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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 68 26
Rank change year-on-year -34 -42 +39
Permanent jobs citing Linux 63 74 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.35% 3.83% 5.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.25% 28.24% 38.49%
Number of salaries quoted 45 31 187
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62,250 £62,500 £56,500
90th Percentile £69,250 - £60,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -13.39%

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 271 262 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.79% 13.56% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 209 191 587
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £27,375 £26,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% -13.98%
75th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,000 £53,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -6 37 £44,472 -31.58% 8
Lincolnshire -15 8 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Derbyshire -23 8 £45,000 +28.57% 4
Northamptonshire -8 7 £26,265 -34.34% 7
Nottinghamshire -21 3 £30,000 -50.00% 7
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 10 (15.87%) IIS
2 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (44.44%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (20.63%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (17.46%) AWS
5 10 (15.87%) npm
5 10 (15.87%) NuGet
5 10 (15.87%) SonarCloud
6 5 (7.94%) GCP
7 3 (4.76%) IaaS
7 3 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.59%) PaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (31.75%) Firewall
2 12 (19.05%) MQTT
3 11 (17.46%) DNS
3 11 (17.46%) VPN
4 5 (7.94%) Wireless
5 4 (6.35%) Bluetooth
5 4 (6.35%) DHCP
5 4 (6.35%) LoRaWAN
5 4 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.35%) ZigBee
6 3 (4.76%) Internet
6 3 (4.76%) VoIP
7 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.17%) VLAN
8 1 (1.59%) Broadband
8 1 (1.59%) DMZ
8 1 (1.59%) LAN
8 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.59%) WAN
8 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (17.46%) NoSQL
3 10 (15.87%) MySQL
4 6 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (6.35%) Neo4j
5 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) KNIME
6 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) GDB
2 4 (6.35%) GitLab
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.35%) Robot Framework
3 3 (4.76%) Subversion
4 1 (1.59%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.59%) gulp
4 1 (1.59%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.52%) Finance
6 5 (7.94%) Law
7 4 (6.35%) Retail
8 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.17%) Legal
10 1 (1.59%) Marketing
10 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Senior
2 12 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (12.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Technical Support
8 5 (7.94%) IT Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Embedded Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) IT Support
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) React
2 10 (15.87%) .NET
2 10 (15.87%) Node.js
2 10 (15.87%) YAML
3 8 (12.70%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.94%) .NET Core
4 5 (7.94%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (6.35%) pytest
5 4 (6.35%) REST
5 4 (6.35%) Unity DI Container
5 4 (6.35%) Yocto
6 3 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.59%) CSS
7 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.59%) Flask
7 1 (1.59%) HTML
7 1 (1.59%) Laravel
7 1 (1.59%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) IoT
2 5 (7.94%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.94%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.35%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (6.35%) Device Driver
3 4 (6.35%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (6.35%) EPoS
3 4 (6.35%) Replication
4 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (53.97%) Windows
2 14 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 6 (9.52%) Debian
4 6 (9.52%) Solaris
5 4 (6.35%) VMS
6 3 (4.76%) CentOS
6 3 (4.76%) Mac OS
6 3 (4.76%) SUSE
6 3 (4.76%) Unix
7 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.59%) Android
8 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.98%) DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) Test Automation
4 15 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 15 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (19.05%) High Availability
6 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (17.46%) DevSecOps
7 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
7 11 (17.46%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (15.87%) Customer Service
8 10 (15.87%) Microservices
9 9 (14.29%) Computer Science
10 8 (12.70%) Migration
10 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
10 8 (12.70%) Systems Engineering
11 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (9.52%) Time Management
13 5 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 17 (26.98%) Bash
3 14 (22.22%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) Python
5 10 (15.87%) C#
6 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.35%) C
7 4 (6.35%) C++
7 4 (6.35%) Go
8 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.59%) Bicep
9 1 (1.59%) Java
9 1 (1.59%) PHP
9 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (9.52%) Degree
1 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) CCNA
3 1 (1.59%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.59%) CREST Certified
3 1 (1.59%) GPEN
3 1 (1.59%) OSCP
3 1 (1.59%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) JTAG
2 3 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) GRC
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Docker
2 14 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 11 (17.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 6 (9.52%) vSphere
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.46%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (6.35%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Ansible
5 1 (1.59%) Argo
5 1 (1.59%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.59%) Nessus
5 1 (1.59%) Nmap
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.05%) VMware
3 10 (15.87%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.76%) Apple
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.17%) AlienVault
5 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco
5 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.17%) Sybase
6 1 (1.59%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (1.59%) Qualys
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow