Linux Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Linux
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 54 32
Rank change year-on-year -20 -22 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 7 11 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.56% 2.06% 5.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.21% 17.46% 42.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 58
10th Percentile £26,700 £47,500 £35,875
25th Percentile - £57,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +23.08% -18.75%
75th Percentile £52,750 £62,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,500 - £57,875
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £46,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% -13.04%

All Operating Systems
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 53 63 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 4.22% 11.82% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 47 53 144
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £35,000 £43,362
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -19.28% -18.76%
75th Percentile £31,500 £40,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £48,500 £43,750 £60,875
East Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -18.75% -13.98%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Linux job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Nottinghamshire

Linux
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Nottingham -26 7 £30,000 -50.00% 9
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Debian
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Presales
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Samba
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Argo
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Nessus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) AlienVault
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) VMware