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 £55,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 522 612
Rank change year-on-year -7 +90 -225
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 230 236 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.43% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 188 162 162
10th Percentile £37,380 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +8.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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
South West +3 60 £51,250 -9.29% 13
South East +35 54 £57,500 +13.86% 11
East of England +7 39 £63,750 +10.87% 9
Midlands +11 33 £57,500 -17.86% 7
North of England +8 31 £55,000 +29.41% 6
Yorkshire +51 17 £45,000 +5.88% 3
West Midlands +19 17 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands -5 16 £52,500 -16.00% 7
Scotland -55 10 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East - 10 £60,000 -
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1
North West +6 4 £55,000 +3.77% 3
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 230 (100.00%) Linux
2 61 (26.52%) Ansible
3 53 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (22.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 48 (20.87%) C
6 47 (20.43%) Software Engineering
7 46 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 41 (17.83%) AWS
8 41 (17.83%) Bash
8 41 (17.83%) Red Hat
9 40 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 39 (16.96%) CentOS
10 39 (16.96%) Social Skills
11 38 (16.52%) Ubuntu
12 36 (15.65%) Python
12 36 (15.65%) DevOps
13 35 (15.22%) Embedded Linux
14 34 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
15 30 (13.04%) Azure
15 30 (13.04%) C++
16 29 (12.61%) Git
17 27 (11.74%) SC Cleared
17 27 (11.74%) Agile
17 27 (11.74%) Docker
18 24 (10.43%) IoT
19 23 (10.00%) Kubernetes
19 23 (10.00%) Windows
19 23 (10.00%) Computer Science
19 23 (10.00%) Puppet
20 22 (9.57%) Configuration Management

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 8 (3.48%) Confluence
2 7 (3.04%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.74%) Apache
3 4 (1.74%) nginx
4 3 (1.30%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.43%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.43%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 41 (17.83%) AWS
2 30 (13.04%) Azure
3 12 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.35%) SaaS
5 9 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (3.91%) OpenShift
6 7 (3.04%) Slack
7 5 (2.17%) GCP
8 4 (1.74%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.87%) Serverless
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.39%) Firewall
2 13 (5.65%) LAN
3 8 (3.48%) SAN
3 8 (3.48%) WAN
4 7 (3.04%) Internet
4 7 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.61%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.74%) DNS
7 3 (1.30%) Ethernet
7 3 (1.30%) Wireless
8 2 (0.87%) 5G
8 2 (0.87%) DHCP
8 2 (0.87%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.87%) VSAN
9 1 (0.43%) HTTP
9 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.43%) RS-485
9 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.83%) MySQL
2 11 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.04%) MariaDB
4 5 (2.17%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.30%) Big Data
5 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (12.61%) Git
2 20 (8.70%) JIRA
3 14 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.48%) ClearCase
4 8 (3.48%) ClearQuest
5 6 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.30%) Redmine
7 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.30%) Subversion
8 2 (0.87%) Maven
9 1 (0.43%) GDB
9 1 (0.43%) GitLab
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (16.96%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.65%) Finance
4 10 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.74%) Advertising
7 4 (1.74%) Banking
7 4 (1.74%) Electronics
7 4 (1.74%) Military
7 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Automotive
8 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.87%) Law
8 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.43%) Local Government
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.83%) Yocto
2 12 (5.22%) Middleware
3 8 (3.48%) JSON
4 7 (3.04%) JSON Schema
4 7 (3.04%) KML
4 7 (3.04%) Regular Expression
4 7 (3.04%) XML
5 3 (1.30%) ADO
5 3 (1.30%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (1.30%) Kafka
5 3 (1.30%) LAMP
5 3 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.30%) React
5 3 (1.30%) REST
6 2 (0.87%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (0.87%) LDAP
6 2 (0.87%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (0.87%) OpenMP
6 2 (0.87%) XML Schema
6 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.43%) IoT
2 14 (6.09%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.78%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.04%) CMDB
5 7 (3.04%) Device Driver
6 6 (2.61%) PKI
7 4 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.30%) FPGA
8 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Beowulf
9 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.43%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.43%) GNSS
10 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 230 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (16.96%) CentOS
4 38 (16.52%) Ubuntu
5 35 (15.22%) Embedded Linux
6 23 (10.00%) Windows
7 15 (6.52%) Debian
7 15 (6.52%) Unix
8 9 (3.91%) CoreOS
9 6 (2.61%) SUSE
9 6 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.17%) Windows 10
10 5 (2.17%) Windows Server
10 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.87%) Rocky
11 2 (0.87%) Solaris
11 2 (0.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.43%) Fedora
12 1 (0.43%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (22.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 47 (20.43%) Software Engineering
4 36 (15.65%) DevOps
5 27 (11.74%) Agile
6 23 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 22 (9.57%) Configuration Management
8 21 (9.13%) Containerisation
9 19 (8.26%) ITIL
10 17 (7.39%) Time Management
11 15 (6.52%) CI/CD
12 14 (6.09%) Embedded Software Development
12 14 (6.09%) Migration
13 13 (5.65%) Mathematics
14 12 (5.22%) Customer Service
15 11 (4.78%) Open Source
15 11 (4.78%) Test Automation
16 10 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 10 (4.35%) Line Management
17 9 (3.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.87%) C
2 41 (17.83%) Bash
3 36 (15.65%) Python
4 30 (13.04%) C++
5 17 (7.39%) Shell Script
6 13 (5.65%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.22%) Java
8 10 (4.35%) Ada
8 10 (4.35%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.91%) Perl
10 4 (1.74%) PHP
11 3 (1.30%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.30%) Ruby
12 2 (0.87%) C#
12 2 (0.87%) SQL
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
13 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 46 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.52%) Degree
3 15 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.35%) QA
2 9 (3.91%) PMO
3 7 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.61%) SLA
5 5 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (11.74%) Docker
2 15 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.04%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.17%) KVM
6 4 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (1.30%) GPFS
8 2 (0.87%) iptables
8 2 (0.87%) Lustre
8 2 (0.87%) NFS
8 2 (0.87%) QEMU
8 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.87%) vSphere
8 2 (0.87%) Xen
9 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.43%) Firmware
9 1 (0.43%) Samba
9 1 (0.43%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 61 (26.52%) Ansible
2 23 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.00%) Puppet
3 21 (9.13%) Terraform
4 8 (3.48%) Progress Chef
5 7 (3.04%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 3 (1.30%) Grafana
8 3 (1.30%) Nagios
9 2 (0.87%) SCCM
9 2 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.43%) SCOM
10 1 (0.43%) SCSM
10 1 (0.43%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (17.83%) Red Hat
2 19 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.39%) Cisco
3 17 (7.39%) VMware
4 10 (4.35%) IBM
5 8 (3.48%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.61%) Juniper
6 6 (2.61%) Meraki
6 6 (2.61%) Ubiquiti
7 5 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.30%) EMC
9 3 (1.30%) Google
10 2 (0.87%) Intel
10 2 (0.87%) Mellanox
10 2 (0.87%) NetApp
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle
11 1 (0.43%) Citrix
11 1 (0.43%) ESRI
11 1 (0.43%) Veeam