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 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 577 824
Rank change year-on-year +15 +247 -365
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 360 458 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.50% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 300 362 349
10th Percentile £38,876 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £121,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% +6.00% +11.11%

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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +9 317 £65,000 +4.00% 59
UK excluding London +7 230 £57,500 +8.49% 46
Work from Home -58 116 £60,000 -4.00% 25
London +44 106 £77,500 +10.71% 18
South West -7 57 £51,250 -2.38% 13
South East +7 52 £57,500 +15.00% 11
East of England +14 40 £60,000 +4.35% 7
Midlands 0 34 £57,500 -13.86% 5
North of England +8 30 £45,000 +5.88% 5
East Midlands -3 18 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Yorkshire +43 16 £45,000 +5.88% 1
West Midlands +3 16 £65,000 -2.62%
Scotland -51 12 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North East - 10 £60,000 -
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1
North West +3 4 £55,000 +10.55% 4

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 360 (100.00%) Linux
2 123 (34.17%) Ansible
3 115 (31.94%) Python
4 111 (30.83%) Bash
5 91 (25.28%) Software Engineering
6 87 (24.17%) Red Hat
7 84 (23.33%) AWS
8 80 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (22.22%) C
9 70 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 67 (18.61%) Social Skills
11 65 (18.06%) Ubuntu
12 63 (17.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 53 (14.72%) Windows
13 53 (14.72%) TCP/IP
14 52 (14.44%) DevOps
15 51 (14.17%) Docker
16 50 (13.89%) Kubernetes
16 50 (13.89%) CentOS
17 49 (13.61%) Terraform
18 47 (13.06%) Azure
18 47 (13.06%) Security Cleared
19 46 (12.78%) Agile
20 45 (12.50%) Firewall
20 45 (12.50%) Finance
21 43 (11.94%) Puppet
21 43 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
22 40 (11.11%) C++
23 38 (10.56%) Debian
23 38 (10.56%) Configuration Management

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 15 (4.17%) Apache
2 14 (3.89%) nginx
3 7 (1.94%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.67%) Confluence
5 4 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.28%) Simulink
2 1 (0.28%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.33%) AWS
2 47 (13.06%) Azure
3 20 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 16 (4.44%) GCP
5 12 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
6 11 (3.06%) SaaS
7 9 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.22%) GitHub
9 7 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.94%) Slack
10 6 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.11%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.56%) Kong
13 2 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 53 (14.72%) TCP/IP
2 45 (12.50%) Firewall
3 31 (8.61%) DNS
4 22 (6.11%) Internet
5 21 (5.83%) LAN
6 20 (5.56%) SAN
7 17 (4.72%) WAN
8 12 (3.33%) SNMP
9 11 (3.06%) DHCP
9 11 (3.06%) tcpdump
10 8 (2.22%) VPN
11 7 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (1.39%) Wireless
14 4 (1.11%) 5G
14 4 (1.11%) NAS
15 3 (0.83%) Ethernet
16 2 (0.56%) 2G
16 2 (0.56%) HTTP
16 2 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.61%) MySQL
2 13 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.94%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.39%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.11%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.83%) Big Data
9 2 (0.56%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (10.28%) Git
2 31 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.11%) JIRA
4 6 (1.67%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.67%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.67%) GDB
4 6 (1.67%) GitLab
5 5 (1.39%) DTrace
5 5 (1.39%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.56%) git-flow
8 2 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Redmine
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 67 (18.61%) Social Skills
2 45 (12.50%) Finance
3 43 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.56%) Banking
5 17 (4.72%) Aerospace
6 13 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.06%) Electronics
8 9 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.39%) Automotive
11 4 (1.11%) Military
11 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Advertising
12 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.83%) Marketing
12 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.00%) Yocto
2 13 (3.61%) Middleware
3 12 (3.33%) LDAP
3 12 (3.33%) YAML
4 11 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (2.78%) GTK
6 8 (2.22%) JSON
7 7 (1.94%) JSON Schema
7 7 (1.94%) KML
7 7 (1.94%) Regular Expression
7 7 (1.94%) XML
8 5 (1.39%) LAMP
9 4 (1.11%) Kafka
9 4 (1.11%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.11%) React
10 3 (0.83%) .NET
10 3 (0.83%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.22%) IoT
2 21 (5.83%) PKI
3 18 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.89%) Clustering
5 14 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.06%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.94%) CMDB
7 7 (1.94%) Device Driver
7 7 (1.94%) FPGA
7 7 (1.94%) Replication
8 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.11%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.11%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.56%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 360 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (18.06%) Ubuntu
3 63 (17.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 53 (14.72%) Windows
5 50 (13.89%) CentOS
6 38 (10.56%) Debian
7 35 (9.72%) Embedded Linux
8 27 (7.50%) Unix
9 14 (3.89%) Windows Server
10 10 (2.78%) Solaris
11 9 (2.50%) CoreOS
11 9 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (1.67%) SUSE
12 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (1.39%) Windows 10
13 5 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.83%) Rocky
15 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.28%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (25.28%) Software Engineering
2 80 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 52 (14.44%) DevOps
5 46 (12.78%) Agile
6 38 (10.56%) CI/CD
6 38 (10.56%) Configuration Management
7 37 (10.28%) Containerisation
7 37 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 26 (7.22%) Time Management
10 23 (6.39%) Open Source
10 23 (6.39%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (6.11%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (5.83%) Test Automation
13 20 (5.56%) Migration
14 17 (4.72%) Customer Experience
14 17 (4.72%) ITIL
14 17 (4.72%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 115 (31.94%) Python
2 111 (30.83%) Bash
3 80 (22.22%) C
4 40 (11.11%) C++
5 33 (9.17%) Perl
5 33 (9.17%) PowerShell
6 24 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 21 (5.83%) Java
8 10 (2.78%) Ada
8 10 (2.78%) C#
8 10 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.94%) Ruby
10 6 (1.67%) SQL
11 5 (1.39%) OCaml
11 5 (1.39%) SystemTap
12 4 (1.11%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.11%) PHP
13 3 (0.83%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.83%) Go
13 3 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.61%) Degree
3 25 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.56%) Linux+ Certification
7 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.33%) QA
2 10 (2.78%) PMO
3 7 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.67%) SLA
5 5 (1.39%) NCSC
6 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (14.17%) Docker
2 28 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.50%) KVM
5 9 (2.50%) NFS
6 7 (1.94%) Active Directory
7 6 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (1.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.83%) GPFS
10 2 (0.56%) Lustre
10 2 (0.56%) QEMU
10 2 (0.56%) vSphere
10 2 (0.56%) Xen
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
11 1 (0.28%) Samba
11 1 (0.28%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 123 (34.17%) Ansible
2 50 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 49 (13.61%) Terraform
4 43 (11.94%) Puppet
5 18 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 17 (4.72%) Grafana
7 16 (4.44%) Nagios
8 11 (3.06%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.78%) Prometheus
10 9 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (2.50%) Graphite
10 9 (2.50%) HAProxy
11 8 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (2.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.11%) HP Data Protector
14 2 (0.56%) Rancher
14 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.28%) systemd
Vendors
1 87 (24.17%) Red Hat
2 30 (8.33%) VMware
3 24 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.39%) Cisco
5 13 (3.61%) Oracle
6 11 (3.06%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.78%) F5
8 9 (2.50%) IBM
9 8 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.94%) Dell
10 7 (1.94%) EMC
11 6 (1.67%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.67%) HP
11 6 (1.67%) Juniper
11 6 (1.67%) Meraki
11 6 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.67%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.39%) Google
12 5 (1.39%) Intel
12 5 (1.39%) Serena