Linux Engineer Jobs in the South West

Linux Engineer
England > South West

The median Linux Engineer salary in the South West is £51,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 238 240
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 61 34 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.67% 0.48% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.54% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 36 29 46
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,250 £32,813
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £37,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £56,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -1.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,700 £73,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 8,793 6,284 7,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.31% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,903 5,084
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

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

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer 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 25 April 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
Bristol +11 18 £62,500 +9.17% 8
Gloucestershire -4 17 £48,750 -27.78%
Wiltshire 0 12 £45,000 -33.33% 4
Devon -6 11 £37,500 -22.68% 2
Somerset +1 3 £50,000 -
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 South West region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (37.70%) Bash
3 21 (34.43%) Security Cleared
3 21 (34.43%) Ansible
3 21 (34.43%) Python
4 17 (27.87%) CentOS
5 16 (26.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (26.23%) Ubuntu
6 15 (24.59%) Computer Science
7 14 (22.95%) Red Hat
8 12 (19.67%) AWS
9 11 (18.03%) Git
9 11 (18.03%) Time Management
9 11 (18.03%) DevOps
9 11 (18.03%) Configuration Management
9 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.39%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
10 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
10 10 (16.39%) Debian
10 10 (16.39%) Degree
11 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
11 9 (14.75%) Puppet
11 9 (14.75%) CoreOS
11 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
11 9 (14.75%) Validation
11 9 (14.75%) B2B
11 9 (14.75%) ITIL
11 9 (14.75%) PMO
11 9 (14.75%) Virtual Machines

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.28%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.67%) AWS
2 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.28%) Azure
3 2 (3.28%) GCP
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) 5G
1 2 (3.28%) Internet
2 1 (1.64%) 2G
2 1 (1.64%) 3G
2 1 (1.64%) 4G
2 1 (1.64%) DHCP
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.64%) WAN
2 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.64%) Advertising
5 1 (1.64%) Finance
5 1 (1.64%) Marketing
5 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) JSON
1 7 (11.48%) JSON Schema
1 7 (11.48%) KML
1 7 (11.48%) Regular Expression
1 7 (11.48%) XML
2 3 (4.92%) Middleware
3 2 (3.28%) XML Schema
4 1 (1.64%) LDAP
4 1 (1.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (13.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.64%) GNSS
3 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (27.87%) CentOS
3 16 (26.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (26.23%) Ubuntu
4 10 (16.39%) Debian
5 9 (14.75%) CoreOS
6 5 (8.20%) Unix
7 1 (1.64%) Fedora
7 1 (1.64%) openSUSE
7 1 (1.64%) Rocky
7 1 (1.64%) Solaris
7 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) Computer Science
2 11 (18.03%) Configuration Management
2 11 (18.03%) DevOps
2 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.03%) Time Management
3 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
4 9 (14.75%) B2B
4 9 (14.75%) ITIL
4 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
4 9 (14.75%) Validation
5 8 (13.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (13.11%) Mathematics
5 8 (13.11%) Physics
5 8 (13.11%) Security Patching
5 8 (13.11%) Software Engineering
6 7 (11.48%) CAD
6 7 (11.48%) Coaching
6 7 (11.48%) OWASP
6 7 (11.48%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) Bash
2 21 (34.43%) Python
3 6 (9.84%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.92%) Ada
4 3 (4.92%) C
4 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.28%) C++
5 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.64%) Bicep
6 1 (1.64%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) Degree
3 9 (14.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) PMO
2 7 (11.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (8.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.92%) Docker
3 2 (3.28%) NFS
3 2 (3.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.64%) Samba
4 1 (1.64%) Shibboleth
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (34.43%) Ansible
2 9 (14.75%) Puppet
3 3 (4.92%) Nagios
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.28%) Terraform
5 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.64%) yum
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.92%) VMware
3 1 (1.64%) Google
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle
3 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds