Linux Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 538 540
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 40 230 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.34% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 33 189 157
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £74,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% - +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England +35 13 £45,000 - 17
North West +13 11 £43,750 -20.45% 5
Midlands +37 10 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Scotland +113 6 £55,000 +10.00% 4
South East +55 6 £70,000 +21.74% 24
West Midlands +43 5 £47,500 -26.92% 1
South West +54 4 £67,500 +31.71% 6
East Midlands +19 4 £40,000 -27.27%
East of England +10 4 £51,250 -14.58% 18
Yorkshire +60 1 £47,500 +5.56% 11
North East +35 1 £60,000 - 1
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (47.50%) Windows
3 15 (37.50%) AWS
4 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.00%) Ubuntu
5 12 (30.00%) Python
6 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
6 11 (27.50%) Ansible
7 10 (25.00%) DevOps
7 10 (25.00%) VMware
8 9 (22.50%) Service Delivery
8 9 (22.50%) Agile
8 9 (22.50%) CentOS
8 9 (22.50%) Docker
8 9 (22.50%) Azure
8 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
9 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
9 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
9 8 (20.00%) SSL
10 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (17.50%) Terraform
10 7 (17.50%) Bash
10 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.00%) Server Management
11 6 (15.00%) Degree
11 6 (15.00%) SSH
11 6 (15.00%) Unix
11 6 (15.00%) Firewall
12 5 (12.50%) Red Hat

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (7.50%) AWS KMS
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) IaaS
6 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) SSL
2 6 (15.00%) Firewall
2 6 (15.00%) SSH
3 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 3 (7.50%) HTTP
4 2 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) FTP
5 1 (2.50%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) MySQL
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (7.50%) Vagrant
3 2 (5.00%) Git
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) PyCharm
4 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Automotive
4 1 (2.50%) Aviation
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Spring
1 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.50%) Django
2 1 (2.50%) EDI
2 1 (2.50%) LAMP
2 1 (2.50%) LDAP
2 1 (2.50%) Loki
2 1 (2.50%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (5.00%) Robotics
1 2 (5.00%) Self-Driving Car
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Life Science
2 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (2.50%) Replication
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (47.50%) Windows
3 12 (30.00%) Ubuntu
4 9 (22.50%) CentOS
5 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (15.00%) Unix
7 4 (10.00%) AIX
7 4 (10.00%) Rocky
8 3 (7.50%) Debian
8 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (7.50%) Solaris
8 3 (7.50%) VMS
9 2 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
10 1 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.00%) DevOps
3 9 (22.50%) Agile
3 9 (22.50%) Service Delivery
4 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (15.00%) Server Management
6 5 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.50%) Telematics
6 5 (12.50%) Vehicle Telematics
7 4 (10.00%) Capacity Management
7 4 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 4 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (10.00%) Patch Management
7 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) Python
2 7 (17.50%) Bash
3 5 (12.50%) Java
3 5 (12.50%) Perl
4 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) Groovy
5 3 (7.50%) Ruby
5 3 (7.50%) SQL
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) Korn
6 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) AWK
7 1 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) Degree
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (2.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.00%) KVM
5 2 (5.00%) Postfix
6 1 (2.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (2.50%) Dovecot
6 1 (2.50%) Sendmail
6 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Ansible
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) Nessus
4 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.00%) Nagios
4 4 (10.00%) Puppet
5 3 (7.50%) Proxmox
6 2 (5.00%) Grafana
7 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.50%) Juniper
5 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.00%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.50%) Dell
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Okta
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (2.50%) Sophos
6 1 (2.50%) Splunk
6 1 (2.50%) Tenable