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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 29 39
Rank change year-on-year -65 +10 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 44 133 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.71% 6.18% 4.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.75% 39.70% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 38 40 83
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £39,876
25th Percentile £30,625 £35,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £55,938 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,900 £70,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 212 335 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.24% 15.56% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 180 140 263
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £25,100
25th Percentile £26,250 £27,938 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £34,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -23.33% -2.70%
75th Percentile £42,500 £52,813 £56,250
90th Percentile £53,138 £62,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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
Derbyshire -21 15 £30,000 -25.00% 24
Leicestershire -22 14 £40,000 -1.23% 14
Lincolnshire -14 8 £37,500 - 16
Nottinghamshire -18 4 £50,000 -16.67% 21
Northamptonshire -7 3 £58,000 +5.45% 17
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 4 (9.09%) IIS
2 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.27%) JBoss
4 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (34.09%) AWS
4 12 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) npm
6 4 (9.09%) NuGet
6 4 (9.09%) SonarCloud
7 3 (6.82%) SaaS
8 2 (4.55%) IaaS
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.27%) GCP
9 1 (2.27%) OCI
9 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.27%) PaaS
9 1 (2.27%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) Firewall
2 7 (15.91%) IP Telephony
3 5 (11.36%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) Broadband
4 1 (2.27%) Wireless
4 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.82%) MySQL
3 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.27%) Gradle
2 1 (2.27%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) JUnit
2 1 (2.27%) Maven
2 1 (2.27%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Organisational Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Telecoms
3 6 (13.64%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.82%) Law
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) IT Support
2 14 (31.82%) Support Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) IT Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 7 (15.91%) Technical Support
5 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Lead
5 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) ERP Support
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) React
2 4 (9.09%) .NET
2 4 (9.09%) Node.js
2 4 (9.09%) YAML
3 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.55%) CSS
4 2 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (4.55%) Spring
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
5 1 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Driving Licence
2 7 (15.91%) CCTV
3 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.27%) EPoS
6 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (70.45%) Windows
2 9 (20.45%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.09%) Mac OS X
3 4 (9.09%) Unix
3 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.27%) Android
5 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.27%) Debian
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) ITIL
2 12 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 12 (27.27%) Project Delivery
3 11 (25.00%) DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.91%) Agile
6 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (15.91%) ITSM
6 7 (15.91%) Migration
7 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.36%) DevSecOps
8 5 (11.36%) High Availability
8 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.36%) Microservices
9 4 (9.09%) Coaching
9 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) SQL
2 6 (13.64%) C#
2 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.36%) Bash
3 5 (11.36%) Java
3 5 (11.36%) Python
4 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.82%) PHP
5 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.55%) C
6 2 (4.55%) Perl
6 2 (4.55%) Ruby
7 1 (2.27%) Go
7 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) MCP
1 9 (20.45%) MCSA
1 9 (20.45%) MCSE
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (18.18%) CCNA
2 8 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (15.91%) CCNP
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
3 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) HND
4 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (2.27%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.27%) GPEN
6 1 (2.27%) OSCP
6 1 (2.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Docker
1 10 (22.73%) Hyper-V
2 6 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (15.91%) Terraform
3 3 (6.82%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (2.27%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.27%) Nessus
5 1 (2.27%) Nmap
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) VMware
2 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.91%) Draytek
3 7 (15.91%) Mitel
3 7 (15.91%) WatchGuard
4 6 (13.64%) Oracle
5 4 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (6.82%) Cisco
6 3 (6.82%) HP
7 2 (4.55%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (4.55%) Siemens
7 2 (4.55%) Toshiba
8 1 (2.27%) Google
8 1 (2.27%) Qualys