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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 30 40
Rank change year-on-year -62 +10 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 43 142 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.69% 5.98% 5.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.94% 39.01% 30.80%
Number of salaries quoted 38 52 60
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £41,925
25th Percentile £30,625 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -26.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £55,938 £59,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £59,500 £62,500 £70,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 227 364 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.92% 15.32% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 186 170 218
10th Percentile £25,375 £25,675 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £28,625 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £36,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -22.16% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £54,500 £61,325 £63,750
England median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -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 20 December 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 20 December 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
Leicestershire -23 14 £35,000 -33.33% 12
Derbyshire -24 13 £30,000 -25.00% 5
Lincolnshire -19 7 £37,500 - 3
Northamptonshire -5 5 £58,000 +45.00% 1
Nottinghamshire -12 4 £50,000 -12.28% 4
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 (6.98%) IIS
1 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) JBoss
2 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) AWS
3 16 (37.21%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (27.91%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) npm
5 3 (6.98%) NuGet
5 3 (6.98%) SaaS
5 3 (6.98%) SonarCloud
6 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) OCI
7 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) Firewall
2 8 (18.60%) VPN
3 7 (16.28%) IP Telephony
4 1 (2.33%) Wireless
4 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.65%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Gradle
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) JUnit
2 2 (4.65%) Maven
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.33%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 7 (16.28%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.98%) Law
5 3 (6.98%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) IT Support
2 17 (39.53%) Support Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) IT Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (20.93%) Technical Support
5 6 (13.95%) Senior
6 5 (11.63%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (9.30%) Lead
7 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Leader
8 3 (6.98%) Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) ERP Support
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) React
2 3 (6.98%) .NET
2 3 (6.98%) Node.js
2 3 (6.98%) Spring
2 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.98%) YAML
3 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.65%) CSS
3 2 (4.65%) REST
3 2 (4.65%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (4.65%) SOAP
3 2 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Spring MVC
4 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.33%) JPA
4 1 (2.33%) Laravel
4 1 (2.33%) OpenID
4 1 (2.33%) Symfony
4 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Driving Licence
2 7 (16.28%) CCTV
3 5 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Windows
2 7 (16.28%) Mac OS X
2 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.30%) Unix
4 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.33%) Android
6 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.33%) OpenVMS
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (32.56%) Mentoring
3 13 (30.23%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (30.23%) ITIL
4 12 (27.91%) Project Delivery
5 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
6 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
6 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (18.60%) DevOps
7 7 (16.28%) ITSM
7 7 (16.28%) Migration
8 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
9 5 (11.63%) Agile
9 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.63%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Microservices
9 5 (11.63%) Organisational Awareness
10 4 (9.30%) Coaching
10 4 (9.30%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
2 5 (11.63%) C#
2 5 (11.63%) Java
3 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.98%) Bash
4 3 (6.98%) PHP
4 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.98%) Python
5 2 (4.65%) C
5 2 (4.65%) Perl
5 2 (4.65%) Ruby
5 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) MCP
1 12 (27.91%) MCSA
1 12 (27.91%) MCSE
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (25.58%) Degree
3 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
4 8 (18.60%) CCNA
4 8 (18.60%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (16.28%) CCNP
6 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (11.63%) HND
7 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
8 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.33%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (2.33%) CREST Certified
9 1 (2.33%) GPEN
9 1 (2.33%) OSCP
9 1 (2.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Hyper-V
2 7 (16.28%) Docker
3 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (11.63%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Argo
5 1 (2.33%) Nessus
5 1 (2.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) VMware
2 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.28%) Draytek
3 7 (16.28%) Mitel
3 7 (16.28%) Oracle
3 7 (16.28%) WatchGuard
4 3 (6.98%) Cisco
4 3 (6.98%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (6.98%) HP
5 2 (4.65%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (4.65%) Siemens
5 2 (4.65%) Toshiba
6 1 (2.33%) Qualys
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat