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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 33 32
Rank change year-on-year -81 -1 +19
Permanent jobs citing Linux 46 89 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.05% 5.68% 5.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.47% 30.07% 35.45%
Number of salaries quoted 33 35 165
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £33,450
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,250 - £58,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,001
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 249 296 694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.67% 18.89% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 195 206 562
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £23,775
25th Percentile £27,625 £27,125 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,000 £57,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -33 21 £45,000 +73.08% 13
Lincolnshire -22 9 £37,500 -11.76% 1
Derbyshire -27 8 £41,250 - 4
Northamptonshire -26 6 £26,265 -34.34% 8
Nottinghamshire -33 2 £60,000 - 8
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 10 (21.74%) IIS
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (21.74%) npm
4 10 (21.74%) NuGet
4 10 (21.74%) SonarCloud
5 9 (19.57%) AWS
6 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.52%) GCP
7 3 (6.52%) IaaS
8 2 (4.35%) PaaS
8 2 (4.35%) SaaS
9 1 (2.17%) OCI
9 1 (2.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (30.43%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) VPN
3 6 (13.04%) DNS
4 5 (10.87%) MQTT
5 3 (6.52%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (4.35%) DHCP
6 2 (4.35%) Internet
6 2 (4.35%) IP Telephony
6 2 (4.35%) VoIP
7 1 (2.17%) Broadband
7 1 (2.17%) DMZ
7 1 (2.17%) LAN
7 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.17%) WAN
7 1 (2.17%) Wireless
7 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
3 9 (19.57%) MySQL
4 3 (6.52%) Neo4j
5 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.17%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Law
3 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.70%) Retail
3 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
1 12 (26.09%) Support Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) IT Support
4 8 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Senior DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Support
5 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) IT Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Graduate
7 3 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Linux Support
7 3 (6.52%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Support
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Support Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) React
2 10 (21.74%) .NET
2 10 (21.74%) Node.js
2 10 (21.74%) YAML
3 7 (15.22%) .NET Framework
4 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
5 4 (8.70%) ASP.NET
5 4 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.17%) Django
7 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.17%) Flask
7 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Driving Licence
2 5 (10.87%) IoT
2 5 (10.87%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.70%) EPoS
3 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.52%) Replication
5 2 (4.35%) CCTV
5 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (65.22%) Windows
2 11 (23.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.04%) Debian
3 6 (13.04%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.52%) CentOS
4 3 (6.52%) Solaris
4 3 (6.52%) SUSE
5 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.35%) VMS
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.17%) Android
6 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (30.43%) DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (23.91%) DevSecOps
4 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (21.74%) Microservices
5 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 9 (19.57%) High Availability
6 9 (19.57%) Migration
7 8 (17.39%) Customer Service
7 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (15.22%) Time Management
9 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
9 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (13.04%) ITIL
10 5 (10.87%) Line Management
10 5 (10.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 11 (23.91%) Bash
3 10 (21.74%) C#
4 9 (19.57%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) Python
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.35%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) Java
8 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) CCNA
1 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) CCNP
2 2 (4.35%) MCSA
2 2 (4.35%) MCSE
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (2.17%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) GPEN
3 1 (2.17%) HND
3 1 (2.17%) OSCP
3 1 (2.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Docker
2 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (15.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (10.87%) vSphere
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 12 (26.09%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Galera Cluster
3 3 (6.52%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.17%) Nessus
5 1 (2.17%) Nmap
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.09%) VMware
3 10 (21.74%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle
5 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.35%) Apple
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco
6 2 (4.35%) Draytek
6 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.35%) Mitel
6 2 (4.35%) WatchGuard
7 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (2.17%) HP
7 1 (2.17%) Qualys