Linux Jobs in Preston

Linux
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 10 7 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 2.62% 3.21% 5.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 21.88% 29.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 15
10th Percentile £38,941 £47,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,993 £48,125 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,300 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £50,969 £51,875 £48,750
90th Percentile £52,638 £52,500 -
Lancashire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +38.69%

All Operating Systems
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 32 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 2.62% 14.68% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2 28 36
10th Percentile £38,941 - £26,125
25th Percentile £40,993 £26,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,300 £27,500 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% -41.80% +94.85%
75th Percentile £50,969 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £52,638 £52,500 £49,594
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -18.95% +58.33%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Preston

Linux
Salary Trend in Preston

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

Salary trend for Linux in Preston

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) VPN
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse RCP
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
1 6 (60.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) JSP
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Android
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Mathematics
2 8 (80.00%) Line Management
3 7 (70.00%) OO
4 6 (60.00%) Agile
4 6 (60.00%) Android Development
4 6 (60.00%) Design Patterns
4 6 (60.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) ETL
6 1 (10.00%) OOD
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) C++
3 6 (60.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Ada
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Rust
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
1 3 (30.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) 3PAR
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto