Linux Engineer Jobs in Essex

Linux Engineer
East of England > Essex

The median Linux Engineer salary in Essex is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 87 100
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 6 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 0.68% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.30% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £68,500 £58,250 -
25th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +45.00% +34.92%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £55,000
90th Percentile - £86,750 -
East of England median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +10.87% -5.74% +28.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 828 675 872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 79.23% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 678 377 429
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £30,091 £36,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Essex

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in Essex

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Essex over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in Essex

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 28 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
Colchester +1 3 £85,000 +3.03%
Harlow - 2 - -
Linux Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Essex region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) C
2 3 (50.00%) ADO
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Line Management
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Line Management
1 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat