Linux Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 849 938 1172
Rank change year-on-year +89 +234 -322
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 65 26 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.025% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.027% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 63 24 52
10th Percentile £37,101 - £44,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,250 £55,625 £69,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £79,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +134 56 £55,000 +4.76% 6
UK excluding London +29 52 £50,000 -4.76% 7
Work from Home +97 37 £55,000 +15.79% 4
South East +35 15 £50,000 -7.41%
London +129 13 £85,000 +70.00% 2
Midlands - 10 £56,000 - 1
East Midlands - 8 £56,250 - 1
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
East of England - 7 £46,000 - 1
South West -26 6 £41,250 -17.50% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
North of England - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland -60 4 £82,500 +57.14% 3
West Midlands - 2 £56,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (96.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 36 (55.38%) AWS
4 28 (43.08%) Ansible
5 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
5 21 (32.31%) Firewall
6 20 (30.77%) Docker
7 19 (29.23%) DevOps
8 18 (27.69%) Azure
9 17 (26.15%) Windows
9 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (24.62%) Kubernetes
11 14 (21.54%) Data Centre
11 14 (21.54%) Terraform
11 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (21.54%) Bash
12 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
13 12 (18.46%) Git
13 12 (18.46%) Agile
14 11 (16.92%) Ubuntu
14 11 (16.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (15.38%) QA
15 10 (15.38%) Scrum
15 10 (15.38%) VMware
15 10 (15.38%) Finance
15 10 (15.38%) Red Hat
15 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
16 9 (13.85%) ITIL
17 8 (12.31%) MySQL
17 8 (12.31%) LAN

Linux Infrastructure 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 3 (4.62%) Jupyter
1 3 (4.62%) nginx
2 2 (3.08%) JBoss
2 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.08%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 36 (55.38%) AWS
2 18 (27.69%) Azure
3 8 (12.31%) SaaS
4 7 (10.77%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.77%) Slack
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.69%) GCP
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (6.15%) GitHub
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.08%) Kong
10 1 (1.54%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (32.31%) Firewall
2 8 (12.31%) LAN
3 7 (10.77%) SAN
4 6 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.08%) DNS
6 2 (3.08%) HTTP
6 2 (3.08%) Internet
6 2 (3.08%) WAN
7 1 (1.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) MySQL
2 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Git
2 8 (12.31%) JIRA
3 4 (6.15%) GitLab
4 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Advertising
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Japanese Language
5 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Automotive
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Middleware
2 1 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.77%) CMDB
3 4 (6.15%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) PropTech
6 1 (1.54%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (26.15%) Windows
3 11 (16.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (16.92%) Ubuntu
4 6 (9.23%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.15%) CentOS
6 2 (3.08%) Rocky
6 2 (3.08%) Unix
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (96.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (29.23%) DevOps
3 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (18.46%) Agile
7 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 10 (15.38%) Scrum
8 9 (13.85%) ITIL
9 8 (12.31%) Analytics
9 8 (12.31%) Change Management
9 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (10.77%) Line Management
10 7 (10.77%) Migration
10 7 (10.77%) Proactive Monitoring
10 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (9.23%) Customer Service
11 6 (9.23%) Incident Management
11 6 (9.23%) Service Delivery
12 5 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.54%) Bash
2 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.77%) Python
4 4 (6.15%) C
5 3 (4.62%) Java
5 3 (4.62%) Ruby
6 2 (3.08%) Korn
6 2 (3.08%) Perl
7 1 (1.54%) AWK
7 1 (1.54%) C++
7 1 (1.54%) PHP
7 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.62%) Degree
3 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) QA
2 6 (9.23%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (30.77%) Docker
2 8 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.69%) KVM
4 3 (4.62%) NFS
4 3 (4.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.08%) QEMU
5 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.08%) Xen
6 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (43.08%) Ansible
2 16 (24.62%) Kubernetes
3 14 (21.54%) Terraform
4 8 (12.31%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (9.23%) Puppet
6 5 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 4 (6.15%) Nagios
8 3 (4.62%) Grafana
9 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.54%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Red Hat
1 10 (15.38%) VMware
2 6 (9.23%) Cisco
2 6 (9.23%) Meraki
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) Ubiquiti
3 4 (6.15%) Google
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle
5 2 (3.08%) F5
5 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.08%) Sun
5 2 (3.08%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.54%) EMC
6 1 (1.54%) IBM
6 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.54%) Veeam