Linux Engineer
UK

The median Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £63,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 570 815
Rank change year-on-year +4 +245 -352
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 362 469 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.49% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 302 367 355
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,300
25th Percentile £47,625 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.69% +18.00%
75th Percentile £77,188 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,000 £121,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% +6.00% +9.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +19 320 £65,000 +4.00% 64
UK excluding London +16 227 £57,500 +8.49% 49
Work from Home -48 122 £60,000 -4.00% 25
London +42 111 £80,000 +14.29% 20
South West -2 56 £52,500 -4.55% 13
South East +14 52 £57,500 +15.00% 10
East of England +5 40 £65,000 +13.04% 11
Midlands +19 34 £57,500 -16.97% 4
North of England +16 29 £50,000 +17.65% 6
West Midlands +9 17 £65,000 -6.14%
East Midlands +8 17 £55,000 -12.00% 4
Yorkshire +35 15 £45,000 +5.88% 3
Scotland -57 11 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East - 10 £60,000 -
Wales - 9 £41,067 -
North West +6 4 £55,000 +3.77% 3

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 362 (100.00%) Linux
2 125 (34.53%) Ansible
3 120 (33.15%) Python
4 117 (32.32%) Bash
5 91 (25.14%) Red Hat
6 90 (24.86%) Software Engineering
7 84 (23.20%) AWS
8 79 (21.82%) C
9 77 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (19.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 66 (18.23%) Social Skills
12 63 (17.40%) Ubuntu
12 63 (17.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 57 (15.75%) DevOps
14 55 (15.19%) Windows
15 51 (14.09%) TCP/IP
15 51 (14.09%) Docker
16 50 (13.81%) CentOS
17 49 (13.54%) Kubernetes
17 49 (13.54%) Terraform
18 48 (13.26%) Finance
19 47 (12.98%) Firewall
19 47 (12.98%) Azure
20 45 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
20 45 (12.43%) Security Cleared
20 45 (12.43%) Agile
21 42 (11.60%) C++
21 42 (11.60%) Puppet
22 41 (11.33%) Git
22 41 (11.33%) CI/CD

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (3.87%) nginx
2 13 (3.59%) Apache
3 8 (2.21%) Confluence
4 7 (1.93%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.55%) JBoss
6 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.28%) Simulink
2 1 (0.28%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.20%) AWS
2 47 (12.98%) Azure
3 19 (5.25%) Amazon S3
4 16 (4.42%) GCP
5 12 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.04%) GitHub
6 11 (3.04%) OpenShift
6 11 (3.04%) SaaS
7 9 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.93%) Slack
9 6 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.10%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (0.55%) AWS OpsWorks
12 2 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.09%) TCP/IP
2 47 (12.98%) Firewall
3 31 (8.56%) DNS
4 23 (6.35%) LAN
5 21 (5.80%) Internet
5 21 (5.80%) SAN
5 21 (5.80%) WAN
6 12 (3.31%) SNMP
7 10 (2.76%) tcpdump
8 9 (2.49%) DHCP
8 9 (2.49%) VPN
9 7 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.66%) 5G
10 6 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.10%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.10%) Wireless
12 3 (0.83%) BGP
12 3 (0.83%) Ethernet
12 3 (0.83%) IPv6
12 3 (0.83%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.84%) MySQL
2 13 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.93%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.38%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.83%) Big Data
9 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (11.33%) Git
2 34 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.91%) JIRA
4 9 (2.49%) GitLab
5 8 (2.21%) ClearCase
5 8 (2.21%) ClearQuest
6 7 (1.93%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.93%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.66%) GDB
8 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.38%) DTrace
8 5 (1.38%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.10%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.83%) Redmine
10 3 (0.83%) Subversion
11 2 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.55%) git-flow
11 2 (0.55%) Maven
11 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.26%) Finance
3 45 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.52%) Banking
5 19 (5.25%) Aerospace
6 13 (3.59%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.04%) Electronics
8 10 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.66%) Marketing
9 6 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Automotive
10 4 (1.10%) Military
10 4 (1.10%) Retail
11 3 (0.83%) Advertising
11 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.83%) Games
11 3 (0.83%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.97%) Yocto
2 13 (3.59%) LDAP
2 13 (3.59%) Middleware
3 12 (3.31%) YAML
4 11 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (2.76%) GTK
6 8 (2.21%) JSON
7 7 (1.93%) JSON Schema
7 7 (1.93%) KML
7 7 (1.93%) Regular Expression
7 7 (1.93%) XML
8 5 (1.38%) LAMP
9 4 (1.10%) .NET
9 4 (1.10%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.10%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.10%) React
10 3 (0.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.83%) Kafka
10 3 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.91%) IoT
2 22 (6.08%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.80%) PKI
4 17 (4.70%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.87%) Clustering
5 14 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.04%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.93%) CMDB
7 7 (1.93%) Device Driver
7 7 (1.93%) Replication
8 6 (1.66%) FPGA
9 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.10%) GNSS
10 4 (1.10%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 362 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (17.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 63 (17.40%) Ubuntu
3 55 (15.19%) Windows
4 50 (13.81%) CentOS
5 39 (10.77%) Debian
6 35 (9.67%) Embedded Linux
7 26 (7.18%) Unix
8 16 (4.42%) Windows Server
9 10 (2.76%) Solaris
10 9 (2.49%) CoreOS
11 8 (2.21%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (1.66%) SUSE
12 6 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (1.38%) Windows 10
13 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.83%) Rocky
15 2 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.28%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (24.86%) Software Engineering
2 77 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (19.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 57 (15.75%) DevOps
5 45 (12.43%) Agile
6 41 (11.33%) CI/CD
7 38 (10.50%) Containerisation
8 37 (10.22%) Configuration Management
8 37 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (9.12%) Computer Science
10 26 (7.18%) Time Management
11 23 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (6.35%) Open Source
11 23 (6.35%) Test Automation
12 22 (6.08%) Migration
13 21 (5.80%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (5.52%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (4.97%) High Availability
15 18 (4.97%) ITIL
15 18 (4.97%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 120 (33.15%) Python
2 117 (32.32%) Bash
3 79 (21.82%) C
4 42 (11.60%) C++
5 34 (9.39%) Perl
6 33 (9.12%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 22 (6.08%) Java
9 11 (3.04%) C#
10 10 (2.76%) Ada
10 10 (2.76%) JavaScript
10 10 (2.76%) Ruby
11 7 (1.93%) SQL
12 5 (1.38%) OCaml
12 5 (1.38%) PHP
12 5 (1.38%) SystemTap
13 4 (1.10%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.10%) Go
13 4 (1.10%) Korn
13 4 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 34 (9.39%) Degree
3 26 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.28%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.31%) PMO
1 12 (3.31%) QA
2 7 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.66%) SLA
4 5 (1.38%) NCSC
5 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (14.09%) Docker
2 26 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.76%) NFS
6 9 (2.49%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.21%) KVM
8 7 (1.93%) Active Directory
9 5 (1.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.83%) GPFS
11 2 (0.55%) iptables
11 2 (0.55%) Lustre
11 2 (0.55%) QEMU
11 2 (0.55%) vSphere
11 2 (0.55%) Xen
12 1 (0.28%) Firmware
12 1 (0.28%) Samba
12 1 (0.28%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 125 (34.53%) Ansible
2 49 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 49 (13.54%) Terraform
3 42 (11.60%) Puppet
4 20 (5.52%) Progress Chef
5 15 (4.14%) Grafana
6 14 (3.87%) Nagios
7 11 (3.04%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.76%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (2.49%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (2.49%) Graphite
9 9 (2.49%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.21%) Prometheus
11 7 (1.93%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.10%) HP Data Protector
14 3 (0.83%) Salt
15 2 (0.55%) Rancher
15 2 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (25.14%) Red Hat
2 28 (7.73%) VMware
3 25 (6.91%) Cisco
4 24 (6.63%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.31%) Oracle
6 11 (3.04%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.76%) IBM
8 9 (2.49%) F5
8 9 (2.49%) Juniper
9 8 (2.21%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.93%) EMC
10 7 (1.93%) Intel
11 6 (1.66%) Dell
11 6 (1.66%) Meraki
11 6 (1.66%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.66%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.38%) Google
12 5 (1.38%) HP
12 5 (1.38%) Serena