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 to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 569 806
Rank change year-on-year +9 +237 -354
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 363 478 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.50% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 302 373 350
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,975
25th Percentile £47,625 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £79,125 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £121,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +8.00% +10.50%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Top 16 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 26 April 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 +37 323 £65,000 +3.17% 67
UK excluding London -7 230 £55,500 +2.78% 53
Work from Home -62 124 £60,000 -4.00% 29
London +63 110 £80,000 +14.29% 19
South West +3 60 £51,250 -9.29% 13
South East +35 54 £57,500 +13.86% 11
East of England +7 39 £63,750 +10.87% 10
Midlands +11 33 £57,500 -17.86% 7
North of England +8 31 £55,000 +29.41% 6
Yorkshire +51 17 £45,000 +5.88% 3
West Midlands +19 17 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands -5 16 £52,500 -16.00% 7
Scotland -55 10 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East - 10 £60,000 -
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1
North West +6 4 £55,000 +3.77% 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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.

1 363 (100.00%) Linux
2 122 (33.61%) Ansible
3 121 (33.33%) Python
4 117 (32.23%) Bash
5 90 (24.79%) Software Engineering
5 90 (24.79%) Red Hat
6 81 (22.31%) AWS
7 78 (21.49%) C
8 73 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 67 (18.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 63 (17.36%) Social Skills
12 62 (17.08%) Ubuntu
13 57 (15.70%) DevOps
13 57 (15.70%) Windows
14 51 (14.05%) CentOS
14 51 (14.05%) Terraform
15 50 (13.77%) Docker
15 50 (13.77%) Finance
16 49 (13.50%) TCP/IP
17 48 (13.22%) Azure
18 47 (12.95%) Kubernetes
19 46 (12.67%) Firewall
19 46 (12.67%) Security Cleared
20 43 (11.85%) Agile
20 43 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
21 42 (11.57%) Puppet
21 42 (11.57%) C++
22 41 (11.29%) CI/CD
23 40 (11.02%) Git

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 13 (3.58%) Apache
1 13 (3.58%) nginx
2 8 (2.20%) Confluence
3 7 (1.93%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.83%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.55%) JBoss
5 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.28%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.28%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.28%) Simulink
2 1 (0.28%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 81 (22.31%) AWS
2 48 (13.22%) Azure
3 18 (4.96%) Amazon S3
4 16 (4.41%) GCP
5 12 (3.31%) GitHub
5 12 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 10 (2.75%) SaaS
8 9 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.93%) Slack
11 6 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.10%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.55%) AWS OpsWorks
14 2 (0.55%) Kong
14 2 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (13.50%) TCP/IP
2 46 (12.67%) Firewall
3 31 (8.54%) DNS
4 22 (6.06%) LAN
5 21 (5.79%) WAN
6 20 (5.51%) Internet
6 20 (5.51%) SAN
7 11 (3.03%) SNMP
8 9 (2.48%) tcpdump
8 9 (2.48%) VPN
9 8 (2.20%) DHCP
10 7 (1.93%) 5G
10 7 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.38%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.83%) BGP
13 3 (0.83%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.83%) HTTP
13 3 (0.83%) IPv6
13 3 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.09%) MySQL
2 14 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.93%) MariaDB
6 6 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.38%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.83%) Big Data
9 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (11.02%) Git
2 34 (9.37%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.16%) JIRA
4 11 (3.03%) GitLab
5 8 (2.20%) ClearCase
5 8 (2.20%) ClearQuest
5 8 (2.20%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.93%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.65%) GDB
8 5 (1.38%) DTrace
8 5 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.83%) Redmine
9 3 (0.83%) Subversion
10 2 (0.55%) git-flow
10 2 (0.55%) Maven
10 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 63 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.77%) Finance
3 43 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.79%) Banking
5 20 (5.51%) Aerospace
6 13 (3.58%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.03%) Electronics
7 11 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.93%) Marketing
10 6 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.38%) Advertising
11 5 (1.38%) Retail
12 4 (1.10%) Military
13 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.83%) Games
13 3 (0.83%) Japanese Language
13 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.96%) Yocto
2 12 (3.31%) LDAP
2 12 (3.31%) Middleware
3 11 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.03%) YAML
4 10 (2.75%) GTK
5 8 (2.20%) JSON
6 7 (1.93%) JSON Schema
6 7 (1.93%) KML
6 7 (1.93%) Regular Expression
6 7 (1.93%) XML
7 6 (1.65%) LAMP
8 4 (1.10%) .NET
8 4 (1.10%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.10%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (1.10%) React
9 3 (0.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.83%) Kafka
9 3 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.61%) IoT
2 22 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.06%) PKI
3 18 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (3.86%) Clustering
4 14 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.03%) Client/Server
6 7 (1.93%) CMDB
6 7 (1.93%) Device Driver
6 7 (1.93%) Replication
7 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.38%) FPGA
7 5 (1.38%) GNSS
7 5 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.10%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.55%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 363 (100.00%) Linux
2 67 (18.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 62 (17.08%) Ubuntu
4 57 (15.70%) Windows
5 51 (14.05%) CentOS
6 39 (10.74%) Debian
7 35 (9.64%) Embedded Linux
8 26 (7.16%) Unix
9 17 (4.68%) Windows Server
10 10 (2.75%) Solaris
11 9 (2.48%) CoreOS
12 7 (1.93%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (1.65%) SUSE
13 6 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (1.38%) Windows 10
14 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.83%) Rocky
16 2 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.28%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (24.79%) Software Engineering
2 73 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 57 (15.70%) DevOps
5 43 (11.85%) Agile
6 41 (11.29%) CI/CD
7 38 (10.47%) Configuration Management
8 37 (10.19%) Containerisation
9 36 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (9.37%) Computer Science
11 26 (7.16%) Time Management
12 24 (6.61%) Test Automation
13 23 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (6.34%) Migration
13 23 (6.34%) Open Source
14 21 (5.79%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (5.23%) ITIL
16 18 (4.96%) High Availability
16 18 (4.96%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (4.96%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 121 (33.33%) Python
2 117 (32.23%) Bash
3 78 (21.49%) C
4 42 (11.57%) C++
5 36 (9.92%) Perl
6 34 (9.37%) PowerShell
7 25 (6.89%) Shell Script
8 20 (5.51%) Java
9 11 (3.03%) C#
9 11 (3.03%) Ruby
10 10 (2.75%) Ada
10 10 (2.75%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.65%) PHP
11 6 (1.65%) SQL
12 5 (1.38%) Korn
12 5 (1.38%) OCaml
12 5 (1.38%) SystemTap
13 4 (1.10%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.10%) Go
13 4 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.64%) Degree
3 27 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.58%) PMO
2 10 (2.75%) QA
3 7 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.65%) SLA
5 5 (1.38%) NCSC
6 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (13.77%) Docker
2 25 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.48%) NFS
6 8 (2.20%) Active Directory
7 7 (1.93%) KVM
8 5 (1.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.83%) GPFS
11 2 (0.55%) iptables
11 2 (0.55%) Lustre
11 2 (0.55%) QEMU
11 2 (0.55%) vSphere
11 2 (0.55%) Xen
12 1 (0.28%) Firmware
12 1 (0.28%) Samba
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 122 (33.61%) Ansible
2 51 (14.05%) Terraform
3 47 (12.95%) Kubernetes
4 42 (11.57%) Puppet
5 19 (5.23%) Progress Chef
6 14 (3.86%) Grafana
7 13 (3.58%) Nagios
8 11 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
8 11 (3.03%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.48%) Graphite
9 9 (2.48%) HAProxy
10 7 (1.93%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.93%) Prometheus
10 7 (1.93%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.10%) HP Data Protector
13 3 (0.83%) Salt
13 3 (0.83%) SCCM
14 2 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 90 (24.79%) Red Hat
2 27 (7.44%) VMware
3 25 (6.89%) Cisco
3 25 (6.89%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 10 (2.75%) IBM
5 10 (2.75%) Oracle
6 9 (2.48%) Juniper
7 8 (2.20%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.20%) F5
7 8 (2.20%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.93%) EMC
8 7 (1.93%) Intel
9 6 (1.65%) Dell
9 6 (1.65%) Meraki
9 6 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.65%) TOWER Software
9 6 (1.65%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (1.38%) HP
10 5 (1.38%) Serena