Linux Systems Engineer
UK

The median Linux Systems Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 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 846 909 1155
Rank change year-on-year +63 +246 -341
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Engineer 58 84 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.081% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.088% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 50 76 52
10th Percentile £36,250 £55,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,313 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £72,500 £112,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £185,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% +12.50%

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 Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Engineer in the UK

Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Engineer in the UK

Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Engineer in the UK

Linux Systems Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 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 +58 49 £56,000 -17.04% 8
UK excluding London +19 42 £45,000 -21.74% 5
South West -8 19 £65,000 -3.70% 1
London +90 10 £73,750 -32.95% 3
Work from Home +47 8 £31,125 -53.89% 2
Yorkshire +84 6 £45,000 +2.27% 1
North of England +56 6 £45,000 +2.27% 1
Midlands +17 6 £24,750 -63.87% 2
South East +7 5 £40,000 -18.78% 1
East Midlands - 4 £24,750 - 2
East of England 0 3 £80,000 +39.13%
Scotland -64 3 £40,000 -27.27%
West Midlands +16 2 £56,000 -18.25%

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

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

1 58 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (41.38%) Bash
3 22 (37.93%) Python
3 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (32.76%) Windows
5 18 (31.03%) Ubuntu
6 17 (29.31%) Computer Science
7 14 (24.14%) Configuration Management
7 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
8 13 (22.41%) Debian
9 12 (20.69%) VMware
9 12 (20.69%) Management Information System
9 12 (20.69%) Mathematics
9 12 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
9 12 (20.69%) CentOS
10 10 (17.24%) DevOps
10 10 (17.24%) MySQL
11 9 (15.52%) DNS
11 9 (15.52%) Hyper-V
11 9 (15.52%) Git
11 9 (15.52%) Terraform
11 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
12 8 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (13.79%) PMO
12 8 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
12 8 (13.79%) Ansible
12 8 (13.79%) Coaching
12 8 (13.79%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (13.79%) Security Patching
12 8 (13.79%) Test Automation

Linux Systems 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 5 (8.62%) Apache
1 5 (8.62%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.45%) JBoss
2 2 (3.45%) nginx
2 2 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.45%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.79%) Azure
2 6 (10.34%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (3.45%) AWS OpsWorks
5 2 (3.45%) CloudFront
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) DNS
2 7 (12.07%) Firewall
2 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
3 6 (10.34%) DHCP
4 5 (8.62%) LAN
4 5 (8.62%) WAN
5 2 (3.45%) DKIM
5 2 (3.45%) DMARC
5 2 (3.45%) Internet
5 2 (3.45%) Network Security
5 2 (3.45%) SMTP
6 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.72%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) MySQL
2 5 (8.62%) InfluxDB
2 5 (8.62%) MariaDB
2 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.17%) Big Data
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.45%) git-flow
3 2 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Marketing
4 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.72%) Electronics
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) Middleware
2 2 (3.45%) LAMP
2 2 (3.45%) LDAP
2 2 (3.45%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (1.72%) CSS
3 1 (1.72%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) PKI
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.45%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Replication
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (32.76%) Windows
3 18 (31.03%) Ubuntu
4 13 (22.41%) Debian
5 12 (20.69%) CentOS
6 7 (12.07%) Unix
7 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (8.62%) Windows 10
7 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
7 5 (8.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (8.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (8.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (6.90%) Solaris
8 4 (6.90%) SUSE
9 1 (1.72%) Fedora
9 1 (1.72%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (29.31%) Computer Science
3 14 (24.14%) Configuration Management
4 12 (20.69%) Mathematics
5 10 (17.24%) DevOps
6 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.79%) B2B
7 8 (13.79%) Coaching
7 8 (13.79%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (13.79%) Open Source
7 8 (13.79%) Physics
7 8 (13.79%) Security Patching
7 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 8 (13.79%) Validation
8 7 (12.07%) OWASP
8 7 (12.07%) Release Management
9 6 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (10.34%) Time Management
10 4 (6.90%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Bash
2 22 (37.93%) Python
3 6 (10.34%) Perl
4 5 (8.62%) Java
5 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.72%) Korn
7 1 (1.72%) PHP
7 1 (1.72%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) PMO
2 7 (12.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.45%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.52%) Hyper-V
3 8 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (6.90%) Docker
6 1 (1.72%) KVM
6 1 (1.72%) NFS
6 1 (1.72%) Samba
6 1 (1.72%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Terraform
2 8 (13.79%) Ansible
3 6 (10.34%) Puppet
4 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.72%) Grafana
6 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) VMware
2 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.34%) Cisco
3 6 (10.34%) Juniper
4 5 (8.62%) Fortinet
4 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk