Linux Jobs in the North West

Linux
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 55 32
Rank change year-on-year +19 -23 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 533 443 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.00% 5.99% 8.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.51% 38.76% 46.45%
Number of salaries quoted 318 264 393
10th Percentile £34,750 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,675
England median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
North West

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,225 1,143 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.48% 15.46% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 894 731 1,075
10th Percentile £25,325 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,625 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +20 391 £52,500 -12.50% 69
Cheshire +31 68 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Lancashire -1 38 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Merseyside -36 25 £33,500 -33.00% 4
Cumbria -13 10 £70,000 +55.56% 3
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 41 (7.69%) Apache
2 20 (3.75%) IIS
3 18 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (2.81%) ArcGIS
5 14 (2.63%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.50%) GeoServer
6 8 (1.50%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.50%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.75%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.75%) nginx
9 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) SAS
11 1 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Confluence
11 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) NEC Housing
1 8 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 195 (36.59%) Azure
2 150 (28.14%) AWS
3 78 (14.63%) IBM Cloud
4 70 (13.13%) Serverless
5 48 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (7.88%) GCP
7 41 (7.69%) Azure API Management
7 41 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 41 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 41 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 41 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (3.94%) GitHub
10 20 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.63%) OpenShift
11 14 (2.63%) SaaS
12 12 (2.25%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (10.69%) Firewall
2 38 (7.13%) WAN
3 35 (6.57%) DNS
4 27 (5.07%) LAN
5 26 (4.88%) DHCP
5 26 (4.88%) SAN
6 25 (4.69%) Network Security
6 25 (4.69%) VPN
7 23 (4.32%) TCP/IP
8 21 (3.94%) SSL
9 15 (2.81%) Internet
10 13 (2.44%) SD-WAN
11 12 (2.25%) iSCSI
12 11 (2.06%) AMQP
12 11 (2.06%) Wireless
13 10 (1.88%) BGP
13 10 (1.88%) IPsec
13 10 (1.88%) SNMP
13 10 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (1.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (19.89%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (19.32%) MongoDB
3 100 (18.76%) NoSQL
4 79 (14.82%) DB2
5 66 (12.38%) Relational Database
6 50 (9.38%) MySQL
6 50 (9.38%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.38%) Big Data
7 18 (3.38%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.81%) GIS
9 13 (2.44%) Redis
10 12 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (2.25%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.06%) Cloudera CDH
11 11 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.06%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.50%) QGIS
14 7 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.31%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 38 (7.13%) JIRA
2 35 (6.57%) Git
3 28 (5.25%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.25%) GitLab
5 9 (1.69%) Subversion
6 7 (1.31%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.31%) PHPUnit
6 7 (1.31%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (1.13%) GDB
8 5 (0.94%) Clang
9 4 (0.75%) CMake
9 4 (0.75%) GCC
10 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.38%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.38%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.38%) Maven
11 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (18.57%) Public Sector
2 82 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.26%) Finance
4 42 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (5.63%) Aerospace
6 22 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.44%) Retail
9 11 (2.06%) Automotive
10 10 (1.88%) Electronics
11 8 (1.50%) Local Government
11 8 (1.50%) Military
11 8 (1.50%) Police
12 7 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.13%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.94%) Games
15 4 (0.75%) Banking
15 4 (0.75%) Law
15 4 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (23.45%) Developer
2 118 (22.14%) Software Engineer
3 112 (21.01%) Senior
4 48 (9.01%) Full Stack Developer
5 43 (8.07%) Full Stack Engineer
5 43 (8.07%) Lead
6 41 (7.69%) Azure Developer
7 38 (7.13%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 31 (5.82%) Embedded Engineer
9 31 (5.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 28 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (3.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.75%) Architect
12 20 (3.75%) Senior Developer
13 19 (3.56%) Software Developer
14 17 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (3.00%) Network Engineer
16 15 (2.81%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (24.39%) React
2 120 (22.51%) CSS
3 113 (21.20%) HTML
4 102 (19.14%) AngularJS
5 99 (18.57%) REST
6 94 (17.64%) .NET
6 94 (17.64%) Vue
7 90 (16.89%) Node.js
7 90 (16.89%) Web Services
8 89 (16.70%) jQuery
9 86 (16.14%) ASP.NET
10 78 (14.63%) ASP.NET Core
10 78 (14.63%) Backbone.js
10 78 (14.63%) Ember.js
10 78 (14.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 31 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (3.75%) Spring Boot
13 16 (3.00%) HTML5
13 16 (3.00%) Laravel
14 15 (2.81%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 79 (14.82%) Algorithms
3 78 (14.63%) Blockchain
3 78 (14.63%) Data Structures
4 37 (6.94%) e-Learning
5 33 (6.19%) Data Centre
6 27 (5.07%) Public Cloud
7 25 (4.69%) Embedded Systems
8 22 (4.13%) IoT
9 18 (3.38%) Management Information System
10 15 (2.81%) Cloud Native
10 15 (2.81%) PMI
11 10 (1.88%) Device Driver
11 10 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.88%) Replication
12 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.31%) Smart Energy
14 6 (1.13%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
15 5 (0.94%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 266 (49.91%) Windows
2 84 (15.76%) Android
2 84 (15.76%) Apple iOS
3 50 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 38 (7.13%) Unix
5 34 (6.38%) Ubuntu
6 32 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (3.00%) Embedded Linux
8 15 (2.81%) Debian
9 14 (2.63%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.44%) CentOS
10 13 (2.44%) Solaris
11 10 (1.88%) Data ONTAP
12 8 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.94%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.56%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (29.64%) Agile
2 139 (26.08%) Software Engineering
3 119 (22.33%) DevOps
4 110 (20.64%) Full Stack Development
5 99 (18.57%) Mentoring
6 98 (18.39%) OO
7 97 (18.20%) OOP
8 96 (18.01%) Web Development
9 93 (17.45%) User Experience
10 92 (17.26%) MVC
11 90 (16.89%) Design Patterns
11 90 (16.89%) MVVM
12 88 (16.51%) Artificial Intelligence
13 79 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (14.63%) Co-Creation
14 78 (14.63%) Design Thinking
14 78 (14.63%) Responsive Web Design
14 78 (14.63%) SOLID
15 68 (12.76%) Coaching
16 64 (12.01%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 180 (33.77%) Python
2 138 (25.89%) JavaScript
3 121 (22.70%) Java
4 117 (21.95%) SQL
5 93 (17.45%) C#
6 71 (13.32%) C
7 40 (7.50%) C++
8 27 (5.07%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.69%) PHP
10 23 (4.32%) Rust
11 15 (2.81%) Embedded C
12 13 (2.44%) Bash
12 13 (2.44%) Perl
13 11 (2.06%) Delphi
14 10 (1.88%) Ruby
14 10 (1.88%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.50%) TypeScript
16 7 (1.31%) Go
17 5 (0.94%) ABAP
17 5 (0.94%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 83 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.63%) Degree
3 53 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 43 (8.07%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.32%) AWS Certification
6 22 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.81%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.50%) CCNP
11 7 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.94%) Citrix Certification
12 5 (0.94%) HND
12 5 (0.94%) JNCIA
12 5 (0.94%) VCAP
13 4 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.75%) HNC
14 3 (0.56%) CCNA
14 3 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.31%) ISO 9000
3 7 (1.31%) SLA
4 5 (0.94%) GDPR
5 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.75%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.19%) QA
System Software
1 75 (14.07%) Docker
2 55 (10.32%) Active Directory
3 49 (9.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (4.32%) Firmware
5 13 (2.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 13 (2.44%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.56%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.56%) vSphere
7 2 (0.38%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.19%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.19%) Lustre
8 1 (0.19%) Postfix
8 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (14.07%) Ansible
1 75 (14.07%) Kubernetes
2 62 (11.63%) Terraform
3 17 (3.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (2.81%) Puppet
5 14 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 12 (2.25%) Opsgenie
6 12 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.25%) VxRail
6 12 (2.25%) ZABBIX
7 10 (1.88%) vCenter Server
8 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.31%) WSUS
10 5 (0.94%) Plesk
11 4 (0.75%) cPanel
12 3 (0.56%) Podman
12 3 (0.56%) SELinux
13 2 (0.38%) Grafana
14 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.19%) Icinga
Vendors
1 115 (21.58%) Red Hat
2 86 (16.14%) IBM
3 83 (15.57%) Microsoft
4 67 (12.57%) VMware
5 44 (8.26%) Cisco
6 37 (6.94%) Oracle
7 25 (4.69%) NetApp
8 22 (4.13%) Google
9 21 (3.94%) Veeam
10 15 (2.81%) ESRI
11 14 (2.63%) F5
11 14 (2.63%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.44%) Dell
13 12 (2.25%) SolarWinds
14 11 (2.06%) Facebook
14 11 (2.06%) Palo Alto
14 11 (2.06%) SaltStack
15 10 (1.88%) SolidFire
16 8 (1.50%) Citrix
16 8 (1.50%) Sparx