Linux Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 742 756 837
Rank change year-on-year +14 +81 -184
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 16 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.014% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 14
10th Percentile £24,750 £32,500 £37,300
25th Percentile £30,563 £35,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -8.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £52,500 £42,813 £52,500
90th Percentile - £45,025 £61,250
UK median annual salary £47,750 £49,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.55% -27.41% +62.65%

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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £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 £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Linux Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Support 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 Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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 East +25 10 £50,000 +33.33%
East Midlands - 6 £24,750 - 1
Midlands - 6 £24,750 - 1
Linux Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Customer Service
3 10 (62.50%) Ubuntu
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (50.00%) MySQL
5 6 (37.50%) ITIL
5 6 (37.50%) LAN
5 6 (37.50%) SLA
5 6 (37.50%) Cisco
5 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
5 6 (37.50%) Firewall
5 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
5 6 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (37.50%) Incident Management
5 6 (37.50%) JIRA
5 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
5 6 (37.50%) Azure
5 6 (37.50%) AWS
5 6 (37.50%) Bash
5 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (37.50%) Meraki
5 6 (37.50%) Ubiquiti
5 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) CentOS
7 4 (25.00%) SUSE
7 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
7 4 (25.00%) Computer Science

Linux Support 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 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
1 6 (37.50%) LAN
1 6 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (12.50%) Internet
2 2 (12.50%) VSAN
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (62.50%) Ubuntu
3 5 (31.25%) CentOS
4 4 (25.00%) SUSE
5 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (12.50%) Debian
6 2 (12.50%) Windows
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Customer Service
2 6 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Ticket Management
4 2 (12.50%) Open Source
4 2 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (12.50%) Tech Ops
5 1 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Bash
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) PHP
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) GPFS
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) Meraki
2 6 (37.50%) Ubiquiti
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) VMware