Linux Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Linux Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Linux Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 232 251
Rank change year-on-year +39 +19 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 5 17 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.25% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 20
10th Percentile - £57,000 £46,350
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -6.14% +45.79%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - - £70,525
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% +4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 4,008 6,832 5,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 94.09% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,803 5,166 3,355
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,409 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the West Midlands

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the West Midlands

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +37 4 £47,500 -15.18% 2
Solihull - 1 - -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Nessus
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (80.00%) Server Management
3 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Proxmox
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (60.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (60.00%) Key Management
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (60.00%) Groovy
3 3 (60.00%) Nagios

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (60.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) VMS
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (80.00%) Server Management
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Key Management
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) Groovy
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 3 (60.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Nessus
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Nagios
2 3 (60.00%) Proxmox
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Sophos