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 £56,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 523 638
Rank change year-on-year +7 +115 -262
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 232 245 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.44% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 189 170 161
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +9.00% +9.84%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,375 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 65,737 55,972 67,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.35% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 46,859 31,643 43,312
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,738 £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 £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 19 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 19 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 +18 61 £52,500 -9.48% 11
South East +10 55 £57,500 +15.00% 11
East of England +13 40 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Midlands +22 34 £57,500 -17.86% 2
North of England +20 32 £55,000 +29.41% 9
Yorkshire +54 18 £50,000 +17.65% 7
West Midlands +27 17 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands -2 17 £52,500 -16.00% 2
Scotland -55 10 £60,000 +9.09% 6
North East - 10 £60,000 -
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1
North West +14 4 £55,000 +3.77% 2
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 232 (100.00%) Linux
2 57 (24.57%) Ansible
3 51 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 48 (20.69%) C
5 47 (20.26%) Software Engineering
5 47 (20.26%) Security Cleared
6 41 (17.67%) Bash
7 40 (17.24%) AWS
7 40 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 40 (17.24%) Red Hat
8 39 (16.81%) CentOS
9 38 (16.38%) DevOps
10 37 (15.95%) Social Skills
10 37 (15.95%) Ubuntu
11 36 (15.52%) Python
12 34 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (14.66%) Embedded Linux
13 31 (13.36%) Azure
13 31 (13.36%) C++
14 28 (12.07%) Git
14 28 (12.07%) SC Cleared
14 28 (12.07%) Docker
15 26 (11.21%) Agile
16 25 (10.78%) Windows
17 24 (10.34%) Configuration Management
18 23 (9.91%) Computer Science
18 23 (9.91%) Puppet
18 23 (9.91%) IoT
18 23 (9.91%) Kubernetes

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 (3.45%) Confluence
2 6 (2.59%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.72%) Apache
3 4 (1.72%) nginx
4 3 (1.29%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.86%) JBoss
5 2 (0.86%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.43%) Drupal
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.43%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.24%) AWS
2 31 (13.36%) Azure
3 11 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.31%) SaaS
5 9 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (3.88%) OpenShift
6 7 (3.02%) Slack
7 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.16%) GCP
8 4 (1.72%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (0.86%) Serverless
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.43%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.33%) Firewall
2 12 (5.17%) LAN
3 8 (3.45%) SAN
3 8 (3.45%) WAN
4 7 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.59%) Internet
6 5 (2.16%) DNS
7 3 (1.29%) 5G
7 3 (1.29%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.86%) DHCP
8 2 (0.86%) HTTP
8 2 (0.86%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.86%) VSAN
9 1 (0.43%) 3G
9 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.43%) RS-485
9 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.33%) MySQL
2 10 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.59%) MariaDB
4 4 (1.72%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.29%) Big Data
5 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (12.07%) Git
2 20 (8.62%) JIRA
3 13 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.45%) ClearCase
4 8 (3.45%) ClearQuest
5 5 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.29%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.29%) Redmine
7 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.29%) Subversion
8 2 (0.86%) Maven
8 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 37 (15.95%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.03%) Finance
4 11 (4.74%) Aerospace
5 7 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.72%) Advertising
8 4 (1.72%) Banking
8 4 (1.72%) Electronics
8 4 (1.72%) Military
9 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.86%) Law
9 2 (0.86%) Marketing
9 2 (0.86%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.86%) Retail
9 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.76%) Yocto
2 12 (5.17%) Middleware
3 8 (3.45%) JSON
4 7 (3.02%) JSON Schema
4 7 (3.02%) KML
4 7 (3.02%) Regular Expression
4 7 (3.02%) XML
5 5 (2.16%) ADO
6 3 (1.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (1.29%) Kafka
6 3 (1.29%) LAMP
6 3 (1.29%) OpenMP
6 3 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.29%) REST
7 2 (0.86%) LAPP Stack
7 2 (0.86%) LDAP
7 2 (0.86%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (0.86%) React
7 2 (0.86%) XML Schema
7 2 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.91%) IoT
2 15 (6.47%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (6.03%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.02%) CMDB
5 7 (3.02%) Device Driver
6 5 (2.16%) PKI
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.29%) FPGA
8 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Beowulf
9 2 (0.86%) GNSS
9 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.43%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.43%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 232 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (16.81%) CentOS
4 37 (15.95%) Ubuntu
5 34 (14.66%) Embedded Linux
6 25 (10.78%) Windows
7 15 (6.47%) Unix
8 14 (6.03%) Debian
9 9 (3.88%) CoreOS
10 6 (2.59%) SUSE
10 6 (2.59%) Windows Server
11 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.72%) Windows 10
12 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.86%) Rocky
13 2 (0.86%) Solaris
13 2 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.43%) Fedora
14 1 (0.43%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 51 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (20.26%) Software Engineering
3 38 (16.38%) DevOps
4 26 (11.21%) Agile
5 24 (10.34%) Configuration Management
6 23 (9.91%) Computer Science
7 21 (9.05%) Containerisation
8 19 (8.19%) ITIL
9 17 (7.33%) CI/CD
10 16 (6.90%) Time Management
11 15 (6.47%) Migration
12 14 (6.03%) Embedded Software Development
12 14 (6.03%) Mathematics
13 12 (5.17%) Line Management
13 12 (5.17%) Test Automation
14 11 (4.74%) Customer Service
15 10 (4.31%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (4.31%) Open Source
15 10 (4.31%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.69%) C
2 41 (17.67%) Bash
3 36 (15.52%) Python
4 31 (13.36%) C++
5 18 (7.76%) Shell Script
6 16 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.74%) Java
7 11 (4.74%) Perl
8 10 (4.31%) Ada
8 10 (4.31%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.16%) PHP
9 5 (2.16%) Ruby
10 3 (1.29%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.86%) C#
11 2 (0.86%) SQL
12 1 (0.43%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 47 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.90%) Degree
4 15 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.31%) PMO
1 10 (4.31%) QA
2 7 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.59%) SLA
4 5 (2.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (12.07%) Docker
2 13 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.59%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.16%) KVM
6 4 (1.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (1.72%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.29%) GPFS
7 3 (1.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.86%) iptables
8 2 (0.86%) Lustre
8 2 (0.86%) QEMU
8 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.86%) vSphere
8 2 (0.86%) Xen
9 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.43%) Firmware
9 1 (0.43%) NFS
9 1 (0.43%) Samba
9 1 (0.43%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 57 (24.57%) Ansible
2 23 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.91%) Puppet
3 21 (9.05%) Terraform
4 8 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 7 (3.02%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.72%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (0.86%) Grafana
8 2 (0.86%) Nagios
8 2 (0.86%) SCCM
8 2 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.43%) SCOM
9 1 (0.43%) SCSM
9 1 (0.43%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.43%) yum
9 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (17.24%) Red Hat
2 20 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.90%) Cisco
4 15 (6.47%) VMware
5 10 (4.31%) IBM
6 8 (3.45%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.59%) Meraki
7 6 (2.59%) Ubiquiti
8 5 (2.16%) Juniper
9 4 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.29%) EMC
10 3 (1.29%) Google
11 2 (0.86%) Intel
11 2 (0.86%) Mellanox
11 2 (0.86%) NetApp
11 2 (0.86%) Oracle
12 1 (0.43%) ESRI
12 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.43%) Veeam