Linux Engineer Jobs in the Home Counties

Linux Engineer
South East > Home Counties

The median Linux Engineer salary in the Home Counties is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Home Counties 20.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% +3.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Home Counties

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Home Counties. 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 the Home Counties with a recognized job title 5 5 35
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 83.33% 97.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 24
10th Percentile £61,000 - £28,850
25th Percentile £62,500 - £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% -20.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £95,000
90th Percentile £69,000 - £101,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the Home Counties

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 7 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Home Counties region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware