Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 561 761
Rank change year-on-year +28 +200 -332
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 323 436 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.46% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.51% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 268 331 318
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 79,927 86,214 125,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59,989 54,425 75,776
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
London +49 110 £80,000 +14.29% 20
South West +14 60 £52,500 -7.08% 13
South East +25 55 £56,250 +11.39% 12
East of England +11 38 £62,500 +8.70% 8
Midlands +26 33 £57,500 -17.86% 5
North of England +3 31 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Yorkshire +40 17 £45,000 +5.88% 3
West Midlands +24 17 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands +1 16 £52,500 -16.00% 5
North East - 10 £60,000 -
North West +3 4 £55,000 +3.77% 2
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 323 (100.00%) Linux
2 113 (34.98%) Python
3 109 (33.75%) Ansible
4 106 (32.82%) Bash
5 89 (27.55%) Red Hat
6 72 (22.29%) Software Engineering
7 70 (21.67%) AWS
8 67 (20.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (20.74%) C
9 65 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 58 (17.96%) DevOps
12 56 (17.34%) Ubuntu
13 55 (17.03%) Windows
14 54 (16.72%) Social Skills
15 50 (15.48%) CentOS
16 48 (14.86%) Docker
17 46 (14.24%) Firewall
18 45 (13.93%) Azure
18 45 (13.93%) Kubernetes
19 44 (13.62%) TCP/IP
20 43 (13.31%) Agile
20 43 (13.31%) Terraform
20 43 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
21 42 (13.00%) Security Cleared
21 42 (13.00%) CI/CD
22 41 (12.69%) Finance
22 41 (12.69%) Puppet
23 40 (12.38%) Git
24 35 (10.84%) Jenkins

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (4.02%) Apache
1 13 (4.02%) nginx
2 8 (2.48%) Confluence
3 7 (2.17%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.62%) JBoss
5 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.31%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.31%) Drupal
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.31%) Simulink
2 1 (0.31%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.67%) AWS
2 45 (13.93%) Azure
3 15 (4.64%) Amazon S3
4 14 (4.33%) GCP
5 13 (4.02%) GitHub
6 12 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.41%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.10%) SaaS
9 6 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.24%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.62%) Kong
13 2 (0.62%) Serverless
13 2 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.24%) Firewall
2 44 (13.62%) TCP/IP
3 30 (9.29%) DNS
4 21 (6.50%) LAN
5 19 (5.88%) Internet
6 16 (4.95%) WAN
7 12 (3.72%) SAN
8 11 (3.41%) SNMP
9 9 (2.79%) tcpdump
9 9 (2.79%) VPN
10 8 (2.48%) DHCP
11 7 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.93%) BGP
13 3 (0.93%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.93%) HTTP
13 3 (0.93%) IPv6
14 2 (0.62%) NAS
14 2 (0.62%) SMTP
14 2 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.60%) MySQL
2 14 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.79%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.17%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.55%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.93%) Big Data
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.62%) Redis
9 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (12.38%) Git
2 35 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.12%) JIRA
4 12 (3.72%) GitLab
5 9 (2.79%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.48%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.48%) ClearCase
6 8 (2.48%) ClearQuest
6 8 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.86%) GDB
8 5 (1.55%) DTrace
8 5 (1.55%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.93%) Redmine
9 3 (0.93%) Subversion
10 2 (0.62%) git-flow
10 2 (0.62%) Maven
10 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (16.72%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.69%) Finance
4 17 (5.26%) Banking
5 12 (3.72%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.10%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.55%) Advertising
10 4 (1.24%) Military
10 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Electronics
11 3 (0.93%) Games
11 3 (0.93%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.93%) Marketing
12 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Law
12 2 (0.62%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.57%) Yocto
2 12 (3.72%) LDAP
2 12 (3.72%) Middleware
3 11 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.41%) YAML
4 8 (2.48%) JSON
5 7 (2.17%) GTK
5 7 (2.17%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.17%) KML
5 7 (2.17%) Regular Expression
5 7 (2.17%) XML
6 6 (1.86%) LAMP
7 5 (1.55%) .NET
7 5 (1.55%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.24%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (0.93%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.93%) Kafka
9 3 (0.93%) OpenMP
9 3 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.12%) IoT
2 22 (6.81%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.88%) PKI
4 18 (5.57%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (4.33%) Clustering
5 14 (4.33%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.41%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.17%) Device Driver
7 7 (2.17%) Replication
8 6 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.55%) FPGA
9 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.62%) Beowulf
12 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 323 (100.00%) Linux
2 67 (20.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 56 (17.34%) Ubuntu
4 55 (17.03%) Windows
5 50 (15.48%) CentOS
6 35 (10.84%) Embedded Linux
7 34 (10.53%) Debian
8 22 (6.81%) Unix
9 17 (5.26%) Windows Server
10 9 (2.79%) CoreOS
11 7 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (2.17%) Solaris
12 6 (1.86%) SUSE
12 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
13 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.93%) Rocky
15 2 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.31%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (22.29%) Software Engineering
2 65 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 58 (17.96%) DevOps
5 43 (13.31%) Agile
6 42 (13.00%) CI/CD
7 35 (10.84%) Containerisation
8 34 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (9.29%) Configuration Management
10 29 (8.98%) Computer Science
11 26 (8.05%) Time Management
12 22 (6.81%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (6.19%) Test Automation
14 19 (5.88%) ITIL
15 18 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (5.57%) High Availability
15 18 (5.57%) Open Source
15 18 (5.57%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (5.26%) Customer Experience
16 17 (5.26%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.98%) Python
2 106 (32.82%) Bash
3 67 (20.74%) C
4 35 (10.84%) C++
5 33 (10.22%) Perl
5 33 (10.22%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.12%) Shell Script
7 19 (5.88%) Java
8 12 (3.72%) Ruby
9 10 (3.10%) Ada
9 10 (3.10%) C#
9 10 (3.10%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.86%) PHP
11 5 (1.55%) Go
11 5 (1.55%) Korn
11 5 (1.55%) OCaml
11 5 (1.55%) Rust
11 5 (1.55%) SystemTap
12 4 (1.24%) SQL
13 3 (0.93%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 42 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (9.60%) Degree
3 23 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.10%) QA
2 9 (2.79%) PMO
3 7 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.86%) SLA
5 5 (1.55%) NCSC
6 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (14.86%) Docker
2 22 (6.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.79%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.48%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.48%) NFS
7 7 (2.17%) KVM
8 5 (1.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.93%) GPFS
9 3 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.62%) iptables
10 2 (0.62%) Lustre
10 2 (0.62%) QEMU
10 2 (0.62%) vSphere
10 2 (0.62%) Xen
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) Samba
11 1 (0.31%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 109 (33.75%) Ansible
2 45 (13.93%) Kubernetes
3 43 (13.31%) Terraform
4 41 (12.69%) Puppet
5 16 (4.95%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.02%) Grafana
7 12 (3.72%) Nagios
8 11 (3.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 11 (3.41%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.79%) Graphite
9 9 (2.79%) HAProxy
10 7 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.17%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.24%) HP Data Protector
13 3 (0.93%) Salt
13 3 (0.93%) SCCM
14 2 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 89 (27.55%) Red Hat
2 25 (7.74%) Cisco
2 25 (7.74%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.43%) VMware
4 11 (3.41%) Fortinet
5 10 (3.10%) IBM
5 10 (3.10%) Oracle
6 9 (2.79%) Juniper
7 8 (2.48%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.17%) EMC
8 7 (2.17%) F5
8 7 (2.17%) Intel
9 6 (1.86%) Dell
9 6 (1.86%) Meraki
9 6 (1.86%) TOWER Software
9 6 (1.86%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (1.55%) HP
10 5 (1.55%) Serena
11 4 (1.24%) Sun