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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 25 51
Rank change year-on-year -57 +26 -15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 65 256 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.82% 6.46% 4.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.81% 48.48% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 34 113 61
10th Percentile - £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,750 £60,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

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 285 528 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.38% 13.32% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 219 289 235
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,450 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,125 £31,250 £26,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +7 33 £57,500 +43.75% 11
Derbyshire -27 20 £35,000 -30.00% 13
Leicestershire -33 6 £35,000 -28.21% 9
Lincolnshire +1 5 £48,750 - 11
Nottinghamshire -34 1 £40,000 -20.00% 12
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.08%) JBoss
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.38%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 12 (18.46%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (18.46%) PaaS
4 8 (12.31%) SaaS
5 4 (6.15%) IaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.54%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) Figma
7 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 31 (47.69%) VPN
2 14 (21.54%) TCP/IP
3 8 (12.31%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (7.69%) Firewall
5 4 (6.15%) DNS
5 4 (6.15%) Ethernet
5 4 (6.15%) LAN
5 4 (6.15%) Network Security
5 4 (6.15%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (6.15%) WAN
6 3 (4.62%) DHCP
6 3 (4.62%) Internet
7 1 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.08%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 13 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 4 (6.15%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) Gradle
3 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) JUnit
3 2 (3.08%) Maven
3 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Finance
6 4 (6.15%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 13 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) IT Support
3 8 (12.31%) Lead
4 7 (10.77%) Support Team Leader
4 7 (10.77%) Team Leader
5 6 (9.23%) Software Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Support
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior
7 4 (6.15%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.62%) Yocto
3 2 (3.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) CSS
3 2 (3.08%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) SOAP
3 2 (3.08%) Spring
3 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.08%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.54%) Laravel
4 1 (1.54%) Node.js
4 1 (1.54%) Pandas
4 1 (1.54%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Driving Licence
2 13 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (15.38%) Cyberattack
4 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
5 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.62%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (4.62%) IoT
8 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.54%) Lidar
9 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (1.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 46 (70.77%) Windows
2 18 (27.69%) Windows Server
3 10 (15.38%) Android
4 7 (10.77%) AIX
5 6 (9.23%) CentOS
5 6 (9.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.23%) Rocky
5 6 (9.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (7.69%) Mac OS X
7 4 (6.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (4.62%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (4.62%) Unix
9 1 (1.54%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (1.54%) OpenVMS
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (44.62%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 23 (35.38%) DevOps
4 21 (32.31%) Coaching
5 15 (23.08%) ITIL
6 14 (21.54%) Mathematics
7 13 (20.00%) System Testing
7 13 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 13 (20.00%) Test Management
8 11 (16.92%) Agile
9 10 (15.38%) Line Management
10 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (12.31%) Computer Science
11 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.31%) ITSM
11 8 (12.31%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (12.31%) Risk Management
11 8 (12.31%) Storage Management
11 8 (12.31%) Task Automation
12 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (44.62%) Python
2 25 (38.46%) Bash
3 23 (35.38%) PowerShell
4 17 (26.15%) JavaScript
5 9 (13.85%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) C
6 6 (9.23%) C++
7 5 (7.69%) SQL
8 4 (6.15%) C#
8 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.08%) Go
9 2 (3.08%) Korn
9 2 (3.08%) Perl
10 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.54%) PHP
10 1 (1.54%) Rust
10 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (47.69%) Degree
2 13 (20.00%) MCP
2 13 (20.00%) MCSA
2 13 (20.00%) MCSE
2 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (12.31%) CCNA
3 8 (12.31%) CCNP
3 8 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
5 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) HND
6 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.31%) Hyper-V
3 8 (12.31%) VMware NSX
3 8 (12.31%) vSphere
4 4 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Ansible
2 11 (16.92%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.08%) Grafana
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.08%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.92%) VMware
3 9 (13.85%) Cisco
4 8 (12.31%) 3PAR
4 8 (12.31%) Juniper
4 8 (12.31%) Splunk
5 6 (9.23%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.15%) IBM
7 3 (4.62%) Atmel
7 3 (4.62%) Oracle
8 2 (3.08%) Allen-Bradley
8 2 (3.08%) Google
8 2 (3.08%) SAP
8 2 (3.08%) Siemens
8 2 (3.08%) Toshiba
9 1 (1.54%) Imperva