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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 546 786
Rank change year-on-year +6 +240 -350
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 315 418 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.46% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.51% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 262 320 312
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £79,125 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £127,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year - +1.69% +18.00%

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 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +39 104 £78,000 +11.43% 20
South West -3 57 £51,250 -2.38% 12
South East +19 52 £57,500 +15.00% 11
East of England +2 41 £61,250 +6.52% 7
Midlands +10 34 £57,500 -16.06% 4
North of England +8 29 £50,000 +17.65% 4
East Midlands +1 18 £55,000 -12.00% 4
West Midlands +4 16 £65,000 -5.11%
Yorkshire +39 15 £45,000 +5.88% 2
North East - 10 £60,000 -
North West +4 4 £55,000 +10.55% 2
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 315 (100.00%) Linux
2 109 (34.60%) Ansible
3 106 (33.65%) Python
4 102 (32.38%) Bash
5 85 (26.98%) Red Hat
6 74 (23.49%) Software Engineering
7 71 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (22.22%) AWS
9 69 (21.90%) C
10 62 (19.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 61 (19.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 59 (18.73%) Ubuntu
13 57 (18.10%) Social Skills
14 54 (17.14%) DevOps
15 50 (15.87%) Windows
16 49 (15.56%) Docker
17 48 (15.24%) CentOS
18 47 (14.92%) TCP/IP
19 46 (14.60%) Kubernetes
19 46 (14.60%) Agile
20 45 (14.29%) Firewall
21 43 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
22 41 (13.02%) Puppet
22 41 (13.02%) Azure
23 40 (12.70%) Security Cleared
23 40 (12.70%) Git
24 39 (12.38%) Terraform
24 39 (12.38%) CI/CD
25 38 (12.06%) Finance
26 35 (11.11%) C++

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 14 (4.44%) nginx
2 13 (4.13%) Apache
3 8 (2.54%) Confluence
4 7 (2.22%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.32%) Simulink
2 1 (0.32%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.22%) AWS
2 41 (13.02%) Azure
3 18 (5.71%) Amazon S3
4 14 (4.44%) GCP
5 12 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.49%) OpenShift
6 11 (3.49%) SaaS
7 9 (2.86%) GitHub
8 5 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.27%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.63%) Kong
11 2 (0.63%) Serverless
11 2 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (14.92%) TCP/IP
2 45 (14.29%) Firewall
3 30 (9.52%) DNS
4 21 (6.67%) Internet
4 21 (6.67%) LAN
5 15 (4.76%) WAN
6 12 (3.81%) SNMP
7 11 (3.49%) SAN
8 10 (3.17%) tcpdump
9 9 (2.86%) DHCP
10 8 (2.54%) VPN
11 7 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (1.27%) Wireless
14 3 (0.95%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.95%) NAS
15 2 (0.63%) HTTP
15 2 (0.63%) InfiniBand
15 2 (0.63%) Network Security
15 2 (0.63%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.21%) MySQL
2 13 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.22%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.59%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.95%) Big Data
7 3 (0.95%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.63%) Redis
8 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (12.70%) Git
2 33 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.35%) JIRA
4 8 (2.54%) ClearCase
4 8 (2.54%) ClearQuest
5 7 (2.22%) GitLab
6 6 (1.90%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.90%) GDB
6 6 (1.90%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.59%) DTrace
7 5 (1.59%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.95%) Redmine
8 3 (0.95%) Subversion
9 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.63%) git-flow
9 2 (0.63%) Maven
9 2 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 57 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (12.06%) Finance
4 15 (4.76%) Banking
5 12 (3.81%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.27%) Automotive
8 4 (1.27%) Military
9 3 (0.95%) Advertising
9 3 (0.95%) Electronics
9 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.95%) Japanese Language
10 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.71%) Yocto
2 12 (3.81%) LDAP
2 12 (3.81%) Middleware
2 12 (3.81%) YAML
3 11 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.54%) JSON
5 7 (2.22%) GTK
5 7 (2.22%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.22%) KML
5 7 (2.22%) Regular Expression
5 7 (2.22%) XML
6 5 (1.59%) LAMP
7 4 (1.27%) Kafka
7 4 (1.27%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.95%) .NET
8 3 (0.95%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.95%) REST
9 2 (0.63%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.94%) IoT
2 19 (6.03%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.71%) PKI
4 17 (5.40%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (4.44%) Clustering
5 14 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.49%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.22%) Device Driver
7 7 (2.22%) Replication
8 6 (1.90%) FPGA
9 4 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.63%) PropTech
11 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 315 (100.00%) Linux
2 62 (19.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 59 (18.73%) Ubuntu
4 50 (15.87%) Windows
5 48 (15.24%) CentOS
6 35 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
7 33 (10.48%) Debian
8 21 (6.67%) Unix
9 13 (4.13%) Windows Server
10 9 (2.86%) CoreOS
11 8 (2.54%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (2.22%) Solaris
13 6 (1.90%) SUSE
13 6 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (1.59%) Windows 10
14 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.95%) Rocky
16 2 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.32%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (23.49%) Software Engineering
2 71 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (19.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 54 (17.14%) DevOps
5 46 (14.60%) Agile
6 39 (12.38%) CI/CD
7 35 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (10.79%) Containerisation
9 30 (9.52%) Configuration Management
10 28 (8.89%) Computer Science
11 26 (8.25%) Time Management
12 21 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (6.03%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (6.03%) Test Automation
15 18 (5.71%) Open Source
16 17 (5.40%) Customer Experience
16 17 (5.40%) ITIL
17 16 (5.08%) High Availability
17 16 (5.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.65%) Python
2 102 (32.38%) Bash
3 69 (21.90%) C
4 35 (11.11%) C++
5 31 (9.84%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.21%) Perl
7 21 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 18 (5.71%) Java
9 10 (3.17%) Ada
9 10 (3.17%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.54%) C#
10 8 (2.54%) Ruby
11 5 (1.59%) OCaml
11 5 (1.59%) SystemTap
12 4 (1.27%) PHP
12 4 (1.27%) SQL
13 3 (0.95%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.95%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.95%) Go
13 3 (0.95%) Korn
Qualifications
1 40 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.21%) Degree
3 20 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.81%) QA
2 8 (2.54%) PMO
3 7 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.90%) SLA
5 5 (1.59%) NCSC
6 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (15.56%) Docker
2 25 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.86%) NFS
6 8 (2.54%) KVM
7 7 (2.22%) Active Directory
8 6 (1.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.95%) GPFS
11 2 (0.63%) iptables
11 2 (0.63%) Lustre
11 2 (0.63%) QEMU
11 2 (0.63%) vSphere
11 2 (0.63%) Xen
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Samba
12 1 (0.32%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 109 (34.60%) Ansible
2 46 (14.60%) Kubernetes
3 41 (13.02%) Puppet
4 39 (12.38%) Terraform
5 16 (5.08%) Grafana
6 15 (4.76%) Nagios
7 13 (4.13%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.49%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (2.86%) Graphite
9 9 (2.86%) HAProxy
9 9 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (2.54%) Prometheus
11 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.27%) HP Data Protector
14 2 (0.63%) Rancher
14 2 (0.63%) SCCM
15 1 (0.32%) Salt
Vendors
1 85 (26.98%) Red Hat
2 27 (8.57%) VMware
3 24 (7.62%) Cisco
4 23 (7.30%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.81%) Oracle
6 11 (3.49%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.17%) IBM
8 9 (2.86%) F5
9 8 (2.54%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.54%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.22%) EMC
10 7 (2.22%) Juniper
11 6 (1.90%) Dell
11 6 (1.90%) Meraki
11 6 (1.90%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.59%) HP
12 5 (1.59%) Intel
12 5 (1.59%) Serena
13 4 (1.27%) TOWER Software
14 3 (0.95%) Google