Linux Engineer Job Trends in Crawley

Linux Engineer
West Sussex > Crawley

The median Linux Engineer salary in Crawley is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Crawley 1.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £75,000 - £50,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Crawley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Crawley. 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 Crawley with a recognized job title 236 93 97
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 80.87% 97.98%
Number of salaries quoted 132 61 52
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £23,150
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £53,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +15.68% -19.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,750 £78,750 £68,750
West Sussex median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in Crawley

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Crawley

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Crawley.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Crawley

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley

For the 6 months to 18 September 2026, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Crawley region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat