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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 29 38
Rank change year-on-year -60 +9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 44 136 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.75% 6.03% 5.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.66% 39.88% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 38 43 70
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £45,825
25th Percentile £30,625 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £54,563 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £58,100 £68,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 213 341 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.49% 15.13% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 176 145 228
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £35,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -26.32% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £52,813 £62,500 £64,125
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -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 4 January 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 January 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 -23 15 £37,500 -28.57% 17
Derbyshire -18 14 £30,000 -25.00% 25
Lincolnshire -21 7 £37,500 - 11
Northamptonshire -2 4 £58,000 +7.91% 14
Nottinghamshire -12 4 £50,000 -16.67% 18
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 3 (6.82%) IIS
1 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) JBoss
3 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (38.64%) AWS
4 12 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.82%) npm
5 3 (6.82%) NuGet
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 3 (6.82%) SonarCloud
6 2 (4.55%) IaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) OCI
7 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) Firewall
2 7 (15.91%) IP Telephony
2 7 (15.91%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) Broadband
3 1 (2.27%) Wireless
3 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.55%) MySQL
3 2 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.27%) Gradle
2 1 (2.27%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) JUnit
2 1 (2.27%) Maven
2 1 (2.27%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (15.91%) Telecoms
5 6 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Finance
6 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.82%) Law
6 3 (6.82%) Marketing
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) IT Support
2 16 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) IT Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Technical Support
5 6 (13.64%) Senior
6 5 (11.36%) Lead
7 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Technical Leader
7 4 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) React
2 3 (6.82%) .NET
2 3 (6.82%) Node.js
2 3 (6.82%) YAML
3 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.55%) CSS
3 2 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (4.55%) Spring
3 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.27%) Laravel
4 1 (2.27%) OpenID
4 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.27%) REST
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Spring MVC
4 1 (2.27%) Symfony
4 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Driving Licence
2 7 (15.91%) CCTV
3 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (72.73%) Windows
2 9 (20.45%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.64%) Mac OS X
4 4 (9.09%) Unix
4 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.27%) Android
6 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.27%) OpenVMS
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.82%) ITIL
2 14 (31.82%) Mentoring
3 12 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 9 (20.45%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
5 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
5 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (15.91%) ITSM
5 7 (15.91%) Migration
6 6 (13.64%) Agile
6 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.36%) High Availability
8 4 (9.09%) Coaching
8 4 (9.09%) Line Management
8 4 (9.09%) Microservices
8 4 (9.09%) Organisational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) C#
2 5 (11.36%) Java
2 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) Bash
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) PHP
4 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) C
5 2 (4.55%) Perl
5 2 (4.55%) Ruby
5 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) MCP
1 11 (25.00%) MCSA
1 11 (25.00%) MCSE
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (22.73%) Degree
3 8 (18.18%) CCNA
3 8 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 7 (15.91%) CCNP
5 5 (11.36%) HND
6 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.27%) CHECK Team Member
8 1 (2.27%) CREST Certified
8 1 (2.27%) GPEN
8 1 (2.27%) OSCP
8 1 (2.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Hyper-V
2 8 (18.18%) Docker
3 6 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (13.64%) Terraform
4 3 (6.82%) Ansible
5 2 (4.55%) Argo
6 1 (2.27%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.27%) Nessus
6 1 (2.27%) Nmap
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) VMware
2 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.91%) Draytek
3 7 (15.91%) Mitel
3 7 (15.91%) WatchGuard
4 6 (13.64%) Oracle
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco
5 3 (6.82%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (6.82%) HP
6 2 (4.55%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (4.55%) Siemens
6 2 (4.55%) Toshiba
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Qualys
7 1 (2.27%) Red Hat