (0.63%) Linux Support
14 6 (0.63%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (27.08%) Elastic Stack
2 179 (18.86%) .NET
3 173 (18.23%) Node.js
4 10 (1.05%) Middleware
5 7 (0.74%) Kafka
5 7 (0.74%) Spring
6 6 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (0.42%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.42%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.42%) CSS
7 4 (0.42%) Django
7 4 (0.42%) HTML
7 4 (0.42%) Laravel
7 4 (0.42%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.32%) Hibernate
8 3 (0.32%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.32%) SOAP
8 3 (0.32%) Vue
8 3 (0.32%) Web Services
8 3 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 801 (84.40%) Cyberattack
2 178 (18.76%) Linux Command Line
3 173 (18.23%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (1.26%) Cloud Native
5 9 (0.95%) Security Posture
6 8 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 7 (0.74%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 7 (0.74%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.63%) Device Driver
8 6 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.42%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.42%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (0.42%) EMV
9 4 (0.42%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.32%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.32%) Clustering
10 3 (0.32%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 634 (66.81%) Android
2 313 (32.98%) Windows
3 21 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.11%) Unix
5 10 (1.05%) CentOS
6 8 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.53%) Debian
8 3 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (66.70%) Mathematics
2 629 (66.28%) Line Management
3 582 (61.33%) Agile
4 390 (41.10%) OO
5 383 (40.36%) Design Patterns
5 383 (40.36%) OOP
6 379 (39.94%) Android Development
7 312 (32.88%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (30.87%) DevOps
9 277 (29.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 257 (27.08%) Task Automation
11 256 (26.98%) Platform Engineering
12 251 (26.45%) Risk Management
13 250 (26.34%) Storage Management
14 200 (21.07%) Mentoring
15 198 (20.86%) Software Engineering
16 181 (19.07%) Cloud Security
16 181 (19.07%) Microservices
17 179 (18.86%) User Experience
18 176 (18.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 848 (89.36%) Python
2 573 (60.38%) Java
3 562 (59.22%) C++
4 560 (59.01%) Go
5 269 (28.35%) PowerShell
6 268 (28.24%) Bash
7 198 (20.86%) JavaScript
8 173 (18.23%) Rust
9 35 (3.69%) SQL
10 12 (1.26%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.05%) C
12 8 (0.84%) PHP
12 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.74%) C-shell
13 7 (0.74%) Korn
14 6 (0.63%) C#
15 1 (0.11%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.11%) Ruby
15 1 (0.11%) Swift
15 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 564 (59.43%) Security Cleared
2 551 (58.06%) DV Cleared
3 180 (18.97%) AWS Certification
4 173 (18.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (18.12%) AWS Certified Developer
6 34 (3.58%) Degree
7 15 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.74%) PhD
10 6 (0.63%) SC Cleared
11 5 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.32%) CCNA
13 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
13 3 (0.32%) MCSE
13 3 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.48%) QA
2 8 (0.84%) GDPR
3 6 (0.63%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.32%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.21%) SLA
6 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.11%) NCSC
6 1 (0.11%) NIST
6 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 660 (69.55%) Docker
2 262 (27.61%) Hyper-V
3 257 (27.08%) VMware NSX
4 251 (26.45%) vSphere
5 20 (2.11%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.32%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.32%) Postfix
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 643 (67.76%) Ansible
2 290 (30.56%) Terraform
3 24 (2.53%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 9 (0.95%) Puppet
5 6 (0.63%) Grafana
6 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.53%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.53%) SCCM
7 4 (0.42%) Argo
7 4 (0.42%) SCOM
7 4 (0.42%) SCOrch
8 3 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.32%) Istio
8 3 (0.32%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.21%) Salt
10 1 (0.11%) cPanel
10 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 256 (26.98%) Cisco
2 254 (26.77%) Splunk
3 251 (26.45%) Juniper
4 250 (26.34%) 3PAR
5 37 (3.90%) Microsoft
6 28 (2.95%) Oracle
7 20 (2.11%) VMware
8 15 (1.58%) Google
9 5 (0.53%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.53%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.42%) Veeam
11 3 (0.32%) Acronis
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.32%) Kaseya
11 3 (0.32%) Meraki
11 3 (0.32%) Sage
11 3 (0.32%) Solace
11 3 (0.32%) SonicWALL
11 3 (0.32%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.32%) WatchGuard