Linux Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 614 744
Rank change year-on-year -29 +130 +205
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 7 9 50
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.023% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.025% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 44
10th Percentile - £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,438 £62,250
90th Percentile - £88,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,579 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.25% +28.57% -2.78%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 60,440 35,628 70,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 90.54% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,507 21,195 55,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
South East -3 3 £70,000 +40.00% 1
South West -21 3 - - 1
London +7 1 - - 1
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 March 2026, Linux Infrastructure 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 England region featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) Bash
5 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Rocky
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat