Linux Engineer Jobs

Linux Engineer
UK

The median Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 553 860
Rank change year-on-year +9 +307 -362
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 412 438 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.52% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 343 359 361
10th Percentile £39,112 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,125 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +16 370 £60,000 -4.00% 49
UK excluding London -18 277 £54,000 +2.86% 32
Work from Home -62 125 £57,500 -8.00% 22
London +3 112 £80,000 +14.29% 19
South West +6 71 £45,000 -20.35% 2
South East -10 53 £50,000 - 9
East of England -1 49 £60,000 +4.35% 6
North of England +15 44 £45,000 +5.88% 10
Midlands -25 42 £57,500 -1.29% 4
East Midlands -6 30 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Yorkshire +39 18 £42,500 - 2
North West -3 15 £52,500 -0.94% 8
West Midlands -31 12 £65,000 +13.04%
North East -5 11 £58,000 +28.89%
Scotland -58 10 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 412 (100.00%) Linux
2 128 (31.07%) Ansible
3 116 (28.16%) Python
4 108 (26.21%) Red Hat
5 103 (25.00%) Bash
6 88 (21.36%) Software Engineering
7 87 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 84 (20.39%) AWS
9 80 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (17.96%) C
11 70 (16.99%) Social Skills
12 66 (16.02%) Security Cleared
12 66 (16.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 63 (15.29%) Ubuntu
14 55 (13.35%) TCP/IP
15 53 (12.86%) Kubernetes
16 49 (11.89%) DevOps
16 49 (11.89%) Firewall
17 48 (11.65%) CentOS
18 46 (11.17%) Finance
18 46 (11.17%) Docker
19 45 (10.92%) Terraform
19 45 (10.92%) Windows
20 43 (10.44%) Agile
20 43 (10.44%) Puppet
21 42 (10.19%) Azure
21 42 (10.19%) Unix
22 39 (9.47%) Configuration Management
22 39 (9.47%) Git
23 38 (9.22%) Debian

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.40%) Apache
1 14 (3.40%) nginx
2 7 (1.70%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.46%) Confluence
4 4 (0.97%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) JBoss
5 1 (0.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.24%) Simulink
2 1 (0.24%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 84 (20.39%) AWS
2 42 (10.19%) Azure
3 16 (3.88%) Amazon S3
4 13 (3.16%) GCP
5 12 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.91%) SaaS
6 11 (2.67%) OpenShift
7 9 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.70%) Slack
9 5 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.21%) GitHub
10 4 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.97%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.49%) Kong
11 2 (0.49%) Serverless
11 2 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (13.35%) TCP/IP
2 49 (11.89%) Firewall
3 34 (8.25%) DNS
4 22 (5.34%) Internet
4 22 (5.34%) SAN
5 21 (5.10%) LAN
6 15 (3.64%) WAN
7 14 (3.40%) DHCP
8 13 (3.16%) SNMP
9 11 (2.67%) VPN
10 10 (2.43%) tcpdump
11 8 (1.94%) NAS
11 8 (1.94%) Wireless
12 7 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.73%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.73%) IPsec
14 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
15 2 (0.49%) HTTP
15 2 (0.49%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.31%) MySQL
2 11 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.70%) MariaDB
4 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.21%) InfluxDB
6 4 (0.97%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.49%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.49%) Redis
8 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (9.47%) Git
2 27 (6.55%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.10%) JIRA
4 6 (1.46%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.46%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.46%) GDB
5 5 (1.21%) DTrace
5 5 (1.21%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.73%) GitLab
7 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) git-flow
7 2 (0.49%) Maven
7 2 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.24%) Redmine
8 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 70 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 46 (11.17%) Finance
3 38 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.85%) Banking
5 19 (4.61%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.91%) Electronics
8 10 (2.43%) Automotive
9 7 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.97%) Military
11 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Advertising
12 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.73%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.73%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.73%) Retail
13 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.64%) Yocto
2 14 (3.40%) LDAP
2 14 (3.40%) Middleware
3 10 (2.43%) GTK
3 10 (2.43%) YAML
4 9 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (1.94%) JSON
6 7 (1.70%) JSON Schema
6 7 (1.70%) Kafka
6 7 (1.70%) KML
6 7 (1.70%) Regular Expression
6 7 (1.70%) XML
7 5 (1.21%) LAMP
8 4 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (0.97%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.97%) React
9 3 (0.73%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.73%) REST
10 2 (0.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.04%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.31%) IoT
3 21 (5.10%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (5.10%) PKI
4 17 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.16%) Client/Server
6 12 (2.91%) Clustering
7 11 (2.67%) FPGA
8 7 (1.70%) CMDB
8 7 (1.70%) Replication
9 6 (1.46%) Device Driver
9 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.21%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 412 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (16.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 63 (15.29%) Ubuntu
4 48 (11.65%) CentOS
5 45 (10.92%) Windows
6 42 (10.19%) Unix
7 38 (9.22%) Debian
8 32 (7.77%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (5.10%) Solaris
10 13 (3.16%) Windows Server
11 11 (2.67%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (2.18%) CoreOS
13 7 (1.70%) SUSE
14 6 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (1.21%) Rocky
15 5 (1.21%) Windows 10
15 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.24%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (21.36%) Software Engineering
2 87 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 80 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (11.89%) DevOps
5 43 (10.44%) Agile
6 39 (9.47%) Configuration Management
7 36 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (8.01%) CI/CD
8 33 (8.01%) Containerisation
9 31 (7.52%) Computer Science
10 25 (6.07%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (5.83%) Time Management
12 21 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (4.85%) Open Source
14 18 (4.37%) Customer Experience
14 18 (4.37%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (4.37%) Migration
15 17 (4.13%) High Availability
16 16 (3.88%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (3.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (28.16%) Python
2 103 (25.00%) Bash
3 74 (17.96%) C
4 35 (8.50%) C++
5 33 (8.01%) Perl
6 32 (7.77%) PowerShell
7 25 (6.07%) Java
8 23 (5.58%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.43%) Ada
9 10 (2.43%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.94%) C#
11 6 (1.46%) SQL
12 5 (1.21%) Embedded C++
12 5 (1.21%) OCaml
12 5 (1.21%) SystemTap
13 4 (0.97%) PHP
14 3 (0.73%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.73%) Ruby
15 1 (0.24%) Korn
15 1 (0.24%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 66 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 37 (8.98%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.52%) Degree
3 31 (7.52%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.73%) Linux+ Certification
6 3 (0.73%) RHCE
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.40%) QA
2 8 (1.94%) PMO
3 7 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.46%) SLA
5 5 (1.21%) NCSC
6 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (11.17%) Docker
2 30 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.43%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.43%) KVM
6 9 (2.18%) NFS
7 7 (1.70%) Active Directory
8 6 (1.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.49%) Firmware
10 2 (0.49%) Lustre
10 2 (0.49%) QEMU
10 2 (0.49%) vSphere
10 2 (0.49%) Xen
11 1 (0.24%) iptables
11 1 (0.24%) Samba
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.24%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 128 (31.07%) Ansible
2 53 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 45 (10.92%) Terraform
4 43 (10.44%) Puppet
5 17 (4.13%) Nagios
6 16 (3.88%) Grafana
6 16 (3.88%) Progress Chef
7 14 (3.40%) Prometheus
8 11 (2.67%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.43%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (2.18%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 8 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (1.70%) Graphite
12 7 (1.70%) HAProxy
13 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.97%) HP Data Protector
15 3 (0.73%) Rancher
16 2 (0.49%) ZABBIX
17 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (26.21%) Red Hat
2 32 (7.77%) VMware
3 23 (5.58%) Microsoft
4 22 (5.34%) Cisco
5 19 (4.61%) Oracle
6 16 (3.88%) F5
7 11 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.18%) IBM
9 8 (1.94%) Dell
9 8 (1.94%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.70%) EMC
10 7 (1.70%) HP
10 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.46%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.46%) Juniper
11 6 (1.46%) Meraki
11 6 (1.46%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.21%) Google
12 5 (1.21%) Serena
13 3 (0.73%) Intel