Embedded Linux Job Trends in the East Midlands

Embedded Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Embedded Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 141 158
Rank change year-on-year -23 +17 -
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Linux 11 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.17% 0.13% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.06% 1.04% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 17
10th Percentile £63,500 - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £40,000
75th Percentile £71,250 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - £61,250
England median annual salary £68,750 £55,000 £70,250
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.71% +22.17%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

Embedded 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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 360 288 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.57% 12.43% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 260 221 289
10th Percentile £26,225 £25,875 £26,450
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £65,250 £55,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

Embedded Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Embedded Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Embedded Linux job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Embedded Linux
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Embedded Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Linux within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 10 £67,500 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £65,000 - 4
Embedded Linux
England

Embedded Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS IoT
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Wi-Fi
1 10 (90.91%) Wireless
2 2 (18.18%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (18.18%) MQTT
2 2 (18.18%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GDB
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Embedded Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Senior
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IoT Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Device Driver
1 10 (90.91%) Embedded Systems
1 10 (90.91%) IoT
2 2 (18.18%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) FPGA
3 1 (9.09%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Collaborative Culture
2 8 (72.73%) Collaborative Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (72.73%) Device Driver Development
3 3 (27.27%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Edge Computing
4 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
5 1 (9.09%) FPGA Design
5 1 (9.09%) Signal Processing
5 1 (9.09%) Synthetic Environment
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C
2 10 (90.91%) C++
3 9 (81.82%) Embedded C
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
5 1 (9.09%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Intel
2 1 (9.09%) Xilinx