Linux Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Linux Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £56,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 246 261
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 28 14 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 26 14 11
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +11.67% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £64,625 £49,130
90th Percentile - £73,500 £57,500
South East median annual salary £56,250 £50,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +11.39% -1.94% +14.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,394 5,552 6,562
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 89.90% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,570 3,238 4,178
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,986 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,801 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 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
Berkshire +26 12 £69,000 +17.95% 3
Oxfordshire +25 10 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Buckinghamshire -14 6 £47,500 +35.71% 1
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 24 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 Thames Valley region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (60.71%) Ansible
3 14 (50.00%) CentOS
4 13 (46.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
6 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
6 9 (32.14%) DV Cleared
7 8 (28.57%) Git
7 8 (28.57%) Azure
7 8 (28.57%) Python
7 8 (28.57%) Windows
7 8 (28.57%) VMware
7 8 (28.57%) Open Source
7 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (25.00%) Bash
8 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
8 7 (25.00%) LAN
8 7 (25.00%) WAN
8 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (21.43%) MySQL
9 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
9 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
10 5 (17.86%) Terraform
10 5 (17.86%) OpenStack
10 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (17.86%) MariaDB

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (17.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) AWS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) LAN
1 7 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) Internet
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) DHCP
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) MQTT
3 1 (3.57%) RS-485
3 1 (3.57%) VLAN
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MySQL
2 5 (17.86%) InfluxDB
2 5 (17.86%) MariaDB
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.57%) EMC VNX
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (50.00%) CentOS
3 13 (46.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (28.57%) Windows
5 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
6 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
8 1 (3.57%) Debian
8 1 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (3.57%) Rocky
8 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (28.57%) Open Source
2 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Time Management
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
4 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (7.14%) Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 2 (7.14%) Customer Experience
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (7.14%) Scrum
6 1 (3.57%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.57%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (3.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) C
4 1 (3.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) DV Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (17.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
4 4 (14.29%) Docker
5 3 (10.71%) GPFS
6 2 (7.14%) KVM
6 2 (7.14%) QEMU
6 2 (7.14%) Xen
7 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) Puppet
2 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) VMware
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco
2 5 (17.86%) Fortinet
2 5 (17.86%) Juniper
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) EMC
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Veeam