Linux Job Trends in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 82 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 -51 +38
Permanent jobs citing Linux 84 69 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.60% 3.10% 6.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.93% 23.79% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 62 36 171
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,556 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £41,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -13.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £60,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.73% +9.55% -12.91%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 324 290 748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.17% 13.03% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 244 224 560
10th Percentile £26,265 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,438 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £64,925 £58,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -14.29%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Linux job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Linux
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in the East Midlands

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 Linux within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 July 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 +3 43 £44,472 +27.06% 3
Northamptonshire -17 13 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Derbyshire -8 9 £31,500 -10.00% 4
Nottinghamshire -14 9 £30,000 -50.00% 4
Lincolnshire -16 9 £42,500 -5.56% 5
Linux
England

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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.33%) IIS
3 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.71%) Azure
2 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (15.48%) AWS
4 7 (8.33%) npm
4 7 (8.33%) NuGet
4 7 (8.33%) SonarCloud
5 6 (7.14%) GCP
6 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.95%) SaaS
7 3 (3.57%) GitHub
7 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.38%) AWS IoT
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.38%) IaaS
8 2 (2.38%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.38%) PaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.19%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 26 (30.95%) Firewall
2 18 (21.43%) VPN
3 14 (16.67%) DNS
3 14 (16.67%) MQTT
4 12 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (11.90%) Wireless
6 7 (8.33%) DHCP
6 7 (8.33%) VLAN
7 6 (7.14%) LoRaWAN
7 6 (7.14%) ZigBee
8 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
8 5 (5.95%) VoIP
9 4 (4.76%) Bluetooth
10 3 (3.57%) Internet
10 3 (3.57%) LAN
10 3 (3.57%) WAN
11 2 (2.38%) SMTP
11 2 (2.38%) SSH
11 2 (2.38%) SSL
12 1 (1.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.10%) MySQL
3 7 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.76%) Neo4j
6 2 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.38%) KNIME
6 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (7.14%) GDB
2 6 (7.14%) GitLab
2 6 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.76%) Robot Framework
4 3 (3.57%) Subversion
5 1 (1.19%) gulp
5 1 (1.19%) JIRA
5 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 17 (20.24%) Manufacturing
2 14 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.14%) Finance
6 5 (5.95%) Electronics
6 5 (5.95%) Law
6 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.57%) Retail
8 2 (2.38%) Legal
9 1 (1.19%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Senior
2 14 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 13 (15.48%) Embedded Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.90%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 10 (11.90%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) IT Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Technical Support
9 6 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
10 5 (5.95%) Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Firewall Specialist
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (5.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) Yocto
2 7 (8.33%) .NET
2 7 (8.33%) Node.js
2 7 (8.33%) React
2 7 (8.33%) YAML
3 5 (5.95%) .NET Framework
4 4 (4.76%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (4.76%) pytest
4 4 (4.76%) REST
4 4 (4.76%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (3.57%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.38%) Middleware
6 2 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.19%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (1.19%) CSS
7 1 (1.19%) HTML
7 1 (1.19%) Laravel
7 1 (1.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) IoT
2 13 (15.48%) Embedded Systems
3 10 (11.90%) Device Driver
4 7 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (7.14%) ARM Cortex
6 5 (5.95%) Driving Licence
6 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 4 (4.76%) Replication
8 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.57%) EPoS
8 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
9 2 (2.38%) SCADA
10 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (42.86%) Windows
2 18 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.52%) Debian
3 8 (9.52%) Solaris
3 8 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.14%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (5.95%) OpenVMS
5 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.76%) VMS
7 3 (3.57%) CentOS
7 3 (3.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.57%) SUSE
8 2 (2.38%) Unix
9 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (29.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (22.62%) DevOps
5 18 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 16 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 16 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.48%) Customer Service
8 13 (15.48%) High Availability
8 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 11 (13.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (13.10%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (11.90%) DevSecOps
12 9 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (10.71%) ERP
12 9 (10.71%) Software Delivery
13 8 (9.52%) Line Management
13 8 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 16 (19.05%) Bash
3 15 (17.86%) Python
4 14 (16.67%) SQL
5 13 (15.48%) C
5 13 (15.48%) C++
6 7 (8.33%) C#
7 4 (4.76%) Embedded C
7 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.57%) Bicep
8 3 (3.57%) Go
9 2 (2.38%) PHP
9 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) JTAG
2 5 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 15 (17.86%) Docker
3 14 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (11.90%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.76%) vSphere
6 2 (2.38%) Firmware
6 2 (2.38%) Samba
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.10%) Terraform
3 4 (4.76%) Ansible
3 4 (4.76%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (4.76%) Grafana
3 4 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.19%) Argo
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.86%) VMware
3 8 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 7 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (5.95%) Cisco
6 4 (4.76%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.57%) Apple
7 3 (3.57%) Oracle
8 2 (2.38%) AlienVault
8 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.38%) Google
8 2 (2.38%) SAP
8 2 (2.38%) Sybase
9 1 (1.19%) Freshdesk
9 1 (1.19%) Imperva
9 1 (1.19%) Qualys
9 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow