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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 81 32
Rank change year-on-year -1 -49 +24
Permanent jobs citing Linux 98 70 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.66% 3.02% 6.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.00% 23.65% 43.34%
Number of salaries quoted 71 38 135
10th Percentile £27,500 - £35,500
25th Percentile £35,996 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,313 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.82%

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 350 296 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.92% 12.76% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 258 226 418
10th Percentile £26,175 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £28,625 £27,313 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,000 £57,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -8.57%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +1 47 £44,472 +27.06% 8
Northamptonshire -14 17 £52,500 -8.70% 6
Lincolnshire -15 12 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Derbyshire -12 11 £32,500 -7.14% 3
Nottinghamshire -10 10 £35,500 -29.00% 9
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 13 (13.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.14%) IIS
3 6 (6.12%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.73%) Azure
2 21 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (17.35%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.27%) AWS
5 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.14%) SaaS
5 7 (7.14%) SonarCloud
6 5 (5.10%) GCP
6 5 (5.10%) npm
6 5 (5.10%) NuGet
7 4 (4.08%) IaaS
7 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.08%) PaaS
8 3 (3.06%) GitHub
8 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.04%) AWS IoT
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.57%) Firewall
2 20 (20.41%) VPN
3 18 (18.37%) DNS
4 14 (14.29%) MQTT
4 14 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (12.24%) Wireless
6 9 (9.18%) DHCP
7 7 (7.14%) VLAN
8 6 (6.12%) LoRaWAN
8 6 (6.12%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.12%) ZigBee
9 5 (5.10%) LAN
9 5 (5.10%) VoIP
10 4 (4.08%) Bluetooth
10 4 (4.08%) Internet
11 3 (3.06%) WAN
12 2 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (2.04%) SMTP
12 2 (2.04%) SSH
12 2 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.22%) MySQL
3 7 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.12%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.08%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.04%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.04%) KNIME
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (25.51%) Git
2 6 (6.12%) GDB
2 6 (6.12%) GitLab
2 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.08%) Robot Framework
4 3 (3.06%) Subversion
5 2 (2.04%) JIRA
6 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.02%) gulp
6 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Manufacturing
3 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Finance
5 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Electronics
6 5 (5.10%) Law
6 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Marketing
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (21.43%) Senior
2 16 (16.33%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (15.31%) Embedded Engineer
4 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Support Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Technical Support
7 9 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.16%) IT Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) IT Support
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Technical Specialist
10 5 (5.10%) Firewall Specialist
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.24%) Yocto
2 8 (8.16%) .NET
3 7 (7.14%) YAML
4 6 (6.12%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.10%) ASP.NET
5 5 (5.10%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (5.10%) Node.js
5 5 (5.10%) React
5 5 (5.10%) REST
6 4 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.08%) pytest
6 4 (4.08%) Unity DI Container
7 2 (2.04%) Middleware
7 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.02%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (1.02%) CSS
8 1 (1.02%) Django
8 1 (1.02%) HTML
8 1 (1.02%) Laravel
8 1 (1.02%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) IoT
2 15 (15.31%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (12.24%) Device Driver
4 10 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (8.16%) Driving Licence
6 6 (6.12%) ARM Cortex
7 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (5.10%) Replication
8 4 (4.08%) Private Cloud
9 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
9 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (2.04%) SCADA
10 2 (2.04%) Tandem
11 1 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 41 (41.84%) Windows
2 22 (22.45%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.16%) Debian
3 8 (8.16%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (8.16%) Solaris
3 8 (8.16%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.10%) Mac OS
4 5 (5.10%) OpenVMS
4 5 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.08%) VMS
6 3 (3.06%) CentOS
6 3 (3.06%) SUSE
6 3 (3.06%) Unix
7 2 (2.04%) Android
7 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (30.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (25.51%) CI/CD
4 21 (21.43%) DevOps
4 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 19 (19.39%) Customer Service
6 17 (17.35%) Computer Science
7 14 (14.29%) High Availability
8 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (13.27%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
9 12 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (11.22%) Line Management
11 10 (10.20%) DevSecOps
11 10 (10.20%) ERP
11 10 (10.20%) Time Management
12 9 (9.18%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) PowerShell
2 17 (17.35%) Bash
2 17 (17.35%) Python
3 15 (15.31%) C
3 15 (15.31%) C++
3 15 (15.31%) SQL
4 8 (8.16%) C#
5 6 (6.12%) Embedded C
6 4 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.06%) Bicep
7 3 (3.06%) Go
8 2 (2.04%) PHP
8 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (17.35%) Degree
2 8 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) JTAG
2 5 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 16 (16.33%) Docker
3 14 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 14 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.08%) vSphere
5 2 (2.04%) Firmware
5 2 (2.04%) Samba
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (17.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.24%) Terraform
3 5 (5.10%) Ansible
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.08%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (4.08%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.06%) Grafana
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.02%) Argo
7 1 (1.02%) Nessus
Vendors
1 26 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.31%) VMware
3 8 (8.16%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (5.10%) Apple
5 5 (5.10%) Cisco
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle
6 4 (4.08%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.04%) Acronis
7 2 (2.04%) AlienVault
7 2 (2.04%) Google
7 2 (2.04%) IFS
7 2 (2.04%) SAP
7 2 (2.04%) Sybase
7 2 (2.04%) Veeam
7 2 (2.04%) Veracode
8 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.02%) Freshdesk
8 1 (1.02%) Imperva
8 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow