Linux Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 583 618
Rank change year-on-year +140 +35 +258
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Developer 19 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.038% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.040% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £51,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% +28.13% -27.27%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £140,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 18,899 32,692 34,558
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 96.20% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,547 24,557 25,709
10th Percentile £25,267 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,627
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Linux Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Linux Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Developer.

Linux Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, Linux Developer 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Linux Developer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (94.74%) Finance
2 18 (94.74%) C
2 18 (94.74%) C++
3 17 (89.47%) TCP/IP
3 17 (89.47%) FPGA
3 17 (89.47%) Low Latency
4 16 (84.21%) Agile
5 15 (78.95%) Banking
5 15 (78.95%) Investment Banking
5 15 (78.95%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) Windows
7 1 (5.26%) Ansible
7 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
7 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.26%) Azure
7 1 (5.26%) AWS
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
7 1 (5.26%) PyCharm
7 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (5.26%) Clean Code
7 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.26%) Python
7 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
7 1 (5.26%) SQL
7 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.26%) Front End Development
7 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code

Linux Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
1 1 (5.26%) PyCharm
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (94.74%) Finance
2 15 (78.95%) Banking
2 15 (78.95%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 17 (89.47%) FPGA
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Low Latency
2 16 (84.21%) Agile
3 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.26%) Clean Code
3 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (5.26%) Front End Development
3 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) C
1 18 (94.74%) C++
2 15 (78.95%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform