Linux Jobs in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 27 55
Rank change year-on-year -48 +28 -36
Permanent jobs citing Linux 83 302 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.09% 6.26% 5.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.63% 39.95% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 33 188 70
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.80% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,938 £67,500
90th Percentile - £60,000 £67,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 271 756 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.10% 15.67% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 191 586 269
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,375 £26,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £66,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Linux in the East Midlands

Linux
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 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 30 May 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 -23 27 £40,000 -20.00% 65
Derbyshire -12 21 £35,000 -30.00% 105
Nottinghamshire -26 13 £60,000 +20.00% 61
Leicestershire -36 13 £65,000 +30.00% 49
Lincolnshire +22 7 £42,500 -20.93% 49
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 9 (10.84%) Confluence
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.41%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) EngageOne
2 1 (1.20%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.53%) Azure
2 24 (28.92%) AWS
3 16 (19.28%) SaaS
4 8 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.64%) PaaS
5 2 (2.41%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.41%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.41%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.20%) GitHub
6 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) VPN
2 15 (18.07%) TCP/IP
3 8 (9.64%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (7.23%) Internet
5 5 (6.02%) DNS
5 5 (6.02%) Firewall
5 5 (6.02%) Network Security
5 5 (6.02%) WLAN
6 4 (4.82%) DHCP
7 2 (2.41%) Broadband
8 1 (1.20%) 5G
8 1 (1.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.20%) LTE
8 1 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) Relational Database
2 9 (10.84%) MySQL
2 9 (10.84%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.82%) Big Data
4 3 (3.61%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Cucumber
2 13 (15.66%) Robot Framework
3 9 (10.84%) Bitbucket
3 9 (10.84%) Eclipse
3 9 (10.84%) Git
3 9 (10.84%) JIRA
4 7 (8.43%) IntelliJ
4 7 (8.43%) Jasmine
4 7 (8.43%) JUnit
4 7 (8.43%) Karma Test Runner
4 7 (8.43%) Mockito
4 7 (8.43%) Protractor
5 2 (2.41%) Eclipse RCP
5 2 (2.41%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.20%) FitNesse
6 1 (1.20%) GitLab
6 1 (1.20%) Newman
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
General
1 27 (32.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.41%) Finance
4 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Electronics
5 1 (1.20%) Law
5 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (19.28%) IT Support
2 13 (15.66%) IT Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Test Automation Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Test Engineer
3 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Lead
5 9 (10.84%) Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Senior
5 9 (10.84%) Team Leader
6 8 (9.64%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Java Developer
7 7 (8.43%) SaaS Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Support Team Leader
7 7 (8.43%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Backend Developer
8 6 (7.23%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Support Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Server Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) .NET
1 10 (12.05%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
2 7 (8.43%) Hibernate
2 7 (8.43%) JPA
2 7 (8.43%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (8.43%) React
3 4 (4.82%) Dask
3 4 (4.82%) Polars
4 2 (2.41%) CSS
4 2 (2.41%) HTML
4 2 (2.41%) JSP
4 2 (2.41%) Middleware
4 2 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.20%) Node.js
5 1 (1.20%) Pandas
5 1 (1.20%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Driving Licence
2 13 (15.66%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (12.05%) Cyberattack
4 8 (9.64%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.41%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Lidar
7 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.20%) NB-IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Robotics
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (72.29%) Windows
2 19 (22.89%) Windows Server
3 10 (12.05%) Android
4 7 (8.43%) CentOS
4 7 (8.43%) Rocky
4 7 (8.43%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.61%) Unix
6 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.20%) AIX
7 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.20%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) Mentoring
2 30 (36.14%) Coaching
3 28 (33.73%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (32.53%) Agile
5 25 (30.12%) DevOps
6 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
6 14 (16.87%) ITIL
6 14 (16.87%) Mathematics
6 14 (16.87%) Test Automation
6 14 (16.87%) Unit Testing
7 13 (15.66%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (15.66%) System Testing
7 13 (15.66%) Test Management
8 12 (14.46%) CI/CD
9 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (12.05%) Line Management
10 10 (12.05%) Task Automation
11 9 (10.84%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (10.84%) DevSecOps
11 9 (10.84%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 24 (28.92%) Bash
2 24 (28.92%) PowerShell
3 17 (20.48%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.07%) SQL
5 14 (16.87%) Java
6 13 (15.66%) C#
7 5 (6.02%) C++
8 4 (4.82%) Go
9 3 (3.61%) C
9 3 (3.61%) Rust
10 2 (2.41%) Ada
10 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.20%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 31 (37.35%) Degree
2 15 (18.07%) CCNA
2 15 (18.07%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (15.66%) CCNP
3 13 (15.66%) MCP
3 13 (15.66%) MCSE
3 13 (15.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (13.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (9.64%) MCSA
6 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (6.02%) LPIC
8 4 (4.82%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.61%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (2.41%) A+ Certification
10 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
11 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) QA
2 5 (6.02%) SLA
3 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (25.30%) Docker
2 9 (10.84%) vSphere
3 8 (9.64%) Hyper-V
3 8 (9.64%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (34.94%) Ansible
2 13 (15.66%) Terraform
3 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.41%) Argo
4 2 (2.41%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.20%) Puppet
5 1 (1.20%) Rancher
5 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Cisco
2 14 (16.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.84%) Atlassian
4 8 (9.64%) 3PAR
4 8 (9.64%) Juniper
4 8 (9.64%) Splunk
5 7 (8.43%) IBM
6 5 (6.02%) VMware
7 4 (4.82%) Databricks
7 4 (4.82%) Google
8 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.41%) Imperva
10 1 (1.20%) Atmel
10 1 (1.20%) Lauterbach
10 1 (1.20%) Oracle
10 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow