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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 61 169 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.79% 4.93% 5.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.80% 42.04% 25.87%
Number of salaries quoted 44 70 58
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,500 £39,455
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £46,641
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +11.63%
75th Percentile £56,563 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £59,500 £61,375 £75,750
England median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - -4.00%

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 246 402 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.27% 11.72% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 192 193 234
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £25,150
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,500 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -21.05% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £58,938
90th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,005 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.99% - -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 8 November 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 8 November 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
Derbyshire -23 24 £30,000 -40.00% 11
Northamptonshire +23 14 £58,000 +45.00% 21
Leicestershire -16 11 £35,000 -39.13% 8
Lincolnshire -10 7 £37,500 -
Nottinghamshire -22 5 £49,750 -9.55% 22
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 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) JBoss
2 2 (3.28%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 21 (34.43%) Azure
2 20 (32.79%) AWS
3 19 (31.15%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (19.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.84%) PaaS
6 4 (6.56%) IaaS
6 4 (6.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.64%) Figma
8 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.51%) VPN
2 12 (19.67%) Firewall
3 8 (13.11%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (11.48%) IP Telephony
5 4 (6.56%) Ethernet
5 4 (6.56%) LAN
5 4 (6.56%) Network Security
5 4 (6.56%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (6.56%) WAN
6 3 (4.92%) Internet
7 1 (1.64%) DHCP
7 1 (1.64%) DNS
7 1 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.92%) MySQL
3 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.28%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) Gradle
2 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) JUnit
2 2 (3.28%) Maven
2 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (14.75%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Finance
5 7 (11.48%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (11.48%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.56%) Retail
7 3 (4.92%) Law
7 3 (4.92%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) IT Support
2 16 (26.23%) Support Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) IT Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Software Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Technical Support
6 6 (9.84%) Lead
7 5 (8.20%) Administrator
7 5 (8.20%) Architect
7 5 (8.20%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.92%) Senior
10 2 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.92%) Spring
2 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.92%) Yocto
3 2 (3.28%) CSS
3 2 (3.28%) REST
3 2 (3.28%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (3.28%) SOAP
3 2 (3.28%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.64%) JPA
4 1 (1.64%) Laravel
4 1 (1.64%) OpenID
4 1 (1.64%) React
4 1 (1.64%) Symfony
4 1 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Driving Licence
2 8 (13.11%) Cyberattack
3 7 (11.48%) CCTV
4 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.92%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (4.92%) IoT
6 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.64%) Lidar
8 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (1.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (63.93%) Windows
2 11 (18.03%) Windows Server
3 8 (13.11%) Android
4 7 (11.48%) Mac OS X
5 6 (9.84%) AIX
5 6 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (6.56%) Unix
7 3 (4.92%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (1.64%) OpenVMS
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.59%) DevOps
2 15 (24.59%) ITIL
3 14 (22.95%) Mentoring
4 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (21.31%) Software Engineering
5 12 (19.67%) Agile
5 12 (19.67%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (19.67%) Line Management
5 12 (19.67%) Mathematics
6 10 (16.39%) Project Delivery
7 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
7 8 (13.11%) ITSM
7 8 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (13.11%) Risk Management
7 8 (13.11%) Storage Management
7 8 (13.11%) Task Automation
8 6 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.84%) High Availability
9 5 (8.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 12 (19.67%) Bash
3 8 (13.11%) Java
3 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.84%) C
5 6 (9.84%) C#
5 6 (9.84%) SQL
6 4 (6.56%) C++
6 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.92%) PHP
8 2 (3.28%) Korn
8 2 (3.28%) Perl
8 2 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Degree
2 13 (21.31%) MCP
2 13 (21.31%) MCSA
2 13 (21.31%) MCSE
2 13 (21.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
4 8 (13.11%) CCNA
4 8 (13.11%) CCNP
4 8 (13.11%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.20%) HND
6 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) Hyper-V
2 14 (22.95%) Docker
3 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (13.11%) VMware NSX
3 8 (13.11%) vSphere
4 4 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Ansible
1 12 (19.67%) Terraform
2 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.56%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.64%) Argo
5 1 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) VMware
2 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
3 11 (18.03%) Cisco
4 8 (13.11%) 3PAR
4 8 (13.11%) Juniper
4 8 (13.11%) Splunk
5 7 (11.48%) Draytek
5 7 (11.48%) Mitel
5 7 (11.48%) Oracle
5 7 (11.48%) WatchGuard
6 6 (9.84%) Red Hat
7 4 (6.56%) IBM
8 3 (4.92%) Atmel
8 3 (4.92%) HP
9 2 (3.28%) Allen-Bradley
9 2 (3.28%) SAP
9 2 (3.28%) Siemens
9 2 (3.28%) Toshiba