Linux Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Linux Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Linux Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 155 149
Rank change year-on-year +43 -6 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 4 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.26% 0.045% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.047% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £78,250 - £58,250
25th Percentile £79,375 - £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £48,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £84,375 - £66,875
90th Percentile £84,750 - £74,750
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,468 2,109 2,227
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.89% 95.56% 97.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,235 1,389
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,409 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,773 £84,056
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Edinburgh

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in Edinburgh

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 Edinburgh region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Google