Linux Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £53,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 472 407
Rank change year-on-year +99 -65 +272
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 24 120 288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.35% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.37% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 20 111 245
10th Percentile - £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £75,125 £105,000 £147,000
UK median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% -

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (50.00%) DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Ansible
3 10 (41.67%) Red Hat
4 9 (37.50%) Python
4 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (33.33%) Bash
6 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (25.00%) GDPR
7 6 (25.00%) SSH
7 6 (25.00%) Perl
7 6 (25.00%) Finance
8 5 (20.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
8 5 (20.83%) Telematics
8 5 (20.83%) AWS
8 5 (20.83%) Analytical Thinking
8 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
8 5 (20.83%) Security Hardening
8 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Vehicle Telematics
9 4 (16.67%) Docker
9 4 (16.67%) High Availability
9 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (16.67%) Degree
9 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (16.67%) Data Security
9 4 (16.67%) VMware
9 4 (16.67%) HTTP

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 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) nginx
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) SSH
2 4 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) SSL
3 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) 3GPP
4 1 (4.17%) 4G
4 1 (4.17%) 5G
4 1 (4.17%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (4.17%) Firewall
4 1 (4.17%) FTP
4 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.17%) Multicast
4 1 (4.17%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
1 1 (4.17%) Metadata
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Aviation
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) EDI
3 1 (4.17%) gRPC
3 1 (4.17%) LAMP
3 1 (4.17%) Loki
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) Swagger
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Clustering
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (8.33%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Life Science
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Solaris
2 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) AIX
3 2 (8.33%) CentOS
3 2 (8.33%) Debian
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
4 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Security Hardening
4 5 (20.83%) Telematics
4 5 (20.83%) Vehicle Telematics
5 4 (16.67%) Data Security
5 4 (16.67%) High Availability
6 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.33%) API Integration
7 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis
7 2 (8.33%) Hardware Maintenance
7 2 (8.33%) Kernel Tuning
7 2 (8.33%) Load Balancing
7 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) Bash
3 6 (25.00%) Perl
4 3 (12.50%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) C
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) AWK
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Korn
6 1 (4.17%) PHP
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.33%) RHCE
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.17%) RHCSA
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) GDPR
2 5 (20.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) Postfix
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Dovecot
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) KVM
3 1 (4.17%) Sendmail
3 1 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Nagios
4 1 (4.17%) Nessus
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Okta
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Symantec
4 1 (4.17%) Tenable
4 1 (4.17%) Veritas