Linux Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Linux Engineer salary in Glasgow is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 145 71
Rank change year-on-year +69 -74 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 7 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.94% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £37,375 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,063 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £46,250 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year +15.63% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 707 1,846 753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 98.51% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 289 653 589
10th Percentile £29,700 £31,496 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 3 (42.86%) SAP
3 3 (42.86%) Replication
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) Podman
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) PyCharm
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Ant
5 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (14.29%) C
5 1 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 1 (14.29%) JBoss

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) PyCharm
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) Java
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) KVM
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Podman
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) VMware