Unix Linux Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix/Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Unix/Linux Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 746 750
Rank change year-on-year +202 +4 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Linux Engineer 3 10 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.014% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.015% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -5.70% -3.39%
75th Percentile £66,875 £59,750 £71,688
90th Percentile £68,000 £60,500 £77,125
UK median annual salary £61,250 £53,750 £63,750
% change year-on-year +13.95% -15.69% +6.25%

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 33,203 66,688 54,976
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.26% 94.80% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18,542 47,236 31,200
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Unix Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Unix Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Unix Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Unix 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 Unix Linux Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland - 2 £61,250 -
North of England +90 1 £60,000 -
North East +45 1 £60,000 -
Unix Linux Engineer
UK

Unix Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Unix 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 Unix Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) AIX
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation

Unix 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:

Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) AIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared