Linux Engineer Job Trends in Surrey

Linux Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Linux Engineer salary in Surrey is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 115 78
Rank change year-on-year +25 -37 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 1 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.089% 0.067% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.069% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £42,750
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile - - £51,250
90th Percentile - - £55,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 987 1,444 856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.73% 96.14% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 748 760 616
10th Percentile £27,040 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,125
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.43% -0.43%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in Surrey

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Surrey region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Video on Demand
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script