Embedded Linux Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Embedded Linux
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 495 393
Rank change year-on-year -61 -102 +137
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Linux 91 67 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.91% 1.29% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 73 28 238
10th Percentile £55,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +18.64%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,760 5,200 7,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.17% 15.04% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,689 3,356 5,585
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £58,025
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £71,991
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%

Embedded Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Embedded Linux job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Embedded Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Embedded Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Embedded Linux in the UK excluding London

Embedded Linux
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Linux within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
East of England +11 47 £70,000 +3.70% 25
South East -63 13 £65,000 +18.18% 20
Scotland +15 12 £67,500 +2.27% 1
Midlands -44 9 £67,500 -12.90% 3
East Midlands -19 8 £67,500 - 1
North of England -48 5 £60,000 +30.43% 15
South West -66 5 £70,000 +21.74% 6
North West - 5 £60,000 - 7
West Midlands -37 1 £52,500 -32.26% 2
Embedded Linux
UK

Embedded Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.30%) Azure
1 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.20%) AWS
2 2 (2.20%) AWS IoT
2 2 (2.20%) GCP
3 1 (1.10%) GitHub
3 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (13.19%) Ethernet
2 12 (13.19%) RS-232
2 12 (13.19%) Wireless
3 5 (5.49%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.40%) Bluetooth
4 4 (4.40%) ZigBee
5 2 (2.20%) DNS
5 2 (2.20%) Firewall
5 2 (2.20%) IPv4
5 2 (2.20%) IPv6
5 2 (2.20%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (2.20%) MQTT
5 2 (2.20%) VPN
5 2 (2.20%) WireGuard
6 1 (1.10%) LTE
6 1 (1.10%) Multicast
6 1 (1.10%) RFID
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.59%) CMake
4 3 (3.30%) GDB
4 3 (3.30%) GitLab
4 3 (3.30%) PetaLinux
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (25.27%) Electronics
2 4 (4.40%) Aerospace
3 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.10%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 77 (84.62%) Embedded Engineer
2 53 (58.24%) Software Engineer
3 50 (54.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 43 (47.25%) Linux Engineer
5 42 (46.15%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 40 (43.96%) Senior
7 34 (37.36%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 28 (30.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (27.47%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 17 (18.68%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
11 12 (13.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (8.79%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (5.49%) FPGA Engineer
14 4 (4.40%) C++ Software Engineer
14 4 (4.40%) Embedded C++ Engineer
14 4 (4.40%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
15 3 (3.30%) Computer Engineer
15 3 (3.30%) Computer Vision Engineer
15 3 (3.30%) Robotics Software Engineer
16 2 (2.20%) IoT Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (37.36%) Yocto
2 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
2 4 (4.40%) Qt
3 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 46 (50.55%) Embedded Systems
2 29 (31.87%) Device Driver
3 21 (23.08%) IoT
4 16 (17.58%) Robotics
5 12 (13.19%) FPGA
6 10 (10.99%) Algorithms
7 5 (5.49%) Verilog
7 5 (5.49%) VHDL
8 3 (3.30%) ARM Cortex
8 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.10%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.10%) NB-IoT
9 1 (1.10%) PCIe
9 1 (1.10%) Photography
9 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.10%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 91 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (3.30%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.10%) ThreadX
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (86.81%) Software Engineering
2 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
3 15 (16.48%) Agile
4 14 (15.38%) Collaborative Engineering
5 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (13.19%) Scrum
7 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.79%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (8.79%) DevOps
8 8 (8.79%) Signal Processing
8 8 (8.79%) Software Architecture
8 8 (8.79%) Validation
9 7 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 7 (7.69%) Device Driver Development
9 7 (7.69%) Embedded Software Development
9 7 (7.69%) Test Automation
10 6 (6.59%) Computer Vision
10 6 (6.59%) Software Testing
11 4 (4.40%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 47 (51.65%) C++
2 41 (45.05%) C
3 24 (26.37%) Embedded C
3 24 (26.37%) Python
4 8 (8.79%) Embedded C++
5 3 (3.30%) C#
5 3 (3.30%) MATLAB
5 3 (3.30%) Rust
6 2 (2.20%) Bash
6 2 (2.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (17.58%) Degree
2 8 (8.79%) Master's Degree
3 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) JTAG
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Firmware
2 9 (9.89%) Docker
3 6 (6.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (2.20%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Ansible
1 1 (1.10%) Grafana
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.20%) Google