Linux Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £53,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 830 951 1175
Rank change year-on-year +121 +224 -291
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 66 24 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.024% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.026% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 63 22 51
10th Percentile £37,101 - £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £64,550 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +9.29%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 14 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 14 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 +115 57 £55,000 +4.76% 6
UK excluding London +26 52 £50,000 -4.76% 6
Work from Home +101 39 £55,000 +22.22% 5
South East +16 15 £50,000 -7.41%
London +130 14 £85,000 +88.89% 2
Midlands - 11 £57,500 - 1
East Midlands - 10 £57,500 - 1
South West -23 7 £37,500 -25.00% 1
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
East of England - 5 £46,000 - 1
North of England - 5 £45,000 - 1
Scotland -51 3 £82,500 +57.14% 2
West Midlands - 1 £56,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (98.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (56.06%) AWS
4 28 (42.42%) Ansible
5 23 (34.85%) Docker
6 22 (33.33%) Firewall
7 19 (28.79%) Azure
7 19 (28.79%) DevOps
7 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
8 18 (27.27%) Kubernetes
8 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (24.24%) Windows
10 15 (22.73%) Terraform
11 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (21.21%) Bash
12 13 (19.70%) Agile
12 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
12 13 (19.70%) Data Centre
13 12 (18.18%) Ubuntu
13 12 (18.18%) Git
14 11 (16.67%) QA
14 11 (16.67%) Scrum
14 11 (16.67%) VMware
14 11 (16.67%) Containerisation
15 10 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 9 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
16 9 (13.64%) Red Hat
17 8 (12.12%) LAN
17 8 (12.12%) MySQL
17 8 (12.12%) Change Management

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 4 (6.06%) Jupyter
2 3 (4.55%) nginx
3 1 (1.52%) JBoss
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.52%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.06%) AWS
2 19 (28.79%) Azure
3 8 (12.12%) SaaS
4 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
4 7 (10.61%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.61%) Slack
5 5 (7.58%) GCP
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.55%) GitHub
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.03%) Kong
9 1 (1.52%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (33.33%) Firewall
2 8 (12.12%) LAN
3 7 (10.61%) SAN
4 6 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.03%) DNS
6 2 (3.03%) HTTP
6 2 (3.03%) Internet
6 2 (3.03%) WAN
7 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) MySQL
2 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) JIRA
3 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Finance
3 7 (10.61%) Banking
4 6 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Advertising
5 3 (4.55%) Japanese Language
5 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Automotive
7 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (1.52%) Middleware
2 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.61%) CMDB
3 4 (6.06%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.03%) PropTech
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (24.24%) Windows
3 12 (18.18%) Ubuntu
4 10 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (6.06%) CentOS
7 2 (3.03%) Debian
7 2 (3.03%) Rocky
8 1 (1.52%) Unix
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (98.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (28.79%) DevOps
3 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (19.70%) Agile
5 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 11 (16.67%) Scrum
7 8 (12.12%) Analytics
7 8 (12.12%) Change Management
7 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (10.61%) ITIL
8 7 (10.61%) Line Management
8 7 (10.61%) Migration
8 7 (10.61%) Proactive Monitoring
8 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (9.09%) Customer Service
9 6 (9.09%) Incident Management
9 6 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.21%) Bash
2 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.61%) Python
4 2 (3.03%) C
4 2 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (1.52%) AWK
5 1 (1.52%) C++
5 1 (1.52%) Korn
5 1 (1.52%) Perl
5 1 (1.52%) PHP
5 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.55%) Degree
5 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (34.85%) Docker
2 9 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) KVM
4 4 (6.06%) NFS
4 4 (6.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.03%) QEMU
5 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.03%) Xen
6 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (42.42%) Ansible
2 18 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 15 (22.73%) Terraform
4 8 (12.12%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (7.58%) Nagios
6 5 (7.58%) Progress Chef
6 5 (7.58%) Puppet
7 4 (6.06%) Grafana
8 2 (3.03%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) VMware
2 9 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 6 (9.09%) Cisco
3 6 (9.09%) Meraki
3 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.09%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (6.06%) Google
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) F5
6 2 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.52%) EMC
7 1 (1.52%) IBM
7 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.52%) Sun
7 1 (1.52%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.52%) Veeam