Linux Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 832 962 1145
Rank change year-on-year +130 +183 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 64 26 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.025% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.027% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 62 24 50
10th Percentile £37,101 - £44,525
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,375 £55,625 £68,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £81,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 93,176 95,124 149,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,877 59,832 85,287
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,507
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England +157 55 £55,000 +4.76% 7
UK excluding London +13 50 £50,000 -4.76% 7
Work from Home +104 36 £55,000 +15.79% 4
South East +29 16 £50,000 -7.41%
London +130 14 £85,000 +70.00% 2
Midlands - 9 £56,000 - 1
East Midlands - 7 £55,000 - 1
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
East of England - 6 £46,000 - 1
South West -9 5 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
North of England - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland -52 4 £82,500 +57.14% 2
West Midlands - 2 £56,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Linux
2 62 (96.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 36 (56.25%) AWS
4 27 (42.19%) Ansible
5 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 20 (31.25%) Firewall
6 19 (29.69%) Windows
7 18 (28.13%) Azure
7 18 (28.13%) Docker
7 18 (28.13%) DevOps
8 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
8 15 (23.44%) Data Centre
8 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (21.88%) Terraform
10 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (20.31%) Bash
11 12 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (18.75%) Git
11 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
12 11 (17.19%) Agile
12 11 (17.19%) Finance
12 11 (17.19%) Red Hat
13 10 (15.63%) ITIL
13 10 (15.63%) VMware
13 10 (15.63%) Ubuntu
14 9 (14.06%) QA
14 9 (14.06%) Scrum
14 9 (14.06%) Banking
14 9 (14.06%) Containerisation
15 8 (12.50%) Windows Server

Linux Infrastructure 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 2 (3.13%) JBoss
1 2 (3.13%) Jupyter
1 2 (3.13%) nginx
1 2 (3.13%) Tomcat
1 2 (3.13%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) AWS
2 18 (28.13%) Azure
3 7 (10.94%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.94%) SaaS
3 7 (10.94%) Slack
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.81%) GCP
4 5 (7.81%) GitHub
5 4 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.13%) Kong
8 1 (1.56%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (31.25%) Firewall
2 8 (12.50%) LAN
3 7 (10.94%) SAN
4 6 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.69%) DNS
7 2 (3.13%) HTTP
7 2 (3.13%) Internet
7 2 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) MySQL
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (18.75%) Git
2 8 (12.50%) JIRA
3 5 (7.81%) GitLab
4 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 9 (14.06%) Banking
4 6 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Advertising
5 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Japanese Language
5 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) CMDB
3 4 (6.25%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) PropTech
6 1 (1.56%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (29.69%) Windows
3 12 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (15.63%) Ubuntu
5 8 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (6.25%) CentOS
7 2 (3.13%) Rocky
7 2 (3.13%) Unix
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (96.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (28.13%) DevOps
3 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 11 (17.19%) Agile
7 10 (15.63%) ITIL
8 9 (14.06%) Containerisation
8 9 (14.06%) Scrum
9 7 (10.94%) Analytics
9 7 (10.94%) Change Management
9 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (10.94%) Line Management
9 7 (10.94%) Migration
9 7 (10.94%) Proactive Monitoring
9 7 (10.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (9.38%) Customer Service
10 6 (9.38%) Incident Management
10 6 (9.38%) Service Delivery
11 4 (6.25%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Bash
2 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.94%) Python
4 3 (4.69%) C
4 3 (4.69%) Korn
4 3 (4.69%) Perl
4 3 (4.69%) Ruby
5 2 (3.13%) Java
6 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 6 (9.38%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) Docker
2 8 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.81%) KVM
4 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.13%) NFS
4 2 (3.13%) QEMU
4 2 (3.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (42.19%) Ansible
2 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
3 14 (21.88%) Terraform
4 7 (10.94%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (9.38%) Puppet
6 5 (7.81%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.69%) Nagios
7 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.13%) Grafana
8 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.56%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.56%) SCCM
9 1 (1.56%) SCOM
9 1 (1.56%) SCSM
9 1 (1.56%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Red Hat
2 10 (15.63%) VMware
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.38%) Cisco
4 6 (9.38%) Meraki
4 6 (9.38%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (6.25%) Google
6 3 (4.69%) Sun
6 3 (4.69%) TOWER Software
7 2 (3.13%) F5
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle
7 2 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.56%) Citrix
8 1 (1.56%) EMC
8 1 (1.56%) IBM
8 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.56%) Veeam