Linux Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 380 718
Rank change year-on-year -58 +338 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 95 211 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.64% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.67% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 79 192 180
10th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £107,750 £150,000 £77,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -

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 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer.

Linux Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Linux Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (42.11%) Ansible
3 36 (37.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (30.53%) Red Hat
5 28 (29.47%) AWS
6 24 (25.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (24.21%) Python
8 22 (23.16%) Firewall
8 22 (23.16%) Terraform
8 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
9 21 (22.11%) Kubernetes
10 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (20.00%) Git
11 19 (20.00%) Docker
12 18 (18.95%) DevOps
13 17 (17.89%) Agile
13 17 (17.89%) CI/CD
14 14 (14.74%) CentOS
14 14 (14.74%) Finance
14 14 (14.74%) QA
15 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
15 13 (13.68%) Scrum
15 13 (13.68%) SAN
15 13 (13.68%) DNS
15 13 (13.68%) Azure
16 12 (12.63%) Bash
16 12 (12.63%) Oracle
17 11 (11.58%) Java
17 11 (11.58%) F5

Linux Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.26%) nginx
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.47%) AWS
2 13 (13.68%) Azure
3 9 (9.47%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (7.37%) SaaS
4 7 (7.37%) Slack
5 4 (4.21%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (2.11%) GCP
6 2 (2.11%) Kong
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.05%) GitHub
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.16%) Firewall
2 13 (13.68%) DNS
2 13 (13.68%) SAN
3 8 (8.42%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.32%) NAS
4 6 (6.32%) VPN
5 5 (5.26%) DHCP
5 5 (5.26%) Internet
5 5 (5.26%) IPsec
5 5 (5.26%) LAN
6 4 (4.21%) SNMP
6 4 (4.21%) WAN
7 3 (3.16%) Bluetooth
7 3 (3.16%) Wireless
8 2 (2.11%) HTTP
8 2 (2.11%) VSAN
8 2 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.05%) MQTT
9 1 (1.05%) SSL
9 1 (1.05%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.16%) MySQL
2 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (6.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.11%) DTrace
4 2 (2.11%) GDB
4 2 (2.11%) JIRA
5 1 (1.05%) GitLab
General
1 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.74%) Finance
3 8 (8.42%) Banking
3 8 (8.42%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.11%) Advertising
4 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.11%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.05%) Automotive
5 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (4.21%) Kafka
1 4 (4.21%) LDAP
1 4 (4.21%) Yocto
2 1 (1.05%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (1.05%) JSON
2 1 (1.05%) LAMP
2 1 (1.05%) Middleware
2 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) FPGA
2 9 (9.47%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.37%) CMDB
3 7 (7.37%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.26%) Client/Server
4 5 (5.26%) Clustering
4 5 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.26%) Replication
5 4 (4.21%) Device Driver
5 4 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.11%) PropTech
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.05%) IoT
8 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 95 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (25.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (14.74%) CentOS
4 11 (11.58%) Oracle Linux
5 10 (10.53%) Ubuntu
6 8 (8.42%) Debian
7 7 (7.37%) Windows
8 5 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (5.26%) Solaris
8 5 (5.26%) SUSE
9 3 (3.16%) Unix
10 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
11 1 (1.05%) Fedora
11 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.05%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (18.95%) DevOps
5 17 (17.89%) Agile
5 17 (17.89%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.68%) Scrum
7 11 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (10.53%) Analytics
8 10 (10.53%) Change Management
8 10 (10.53%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
8 10 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (9.47%) Software Engineering
10 8 (8.42%) Migration
10 8 (8.42%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (7.37%) Containerisation
11 7 (7.37%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (7.37%) Line Management
12 6 (6.32%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.21%) Python
2 12 (12.63%) Bash
3 11 (11.58%) Java
4 7 (7.37%) C
4 7 (7.37%) C++
5 6 (6.32%) Perl
5 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.26%) C#
6 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.11%) OCaml
7 2 (2.11%) SystemTap
8 1 (1.05%) Ada
8 1 (1.05%) AWK
8 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
8 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.26%) Degree
5 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (5.26%) Firmware
3 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.11%) KVM
5 2 (2.11%) vSphere
6 1 (1.05%) Samba
Systems Management
1 40 (42.11%) Ansible
2 22 (23.16%) Terraform
3 21 (22.11%) Kubernetes
4 10 (10.53%) Docker Swarm
5 7 (7.37%) Puppet
6 6 (6.32%) Progress Chef
7 5 (5.26%) Nagios
7 5 (5.26%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.05%) systemd
9 1 (1.05%) yum
Vendors
1 29 (30.53%) Red Hat
2 12 (12.63%) Oracle
3 11 (11.58%) F5
4 6 (6.32%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.26%) Serena
6 4 (4.21%) VMware
7 2 (2.11%) Dell
7 2 (2.11%) Google
7 2 (2.11%) HP
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco
8 1 (1.05%) Meraki
8 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.05%) Ubiquiti