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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 26 38
Rank change year-on-year -66 +12 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 45 133 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.70% 6.31% 4.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.74% 39.58% 30.02%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 104
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £35,375
25th Percentile £30,625 £34,375 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,125
90th Percentile £67,800 £71,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 217 336 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.20% 15.95% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 187 143 355
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £27,875 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £34,000 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -15.53% -10.56%
75th Percentile £41,875 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £53,450 £62,500 £63,250
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,048 £49,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% +2.14% -6.67%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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
Derbyshire -22 15 £30,000 -25.00% 16
Leicestershire -29 15 £45,000 +11.11% 7
Lincolnshire -17 9 £37,500 - 6
Nottinghamshire -17 4 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Northamptonshire -11 2 - - 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 6 (13.33%) IIS
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 18 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (31.11%) AWS
4 12 (26.67%) Entra ID
5 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (13.33%) npm
6 6 (13.33%) NuGet
6 6 (13.33%) SonarCloud
7 3 (6.67%) SaaS
8 2 (4.44%) GCP
8 2 (4.44%) IaaS
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.22%) OCI
9 1 (2.22%) PaaS
9 1 (2.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) Firewall
2 7 (15.56%) IP Telephony
3 4 (8.89%) VPN
4 1 (2.22%) Broadband
4 1 (2.22%) Wireless
4 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.89%) MySQL
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.22%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.22%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Telecoms
3 6 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Finance
4 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Law
5 3 (6.67%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) IT Support
2 13 (28.89%) Support Engineer
3 12 (26.67%) IT Engineer
3 12 (26.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Senior
5 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Technical Support
6 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 5 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (8.89%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.44%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) ERP Support
8 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) React
2 6 (13.33%) .NET
2 6 (13.33%) Node.js
2 6 (13.33%) YAML
3 4 (8.89%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (4.44%) CSS
5 2 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.44%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (2.22%) Django
6 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.22%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.22%) JPA
6 1 (2.22%) Laravel
6 1 (2.22%) OpenID
6 1 (2.22%) Spring
6 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.22%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Driving Licence
2 7 (15.56%) CCTV
3 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.44%) EPoS
5 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (71.11%) Windows
2 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (6.67%) Mac OS X
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
4 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.44%) Debian
6 1 (2.22%) Android
6 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.89%) DevOps
3 12 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 12 (26.67%) Project Delivery
4 11 (24.44%) ITIL
5 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 9 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (20.00%) Migration
7 8 (17.78%) Agile
7 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
8 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (15.56%) ITSM
9 6 (13.33%) Microservices
9 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.11%) High Availability
10 5 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) C#
1 8 (17.78%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) Bash
3 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) Python
5 4 (8.89%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) PHP
6 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) C
7 2 (4.44%) Perl
7 2 (4.44%) Ruby
8 1 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) CCNA
1 8 (17.78%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (17.78%) MCP
1 8 (17.78%) MCSA
1 8 (17.78%) MCSE
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (15.56%) CCNP
3 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 5 (11.11%) HND
4 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.22%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.22%) GPEN
6 1 (2.22%) OSCP
6 1 (2.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.22%) GRC
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
2 10 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.00%) Terraform
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.67%) Ansible
5 2 (4.44%) Argo
6 1 (2.22%) Grafana
6 1 (2.22%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.22%) Nessus
6 1 (2.22%) Nmap
6 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) VMware
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.56%) Draytek
3 7 (15.56%) Mitel
3 7 (15.56%) WatchGuard
4 6 (13.33%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (11.11%) Oracle
6 3 (6.67%) Cisco
6 3 (6.67%) HP
7 2 (4.44%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (4.44%) Siemens
7 2 (4.44%) Toshiba
8 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.22%) Google
8 1 (2.22%) Qualys