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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 85 32
Rank change year-on-year +17 -53 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 122 62 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.82% 2.64% 5.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.70% 23.31% 47.15%
Number of salaries quoted 87 31 93
10th Percentile £27,750 - £35,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £61,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 362 266 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.42% 11.33% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 253 202 233
10th Percentile £26,437 £25,750 £26,300
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,600 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +9 54 £44,472 +27.06% 10
Derbyshire -9 23 £28,500 -18.57% 11
Nottinghamshire 0 16 £50,000 +5.26% 22
Lincolnshire -2 15 £65,000 +33.33% 9
Northamptonshire -20 13 £58,500 +1.74% 6
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 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.28%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 50 (40.98%) Azure
2 32 (26.23%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (25.41%) AWS
4 18 (14.75%) Entra ID
5 14 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.38%) GCP
7 7 (5.74%) SaaS
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.28%) IaaS
9 4 (3.28%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.28%) PaaS
10 3 (2.46%) GitHub
10 3 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.46%) SonarCloud
11 2 (1.64%) AWS IoT
11 2 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.82%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 36 (29.51%) Firewall
2 18 (14.75%) DNS
2 18 (14.75%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (13.93%) VPN
4 16 (13.11%) Wireless
5 11 (9.02%) IP Telephony
5 11 (9.02%) MQTT
6 9 (7.38%) DHCP
6 9 (7.38%) Internet
7 7 (5.74%) VLAN
8 6 (4.92%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.92%) ZigBee
9 5 (4.10%) LAN
9 5 (4.10%) VoIP
10 4 (3.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (2.46%) LoRaWAN
11 3 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.64%) SMTP
12 2 (1.64%) SSL
12 2 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.38%) MySQL
3 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.64%) KNIME
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.82%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 30 (24.59%) Git
2 8 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.92%) GDB
3 6 (4.92%) GitLab
4 4 (3.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.64%) JIRA
5 2 (1.64%) Subversion
6 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.82%) gulp
6 1 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Telecoms
4 13 (10.66%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.10%) Electronics
7 4 (3.28%) Finance
8 3 (2.46%) Legal
9 2 (1.64%) Military
9 2 (1.64%) Retail
10 1 (0.82%) Aviation
10 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Law
10 1 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (18.03%) Senior
2 21 (17.21%) Embedded Engineer
3 19 (15.57%) Linux Engineer
4 17 (13.93%) IT Support
5 14 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.48%) Support Engineer
6 13 (10.66%) IT Engineer
7 12 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (9.02%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 11 (9.02%) Software Engineer
8 11 (9.02%) Technical Support
9 10 (8.20%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 10 (8.20%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 9 (7.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 9 (7.38%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (7.38%) IT Technician
11 8 (6.56%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (5.74%) IT Support Technician
12 7 (5.74%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 7 (5.74%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.11%) Yocto
2 14 (11.48%) Terraform
3 6 (4.92%) .NET
4 4 (3.28%) pytest
4 4 (3.28%) REST
4 4 (3.28%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (2.46%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.46%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.46%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (2.46%) Blazor
5 3 (2.46%) Django
5 3 (2.46%) YAML
6 2 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.64%) Middleware
6 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.64%) React
7 1 (0.82%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (0.82%) Laravel
7 1 (0.82%) Node.js
7 1 (0.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) IoT
2 21 (17.21%) Driving Licence
3 20 (16.39%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (13.11%) Device Driver
5 11 (9.02%) CCTV
5 11 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (5.74%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (4.92%) ARM Cortex
8 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (4.10%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.46%) Robotics
10 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.64%) FPGA
10 2 (1.64%) Replication
10 2 (1.64%) SCADA
10 2 (1.64%) Tandem
10 2 (1.64%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 48 (39.34%) Windows
2 33 (27.05%) Windows Server
3 16 (13.11%) Embedded Linux
4 9 (7.38%) Debian
5 8 (6.56%) Solaris
6 5 (4.10%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.10%) OpenVMS
6 5 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.28%) VMS
8 3 (2.46%) Android
8 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.46%) Unix
8 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 37 (30.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (27.05%) Software Engineering
4 28 (22.95%) DevOps
5 23 (18.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (17.21%) Customer Service
7 20 (16.39%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (16.39%) Incident Management
8 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (13.11%) ITIL
9 16 (13.11%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.30%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (12.30%) DevSecOps
11 14 (11.48%) Computer Science
11 14 (11.48%) Containerisation
12 13 (10.66%) ITSM
12 13 (10.66%) Software Delivery
13 12 (9.84%) Collaborative Engineering
13 12 (9.84%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.03%) C
1 22 (18.03%) Python
2 21 (17.21%) C++
3 18 (14.75%) PowerShell
4 15 (12.30%) Bash
4 15 (12.30%) SQL
5 12 (9.84%) Embedded C
6 7 (5.74%) C#
6 7 (5.74%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.46%) Bicep
9 2 (1.64%) Go
9 2 (1.64%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.64%) PHP
9 2 (1.64%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (15.57%) Degree
2 15 (12.30%) SC Cleared
2 15 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.02%) CCNA
3 11 (9.02%) CCNP
3 11 (9.02%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.02%) MCSA
3 11 (9.02%) MCSE
3 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 8 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.64%) CISSP
8 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.92%) JTAG
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
4 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.64%) QA
6 1 (0.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (20.49%) Docker
1 25 (20.49%) Hyper-V
2 18 (14.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.64%) Firmware
5 2 (1.64%) Samba
6 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (17.21%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.74%) Ansible
4 3 (2.46%) Grafana
4 3 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.82%) Argo
5 1 (0.82%) Galera Cluster
5 1 (0.82%) Nessus
5 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.03%) VMware
3 11 (9.02%) Draytek
3 11 (9.02%) Mitel
3 11 (9.02%) WatchGuard
4 7 (5.74%) Google
5 5 (4.10%) Apple
5 5 (4.10%) Cisco
5 5 (4.10%) Oracle
5 5 (4.10%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.28%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.64%) AlienVault
8 2 (1.64%) IFS
8 2 (1.64%) Intel
8 2 (1.64%) SAP
8 2 (1.64%) Sybase
8 2 (1.64%) Veeam
8 2 (1.64%) Veracode
8 2 (1.64%) Xilinx