Linux Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Linux Engineer salary in the Midlands is £40,000 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 232 292 294
Rank change year-on-year +60 +2 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 11 33 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6 32 23
10th Percentile - £25,525 £47,000
25th Percentile - £50,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -17.86% +47.37%
75th Percentile £46,563 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £59,375 - -
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% +4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,335 11,010 8,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 94.31% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,843 8,239 4,748
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +39 5 £40,000 -25.58%
West Midlands +38 5 £47,500 -26.92% 3
Linux Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Ubuntu
3 7 (63.64%) Ansible
4 6 (54.55%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) CentOS
5 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Azure
5 5 (45.45%) Python
5 5 (45.45%) SSL
6 4 (36.36%) SLA
6 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
6 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
6 4 (36.36%) Nessus
6 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
6 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (36.36%) Firewall
6 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
6 4 (36.36%) Docker
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) Capacity Management
6 4 (36.36%) Patch Management
6 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (36.36%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (36.36%) Server Management
6 4 (36.36%) Rocky
7 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering

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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SSL
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
3 1 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (27.27%) Vagrant
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (9.09%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Ubuntu
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) CentOS
4 4 (36.36%) Rocky
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (27.27%) VMS
6 1 (9.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Capacity Management
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Customer-Centricity
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Patch Management
2 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Server Management
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Key Management
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (9.09%) SDLC
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 3 (27.27%) Groovy
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Nessus
3 3 (27.27%) Nagios
3 3 (27.27%) Proxmox
3 3 (27.27%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Juniper
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Sophos