Linux Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

As of 2 November 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Linux Engineer salary in Glasgow.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 80 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.75% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £40,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 741 946 648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 97.23% 98.18%
Number of salaries quoted 328 529 501
10th Percentile £29,175 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £74,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Ant
5 1 (16.67%) Apache
5 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Git
5 1 (16.67%) Groovy
5 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
5 1 (16.67%) Java

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) PyCharm
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Groovy
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Podman
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP