Linux Support Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Support Engineer salary in Work from Home is £50,000 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 570 635 816
Rank change year-on-year +65 +181 -253
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 13 27 28
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.038% 0.064% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.066% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 13 26 28
10th Percentile - £34,375 £44,250
25th Percentile £24,750 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -24.62% +75.68%
75th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £74,375
90th Percentile - - £76,250
UK median annual salary £47,750 £50,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -4.50% -18.37% +44.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,500 40,685 66,613
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 95.99% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,951 28,924 42,159
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,658 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,429 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Linux Support Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Support Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Support Engineer.

Linux Support Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Support Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Linux Support Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Linux Support 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Support Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Ubuntu
3 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
3 8 (61.54%) MySQL
3 8 (61.54%) Customer Service
4 6 (46.15%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) ITIL
4 6 (46.15%) LAN
4 6 (46.15%) SLA
4 6 (46.15%) Cisco
4 6 (46.15%) Incident Management
4 6 (46.15%) JIRA
4 6 (46.15%) Service Delivery
4 6 (46.15%) Firewall
4 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
4 6 (46.15%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
4 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) AWS
4 6 (46.15%) Bash
4 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (46.15%) Meraki
4 6 (46.15%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Ticket Management
5 4 (30.77%) CentOS
5 4 (30.77%) SUSE
5 4 (30.77%) Mathematics

Linux Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
1 6 (46.15%) LAN
1 6 (46.15%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (15.38%) Internet
2 2 (15.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Ubuntu
3 4 (30.77%) CentOS
3 4 (30.77%) SUSE
4 2 (15.38%) Debian
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Customer Service
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Management
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Service Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Ticket Management
4 2 (15.38%) Open Source
4 2 (15.38%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (15.38%) Tech Ops
5 1 (7.69%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (7.69%) Monetization
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Bash
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Meraki
2 6 (46.15%) Ubiquiti
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) VMware