Linux Jobs in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 31 61
Rank change year-on-year -53 +30 -35
Permanent jobs citing Linux 82 321 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.99% 5.95% 4.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.80% 39.68% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 38 183 53
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £61,750 £55,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £60,000 £68,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 295 809 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.74% 14.99% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 222 601 256
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,240 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £26,500 £28,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £40,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,625 £58,750 £65,625
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East Midlands

Linux
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Linux in the East Midlands

Linux
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -6 36 £52,500 +31.25% 28
Derbyshire -17 22 £35,000 -30.00% 29
Leicestershire -37 9 £65,000 +36.84% 22
Lincolnshire +18 7 £42,500 +6.25% 12
Nottinghamshire -24 7 £60,000 +26.32% 36
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 9 (10.98%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) JBoss
4 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) EngageOne
2 1 (1.22%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 26 (31.71%) Azure
2 22 (26.83%) AWS
3 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (14.63%) PaaS
3 12 (14.63%) SaaS
4 4 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.44%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.44%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.44%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.22%) Figma
6 1 (1.22%) GitHub
6 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.22%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (32.93%) VPN
2 15 (18.29%) TCP/IP
3 8 (9.76%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (8.54%) Firewall
5 5 (6.10%) DNS
6 4 (4.88%) DHCP
6 4 (4.88%) Ethernet
6 4 (4.88%) LAN
6 4 (4.88%) Network Security
6 4 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.88%) WAN
7 3 (3.66%) Internet
8 2 (2.44%) Broadband
9 1 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.85%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.20%) MySQL
3 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.66%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.44%) Big Data
5 2 (2.44%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (17.07%) Cucumber
2 13 (15.85%) Robot Framework
3 11 (13.41%) Git
4 10 (12.20%) JIRA
5 9 (10.98%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.32%) Eclipse
7 5 (6.10%) JUnit
8 4 (4.88%) IntelliJ
8 4 (4.88%) Jasmine
8 4 (4.88%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (4.88%) Mockito
8 4 (4.88%) Protractor
9 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
10 2 (2.44%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (2.44%) Jaeger
11 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.22%) FitNesse
11 1 (1.22%) GitLab
11 1 (1.22%) Maven
11 1 (1.22%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (34.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.85%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.88%) Retail
5 3 (3.66%) Finance
6 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Law
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) Test Automation Engineer
1 13 (15.85%) Test Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Software Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) Lead
4 9 (10.98%) Team Leader
5 8 (9.76%) Developer
5 8 (9.76%) IT Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) IT Support
6 7 (8.54%) Senior
6 7 (8.54%) Support Team Leader
6 7 (8.54%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Administrator
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Junior
8 4 (4.88%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) .NET
2 10 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.88%) Hibernate
3 4 (4.88%) JPA
3 4 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.88%) React
4 3 (3.66%) Yocto
5 2 (2.44%) CSS
5 2 (2.44%) Dask
5 2 (2.44%) HTML
5 2 (2.44%) JSP
5 2 (2.44%) Middleware
5 2 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.44%) Polars
6 1 (1.22%) Pandas
6 1 (1.22%) SOAP
6 1 (1.22%) Spring
6 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.22%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (12.20%) Cyberattack
2 10 (12.20%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.54%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.10%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.66%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.66%) IoT
7 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.22%) Lidar
7 1 (1.22%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.22%) Robotics
7 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (67.07%) Windows
2 20 (24.39%) Windows Server
3 10 (12.20%) Android
4 7 (8.54%) AIX
4 7 (8.54%) CentOS
4 7 (8.54%) Rocky
4 7 (8.54%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (4.88%) Unix
7 3 (3.66%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.22%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.59%) Coaching
2 29 (35.37%) Agile
3 26 (31.71%) DevOps
3 26 (31.71%) Mentoring
4 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.51%) Mathematics
6 14 (17.07%) Test Automation
7 13 (15.85%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (15.85%) System Testing
7 13 (15.85%) Test Management
8 12 (14.63%) CI/CD
8 12 (14.63%) Software Engineering
9 11 (13.41%) Containerisation
10 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (12.20%) ITIL
10 10 (12.20%) Line Management
10 10 (12.20%) Task Automation
11 9 (10.98%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (10.98%) DevSecOps
11 9 (10.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.12%) Python
2 27 (32.93%) Bash
3 23 (28.05%) PowerShell
4 19 (23.17%) JavaScript
5 16 (19.51%) C#
6 14 (17.07%) Java
7 10 (12.20%) SQL
8 7 (8.54%) C++
9 5 (6.10%) C
9 5 (6.10%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.88%) Go
11 3 (3.66%) Rust
12 2 (2.44%) Ada
12 2 (2.44%) Korn
13 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Degree
2 11 (13.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (9.76%) CCNA
3 8 (9.76%) CCNP
3 8 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (9.76%) MCP
3 8 (9.76%) MCSA
3 8 (9.76%) MCSE
3 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.44%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.85%) QA
2 5 (6.10%) SLA
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Docker
2 8 (9.76%) Hyper-V
2 8 (9.76%) VMware NSX
2 8 (9.76%) vSphere
3 6 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (36.59%) Ansible
2 14 (17.07%) Terraform
3 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (2.44%) Argo
5 2 (2.44%) Grafana
5 2 (2.44%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.44%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.22%) Rancher
6 1 (1.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) Cisco
2 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.98%) Atlassian
4 8 (9.76%) 3PAR
4 8 (9.76%) IBM
4 8 (9.76%) Juniper
4 8 (9.76%) Splunk
4 8 (9.76%) VMware
5 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.88%) Google
7 3 (3.66%) Atmel
8 2 (2.44%) Databricks
8 2 (2.44%) Imperva
8 2 (2.44%) Oracle
8 2 (2.44%) SAP
9 1 (1.22%) Lauterbach