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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 42 29
Rank change year-on-year -76 -13 +27
Permanent jobs citing Linux 48 91 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.07% 5.23% 6.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.75% 30.23% 36.83%
Number of salaries quoted 36 37 169
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £33,650
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,486 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,875 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,250 - £58,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% -12.31%

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 243 301 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.41% 17.30% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 191 212 565
10th Percentile £26,265 £26,250 £23,850
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,813 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £57,400 £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 4 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 4 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 -31 25 £45,000 +73.08% 16
Lincolnshire -19 9 £37,500 -11.76% 1
Northamptonshire -15 6 £26,265 -34.34% 9
Derbyshire -32 6 £41,250 +10.00% 4
Nottinghamshire -34 2 £45,000 -25.00% 11
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 (22.92%) IIS
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (22.92%) npm
3 11 (22.92%) NuGet
3 11 (22.92%) SonarCloud
4 9 (18.75%) AWS
5 4 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.25%) IaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.08%) PaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.17%) Firewall
2 8 (16.67%) DNS
3 7 (14.58%) VPN
4 6 (12.50%) MQTT
5 3 (6.25%) Internet
5 3 (6.25%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (6.25%) VoIP
6 2 (4.17%) DHCP
7 1 (2.08%) Broadband
7 1 (2.08%) DMZ
7 1 (2.08%) IP Telephony
7 1 (2.08%) LAN
7 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.08%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.08%) WAN
7 1 (2.08%) Wireless
7 1 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 12 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (18.75%) MySQL
4 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.25%) Neo4j
5 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.08%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.08%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 8 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Law
3 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.33%) Retail
3 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Senior
2 13 (27.08%) Support Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.58%) IT Support
6 7 (14.58%) Technical Support
7 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) IT Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Graduate Systems Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Linux Support
9 3 (6.25%) Linux Support Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) React
2 11 (22.92%) .NET
2 11 (22.92%) Node.js
2 11 (22.92%) YAML
3 8 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 5 (10.42%) .NET Core
4 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET
4 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.08%) Django
6 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.08%) Flask
6 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) IoT
2 5 (10.42%) Driving Licence
2 5 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.33%) EPoS
4 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.25%) Replication
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.08%) CCTV
6 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (64.58%) Windows
2 12 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (12.50%) Debian
3 6 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.25%) CentOS
4 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 3 (6.25%) Solaris
4 3 (6.25%) SUSE
4 3 (6.25%) VMS
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.08%) Android
6 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.17%) DevOps
3 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (22.92%) Microservices
4 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
5 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 9 (18.75%) Customer Service
6 9 (18.75%) High Availability
7 8 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (14.58%) Migration
9 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) Time Management
10 5 (10.42%) Agile
10 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
10 5 (10.42%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 13 (27.08%) Bash
3 11 (22.92%) C#
3 11 (22.92%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) Python
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) Go
7 1 (2.08%) Java
7 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) CCNA
2 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) CCNP
3 1 (2.08%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (2.08%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.08%) GPEN
3 1 (2.08%) MCSA
3 1 (2.08%) MCSE
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.08%) OSCP
3 1 (2.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.08%) GRC
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
2 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (10.42%) vSphere
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Galera Cluster
3 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) Ansible
5 1 (2.08%) Argo
5 1 (2.08%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.08%) Nessus
5 1 (2.08%) Nmap
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) CrowdStrike
2 11 (22.92%) VMware
3 3 (6.25%) Apple
3 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) AlienVault
5 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Draytek
5 1 (2.08%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Mitel
5 1 (2.08%) Qualys
5 1 (2.08%) WatchGuard