Linux Support Engineer Jobs in England

Linux Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Support Engineer salary in England is £39,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 813 892
Rank change year-on-year +165 +79 +207
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 14 20 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.023% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.025% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 32
10th Percentile - £24,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £32,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% -5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £66,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £39,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.89% -5.00% -23.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Linux Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support Engineer in England

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux Support Engineer in England

Linux Support 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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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 +114 8 £39,000 -35.27% 6
North West - 5 £42,500 - 1
North of England - 5 £42,500 - 1
South East +103 1 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Linux Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Linux Support Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) Apple
2 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 7 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 7 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 7 (50.00%) Bash
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 7 (50.00%) Chatbot
2 7 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Telematics
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) SSH
3 5 (35.71%) Vehicle Telematics
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) DHCP
5 1 (7.14%) DNS
5 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Firewall
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) VMware

Linux Support 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:

Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Chatbot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) SSH
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 7 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 7 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Telematics
2 5 (35.71%) Vehicle Telematics
3 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Bash
1 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Apple
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) VMware