Embedded Linux Job Trends in the South East

Embedded Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Embedded Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 259 303
Rank change year-on-year -52 +44 +13
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Linux 7 29 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.045% 0.34% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.58% 2.25% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 77
10th Percentile £49,375 - £53,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £52,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £90,938 £85,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +21.74%

All Operating Systems
South East

Embedded 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,214 1,287 2,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.75% 15.06% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 1,001 2,185
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,875 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £51,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

Embedded Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Embedded Linux job vacancy trend in the South East

Embedded Linux
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Embedded Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Embedded Linux in the South East

Embedded Linux
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Linux within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Hampshire -63 5 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Surrey - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £50,000 -
Embedded Linux
England

Embedded Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Multicast
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) CMake
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Senior
3 4 (57.14%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Yocto
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) API Design
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Edge Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C++
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Firmware
2 4 (57.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform