Linux Engineer Jobs

Linux Engineer
UK

The median Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 527 533
Rank change year-on-year -85 +6 +304
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 99 424 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.39% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.41% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 82 350 358
10th Percentile £38,500 £39,889 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £117,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% - +5.00%

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 50,341 104,123 84,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 94.77% 91.19%
Number of salaries quoted 26,498 73,470 54,978
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,850 £38,603 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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 -93 89 £63,000 +5.00% 114
UK excluding London -32 51 £42,500 -19.05% 85
London +39 44 £72,500 -9.38% 46
Work from Home +47 24 £66,250 +15.22% 67
North of England +44 15 £42,500 -12.82% 30
North West +22 13 £42,500 -19.05% 15
East of England +1 11 £39,000 -35.00% 9
Midlands +45 10 £40,000 -30.43% 6
South East +47 9 £70,000 +40.00% 27
Scotland +110 6 £55,000 +10.00% 3
West Midlands +53 5 £47,500 -26.92% 4
East Midlands +23 4 £40,000 -27.27% 2
South West +49 3 £85,000 +88.89% 11
Yorkshire +47 1 £47,500 +11.76% 15
North East +42 1 £60,000 +7.14%

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 June 2025, 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 Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 99 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (35.35%) Ansible
3 34 (34.34%) Bash
3 34 (34.34%) Python
4 31 (31.31%) Windows
4 31 (31.31%) Microsoft
4 31 (31.31%) DevOps
5 30 (30.30%) Social Skills
6 27 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 26 (26.26%) AWS
8 22 (22.22%) Red Hat
9 21 (21.21%) Kubernetes
9 21 (21.21%) Terraform
10 20 (20.20%) Docker
10 20 (20.20%) VMware
11 19 (19.19%) Shell Script
11 19 (19.19%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (18.18%) Finance
13 17 (17.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (17.17%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (16.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 15 (15.15%) Mac OS
15 15 (15.15%) Asset Management
15 15 (15.15%) Ubuntu
15 15 (15.15%) Problem Management
16 14 (14.14%) Degree
16 14 (14.14%) Artificial Intelligence
16 14 (14.14%) Apple
16 14 (14.14%) Perl
16 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Intune

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.04%) nginx
3 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) JBoss
4 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.01%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (14.14%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.26%) AWS
2 12 (12.12%) Azure
3 9 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (5.05%) Pulumi
5 4 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.04%) GitHub
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.03%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.03%) Serverless
6 3 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.02%) IaaS
7 2 (2.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.12%) Firewall
2 6 (6.06%) SAN
2 6 (6.06%) SSL
3 5 (5.05%) SSH
4 4 (4.04%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (4.04%) iSCSI
4 4 (4.04%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.03%) LAN
5 3 (3.03%) WAN
6 2 (2.02%) HTTP
7 1 (1.01%) 3GPP
7 1 (1.01%) 4G
7 1 (1.01%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (1.01%) DHCP
7 1 (1.01%) DNS
7 1 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.01%) SCTP
7 1 (1.01%) VLAN
7 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.06%) MySQL
3 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.08%) Git
3 4 (4.04%) GitLab
4 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (3.03%) JIRA
4 3 (3.03%) Vagrant
5 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.02%) Maven
5 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.01%) Ant
6 1 (1.01%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.01%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Finance
3 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.04%) Banking
4 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.02%) Automotive
7 1 (1.01%) Aviation
7 1 (1.01%) Avionics
7 1 (1.01%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) REST
2 2 (2.02%) Spring
2 2 (2.02%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.02%) Web Services
2 2 (2.02%) YAML
3 1 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.01%) gRPC
3 1 (1.01%) Kafka
3 1 (1.01%) LDAP
3 1 (1.01%) Middleware
3 1 (1.01%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.01%) RESTful
3 1 (1.01%) Swagger
3 1 (1.01%) XML
3 1 (1.01%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (8.08%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.03%) Replication
7 2 (2.02%) Clustering
7 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.02%) Robotics
7 2 (2.02%) Self-Driving Car
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.01%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.01%) NHS
8 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 99 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (31.31%) Windows
3 16 (16.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (15.15%) Mac OS
4 15 (15.15%) Ubuntu
5 12 (12.12%) Windows Server
6 9 (9.09%) CentOS
7 7 (7.07%) Unix
8 6 (6.06%) Debian
9 4 (4.04%) AIX
9 4 (4.04%) Rocky
9 4 (4.04%) Solaris
9 4 (4.04%) VMS
9 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (2.02%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
11 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.31%) DevOps
2 27 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 19 (19.19%) Platform Engineering
4 17 (17.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (15.15%) Asset Management
5 15 (15.15%) Problem Management
6 14 (14.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 14 (14.14%) Conversational UI
6 14 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (9.09%) ITIL
10 8 (8.08%) Agile
10 8 (8.08%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (8.08%) Low Latency
10 8 (8.08%) Security Hardening
11 7 (7.07%) Data Security
11 7 (7.07%) High Availability
11 7 (7.07%) Time Management
12 6 (6.06%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.34%) Bash
1 34 (34.34%) Python
2 19 (19.19%) Shell Script
3 14 (14.14%) Perl
4 10 (10.10%) Go
5 8 (8.08%) Ruby
6 6 (6.06%) Java
7 5 (5.05%) Bicep
8 4 (4.04%) Groovy
8 4 (4.04%) Korn
8 4 (4.04%) SQL
9 3 (3.03%) C
10 2 (2.02%) Rust
11 1 (1.01%) C++
11 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Degree
2 9 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (2.02%) RHCE
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.01%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) GDPR
2 8 (8.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (7.07%) SLA
4 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (20.20%) Docker
2 13 (13.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.04%) vSphere
5 3 (3.03%) KVM
5 3 (3.03%) NFS
5 3 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.02%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.01%) Dovecot
7 1 (1.01%) Postfix
7 1 (1.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 35 (35.35%) Ansible
2 21 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (21.21%) Terraform
3 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (11.11%) Puppet
5 7 (7.07%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (6.06%) Podman
7 5 (5.05%) Nagios
7 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.04%) Nessus
9 3 (3.03%) Grafana
9 3 (3.03%) Proxmox
10 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.02%) SCCM
11 1 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 31 (31.31%) Microsoft
2 22 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 20 (20.20%) VMware
4 14 (14.14%) Apple
5 7 (7.07%) Cisco
6 5 (5.05%) Dell
6 5 (5.05%) Splunk
7 4 (4.04%) Commvault
7 4 (4.04%) Juniper
8 3 (3.03%) Citrix
8 3 (3.03%) Pure Storage
8 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.02%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.02%) PagerDuty
9 2 (2.02%) SAP
10 1 (1.01%) EMC
10 1 (1.01%) HP
10 1 (1.01%) NetApp
10 1 (1.01%) Oracle
10 1 (1.01%) Veritas