Linux Engineer Jobs in Wiltshire

Linux Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Linux Engineer salary in Wiltshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 86 82
Rank change year-on-year +40 -4 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 1 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.29% 0.95% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.99% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile - £37,500 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile - - £101,563
90th Percentile - £50,250 £112,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 317 1,211 906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.66% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 271 885 576
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,250 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -1.55%
75th Percentile £64,375 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Wiltshire

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in Wiltshire

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 2 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 Wiltshire region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware