Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 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 683 739 816
Rank change year-on-year +56 +77 -203
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 59 25 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.040% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.045% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 43 15 37
10th Percentile £37,101 £34,000 £47,900
25th Percentile £45,625 £39,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,600 £76,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%

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%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior 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
Midlands +34 20 £65,000 -10.03%
West Midlands +48 16 £65,000 -10.03%
South West +2 11 £52,500 +9.38%
South East +2 10 £57,500 +11.65% 1
East of England +35 7 £80,000 - 1
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
North of England +60 6 £60,000 +32.60% 2
North East - 6 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 4 £51,250 -
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (49.15%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (44.07%) Embedded Linux
4 22 (37.29%) C++
5 21 (35.59%) C
5 21 (35.59%) Software Engineering
6 18 (30.51%) Yocto
6 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
7 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (25.42%) IoT
8 15 (25.42%) Agile
9 14 (23.73%) Embedded Software Development
10 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (20.34%) Ansible
12 8 (13.56%) AWS
12 8 (13.56%) Degree
12 8 (13.56%) Finance
12 8 (13.56%) Java
13 7 (11.86%) SAN
13 7 (11.86%) Migration
13 7 (11.86%) Change Management
13 7 (11.86%) Computer Science
13 7 (11.86%) CMDB
13 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
13 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
13 7 (11.86%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 7 (11.86%) Slack
13 7 (11.86%) Proactive Monitoring
13 7 (11.86%) Line Management

Senior 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 2 (3.39%) JBoss
1 2 (3.39%) Tomcat
1 2 (3.39%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) AWS
2 7 (11.86%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (11.86%) Slack
3 1 (1.69%) Azure
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) SAN
2 2 (3.39%) 5G
2 2 (3.39%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.39%) WAN
3 1 (1.69%) DHCP
3 1 (1.69%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.69%) MQTT
3 1 (1.69%) RS-485
3 1 (1.69%) VLAN
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
3 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) Big Data
2 1 (1.69%) MySQL
2 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.69%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.08%) Advertising
5 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Electronics
6 2 (3.39%) Marketing
6 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Retail
7 1 (1.69%) Automotive
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) Yocto
2 3 (5.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 3 (5.08%) Kafka
2 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.08%) REST
3 2 (3.39%) Middleware
4 1 (1.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) IoT
2 7 (11.86%) CMDB
3 3 (5.08%) Device Driver
3 3 (5.08%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (5.08%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.08%) FPGA
4 2 (3.39%) GNSS
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) PKI
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (44.07%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Unix
4 2 (3.39%) CentOS
4 2 (3.39%) Rocky
4 2 (3.39%) Windows
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Debian
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (35.59%) Software Engineering
3 15 (25.42%) Agile
4 14 (23.73%) Embedded Software Development
5 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (11.86%) Change Management
6 7 (11.86%) Computer Science
6 7 (11.86%) Line Management
6 7 (11.86%) Migration
6 7 (11.86%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (10.17%) Multithreading
8 4 (6.78%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (6.78%) DevOps
8 4 (6.78%) Test Automation
9 3 (5.08%) Linux Kernel Development
9 3 (5.08%) Memory Management
9 3 (5.08%) SDLC
9 3 (5.08%) User Stories
9 3 (5.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.29%) C++
2 21 (35.59%) C
3 8 (13.56%) Java
4 5 (8.47%) Python
5 3 (5.08%) Bash
6 2 (3.39%) Perl
7 1 (1.69%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Degree
2 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) PMO
2 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.08%) KVM
3 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Docker
3 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Ansible
2 7 (11.86%) Terraform
3 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.08%) Puppet
4 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.39%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.69%) Nagios
5 1 (1.69%) SCCM
5 1 (1.69%) SCOM
5 1 (1.69%) SCSM
5 1 (1.69%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) VMware
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Citrix
3 1 (1.69%) EMC
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.69%) Veeam