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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 23 34
Rank change year-on-year -80 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 52 104 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.27% 7.11% 5.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.08% 35.25% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 40 35 156
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,125 £38,816
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,875 £62,500 £56,375
90th Percentile £69,250 - £59,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% 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 259 295 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.34% 20.16% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 208 189 544
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,725 £23,825
25th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £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 £45,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,950 £60,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -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 13 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 13 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 -36 18 £64,000 +146.15% 12
Derbyshire -29 14 £38,750 -26.19% 4
Lincolnshire -22 10 £37,500 -11.76% 2
Northamptonshire -31 6 £26,265 -34.34% 9
Nottinghamshire -29 4 £50,000 -16.67% 10
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 (19.23%) IIS
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (48.08%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (23.08%) AWS
4 11 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (19.23%) npm
5 10 (19.23%) NuGet
5 10 (19.23%) SonarCloud
6 9 (17.31%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.77%) GCP
8 2 (3.85%) IaaS
8 2 (3.85%) SaaS
9 1 (1.92%) OCI
9 1 (1.92%) PaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) VPN
3 5 (9.62%) IP Telephony
4 3 (5.77%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (5.77%) MQTT
5 1 (1.92%) Broadband
5 1 (1.92%) DHCP
5 1 (1.92%) DNS
5 1 (1.92%) LAN
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
5 1 (1.92%) Wireless
5 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) MySQL
1 11 (21.15%) NoSQL
2 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.77%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.92%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.92%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (9.62%) Law
4 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 3 (5.77%) Marketing
7 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) IT Support
2 12 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Technical Support
4 9 (17.31%) IT Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Senior
5 8 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Lead
8 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (7.69%) Technical Leader
9 3 (5.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Graduate Support Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Linux Support
9 3 (5.77%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) React
2 10 (19.23%) .NET
2 10 (19.23%) Node.js
2 10 (19.23%) YAML
3 7 (13.46%) .NET Framework
4 5 (9.62%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.92%) Django
7 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.92%) Flask
7 1 (1.92%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.92%) JPA
7 1 (1.92%) REST
7 1 (1.92%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (1.92%) Spring
7 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Driving Licence
2 5 (9.62%) CCTV
2 5 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.69%) EPoS
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.77%) IoT
4 3 (5.77%) Replication
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (63.46%) Windows
2 8 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.54%) Debian
3 6 (11.54%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.77%) CentOS
4 3 (5.77%) SUSE
4 3 (5.77%) Unix
4 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.92%) Android
5 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.92%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (30.77%) DevOps
3 14 (26.92%) Mentoring
4 12 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 12 (23.08%) Migration
5 11 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (21.15%) DevSecOps
5 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (19.23%) Microservices
6 10 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 9 (17.31%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (17.31%) Project Delivery
7 9 (17.31%) Time Management
8 8 (15.38%) Agile
8 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 8 (15.38%) Customer Service
8 8 (15.38%) High Availability
8 8 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) Bash
1 11 (21.15%) C#
2 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.62%) SQL
4 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.85%) Go
5 2 (3.85%) Java
5 2 (3.85%) Python
6 1 (1.92%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) CCNA
1 6 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.62%) CCNP
2 5 (9.62%) MCSA
2 5 (9.62%) MCSE
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
3 3 (5.77%) HND
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (1.92%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.92%) GPEN
4 1 (1.92%) OSCP
4 1 (1.92%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.92%) GRC
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Docker
2 10 (19.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (17.31%) Hyper-V
4 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (9.62%) vSphere
6 2 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 12 (23.08%) Terraform
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.77%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.85%) Ansible
5 2 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (1.92%) Argo
6 1 (1.92%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.92%) Nessus
6 1 (1.92%) Nmap
6 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.15%) VMware
3 10 (19.23%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (9.62%) Draytek
4 5 (9.62%) Mitel
4 5 (9.62%) Oracle
4 5 (9.62%) WatchGuard
5 3 (5.77%) Cisco
5 3 (5.77%) HP
5 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Qualys