Linux Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer salary in Work from Home is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 388 714
Rank change year-on-year -84 +326 -309
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 121 264 172
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.69% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.72% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 111 237 163
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £84,375 £77,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £106,250 £150,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer.

Linux Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Linux Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) Linux
2 61 (50.41%) Ansible
3 51 (42.15%) AWS
4 49 (40.50%) Python
5 43 (35.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 42 (34.71%) Red Hat
6 42 (34.71%) Bash
7 36 (29.75%) Social Skills
8 34 (28.10%) Terraform
9 33 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (26.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (25.62%) Firewall
12 30 (24.79%) DevOps
12 30 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (23.97%) Azure
14 28 (23.14%) Docker
14 28 (23.14%) Ubuntu
15 27 (22.31%) CI/CD
16 26 (21.49%) Git
17 25 (20.66%) Kubernetes
17 25 (20.66%) TCP/IP
18 24 (19.83%) Agile
18 24 (19.83%) Puppet
19 23 (19.01%) CentOS
19 23 (19.01%) C
20 21 (17.36%) PowerShell
21 20 (16.53%) DNS
22 19 (15.70%) Debian
23 18 (14.88%) Software Engineering
24 17 (14.05%) Security Cleared

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.13%) nginx
2 2 (1.65%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.15%) AWS
2 29 (23.97%) Azure
3 9 (7.44%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (7.44%) GCP
3 9 (7.44%) SaaS
4 8 (6.61%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.79%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.79%) Slack
6 6 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.31%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.65%) GitHub
9 2 (1.65%) Kong
9 2 (1.65%) Serverless
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (25.62%) Firewall
2 25 (20.66%) TCP/IP
3 20 (16.53%) DNS
4 15 (12.40%) SAN
5 12 (9.92%) Internet
5 12 (9.92%) LAN
6 11 (9.09%) SNMP
7 7 (5.79%) tcpdump
7 7 (5.79%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (4.96%) NAS
8 6 (4.96%) WAN
9 5 (4.13%) DHCP
10 2 (1.65%) HTTP
10 2 (1.65%) VPN
10 2 (1.65%) VSAN
11 1 (0.83%) IPsec
11 1 (0.83%) MQTT
11 1 (0.83%) RS-485
11 1 (0.83%) SSL
11 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.22%) MySQL
2 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.79%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.65%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (21.49%) Git
2 15 (12.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.79%) JIRA
4 5 (4.13%) DTrace
4 5 (4.13%) GDB
4 5 (4.13%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.65%) GitLab
5 2 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
General
1 36 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.05%) Finance
3 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.61%) Banking
4 8 (6.61%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.48%) Advertising
6 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.65%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (6.61%) GTK
2 8 (6.61%) YAML
3 4 (3.31%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (3.31%) Kafka
3 4 (3.31%) LDAP
4 3 (2.48%) Middleware
5 2 (1.65%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (1.65%) Yocto
6 1 (0.83%) ADO
6 1 (0.83%) JSON
6 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (9.92%) Clustering
3 11 (9.09%) Client/Server
4 10 (8.26%) FPGA
5 9 (7.44%) Data Centre
6 8 (6.61%) PKI
7 7 (5.79%) CMDB
7 7 (5.79%) Management Information System
8 5 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (4.13%) Replication
9 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.65%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.65%) PropTech
11 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.83%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.83%) IoT
11 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 121 (100.00%) Linux
2 32 (26.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (23.14%) Ubuntu
4 23 (19.01%) CentOS
5 19 (15.70%) Debian
6 15 (12.40%) Windows
7 11 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (8.26%) Unix
9 7 (5.79%) CoreOS
10 6 (4.96%) Solaris
11 5 (4.13%) SUSE
12 3 (2.48%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
14 1 (0.83%) Fedora
14 1 (0.83%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (24.79%) DevOps
3 30 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (22.31%) CI/CD
5 24 (19.83%) Agile
6 18 (14.88%) Software Engineering
7 17 (14.05%) Migration
8 16 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (12.40%) Computer Science
9 15 (12.40%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (11.57%) Containerisation
10 14 (11.57%) Time Management
11 13 (10.74%) ITIL
11 13 (10.74%) Scrum
12 12 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (9.92%) High Availability
12 12 (9.92%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (9.92%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.50%) Python
2 42 (34.71%) Bash
3 23 (19.01%) C
4 21 (17.36%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.92%) Perl
6 11 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.26%) Java
8 6 (4.96%) C++
9 5 (4.13%) C#
9 5 (4.13%) OCaml
9 5 (4.13%) SystemTap
10 3 (2.48%) Ada
10 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.65%) Ruby
12 1 (0.83%) AWK
12 1 (0.83%) PHP
12 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.09%) Degree
3 8 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.57%) QA
2 6 (4.96%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (23.14%) Docker
2 8 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.79%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.48%) KVM
6 2 (1.65%) NFS
6 2 (1.65%) vSphere
7 1 (0.83%) Samba
Systems Management
1 61 (50.41%) Ansible
2 34 (28.10%) Terraform
3 25 (20.66%) Kubernetes
4 24 (19.83%) Puppet
5 11 (9.09%) Nagios
6 10 (8.26%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (7.44%) Grafana
8 7 (5.79%) Graphite
8 7 (5.79%) HAProxy
8 7 (5.79%) Progress Chef
8 7 (5.79%) vCenter Server
9 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.65%) Rancher
10 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 42 (34.71%) Red Hat
2 12 (9.92%) Oracle
3 10 (8.26%) F5
4 9 (7.44%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.61%) VMware
6 6 (4.96%) Cisco
6 6 (4.96%) Meraki
6 6 (4.96%) Ubiquiti
7 5 (4.13%) Serena
8 2 (1.65%) Dell
8 2 (1.65%) Google
8 2 (1.65%) HP
8 2 (1.65%) Intel
8 2 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.83%) TOWER Software