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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 79 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 -51 +24
Permanent jobs citing Linux 115 65 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.77% 2.81% 6.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.51% 22.57% 48.48%
Number of salaries quoted 81 34 113
10th Percentile £27,750 - £35,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £62,875 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.60% +4.17% -4.00%

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 365 288 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.60% 12.43% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 263 221 289
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,875 £26,450
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +14 52 £44,472 +27.06% 12
Derbyshire -10 18 £30,000 -14.29% 6
Lincolnshire -1 16 £53,750 +10.26% 5
Northamptonshire -21 15 £58,500 +1.74% 10
Nottinghamshire -10 13 £45,500 +13.75% 21
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 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.22%) IIS
2 6 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 43 (37.39%) Azure
2 29 (25.22%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (20.87%) AWS
4 15 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (12.17%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.09%) SaaS
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.35%) GCP
7 5 (4.35%) SonarCloud
8 4 (3.48%) IaaS
8 4 (3.48%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.48%) PaaS
9 3 (2.61%) GitHub
9 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.61%) npm
9 3 (2.61%) NuGet
10 2 (1.74%) AWS IoT
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.87%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 35 (30.43%) Firewall
2 20 (17.39%) VPN
3 19 (16.52%) DNS
4 16 (13.91%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (12.17%) Wireless
6 13 (11.30%) MQTT
7 10 (8.70%) DHCP
8 7 (6.09%) IP Telephony
8 7 (6.09%) VLAN
9 6 (5.22%) LAN
9 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
9 6 (5.22%) ZigBee
10 5 (4.35%) Internet
10 5 (4.35%) LoRaWAN
10 5 (4.35%) VoIP
11 4 (3.48%) Bluetooth
12 3 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.61%) WAN
13 2 (1.74%) SMTP
13 2 (1.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) MySQL
1 13 (11.30%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.61%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.74%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.74%) KNIME
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (23.48%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.22%) GDB
3 6 (5.22%) GitLab
4 4 (3.48%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.61%) Subversion
6 2 (1.74%) JIRA
7 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.87%) gulp
7 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 29 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.91%) Manufacturing
3 14 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.43%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.22%) Finance
5 6 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.35%) Electronics
7 4 (3.48%) Law
8 2 (1.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Marketing
9 1 (0.87%) Military
9 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (19.13%) Senior
2 18 (15.65%) Embedded Engineer
3 15 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) IT Support
5 13 (11.30%) Support Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Technical Support
6 12 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) IT Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Developer
11 6 (5.22%) IT Technician
11 6 (5.22%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) Terraform
2 14 (12.17%) Yocto
3 7 (6.09%) .NET
4 5 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 5 (4.35%) REST
4 5 (4.35%) YAML
5 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (3.48%) pytest
5 4 (3.48%) React
5 4 (3.48%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.61%) Node.js
7 2 (1.74%) Blazor
7 2 (1.74%) Django
7 2 (1.74%) Middleware
7 2 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.87%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (0.87%) CSS
8 1 (0.87%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.00%) IoT
2 19 (16.52%) Driving Licence
3 18 (15.65%) Embedded Systems
4 14 (12.17%) Device Driver
5 13 (11.30%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (6.09%) CCTV
7 6 (5.22%) ARM Cortex
8 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
9 4 (3.48%) Replication
10 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.74%) Robotics
11 2 (1.74%) SCADA
11 2 (1.74%) Tandem
12 1 (0.87%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 47 (40.87%) Windows
2 30 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.57%) Debian
3 11 (9.57%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (6.96%) Solaris
5 5 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.35%) OpenVMS
5 5 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.48%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.48%) VMS
7 3 (2.61%) Android
7 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.61%) Unix
8 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (27.83%) CI/CD
4 30 (26.09%) Software Engineering
5 25 (21.74%) DevOps
6 23 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 22 (19.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (12.17%) Computer Science
10 14 (12.17%) Line Management
11 13 (11.30%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (11.30%) DevSecOps
11 13 (11.30%) High Availability
11 13 (11.30%) Mentoring
11 13 (11.30%) Software Delivery
11 13 (11.30%) Time Management
12 12 (10.43%) Incident Management
12 12 (10.43%) ITIL
12 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) PowerShell
1 20 (17.39%) Python
2 19 (16.52%) C
3 18 (15.65%) C++
4 16 (13.91%) Bash
4 16 (13.91%) SQL
5 9 (7.83%) Embedded C
6 8 (6.96%) C#
7 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.61%) Bicep
8 3 (2.61%) Go
8 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.87%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.87%) Ruby
10 1 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 19 (16.52%) Degree
2 14 (12.17%) SC Cleared
2 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.09%) CCNA
4 7 (6.09%) CCNP
4 7 (6.09%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.09%) MCSA
4 7 (6.09%) MCSE
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 6 (5.22%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (5.22%) JTAG
3 4 (3.48%) GDPR
4 3 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) QA
6 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (19.13%) Docker
1 22 (19.13%) Hyper-V
2 21 (18.26%) Active Directory
3 13 (11.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.61%) vSphere
5 2 (1.74%) Firmware
5 2 (1.74%) Samba
Systems Management
1 22 (19.13%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.22%) Ansible
4 3 (2.61%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (2.61%) Grafana
4 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.61%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.87%) Argo
5 1 (0.87%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.26%) VMware
3 7 (6.09%) Draytek
3 7 (6.09%) Mitel
3 7 (6.09%) WatchGuard
4 5 (4.35%) Apple
4 5 (4.35%) Cisco
4 5 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (4.35%) Oracle
4 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.48%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.61%) Google
7 2 (1.74%) Acronis
7 2 (1.74%) AlienVault
7 2 (1.74%) IFS
7 2 (1.74%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) Sybase
7 2 (1.74%) Veeam
7 2 (1.74%) Veracode
8 1 (0.87%) Freshdesk