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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 78 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 -46 +27
Permanent jobs citing Linux 99 70 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.63% 3.00% 6.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.37% 23.81% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 71 38 134
10th Percentile £28,250 - £35,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.82%

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 349 294 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.75% 12.61% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 256 225 404
10th Percentile £26,125 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £31,000
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 £50,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £55,900 £57,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,355 £48,922
% change year-on-year +8.81% -15.47% -6.82%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +6 48 £44,472 +27.06% 7
Northamptonshire -18 16 £55,500 -3.48% 4
Lincolnshire -12 13 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Derbyshire -11 11 £32,500 -7.14% 5
Nottinghamshire -16 10 £35,500 -29.00% 6
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 (13.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.08%) IIS
3 6 (6.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.37%) Azure
2 22 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.14%) AWS
5 7 (7.07%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.07%) SaaS
5 7 (7.07%) SonarCloud
6 5 (5.05%) GCP
6 5 (5.05%) npm
6 5 (5.05%) NuGet
7 4 (4.04%) IaaS
7 4 (4.04%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.04%) PaaS
8 3 (3.03%) GitHub
8 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.02%) AWS IoT
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 29 (29.29%) Firewall
2 21 (21.21%) VPN
3 19 (19.19%) DNS
4 14 (14.14%) MQTT
4 14 (14.14%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (12.12%) Wireless
6 10 (10.10%) DHCP
7 7 (7.07%) VLAN
8 6 (6.06%) LAN
8 6 (6.06%) LoRaWAN
8 6 (6.06%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.06%) ZigBee
9 5 (5.05%) VoIP
10 4 (4.04%) Bluetooth
10 4 (4.04%) Internet
11 3 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (3.03%) WAN
12 2 (2.02%) SMTP
12 2 (2.02%) SSH
12 2 (2.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.16%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.12%) MySQL
3 7 (7.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.04%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.02%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.02%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.02%) KNIME
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (25.25%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) GDB
2 6 (6.06%) GitLab
2 6 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.04%) Robot Framework
4 3 (3.03%) Subversion
5 2 (2.02%) JIRA
6 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.01%) gulp
6 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Manufacturing
3 14 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.07%) Finance
5 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.05%) Electronics
6 5 (5.05%) Law
6 5 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.01%) Marketing
8 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Senior
2 15 (15.15%) Embedded Engineer
2 15 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (14.14%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (11.11%) Technical Support
5 10 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Support Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) IT Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) IT Support
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (5.05%) Firewall Specialist
9 5 (5.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 5 (5.05%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.13%) Terraform
2 12 (12.12%) Yocto
3 8 (8.08%) .NET
4 7 (7.07%) YAML
5 6 (6.06%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.05%) ASP.NET
6 5 (5.05%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (5.05%) Node.js
6 5 (5.05%) React
6 5 (5.05%) REST
7 4 (4.04%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.04%) pytest
7 4 (4.04%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (2.02%) Middleware
8 2 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.01%) CodeIgniter
9 1 (1.01%) CSS
9 1 (1.01%) HTML
9 1 (1.01%) Laravel
9 1 (1.01%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.20%) IoT
2 15 (15.15%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (12.12%) Device Driver
4 11 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (10.10%) Driving Licence
6 6 (6.06%) ARM Cortex
7 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (5.05%) Private Cloud
7 5 (5.05%) Replication
8 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.02%) SCADA
9 2 (2.02%) Tandem
10 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 42 (42.42%) Windows
2 23 (23.23%) Windows Server
3 9 (9.09%) Debian
4 8 (8.08%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (8.08%) Solaris
5 6 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.05%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.05%) OpenVMS
6 5 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.04%) VMS
8 3 (3.03%) Android
8 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
8 3 (3.03%) Unix
9 1 (1.01%) CentOS
9 1 (1.01%) SUSE
9 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.41%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (31.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (26.26%) CI/CD
4 22 (22.22%) DevOps
4 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 21 (21.21%) Customer Service
6 15 (15.15%) Computer Science
7 14 (14.14%) High Availability
7 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (13.13%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (12.12%) Line Management
9 12 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 12 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (11.11%) DevSecOps
10 11 (11.11%) Time Management
11 10 (10.10%) ERP
11 10 (10.10%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 17 (17.17%) Bash
2 17 (17.17%) Python
3 15 (15.15%) C
3 15 (15.15%) C++
3 15 (15.15%) SQL
4 8 (8.08%) C#
5 6 (6.06%) Embedded C
6 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.03%) Bicep
7 3 (3.03%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) PHP
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (18.18%) Degree
2 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 9 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.02%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) JTAG
2 5 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.04%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.02%) QA
6 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.17%) Docker
3 15 (15.15%) Hyper-V
4 14 (14.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.04%) vSphere
6 3 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.02%) Firmware
7 2 (2.02%) Samba
Systems Management
1 18 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.05%) Ansible
4 4 (4.04%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (4.04%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.03%) Grafana
6 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.01%) Argo
7 1 (1.01%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.15%) VMware
3 7 (7.07%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (6.06%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.05%) Apple
5 5 (5.05%) Cisco
5 5 (5.05%) Oracle
6 4 (4.04%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.02%) Acronis
7 2 (2.02%) AlienVault
7 2 (2.02%) Google
7 2 (2.02%) IFS
7 2 (2.02%) SAP
7 2 (2.02%) Sybase
7 2 (2.02%) Veeam
7 2 (2.02%) Veracode
8 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.01%) Freshdesk
8 1 (1.01%) Imperva
8 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow