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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 29 60
Rank change year-on-year -46 +31 -35
Permanent jobs citing Linux 84 325 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.14% 6.06% 5.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.55% 40.17% 27.22%
Number of salaries quoted 37 188 64
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £38,438 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £60,000 £68,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.70% +5.00%

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 275 809 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.29% 15.08% 18.51%
Number of salaries quoted 204 599 262
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,188 £26,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -13.04% +6.98%
75th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £66,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -14 34 £43,800 +9.50% 48
Derbyshire -14 22 £35,000 -30.00% 6
Nottinghamshire -23 11 £60,000 +23.08% 18
Leicestershire -41 9 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Lincolnshire +23 7 £42,500 +6.25%
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 (10.71%) Confluence
2 4 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) EngageOne
2 1 (1.19%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.33%) Azure
2 23 (27.38%) AWS
3 14 (16.67%) SaaS
4 11 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.10%) PaaS
5 3 (3.57%) IaaS
6 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.38%) Cloudflare
6 2 (2.38%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.38%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.19%) Figma
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.19%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (30.95%) VPN
2 15 (17.86%) TCP/IP
3 8 (9.52%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (7.14%) Firewall
5 5 (5.95%) DNS
6 4 (4.76%) DHCP
7 3 (3.57%) Ethernet
7 3 (3.57%) Internet
7 3 (3.57%) LAN
7 3 (3.57%) Network Security
7 3 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (3.57%) WAN
8 2 (2.38%) Broadband
9 1 (1.19%) 5G
9 1 (1.19%) Bluetooth
9 1 (1.19%) LTE
9 1 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) Relational Database
2 10 (11.90%) MySQL
3 8 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.76%) Big Data
5 3 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.38%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 13 (15.48%) Robot Framework
3 10 (11.90%) Git
4 9 (10.71%) Bitbucket
4 9 (10.71%) JIRA
5 8 (9.52%) Eclipse
6 6 (7.14%) IntelliJ
6 6 (7.14%) Jasmine
6 6 (7.14%) JUnit
6 6 (7.14%) Karma Test Runner
6 6 (7.14%) Mockito
6 6 (7.14%) Protractor
7 2 (2.38%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (2.38%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.19%) FitNesse
8 1 (1.19%) GitLab
8 1 (1.19%) Newman
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 29 (34.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.48%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.38%) Finance
4 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Retail
5 1 (1.19%) Electronics
5 1 (1.19%) Law
5 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (15.48%) Test Automation Engineer
1 13 (15.48%) Test Engineer
2 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (13.10%) Lead
2 11 (13.10%) Software Engineer
3 9 (10.71%) Developer
3 9 (10.71%) Senior
3 9 (10.71%) Team Leader
4 8 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 8 (9.52%) IT Support
5 7 (8.33%) Support Team Leader
5 7 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Backend Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Junior
8 4 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) .NET
2 10 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 6 (7.14%) Hibernate
3 6 (7.14%) JPA
3 6 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (7.14%) React
4 4 (4.76%) Dask
4 4 (4.76%) Polars
5 3 (3.57%) Yocto
6 2 (2.38%) CSS
6 2 (2.38%) HTML
6 2 (2.38%) JSP
6 2 (2.38%) Middleware
6 2 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.19%) Node.js
7 1 (1.19%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (11.90%) Cyberattack
2 10 (11.90%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.76%) IoT
6 3 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.19%) Lidar
7 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.19%) NB-IoT
7 1 (1.19%) Robotics
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (65.48%) Windows
2 20 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.90%) Android
4 7 (8.33%) CentOS
4 7 (8.33%) Rocky
4 7 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.14%) AIX
6 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (3.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (3.57%) Unix
8 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.71%) Agile
1 30 (35.71%) Coaching
2 26 (30.95%) DevOps
2 26 (30.95%) Mentoring
3 23 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (19.05%) Mathematics
5 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 13 (15.48%) Containerisation
6 13 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (15.48%) System Testing
6 13 (15.48%) Test Management
6 13 (15.48%) Unit Testing
7 12 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 12 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (11.90%) ITIL
9 10 (11.90%) Line Management
9 10 (11.90%) Task Automation
10 9 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
10 9 (10.71%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.62%) Python
2 27 (32.14%) Bash
3 24 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 19 (22.62%) JavaScript
5 16 (19.05%) C#
6 15 (17.86%) Java
7 14 (16.67%) SQL
8 7 (8.33%) C++
9 5 (5.95%) C
10 4 (4.76%) Go
10 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.57%) Rust
12 2 (2.38%) Ada
12 2 (2.38%) Korn
13 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 27 (32.14%) Degree
2 11 (13.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (9.52%) CCNA
3 8 (9.52%) CCNP
3 8 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (9.52%) MCP
3 8 (9.52%) MCSA
3 8 (9.52%) MCSE
3 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.76%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) SLA
3 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (26.19%) Docker
2 9 (10.71%) vSphere
3 8 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 8 (9.52%) VMware NSX
4 7 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
6 3 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Ansible
2 15 (17.86%) Terraform
3 7 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (2.38%) Argo
5 2 (2.38%) Grafana
5 2 (2.38%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.38%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.19%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.19%) Puppet
6 1 (1.19%) Rancher
6 1 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Cisco
2 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.71%) Atlassian
3 9 (10.71%) IBM
4 8 (9.52%) 3PAR
4 8 (9.52%) Juniper
4 8 (9.52%) Splunk
4 8 (9.52%) VMware
5 4 (4.76%) Databricks
5 4 (4.76%) Google
5 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.57%) Atmel
7 2 (2.38%) Imperva
7 2 (2.38%) SAP
8 1 (1.19%) Lauterbach
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle