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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 561 834
Rank change year-on-year +16 +273 -354
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 375 447 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.45% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.50% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 314 358 347
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +7.53%

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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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 23 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 23 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 +42 332 £63,750 +2.00% 69
UK excluding London +25 241 £55,000 +4.76% 48
Work from Home -70 121 £60,000 -4.00% 32
London +39 110 £80,000 +14.29% 40
South West +14 63 £52,500 -4.55% 7
South East +6 49 £57,500 +15.00% 24
East of England +6 40 £62,500 +8.70% 5
Midlands -1 37 £57,500 -13.86% 4
North of England +18 34 £45,000 +5.88% 6
East Midlands +13 22 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Yorkshire +47 15 £45,000 +5.88% 2
West Midlands -3 15 £65,000 -
Scotland -52 10 £50,000 -9.09% 1
North East - 10 £60,000 -
North West +4 9 £52,500 +5.53% 4
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 375 (100.00%) Linux
2 130 (34.67%) Ansible
3 117 (31.20%) Python
4 106 (28.27%) Bash
5 97 (25.87%) Red Hat
6 89 (23.73%) Software Engineering
7 87 (23.20%) AWS
8 77 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (20.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 76 (20.27%) C
10 66 (17.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 64 (17.07%) Ubuntu
11 64 (17.07%) Social Skills
12 57 (15.20%) Security Cleared
13 55 (14.67%) TCP/IP
14 54 (14.40%) Kubernetes
15 51 (13.60%) Docker
15 51 (13.60%) CentOS
16 50 (13.33%) DevOps
17 49 (13.07%) Terraform
17 49 (13.07%) Windows
18 47 (12.53%) Firewall
19 46 (12.27%) Finance
19 46 (12.27%) Agile
19 46 (12.27%) Azure
20 42 (11.20%) Puppet
21 40 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
22 39 (10.40%) Debian
22 39 (10.40%) Configuration Management
23 38 (10.13%) Git

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 (3.73%) Apache
1 14 (3.73%) nginx
2 7 (1.87%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.60%) Confluence
4 4 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.27%) Simulink
2 1 (0.27%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 87 (23.20%) AWS
2 46 (12.27%) Azure
3 19 (5.07%) Amazon S3
4 14 (3.73%) GCP
5 12 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.20%) SaaS
6 11 (2.93%) OpenShift
7 9 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.87%) GitHub
8 7 (1.87%) Slack
9 6 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.07%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (0.53%) AWS OpsWorks
12 2 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (14.67%) TCP/IP
2 47 (12.53%) Firewall
3 33 (8.80%) DNS
4 22 (5.87%) Internet
4 22 (5.87%) LAN
5 21 (5.60%) SAN
6 17 (4.53%) WAN
7 14 (3.73%) SNMP
8 12 (3.20%) DHCP
9 10 (2.67%) tcpdump
10 9 (2.40%) VPN
11 7 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.60%) NAS
12 6 (1.60%) Wireless
13 3 (0.80%) 5G
13 3 (0.80%) Ethernet
14 2 (0.53%) DKIM
14 2 (0.53%) HTTP
14 2 (0.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.73%) MySQL
2 12 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.87%) MariaDB
5 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.33%) InfluxDB
6 4 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.07%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.80%) Big Data
8 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (10.13%) Git
2 30 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.13%) JIRA
4 6 (1.60%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.60%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.60%) GDB
5 5 (1.33%) DTrace
5 5 (1.33%) GitLab
5 5 (1.33%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.53%) git-flow
7 2 (0.53%) Maven
7 2 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.27%) Redmine
8 1 (0.27%) Subversion
8 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.27%) Finance
3 40 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.60%) Banking
5 16 (4.27%) Aerospace
6 13 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.93%) Electronics
8 8 (2.13%) Automotive
8 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.07%) Military
11 3 (0.80%) Advertising
11 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.80%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.80%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.53%) Marketing
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.27%) Yocto
2 15 (4.00%) LDAP
3 13 (3.47%) Middleware
4 11 (2.93%) YAML
5 10 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (2.67%) GTK
6 8 (2.13%) JSON
7 7 (1.87%) JSON Schema
7 7 (1.87%) KML
7 7 (1.87%) Regular Expression
7 7 (1.87%) XML
8 6 (1.60%) Kafka
9 5 (1.33%) LAMP
10 4 (1.07%) LEMP Stack
10 4 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.07%) React
11 3 (0.80%) .NET
11 3 (0.80%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (0.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.93%) IoT
2 21 (5.60%) PKI
3 17 (4.53%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.47%) Clustering
7 11 (2.93%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.67%) FPGA
9 7 (1.87%) CMDB
9 7 (1.87%) Replication
10 6 (1.60%) Device Driver
11 5 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.33%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.07%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.53%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 375 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (17.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 64 (17.07%) Ubuntu
4 51 (13.60%) CentOS
5 49 (13.07%) Windows
6 39 (10.40%) Debian
7 34 (9.07%) Unix
8 33 (8.80%) Embedded Linux
9 16 (4.27%) Solaris
10 13 (3.47%) Windows Server
11 11 (2.93%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (2.40%) CoreOS
13 6 (1.60%) SUSE
13 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (1.33%) Windows 10
14 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.80%) Rocky
16 2 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.27%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (23.73%) Software Engineering
2 77 (20.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (13.33%) DevOps
4 46 (12.27%) Agile
5 39 (10.40%) Configuration Management
6 38 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (9.87%) Containerisation
8 36 (9.60%) CI/CD
9 29 (7.73%) Computer Science
10 25 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (6.67%) Time Management
11 23 (6.13%) Open Source
12 21 (5.60%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (5.33%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (5.07%) Migration
15 18 (4.80%) Customer Experience
15 18 (4.80%) Test Automation
16 16 (4.27%) Key Management
16 16 (4.27%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 117 (31.20%) Python
2 106 (28.27%) Bash
3 76 (20.27%) C
4 37 (9.87%) C++
5 34 (9.07%) Perl
6 31 (8.27%) PowerShell
7 26 (6.93%) Java
8 24 (6.40%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.67%) Ada
9 10 (2.67%) C#
9 10 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.33%) OCaml
10 5 (1.33%) Ruby
10 5 (1.33%) SQL
10 5 (1.33%) SystemTap
11 4 (1.07%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.07%) PHP
12 3 (0.80%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.80%) Go
12 3 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 57 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.53%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.00%) Degree
4 25 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.53%) Linux+ Certification
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.73%) QA
2 9 (2.40%) PMO
3 7 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.60%) SLA
5 5 (1.33%) NCSC
6 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (13.60%) Docker
2 29 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.40%) KVM
7 8 (2.13%) NFS
8 7 (1.87%) Active Directory
9 6 (1.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (1.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.53%) GPFS
11 2 (0.53%) Lustre
11 2 (0.53%) QEMU
11 2 (0.53%) vSphere
11 2 (0.53%) Xen
12 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) iptables
12 1 (0.27%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 130 (34.67%) Ansible
2 54 (14.40%) Kubernetes
3 49 (13.07%) Terraform
4 42 (11.20%) Puppet
5 19 (5.07%) Progress Chef
6 17 (4.53%) Nagios
7 16 (4.27%) Grafana
8 12 (3.20%) Prometheus
9 10 (2.67%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (2.67%) vCenter Server
10 9 (2.40%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 8 (2.13%) Graphite
11 8 (2.13%) HAProxy
11 8 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.07%) HP Data Protector
14 3 (0.80%) Rancher
15 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
16 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 97 (25.87%) Red Hat
2 31 (8.27%) VMware
3 23 (6.13%) Cisco
3 23 (6.13%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.27%) Oracle
5 15 (4.00%) F5
6 11 (2.93%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.40%) IBM
8 8 (2.13%) Dell
8 8 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.87%) EMC
9 7 (1.87%) HP
9 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.60%) Juniper
10 6 (1.60%) Meraki
10 6 (1.60%) Ubiquiti
11 5 (1.33%) Google
11 5 (1.33%) Serena
12 4 (1.07%) Intel