Linux Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 700 741 820
Rank change year-on-year +41 +79 -159
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 56 13 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.022% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.025% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 55 13 27
10th Percentile £37,101 £42,000 £26,925
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 -
90th Percentile £60,000 - £58,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.48% - +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,946 52,777 68,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.21% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,984 30,164 42,468
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +5 15 £50,000 -7.41%
Midlands - 12 £57,500 - 1
East Midlands - 11 £57,500 - 1
South West -7 8 £41,250 -17.50% 1
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
East of England - 6 £46,000 -
North of England - 6 £45,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland -68 3 £82,500 +57.14% 3
North West - 1 £40,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £56,000 -
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Linux
2 55 (98.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (53.57%) AWS
4 25 (44.64%) Ansible
5 22 (39.29%) Docker
6 19 (33.93%) Azure
7 18 (32.14%) DevOps
7 18 (32.14%) Kubernetes
8 17 (30.36%) Firewall
9 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (25.00%) Agile
11 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
11 13 (23.21%) CI/CD
12 12 (21.43%) Ubuntu
13 11 (19.64%) Scrum
13 11 (19.64%) VMware
13 11 (19.64%) Bash
13 11 (19.64%) QA
13 11 (19.64%) Git
13 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
13 11 (19.64%) Terraform
14 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
16 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
16 8 (14.29%) JIRA
16 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
16 8 (14.29%) SaaS
16 8 (14.29%) Analytics
16 8 (14.29%) Change Management
16 8 (14.29%) Windows

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (7.14%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.79%) JBoss
2 1 (1.79%) nginx
2 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.79%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) AWS
2 19 (33.93%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) SaaS
4 7 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.50%) Slack
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (5.36%) GCP
7 1 (1.79%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) Firewall
2 8 (14.29%) LAN
3 7 (12.50%) SAN
4 6 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.57%) Internet
5 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.57%) WAN
6 1 (1.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Git
2 8 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Advertising
3 3 (5.36%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Automotive
4 2 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) Middleware
1 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.50%) CMDB
3 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) EMC VNX
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (21.43%) Ubuntu
3 8 (14.29%) Windows
4 4 (7.14%) CentOS
4 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.57%) Rocky
6 1 (1.79%) Unix
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (98.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (32.14%) DevOps
3 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (25.00%) Agile
5 13 (23.21%) CI/CD
6 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
6 11 (19.64%) Scrum
7 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (14.29%) Analytics
8 8 (14.29%) Change Management
8 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (12.50%) ITIL
9 7 (12.50%) Line Management
9 7 (12.50%) Migration
9 7 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
9 7 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (10.71%) Customer Service
10 6 (10.71%) Incident Management
10 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
11 4 (7.14%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) Bash
2 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.14%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) C
4 2 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) AWK
5 1 (1.79%) C++
5 1 (1.79%) PHP
5 1 (1.79%) Ruby
5 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) QA
2 6 (10.71%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Docker
2 9 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.93%) KVM
4 4 (7.14%) NFS
4 4 (7.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.57%) QEMU
5 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.57%) Xen
6 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (44.64%) Ansible
2 18 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 11 (19.64%) Terraform
4 8 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (8.93%) Nagios
6 5 (8.93%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.14%) Grafana
7 4 (7.14%) Puppet
8 2 (3.57%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) VMware
2 6 (10.71%) Cisco
2 6 (10.71%) Meraki
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Ubiquiti
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.57%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) EMC
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.79%) Veeam