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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 69 28
Rank change year-on-year -22 -41 +45
Permanent jobs citing Linux 69 69 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.46% 3.55% 6.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 26.74% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 52 31 190
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,123 £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 £62,875 £62,500 £57,313
90th Percentile £69,250 - £60,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.70%

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 276 258 783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.85% 13.29% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 212 198 597
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,438 £26,906 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% -12.09%
75th Percentile £47,500 £40,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £52,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 11 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 11 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 -2 38 £43,486 -33.10% 6
Northamptonshire -4 9 £26,265 -34.34% 8
Lincolnshire -18 8 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Derbyshire -14 7 £45,000 +28.57%
Nottinghamshire -20 6 £30,000 -50.00% 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 9 (13.04%) IIS
1 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.03%) Azure
2 16 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (20.29%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (15.94%) AWS
5 9 (13.04%) npm
5 9 (13.04%) NuGet
5 9 (13.04%) SonarCloud
6 5 (7.25%) GCP
7 4 (5.80%) IaaS
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.90%) PaaS
9 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 22 (31.88%) Firewall
2 13 (18.84%) VPN
3 12 (17.39%) MQTT
4 11 (15.94%) DNS
5 5 (7.25%) Wireless
6 4 (5.80%) Bluetooth
6 4 (5.80%) DHCP
6 4 (5.80%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (5.80%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (5.80%) ZigBee
7 3 (4.35%) Internet
7 3 (4.35%) VLAN
7 3 (4.35%) VoIP
8 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.45%) Broadband
9 1 (1.45%) DMZ
9 1 (1.45%) LAN
9 1 (1.45%) SMTP
9 1 (1.45%) SSL
9 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.49%) MySQL
2 10 (14.49%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.80%) Neo4j
4 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) KNIME
5 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Git
2 4 (5.80%) GDB
2 4 (5.80%) GitLab
2 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.80%) Robot Framework
3 3 (4.35%) Subversion
4 1 (1.45%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.45%) gulp
4 1 (1.45%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.45%) webpack
General
1 11 (15.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.70%) Finance
4 5 (7.25%) Law
5 4 (5.80%) Retail
6 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Senior
2 12 (17.39%) Support Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) IT Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (10.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Technical Support
6 5 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (5.80%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Firewall Specialist
7 4 (5.80%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) React
2 9 (13.04%) .NET
2 9 (13.04%) Node.js
2 9 (13.04%) YAML
3 7 (10.14%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.80%) pytest
5 4 (5.80%) REST
5 4 (5.80%) Unity DI Container
5 4 (5.80%) Yocto
6 3 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.45%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.45%) Flask
7 1 (1.45%) Laravel
7 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) IoT
2 5 (7.25%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.80%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (5.80%) Device Driver
3 4 (5.80%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (5.80%) EPoS
3 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.80%) Replication
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) SCADA
6 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (50.72%) Windows
2 15 (21.74%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.14%) Solaris
3 7 (10.14%) Ubuntu
4 6 (8.70%) Debian
5 4 (5.80%) VMS
6 3 (4.35%) CentOS
6 3 (4.35%) Mac OS
6 3 (4.35%) SUSE
6 3 (4.35%) Unix
7 2 (2.90%) OpenVMS
7 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.45%) Android
8 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.58%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (26.09%) DevOps
3 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
3 16 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (23.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 13 (18.84%) High Availability
5 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (18.84%) Mentoring
6 11 (15.94%) Computer Science
6 11 (15.94%) Customer Service
6 11 (15.94%) DevSecOps
6 11 (15.94%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (13.04%) Microservices
7 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 8 (11.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (11.59%) Systems Engineering
9 7 (10.14%) Migration
9 7 (10.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) PowerShell
2 17 (24.64%) Bash
3 15 (21.74%) SQL
4 13 (18.84%) Python
5 9 (13.04%) C#
6 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.80%) C
7 4 (5.80%) C++
7 4 (5.80%) Go
8 2 (2.90%) Bicep
8 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.45%) Java
9 1 (1.45%) PHP
9 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Degree
2 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.80%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.45%) CISSP
6 1 (1.45%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.45%) GPEN
6 1 (1.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (5.80%) JTAG
2 3 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) GRC
3 1 (1.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Docker
2 15 (21.74%) Active Directory
3 13 (18.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (10.14%) Hyper-V
5 6 (8.70%) vSphere
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.39%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (5.80%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.35%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Grafana
5 2 (2.90%) Argo
5 2 (2.90%) Nessus
5 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.45%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.45%) Nmap
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.29%) VMware
3 9 (13.04%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.35%) Apple
5 3 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.35%) Cisco
5 3 (4.35%) Oracle
6 2 (2.90%) AlienVault
6 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.90%) Qualys
6 2 (2.90%) Sybase
7 1 (1.45%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.45%) Google
7 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow