Unix/Linux Engineer
UK

The median Unix/Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 963 1217
Rank change year-on-year +63 +254 -339
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Linux Engineer 10 16 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.015% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.017% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 19
10th Percentile - £49,500 £40,350
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £59,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £60,500 £77,950 £78,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -5.70% -3.39% -

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
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%

Unix Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix Linux Engineer in the UK

Unix Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Unix Linux Engineer in the UK

Unix Linux Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Linux Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +97 10 £53,750 -15.69% 2
UK excluding London -12 10 £53,750 -5.70% 2
South West -36 4 £52,500 -7.89%
North of England - 4 - -
North East - 4 - -
Work from Home +80 3 £52,500 -30.00%
West Midlands +26 2 £56,000 -22.49%
Midlands +15 2 £56,000 -22.49%

Unix Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 10 (100.00%) Unix
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (40.00%) CoreOS
3 4 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (40.00%) Time Management
3 4 (40.00%) CentOS
3 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Git
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 4 (40.00%) Puppet
3 4 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 2 (20.00%) JBoss
5 2 (20.00%) Tomcat

Unix 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 2 (20.00%) JBoss
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) CentOS
2 4 (40.00%) CoreOS
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Time Management
2 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat