Linux Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Linux Engineer salary in the Midlands is £57,500 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 287 297 340
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 34 28 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.34% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 33 21 12
10th Percentile £26,300 £47,000 £35,590
25th Percentile £51,500 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £68,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.06% +44.21% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,313
90th Percentile - - £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,184 8,311 10,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 89.66% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,331 4,658 7,067
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,925 £27,539
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,054
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Midlands 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
East Midlands +1 18 £55,000 -12.00% 4
West Midlands +4 16 £65,000 -5.11%
Linux Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (70.59%) Agile
3 18 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 16 (47.06%) C
4 16 (47.06%) C++
5 15 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (41.18%) IoT
6 14 (41.18%) Embedded Software Development
6 14 (41.18%) Yocto
6 14 (41.18%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (32.35%) AWS
7 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (32.35%) Docker
8 9 (26.47%) QA
8 9 (26.47%) Firewall
8 9 (26.47%) Scrum
8 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
8 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
8 9 (26.47%) DevOps
9 8 (23.53%) Git
10 7 (20.59%) Azure
10 7 (20.59%) Ansible
10 7 (20.59%) Analytics
10 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
10 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (20.59%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
12 5 (14.71%) Red Hat

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.94%) JBoss
1 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.94%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) Internet
2 2 (5.88%) VSAN
3 1 (2.94%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) MariaDB
1 2 (5.88%) MySQL
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.94%) Electronics
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) Yocto
2 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) IoT
2 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (41.18%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Ubuntu
4 4 (11.76%) CentOS
4 4 (11.76%) SUSE
5 3 (8.82%) Debian
5 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.88%) Unix
6 2 (5.88%) Windows
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Agile
2 18 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 14 (41.18%) Embedded Software Development
5 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 9 (26.47%) DevOps
6 9 (26.47%) Scrum
7 7 (20.59%) Analytics
7 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
7 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.76%) Mathematics
8 4 (11.76%) Ticket Management
9 2 (5.88%) Customer Experience
9 2 (5.88%) Customer Service
9 2 (5.88%) Open Source
9 2 (5.88%) Proactive Maintenance
9 2 (5.88%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) C
1 16 (47.06%) C++
2 2 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) Embedded C
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) QA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco