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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 64 32
Rank change year-on-year -28 -32 +40
Permanent jobs citing Linux 74 74 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.53% 3.72% 5.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.43% 27.61% 39.45%
Number of salaries quoted 56 36 189
10th Percentile £26,883 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,313 £39,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,486 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,250 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,250 £71,250 £60,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 280 268 801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.81% 13.47% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 215 207 601
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,375 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% -12.09%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £58,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +1 38 £44,472 -31.58% 2
Northamptonshire -11 11 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Nottinghamshire -22 9 £30,000 -50.00% 8
Lincolnshire -14 8 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Derbyshire -9 7 £45,000 +28.57% 3
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 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.81%) IIS
3 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.19%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (13.51%) AWS
4 8 (10.81%) npm
4 8 (10.81%) NuGet
4 8 (10.81%) SonarCloud
5 5 (6.76%) SaaS
6 4 (5.41%) GCP
6 4 (5.41%) IaaS
7 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.05%) GitHub
7 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.70%) PaaS
9 1 (1.35%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.43%) Firewall
2 16 (21.62%) VPN
3 12 (16.22%) DNS
3 12 (16.22%) MQTT
4 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (6.76%) DHCP
5 5 (6.76%) VLAN
5 5 (6.76%) Wireless
6 4 (5.41%) Bluetooth
6 4 (5.41%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.41%) VoIP
6 4 (5.41%) ZigBee
7 3 (4.05%) Internet
8 2 (2.70%) LAN
8 2 (2.70%) SMTP
8 2 (2.70%) SSH
8 2 (2.70%) SSL
8 2 (2.70%) WAN
9 1 (1.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.51%) MySQL
3 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.41%) Neo4j
5 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.35%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.35%) KNIME
7 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (22.97%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) GDB
2 4 (5.41%) GitLab
2 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.41%) Robot Framework
3 3 (4.05%) Subversion
4 1 (1.35%) gulp
4 1 (1.35%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 13 (17.57%) Manufacturing
2 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.11%) Finance
5 5 (6.76%) Law
6 4 (5.41%) Retail
6 4 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.70%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Senior
2 12 (16.22%) Support Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Linux Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Systems Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) IT Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (8.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Technical Support
8 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Technical Specialist
9 4 (5.41%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) React
2 8 (10.81%) .NET
2 8 (10.81%) Node.js
2 8 (10.81%) YAML
3 6 (8.11%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (6.76%) Yocto
5 4 (5.41%) pytest
5 4 (5.41%) REST
5 4 (5.41%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (4.05%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.70%) Middleware
7 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.35%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (1.35%) CSS
8 1 (1.35%) Django
8 1 (1.35%) HTML
8 1 (1.35%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) IoT
2 5 (6.76%) Device Driver
2 5 (6.76%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.41%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (5.41%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.41%) EPoS
3 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (5.41%) Replication
4 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.70%) SCADA
6 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (47.30%) Windows
2 17 (22.97%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.81%) Ubuntu
4 7 (9.46%) Debian
4 7 (9.46%) Solaris
5 4 (5.41%) OpenVMS
5 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.41%) VMS
6 3 (4.05%) CentOS
6 3 (4.05%) Mac OS
6 3 (4.05%) SUSE
6 3 (4.05%) Unix
7 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (25.68%) DevOps
3 17 (22.97%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (18.92%) High Availability
4 14 (18.92%) Test Automation
5 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
5 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (16.22%) Customer Service
6 12 (16.22%) Mentoring
7 11 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
8 10 (13.51%) DevSecOps
9 9 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (12.16%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (10.81%) Microservices
10 8 (10.81%) Systems Engineering
10 8 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
11 7 (9.46%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 18 (24.32%) Bash
3 15 (20.27%) Python
3 15 (20.27%) SQL
4 8 (10.81%) C#
5 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.76%) C
6 5 (6.76%) C++
7 4 (5.41%) Go
8 2 (2.70%) Bicep
8 2 (2.70%) PHP
8 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.35%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.35%) Java
9 1 (1.35%) Ruby
9 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Degree
2 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
2 8 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.05%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (5.41%) JTAG
2 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.35%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (22.97%) Docker
2 15 (20.27%) Active Directory
3 14 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (12.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (8.11%) vSphere
6 2 (2.70%) Samba
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.22%) Terraform
3 5 (6.76%) Ansible
4 4 (5.41%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (5.41%) Grafana
4 4 (5.41%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.70%) Argo
7 1 (1.35%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.27%) VMware
3 8 (10.81%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (9.46%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.05%) Apple
5 3 (4.05%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.05%) Cisco
5 3 (4.05%) Oracle
6 2 (2.70%) AlienVault
6 2 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.70%) Sybase
7 1 (1.35%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (1.35%) Qualys
7 1 (1.35%) SAP
7 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow