Linux Systems Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Systems Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 721 693 810
Rank change year-on-year -28 +117 -179
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Engineer 43 39 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.066% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.074% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 35 37 25
10th Percentile £29,350 £44,850 £34,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £55,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% +16.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £51,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +22.22%

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 67,294 52,879 68,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.14% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,576 30,026 42,521
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
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 Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems 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 Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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 West -9 19 £65,000 -3.70%
Yorkshire +95 7 £45,000 +2.27%
North of England +47 7 £45,000 +2.27%
South East 0 5 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands -3 5 £24,750 -63.87% 2
Scotland -54 4 £40,000 -27.27%
East Midlands - 4 £24,750 - 2
East of England -12 3 £80,000 +33.33%
West Midlands +16 1 £56,000 -18.25%
Linux Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Linux Systems 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (39.53%) Computer Science
2 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (32.56%) Bash
3 14 (32.56%) Ubuntu
3 14 (32.56%) Python
4 12 (27.91%) Windows
4 12 (27.91%) Management Information System
4 12 (27.91%) Mathematics
5 11 (25.58%) CentOS
6 10 (23.26%) DevOps
6 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
6 10 (23.26%) Debian
6 10 (23.26%) Configuration Management
7 8 (18.60%) B2B
7 8 (18.60%) Validation
7 8 (18.60%) Physics
7 8 (18.60%) Degree
7 8 (18.60%) PMO
7 8 (18.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (18.60%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (18.60%) Security Patching
7 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
7 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (16.28%) OWASP
8 7 (16.28%) Git
8 7 (16.28%) Coaching
8 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
8 7 (16.28%) Virtual Machines

Linux Systems 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 5 (11.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) JBoss
2 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) Azure
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) LAN
1 5 (11.63%) WAN
2 2 (4.65%) Internet
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) InfluxDB
1 5 (11.63%) MariaDB
1 5 (11.63%) MySQL
1 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
1 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Maven
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
2 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) LDAP
2 1 (2.33%) Middleware
2 1 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.63%) PKI
3 3 (6.98%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Ubuntu
3 12 (27.91%) Windows
4 11 (25.58%) CentOS
5 10 (23.26%) Debian
6 5 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (11.63%) Windows 10
6 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (9.30%) SUSE
8 3 (6.98%) Unix
9 1 (2.33%) Fedora
9 1 (2.33%) openSUSE
9 1 (2.33%) Solaris
9 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Computer Science
1 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.91%) Mathematics
3 10 (23.26%) Configuration Management
3 10 (23.26%) DevOps
4 8 (18.60%) B2B
4 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
4 8 (18.60%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (18.60%) Physics
4 8 (18.60%) Security Patching
4 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
4 8 (18.60%) Validation
5 7 (16.28%) Coaching
5 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (16.28%) OWASP
5 7 (16.28%) Release Management
6 6 (13.95%) Open Source
6 6 (13.95%) Time Management
7 4 (9.30%) Ticket Management
8 3 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Bash
1 14 (32.56%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) Perl
3 4 (9.30%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
2 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) PMO
2 7 (16.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
2 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.98%) Docker
4 1 (2.33%) Samba
4 1 (2.33%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Ansible
1 5 (11.63%) Puppet
1 5 (11.63%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Cisco
1 6 (13.95%) Juniper
1 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.63%) Fortinet
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) VMware