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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 62 26
Rank change year-on-year -51 -36 +32
Permanent jobs citing Linux 51 77 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.11% 3.93% 6.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.56% 27.11% 38.04%
Number of salaries quoted 36 37 177
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,243 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,486 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,875 £62,500 £56,750
90th Percentile £69,250 - £60,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 248 284 715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.38% 14.49% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 190 208 570
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £23,975
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -15.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £57,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -10 31 £44,736 -1.68% 13
Lincolnshire -20 7 - - 2
Northamptonshire -9 6 £26,265 -34.34% 8
Derbyshire -25 4 £41,250 +17.86% 5
Nottinghamshire -29 3 £30,000 -50.00% 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 11 (21.57%) IIS
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.98%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (21.57%) npm
3 11 (21.57%) NuGet
3 11 (21.57%) SonarCloud
4 10 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (17.65%) AWS
6 5 (9.80%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) IaaS
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.92%) SaaS
9 1 (1.96%) PaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (29.41%) Firewall
2 10 (19.61%) MQTT
3 9 (17.65%) DNS
4 8 (15.69%) VPN
5 4 (7.84%) Wireless
6 3 (5.88%) Bluetooth
6 3 (5.88%) Internet
6 3 (5.88%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (5.88%) VoIP
6 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (5.88%) ZigBee
7 2 (3.92%) DHCP
8 1 (1.96%) Broadband
8 1 (1.96%) DMZ
8 1 (1.96%) LAN
8 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.96%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.96%) WAN
8 1 (1.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
2 12 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 9 (17.65%) MySQL
4 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.88%) Neo4j
6 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) GDB
2 3 (5.88%) GitLab
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.88%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.96%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.96%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.96%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.96%) Subversion
General
1 9 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Law
3 4 (7.84%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.84%) Retail
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Senior
2 11 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Support Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Technical Support
7 4 (7.84%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Applications Support
7 4 (7.84%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Applications Support
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Support Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Graduate Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) React
2 11 (21.57%) .NET
2 11 (21.57%) Node.js
2 11 (21.57%) YAML
3 8 (15.69%) .NET Framework
4 5 (9.80%) .NET Core
4 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET
4 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (5.88%) pytest
5 3 (5.88%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (5.88%) Yocto
6 1 (1.96%) Django
6 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.96%) Flask
6 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) IoT
2 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.80%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.84%) Driving Licence
3 4 (7.84%) EPoS
4 3 (5.88%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (5.88%) Device Driver
4 3 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.88%) Replication
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (58.82%) Windows
2 12 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.76%) Debian
3 6 (11.76%) Ubuntu
4 4 (7.84%) Solaris
4 4 (7.84%) VMS
5 3 (5.88%) CentOS
5 3 (5.88%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.88%) SUSE
6 2 (3.92%) Unix
6 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.96%) Android
7 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (31.37%) DevOps
3 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 14 (27.45%) Test Automation
5 13 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (23.53%) DevSecOps
6 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (21.57%) Microservices
8 10 (19.61%) High Availability
9 9 (17.65%) Customer Service
9 9 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 9 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
10 7 (13.73%) Migration
10 7 (13.73%) Systems Engineering
11 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (11.76%) Time Management
12 5 (9.80%) Agile
12 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) Bash
1 17 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 13 (25.49%) SQL
3 11 (21.57%) C#
3 11 (21.57%) Python
4 3 (5.88%) C
4 3 (5.88%) C++
4 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) Go
6 1 (1.96%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (7.84%) Degree
1 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.96%) CCNA
3 1 (1.96%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.96%) CREST Certified
3 1 (1.96%) GPEN
3 1 (1.96%) OSCP
3 1 (1.96%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) JTAG
2 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.96%) GRC
3 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) Docker
2 11 (21.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (9.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.80%) vSphere
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 12 (23.53%) Terraform
3 3 (5.88%) Galera Cluster
3 3 (5.88%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.92%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Ansible
5 1 (1.96%) Argo
5 1 (1.96%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.96%) Nessus
5 1 (1.96%) Nmap
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (19.61%) VMware
4 3 (5.88%) Apple
4 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.92%) AlienVault
5 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) Qualys
6 1 (1.96%) Sybase