Linux Server Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Server Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 750 767
Rank change year-on-year +199 +17 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Server Engineer 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.003% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £42,500 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £35,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £37,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £62,500 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £35,000 £64,140
% change year-on-year +85.71% -45.43% -4.98%

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 33,760 66,748 54,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.80% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 47,256 31,166
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,600 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Linux Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Server Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Server Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Server 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 Server Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Midlands +59 1 £40,000 +14.29%
East Midlands +39 1 £40,000 +14.29%
North West - 1 £65,000 -
North of England - 1 £65,000 -
Linux Server Engineer
UK

Linux Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Linux Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Rocky
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Server Building
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre

Linux Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Rocky
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) VMware