Linux Server Engineer Jobs

Linux Server Engineer
UK

The median Linux Server Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 894 982
Rank change year-on-year +208 +88 +222
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Server Engineer 6 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.002% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £45,000 - £58,207
25th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £62,845
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £64,140
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -45.43% -4.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £37,500 £65,436
90th Percentile £73,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £35,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% -

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
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 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Linux Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Server Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +178 6 £65,000 +85.71%
London - 4 £70,000 -
UK excluding London +209 2 £52,500 +50.00%
Midlands +81 1 £40,000 +14.29%
East Midlands +49 1 £40,000 +14.29%
North of England - 1 £65,000 -
North West - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 4 (66.67%) SLA
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco
3 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) Degree
4 3 (50.00%) SCCM
4 3 (50.00%) Time Management
4 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (50.00%) AIX
5 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (16.67%) Rocky
6 1 (16.67%) Ansible
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps

Linux Server 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) AIX
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
4 1 (16.67%) Rocky
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Time Management
4 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Server Building
5 1 (16.67%) Server Patching
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds