Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 554 795
Rank change year-on-year +36 +241 -329
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 349 404 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.53% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 292 323 313
10th Percentile £40,100 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
London +41 111 £80,000 +14.29% 25
South West +1 66 £50,000 -10.31% 4
South East -12 53 £56,250 +12.50% 10
East of England -4 43 £63,750 +10.87% 6
Midlands -4 39 £57,500 -4.17% 3
North of England +15 38 £45,000 +5.88% 9
East Midlands +8 26 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire +31 16 £43,750 +2.94% 3
West Midlands -26 13 £65,000 +9.24%
North East -1 11 £58,000 +28.89%
North West -10 11 £52,500 -0.94% 6
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 349 (100.00%) Linux
2 118 (33.81%) Ansible
3 112 (32.09%) Python
4 103 (29.51%) Red Hat
5 98 (28.08%) Bash
6 76 (21.78%) AWS
7 72 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 70 (20.06%) Software Engineering
10 66 (18.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 63 (18.05%) C
12 60 (17.19%) Social Skills
13 59 (16.91%) Ubuntu
14 51 (14.61%) Kubernetes
14 51 (14.61%) Security Cleared
14 51 (14.61%) CentOS
14 51 (14.61%) TCP/IP
15 48 (13.75%) DevOps
16 47 (13.47%) Firewall
17 46 (13.18%) Docker
18 43 (12.32%) Windows
18 43 (12.32%) Agile
19 41 (11.75%) Finance
19 41 (11.75%) Puppet
20 40 (11.46%) Azure
21 39 (11.17%) Git
22 37 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
22 37 (10.60%) Terraform
23 36 (10.32%) Configuration Management
24 34 (9.74%) Debian

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.01%) Apache
1 14 (4.01%) nginx
2 7 (2.01%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.72%) Confluence
4 4 (1.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.29%) JBoss
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.29%) Simulink
2 1 (0.29%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 76 (21.78%) AWS
2 40 (11.46%) Azure
3 16 (4.58%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.44%) SaaS
5 11 (3.15%) GCP
5 11 (3.15%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.72%) GitHub
7 5 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.15%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.57%) Kong
9 2 (0.57%) Serverless
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.61%) TCP/IP
2 47 (13.47%) Firewall
3 34 (9.74%) DNS
4 22 (6.30%) Internet
4 22 (6.30%) LAN
5 16 (4.58%) WAN
6 14 (4.01%) DHCP
7 13 (3.72%) SAN
7 13 (3.72%) SNMP
8 10 (2.87%) tcpdump
9 9 (2.58%) VPN
10 8 (2.29%) Wireless
11 7 (2.01%) NAS
11 7 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.86%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.86%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.57%) HTTP
14 2 (0.57%) Network Security
14 2 (0.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.45%) MySQL
2 11 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.01%) MariaDB
4 7 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.43%) InfluxDB
6 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.86%) Big Data
6 3 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.57%) Redis
7 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (11.17%) Git
2 28 (8.02%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.16%) JIRA
4 6 (1.72%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.72%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.72%) GDB
5 5 (1.43%) DTrace
5 5 (1.43%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.15%) GitLab
7 3 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.57%) git-flow
8 2 (0.57%) Maven
8 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.29%) Redmine
9 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 60 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.75%) Finance
3 37 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.58%) Banking
5 14 (4.01%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.87%) Automotive
7 9 (2.58%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.15%) Electronics
10 4 (1.15%) Military
11 3 (0.86%) Advertising
11 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.86%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.57%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.29%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.30%) Yocto
2 14 (4.01%) LDAP
2 14 (4.01%) Middleware
3 10 (2.87%) YAML
4 9 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.29%) JSON
6 7 (2.01%) GTK
6 7 (2.01%) JSON Schema
6 7 (2.01%) Kafka
6 7 (2.01%) KML
6 7 (2.01%) Regular Expression
6 7 (2.01%) XML
7 5 (1.43%) LAMP
8 4 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (1.15%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.86%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.86%) REST
10 2 (0.57%) LAPP Stack
10 2 (0.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.45%) IoT
2 23 (6.59%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.16%) PKI
4 17 (4.87%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (4.58%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.44%) Client/Server
6 12 (3.44%) Clustering
7 10 (2.87%) FPGA
8 7 (2.01%) Replication
9 6 (1.72%) Device Driver
9 6 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.43%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 349 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (18.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 59 (16.91%) Ubuntu
4 51 (14.61%) CentOS
5 43 (12.32%) Windows
6 34 (9.74%) Debian
7 32 (9.17%) Embedded Linux
7 32 (9.17%) Unix
8 14 (4.01%) Solaris
9 11 (3.15%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (3.15%) Windows Server
10 9 (2.58%) CoreOS
11 7 (2.01%) SUSE
12 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (1.43%) Windows 10
13 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.86%) Rocky
15 2 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.29%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 70 (20.06%) Software Engineering
4 48 (13.75%) DevOps
5 43 (12.32%) Agile
6 36 (10.32%) Configuration Management
7 34 (9.74%) CI/CD
7 34 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (9.17%) Containerisation
9 30 (8.60%) Computer Science
10 24 (6.88%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (6.88%) Time Management
11 21 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (5.16%) Customer Experience
12 18 (5.16%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (4.87%) Open Source
14 16 (4.58%) Customer Service
14 16 (4.58%) ITIL
14 16 (4.58%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (4.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (32.09%) Python
2 98 (28.08%) Bash
3 63 (18.05%) C
4 32 (9.17%) C++
4 32 (9.17%) Perl
5 28 (8.02%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.59%) Java
6 23 (6.59%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.87%) Ada
7 10 (2.87%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.01%) C#
9 5 (1.43%) OCaml
9 5 (1.43%) SystemTap
10 4 (1.15%) Embedded C++
10 4 (1.15%) PHP
10 4 (1.15%) Ruby
11 3 (0.86%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.86%) SQL
12 2 (0.57%) Go
12 2 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.60%) Degree
3 28 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.74%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (0.86%) RHCE
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.01%) QA
2 8 (2.29%) PMO
3 7 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.72%) SLA
5 5 (1.43%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (13.18%) Docker
2 28 (8.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.87%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.87%) KVM
4 10 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.58%) NFS
6 7 (2.01%) Active Directory
7 6 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.57%) Firmware
9 2 (0.57%) GPFS
9 2 (0.57%) Lustre
9 2 (0.57%) QEMU
9 2 (0.57%) vSphere
9 2 (0.57%) Xen
10 1 (0.29%) iptables
10 1 (0.29%) Samba
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (33.81%) Ansible
2 51 (14.61%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.75%) Puppet
4 37 (10.60%) Terraform
5 16 (4.58%) Grafana
5 16 (4.58%) Nagios
6 13 (3.72%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.72%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.87%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 9 (2.58%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.29%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (2.01%) Graphite
10 7 (2.01%) HAProxy
11 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.15%) HP Data Protector
13 3 (0.86%) Rancher
14 2 (0.57%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 103 (29.51%) Red Hat
2 30 (8.60%) VMware
3 23 (6.59%) Cisco
4 22 (6.30%) Microsoft
5 17 (4.87%) Oracle
6 15 (4.30%) F5
7 11 (3.15%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.58%) IBM
9 8 (2.29%) Dell
9 8 (2.29%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.01%) EMC
10 7 (2.01%) HP
11 6 (1.72%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.72%) Juniper
11 6 (1.72%) Meraki
11 6 (1.72%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.43%) Serena
13 4 (1.15%) Intel
14 3 (0.86%) Google
14 3 (0.86%) Splunk