Junior Linux Engineer Jobs

Junior Linux Engineer
UK

The median Junior Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 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 689 900 993
Rank change year-on-year +211 +93 +225
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Linux Engineer 11 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.004% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.004% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile - £48,500 -
25th Percentile - £63,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +63.16% +26.67%
75th Percentile - £89,375 £48,750
90th Percentile - £99,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 -
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Junior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Junior Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Junior Linux Engineer in the UK

Junior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior Linux Engineer.

Salary trend for Junior Linux Engineer in the UK

Junior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Linux Engineer in the UK

Junior Linux Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Linux Engineer within the UK 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
England +187 11 £80,000 +3.23% 4
London +109 10 £80,000 +3.23% 4
UK excluding London +199 1 £45,000 +5.88% 2
Work from Home +166 1 £45,000 -41.94%
East of England - 1 £45,000 -

Junior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) Puppet
2 10 (90.91%) Systems Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (90.91%) Pulumi
2 10 (90.91%) Bicep
2 10 (90.91%) Podman
2 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Public Cloud
2 10 (90.91%) Fintech
2 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 10 (90.91%) Go
2 10 (90.91%) Progress Chef
2 10 (90.91%) Low Latency
2 10 (90.91%) Ansible
2 10 (90.91%) Ruby
2 10 (90.91%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (9.09%) Aviation

Junior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (90.91%) Pulumi
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Aviation
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (90.91%) Fintech
2 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (90.91%) Low Latency
2 10 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) Bicep
2 10 (90.91%) Go
2 10 (90.91%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (90.91%) Podman
1 10 (90.91%) Progress Chef
1 10 (90.91%) Puppet
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform