Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 561 776
Rank change year-on-year +37 +215 -332
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 317 427 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.46% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.50% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 264 324 316
10th Percentile £41,800 £41,250 £38,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,563
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London +47 109 £80,000 +14.29% 18
South West +16 57 £52,500 - 13
South East +26 53 £57,500 +15.00% 11
East of England -4 38 £62,500 +8.70% 10
Midlands +1 33 £57,500 -17.86% 4
North of England +1 29 £50,000 +17.65% 6
West Midlands +13 17 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands -7 16 £53,750 -14.00% 4
Yorkshire +38 15 £45,000 +5.88% 3
North East - 10 £60,000 -
North West +11 4 £55,000 +3.77% 3
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 317 (100.00%) Linux
2 110 (34.70%) Ansible
3 109 (34.38%) Python
4 104 (32.81%) Bash
5 89 (28.08%) Red Hat
6 71 (22.40%) Software Engineering
7 69 (21.77%) AWS
8 67 (21.14%) C
9 66 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (19.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 60 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 56 (17.67%) Ubuntu
13 55 (17.35%) Social Skills
14 54 (17.03%) DevOps
15 52 (16.40%) Windows
16 48 (15.14%) CentOS
17 47 (14.83%) Docker
18 46 (14.51%) Firewall
19 45 (14.20%) TCP/IP
19 45 (14.20%) Kubernetes
20 44 (13.88%) Agile
21 43 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
21 43 (13.56%) Azure
22 40 (12.62%) Puppet
22 40 (12.62%) Terraform
22 40 (12.62%) Security Cleared
22 40 (12.62%) Git
22 40 (12.62%) Finance
23 39 (12.30%) CI/CD
24 35 (11.04%) Embedded Linux

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (4.10%) nginx
2 12 (3.79%) Apache
3 8 (2.52%) Confluence
4 7 (2.21%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.95%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.63%) JBoss
6 2 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.32%) Simulink
2 1 (0.32%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.77%) AWS
2 43 (13.56%) Azure
3 16 (5.05%) Amazon S3
4 14 (4.42%) GCP
5 12 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.47%) GitHub
6 11 (3.47%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.15%) SaaS
8 5 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.26%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.63%) Kong
10 2 (0.63%) Serverless
10 2 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.51%) Firewall
2 45 (14.20%) TCP/IP
3 30 (9.46%) DNS
4 22 (6.94%) LAN
5 20 (6.31%) Internet
6 16 (5.05%) WAN
7 12 (3.79%) SAN
8 11 (3.47%) SNMP
9 9 (2.84%) tcpdump
9 9 (2.84%) VPN
10 8 (2.52%) DHCP
11 7 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.95%) BGP
13 3 (0.95%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.95%) IPv6
13 3 (0.95%) Wireless
14 2 (0.63%) HTTP
14 2 (0.63%) NAS
14 2 (0.63%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.46%) MySQL
2 13 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.84%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.21%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.58%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.95%) Big Data
7 3 (0.95%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.63%) Redis
8 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (12.62%) Git
2 33 (10.41%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.62%) JIRA
4 9 (2.84%) GitLab
5 8 (2.52%) ClearCase
5 8 (2.52%) ClearQuest
6 7 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.89%) GDB
8 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.58%) DTrace
8 5 (1.58%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.95%) Redmine
9 3 (0.95%) Subversion
10 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.63%) git-flow
10 2 (0.63%) Maven
10 2 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 55 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (12.62%) Finance
4 16 (5.05%) Banking
5 12 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.15%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.84%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.58%) Advertising
10 4 (1.26%) Military
11 3 (0.95%) Electronics
11 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.95%) Games
11 3 (0.95%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.63%) Automotive
12 2 (0.63%) Marketing
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.68%) Yocto
2 12 (3.79%) LDAP
2 12 (3.79%) Middleware
3 11 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.47%) YAML
4 8 (2.52%) JSON
5 7 (2.21%) GTK
5 7 (2.21%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.21%) KML
5 7 (2.21%) Regular Expression
5 7 (2.21%) XML
6 5 (1.58%) LAMP
7 4 (1.26%) .NET
7 4 (1.26%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.26%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.95%) Kafka
8 3 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.95%) REST
9 2 (0.63%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.57%) IoT
2 22 (6.94%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.99%) PKI
4 17 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (4.42%) Clustering
5 14 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.47%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.21%) Device Driver
7 7 (2.21%) Replication
8 5 (1.58%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.58%) FPGA
8 5 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.26%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.26%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.63%) Beowulf
11 2 (0.63%) PropTech
11 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 317 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (19.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 56 (17.67%) Ubuntu
4 52 (16.40%) Windows
5 48 (15.14%) CentOS
6 35 (11.04%) Embedded Linux
7 34 (10.73%) Debian
8 22 (6.94%) Unix
9 15 (4.73%) Windows Server
10 9 (2.84%) CoreOS
11 7 (2.21%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (2.21%) Solaris
12 6 (1.89%) SUSE
12 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
13 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.95%) Rocky
15 2 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.32%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (22.40%) Software Engineering
2 66 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 54 (17.03%) DevOps
5 44 (13.88%) Agile
6 39 (12.30%) CI/CD
7 34 (10.73%) Containerisation
7 34 (10.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (9.15%) Computer Science
9 28 (8.83%) Configuration Management
10 26 (8.20%) Time Management
11 20 (6.31%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (5.99%) ITIL
12 19 (5.99%) Test Automation
13 18 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (5.68%) Open Source
13 18 (5.68%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (5.36%) Customer Experience
14 17 (5.36%) High Availability
14 17 (5.36%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 109 (34.38%) Python
2 104 (32.81%) Bash
3 67 (21.14%) C
4 34 (10.73%) C++
5 31 (9.78%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.15%) Perl
7 21 (6.62%) Shell Script
8 18 (5.68%) Java
9 10 (3.15%) Ada
9 10 (3.15%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.84%) C#
10 9 (2.84%) Ruby
11 5 (1.58%) OCaml
11 5 (1.58%) SystemTap
12 4 (1.26%) Go
12 4 (1.26%) Korn
12 4 (1.26%) PHP
12 4 (1.26%) Rust
12 4 (1.26%) SQL
13 3 (0.95%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 40 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.46%) Degree
3 21 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.47%) QA
2 8 (2.52%) PMO
3 7 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.89%) SLA
5 5 (1.58%) NCSC
6 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (14.83%) Docker
2 23 (7.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.84%) NFS
6 8 (2.52%) Active Directory
7 7 (2.21%) KVM
8 5 (1.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (1.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.95%) GPFS
11 2 (0.63%) iptables
11 2 (0.63%) Lustre
11 2 (0.63%) QEMU
11 2 (0.63%) vSphere
11 2 (0.63%) Xen
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Samba
12 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 110 (34.70%) Ansible
2 45 (14.20%) Kubernetes
3 40 (12.62%) Puppet
3 40 (12.62%) Terraform
4 15 (4.73%) Progress Chef
5 13 (4.10%) Grafana
5 13 (4.10%) Nagios
6 11 (3.47%) vCenter Server
7 10 (3.15%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (2.84%) Graphite
8 9 (2.84%) HAProxy
9 8 (2.52%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.21%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.26%) HP Data Protector
13 3 (0.95%) Salt
13 3 (0.95%) SCCM
14 2 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 89 (28.08%) Red Hat
2 25 (7.89%) Cisco
2 25 (7.89%) VMware
3 24 (7.57%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.47%) Fortinet
5 10 (3.15%) IBM
5 10 (3.15%) Oracle
6 9 (2.84%) Juniper
7 8 (2.52%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.52%) F5
7 8 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.21%) EMC
8 7 (2.21%) Intel
9 6 (1.89%) Dell
9 6 (1.89%) Meraki
9 6 (1.89%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (1.58%) HP
10 5 (1.58%) Serena
10 5 (1.58%) TOWER Software
11 3 (0.95%) Sun