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 £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 478 656
Rank change year-on-year +11 +178 -219
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 251 204 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.42% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 203 160 189
10th Percentile £37,101 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 July 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 July 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 +18 65 £45,000 -12.20% 2
East of England +14 49 £61,500 +6.96%
North of England +14 42 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Midlands -18 40 £57,500 - 2
South East -11 38 £50,000 +3.09% 3
East Midlands +3 32 £55,000 -21.43%
North West +7 25 £52,500 -4.98% 2
North East -3 9 £56,000 +24.44% 2
Wales - 9 £41,067 -
Yorkshire +40 8 £37,500 -11.76% 1
West Midlands -31 8 £64,250 +11.74% 2
Scotland -37 8 £40,000 -25.58%
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 July 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.

1 251 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (25.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 55 (21.91%) Ansible
4 54 (21.51%) Security Cleared
5 50 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (18.33%) Red Hat
7 38 (15.14%) AWS
8 37 (14.74%) Python
8 37 (14.74%) Social Skills
9 36 (14.34%) SC Cleared
10 32 (12.75%) Bash
10 32 (12.75%) Software Engineering
11 29 (11.55%) DevOps
12 28 (11.16%) Unix
12 28 (11.16%) Kubernetes
13 27 (10.76%) DV Cleared
13 27 (10.76%) Ubuntu
14 26 (10.36%) Docker
14 26 (10.36%) C
15 25 (9.96%) Computer Science
16 24 (9.56%) Embedded Linux
16 24 (9.56%) Agile
17 23 (9.16%) VMware
18 22 (8.76%) Git
18 22 (8.76%) Data Centre
19 21 (8.37%) VMware Infrastructure
19 21 (8.37%) Firewall
19 21 (8.37%) C++
19 21 (8.37%) Solaris
19 21 (8.37%) 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 7 (2.79%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.39%) Confluence
3 4 (1.59%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.80%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 38 (15.14%) AWS
2 20 (7.97%) Azure
3 10 (3.98%) SaaS
4 9 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.79%) Slack
6 4 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.59%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (1.20%) GCP
8 2 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.37%) Firewall
2 15 (5.98%) Wireless
3 14 (5.58%) Internet
4 10 (3.98%) SAN
5 8 (3.19%) LAN
6 7 (2.79%) WAN
7 6 (2.39%) VPN
8 5 (1.99%) IPsec
9 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.20%) Bluetooth
10 3 (1.20%) DHCP
10 3 (1.20%) DNS
11 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.80%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.80%) VSAN
11 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.40%) 3G
12 1 (0.40%) 5G
12 1 (0.40%) MQTT
12 1 (0.40%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.59%) MySQL
2 7 (2.79%) MariaDB
3 6 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.99%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.20%) Big Data
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (8.76%) Git
2 11 (4.38%) JIRA
3 10 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.39%) ClearCase
4 6 (2.39%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.40%) GDB
5 1 (0.40%) Redmine
5 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 37 (14.74%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.18%) Automotive
3 13 (5.18%) Telecoms
4 7 (2.79%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.39%) Electronics
6 4 (1.59%) Military
6 4 (1.59%) Retail
7 3 (1.20%) Banking
7 3 (1.20%) Finance
7 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.80%) Advertising
8 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.18%) Yocto
2 8 (3.19%) JSON
3 7 (2.79%) JSON Schema
3 7 (2.79%) KML
3 7 (2.79%) Regular Expression
3 7 (2.79%) XML
4 3 (1.20%) React
5 2 (0.80%) OpenMP
5 2 (0.80%) XML Schema
6 1 (0.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (0.40%) HTML
6 1 (0.40%) HTML5
6 1 (0.40%) LAMP
6 1 (0.40%) LDAP
6 1 (0.40%) Middleware
6 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.40%) Redux
6 1 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.76%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.17%) Management Information System
3 17 (6.77%) IoT
4 9 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.59%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.79%) CMDB
6 6 (2.39%) Device Driver
7 5 (1.99%) PKI
7 5 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.80%) Beowulf
10 2 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.40%) EMC VNX
11 1 (0.40%) FPGA
11 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 251 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (11.16%) Unix
3 27 (10.76%) Ubuntu
4 24 (9.56%) Embedded Linux
5 21 (8.37%) Solaris
6 20 (7.97%) CentOS
7 16 (6.37%) Debian
7 16 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (5.18%) Windows
9 7 (2.79%) SUSE
10 6 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.99%) Rocky
11 5 (1.99%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.40%) Fedora
14 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.40%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (12.75%) Software Engineering
4 29 (11.55%) DevOps
5 25 (9.96%) Computer Science
6 24 (9.56%) Agile
7 21 (8.37%) Configuration Management
8 20 (7.97%) Containerisation
9 15 (5.98%) CI/CD
10 13 (5.18%) Mathematics
10 13 (5.18%) Scrum
11 12 (4.78%) Customer Service
11 12 (4.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (4.78%) Patch Management
12 10 (3.98%) Analytics
12 10 (3.98%) Change Management
12 10 (3.98%) Infrastructure Management
12 10 (3.98%) Open Source
12 10 (3.98%) Roadmaps
12 10 (3.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.74%) Python
2 32 (12.75%) Bash
3 26 (10.36%) C
4 21 (8.37%) C++
5 8 (3.19%) Java
5 8 (3.19%) Perl
6 7 (2.79%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.99%) Embedded C++
7 5 (1.99%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.59%) SQL
9 3 (1.20%) C#
9 3 (1.20%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.40%) Ada
10 1 (0.40%) AWK
10 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.76%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.98%) Degree
5 7 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.58%) QA
2 8 (3.19%) PMO
3 7 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.99%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (10.36%) Docker
2 21 (8.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (3.19%) Firmware
5 7 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.39%) Active Directory
6 6 (2.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (1.99%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (1.59%) KVM
8 4 (1.59%) NFS
9 2 (0.80%) Lustre
9 2 (0.80%) QEMU
9 2 (0.80%) vSphere
9 2 (0.80%) Xen
10 1 (0.40%) iptables
10 1 (0.40%) Samba
Systems Management
1 55 (21.91%) Ansible
2 28 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.97%) Terraform
4 12 (4.78%) Puppet
5 10 (3.98%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (2.39%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.99%) Nagios
7 5 (1.99%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 5 (1.99%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.59%) Grafana
9 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.80%) Rancher
10 2 (0.80%) SCOM
10 2 (0.80%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 1 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.40%) systemd
11 1 (0.40%) yum
Vendors
1 46 (18.33%) Red Hat
2 23 (9.16%) VMware
3 13 (5.18%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.38%) Cisco
5 10 (3.98%) IBM
6 7 (2.79%) Oracle
7 6 (2.39%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.39%) Juniper
8 5 (1.99%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.20%) EMC
9 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.80%) Dell
10 2 (0.80%) Google
10 2 (0.80%) HP
10 2 (0.80%) Intel
10 2 (0.80%) Mellanox
10 2 (0.80%) NetApp
11 1 (0.40%) Meraki
11 1 (0.40%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.40%) Veeam