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 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 41 74
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -38
Permanent jobs citing Linux 250 264 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.18% 6.44% 4.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.20% 43.35% 25.92%
Number of salaries quoted 146 159 255
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,084 £30,300
25th Percentile £40,620 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,021 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,800 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,125 £80,510 £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 753 609 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.59% 14.85% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 412 439 885
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £23,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,387 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,200 £74,589
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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 6 December 2024.

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 6 December 2024. 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 -15 165 £52,500 -12.50% 73
Cheshire +37 51 £40,000 +19.40% 6
Lancashire -33 29 £43,750 -23.91% 9
Merseyside -15 3 £34,750 -24.86% 7
Cumbria -70 2 £27,500 -16.06% 4
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 39 (15.60%) Apache
2 30 (12.00%) nginx
3 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.20%) Confluence
5 6 (2.40%) OpenStack
6 5 (2.00%) IIS
7 4 (1.60%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.60%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.60%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.80%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.80%) WildFly
8 2 (0.80%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.40%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 20 (8.00%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.80%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.20%) AWS
2 67 (26.80%) Azure
3 57 (22.80%) GCP
4 21 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (8.00%) PaaS
5 20 (8.00%) SaaS
6 19 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (6.80%) Datadog
8 16 (6.40%) GitHub
9 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.20%) IaaS
11 7 (2.80%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.40%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.00%) Serverless
14 4 (1.60%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.60%) Route 53
15 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.40%) DNS
2 28 (11.20%) Firewall
3 21 (8.40%) DHCP
4 20 (8.00%) TCP/IP
5 18 (7.20%) VLAN
6 11 (4.40%) IPv4
6 11 (4.40%) LAN
7 10 (4.00%) VPN
8 8 (3.20%) Network Security
9 4 (1.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (1.60%) Internet
9 4 (1.60%) IPv6
9 4 (1.60%) MPLS
9 4 (1.60%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.60%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.20%) SMTP
10 3 (1.20%) SNMP
10 3 (1.20%) WAN
10 3 (1.20%) WLAN
11 2 (0.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (20.00%) MySQL
2 21 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.00%) BusinessObjects
4 17 (6.80%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.20%) Redis
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.80%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.40%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (10.80%) Git
2 18 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.80%) PHPUnit
4 11 (4.40%) JIRA
5 8 (3.20%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.40%) Mercurial
7 5 (2.00%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.00%) GitLab
8 4 (1.60%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.20%) Maven
10 2 (0.80%) CMake
10 2 (0.80%) GCC
10 2 (0.80%) GDB
10 2 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.40%) JMeter
General
1 55 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 34 (13.60%) Finance
4 31 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.40%) Retail
5 20 (8.00%) Local Government
5 20 (8.00%) Police
6 14 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.60%) Games
7 9 (3.60%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.80%) Automotive
8 7 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.60%) Banking
11 4 (1.60%) Electronics
11 4 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (24.00%) Developer
2 57 (22.80%) Senior
3 39 (15.60%) Consultant
4 35 (14.00%) PHP Developer
5 23 (9.20%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.20%) Web Developer
6 22 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (8.00%) Lead
7 20 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
7 20 (8.00%) Senior Support Consultant
7 20 (8.00%) Support Consultant
8 19 (7.60%) Backend Developer
8 19 (7.60%) Senior Developer
9 17 (6.80%) PHP Web Developer
9 17 (6.80%) Senior Backend Developer
9 17 (6.80%) Senior PHP Developer
9 17 (6.80%) Senior PHP Web Developer
9 17 (6.80%) Senior Web Developer
10 15 (6.00%) Systems Administrator
11 14 (5.60%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (18.40%) HTML
2 43 (17.20%) CSS
2 43 (17.20%) React
3 26 (10.40%) LAMP
4 23 (9.20%) LEMP Stack
5 21 (8.40%) Vue
6 19 (7.60%) Symfony
7 17 (6.80%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.80%) Laravel
9 11 (4.40%) Sass
10 10 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (4.00%) LAPP Stack
11 9 (3.60%) REST
12 8 (3.20%) .NET
13 7 (2.80%) Web Services
14 6 (2.40%) Svelte
14 6 (2.40%) SvelteKit
14 6 (2.40%) Tailwind CSS
15 5 (2.00%) Middleware
16 4 (1.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.00%) IoT
2 12 (4.80%) Private Cloud
3 10 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.80%) Replication
7 6 (2.40%) Cyber Security Posture
7 6 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.60%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.60%) Life Science
9 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.20%) Digital Signage
10 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 119 (47.60%) Windows
2 32 (12.80%) Windows Server
3 25 (10.00%) Unix
4 23 (9.20%) Solaris
5 10 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.20%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.80%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.80%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.60%) CentOS
8 4 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.20%) Android
10 2 (0.80%) AIX
10 2 (0.80%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.80%) Debian
10 2 (0.80%) zOS
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.40%) Software Engineering
2 43 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (15.60%) Agile
3 39 (15.60%) DevOps
4 31 (12.40%) Mentoring
5 28 (11.20%) CI/CD
5 28 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (11.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (11.20%) Open Source
6 27 (10.80%) ITIL
6 27 (10.80%) Web Development
7 26 (10.40%) Containerisation
8 25 (10.00%) Microservices
9 24 (9.60%) MVC
10 23 (9.20%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.80%) Clean Code
11 22 (8.80%) Customer Requirements
12 21 (8.40%) E-Commerce
13 20 (8.00%) Housing Management
14 19 (7.60%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.80%) Python
2 52 (20.80%) PHP
3 46 (18.40%) JavaScript
4 40 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 38 (15.20%) SQL
6 25 (10.00%) C++
7 23 (9.20%) Java
8 20 (8.00%) C
9 15 (6.00%) TypeScript
10 14 (5.60%) Bash
11 11 (4.40%) Go
12 9 (3.60%) Rust
13 8 (3.20%) Perl
14 6 (2.40%) C#
15 5 (2.00%) Ruby
16 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.80%) COBOL
17 2 (0.80%) Dart
17 2 (0.80%) Korn
17 2 (0.80%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.00%) Degree
2 25 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 20 (8.00%) DBS Check
4 18 (7.20%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.80%) CCNA
8 2 (0.80%) CCNP
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) MOS
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.40%) Accessibility
2 24 (9.60%) ISO 9001
3 12 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (12.00%) Docker
2 28 (11.20%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.80%) Hyper-V
3 17 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.00%) Firmware
7 4 (1.60%) KVM
8 2 (0.80%) Postfix
8 2 (0.80%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.40%) NFS
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 37 (14.80%) Ansible
1 37 (14.80%) Kubernetes
2 35 (14.00%) Terraform
3 24 (9.60%) Puppet
4 13 (5.20%) Grafana
5 9 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.00%) Argo
6 5 (2.00%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.60%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.20%) Nagios
8 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.20%) WSUS
9 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.80%) CloudForms
9 2 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.80%) Nessus
9 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 2 (0.80%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.00%) Google
3 24 (9.60%) VMware
4 20 (8.00%) Citrix
4 20 (8.00%) NEC
5 14 (5.60%) Red Hat
5 14 (5.60%) Veeam
6 12 (4.80%) Oracle
7 6 (2.40%) IBM
8 4 (1.60%) Apple
8 4 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.60%) F5
8 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.60%) Zerto
9 3 (1.20%) Cisco
10 2 (0.80%) ATG
10 2 (0.80%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.80%) Remedy
10 2 (0.80%) SAP
10 2 (0.80%) Symantec