Linux Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Linux Engineer
England > South West

The median Linux Engineer salary in the South West is £80,000 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 164 199 197
Rank change year-on-year +35 -2 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 2 43 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.057% 0.57% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.60% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 33 27
10th Percentile - £30,750 £37,000
25th Percentile - £33,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £43,491 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +83.95% -13.02% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £51,250 £62,000
90th Percentile - £57,200 £65,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,250 7,148 4,408
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.88% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 4,636 3,450
10th Percentile £27,175 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,150 £52,000 £54,545
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% -4.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Wiltshire +24 1 £80,000 +77.78% 1
Devon +4 1 - -
Linux Engineer
England

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

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 South West region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware