Linux Engineer Jobs in the South East

Linux Engineer
England > South East

The median Linux Engineer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 359 425
Rank change year-on-year +27 +66 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 53 47 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50 41 47
10th Percentile £43,125 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £67,500 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,600 13,575 19,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.54% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,294 8,525 12,666
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +36 28 £56,250 +13.64% 3
Hampshire -14 20 £55,250 +5.24% 7
Berkshire +38 12 £69,000 +32.69% 2
Oxfordshire +23 10 £45,000 +5.88%
Buckinghamshire -16 6 £47,500 +35.71% 1
Surrey 0 5 £72,500 +31.82%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 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 South East region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (32.08%) Ansible
3 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (30.19%) CentOS
4 15 (28.30%) Azure
5 14 (26.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (24.53%) Bash
6 13 (24.53%) Embedded Linux
6 13 (24.53%) LAN
6 13 (24.53%) MySQL
7 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
7 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
7 12 (22.64%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
8 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
8 11 (20.75%) Cisco
9 10 (18.87%) Ubuntu
9 10 (18.87%) AWS
9 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (16.98%) Customer Service
10 9 (16.98%) IoT
10 9 (16.98%) DV Cleared
10 9 (16.98%) VMware
10 9 (16.98%) C
10 9 (16.98%) Windows
10 9 (16.98%) Python
11 8 (15.09%) Firewall
11 8 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (15.09%) Git
11 8 (15.09%) Open Source

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.43%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (18.87%) AWS
4 4 (7.55%) SaaS
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.53%) LAN
2 8 (15.09%) Firewall
3 7 (13.21%) WAN
3 7 (13.21%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (3.77%) DNS
4 2 (3.77%) Internet
4 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.89%) DHCP
5 1 (1.89%) MQTT
5 1 (1.89%) RS-485
5 1 (1.89%) VLAN
5 1 (1.89%) VPN
5 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) MySQL
2 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.43%) InfluxDB
3 5 (9.43%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Git
2 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.32%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) GDB
General
1 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 3 (5.66%) Kafka
1 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (5.66%) REST
1 3 (5.66%) Yocto
2 1 (1.89%) HTML
2 1 (1.89%) HTML5
2 1 (1.89%) JSON
2 1 (1.89%) React
2 1 (1.89%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) IoT
2 7 (13.21%) Device Driver
3 6 (11.32%) PKI
4 4 (7.55%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.66%) FPGA
6 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.89%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (30.19%) CentOS
3 14 (26.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (24.53%) Embedded Linux
5 10 (18.87%) Ubuntu
6 9 (16.98%) Windows
7 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (9.43%) Windows 10
8 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
10 1 (1.89%) Debian
10 1 (1.89%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
3 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.98%) Customer Service
5 8 (15.09%) Open Source
6 7 (13.21%) ITIL
7 6 (11.32%) DevOps
7 6 (11.32%) Incident Management
7 6 (11.32%) Service Delivery
8 5 (9.43%) Time Management
9 4 (7.55%) Agile
9 4 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (7.55%) Multithreading
10 3 (5.66%) CI/CD
10 3 (5.66%) Device Driver Development
10 3 (5.66%) Linux Kernel Development
10 3 (5.66%) Memory Management
10 3 (5.66%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (5.66%) User Stories
11 2 (3.77%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) Bash
2 9 (16.98%) C
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 7 (13.21%) C++
4 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.43%) Perl
6 4 (7.55%) Java
7 2 (3.77%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.98%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 3 (5.66%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (9.43%) Docker
3 5 (9.43%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.66%) GPFS
5 2 (3.77%) KVM
5 2 (3.77%) QEMU
5 2 (3.77%) Xen
6 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Ansible
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (11.32%) Terraform
3 5 (9.43%) Puppet
3 5 (9.43%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.89%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.89%) SCCM
6 1 (1.89%) SCOM
6 1 (1.89%) SCSM
6 1 (1.89%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.75%) Cisco
3 9 (16.98%) VMware
4 6 (11.32%) Meraki
4 6 (11.32%) Ubiquiti
5 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
5 5 (9.43%) Juniper
5 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.89%) Citrix
6 1 (1.89%) EMC
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Veeam