Linux Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer salary in Work from Home is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 404 659
Rank change year-on-year -62 +255 -301
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 124 290 172
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.67% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.70% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 114 247 162
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £39,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% +3.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £105,875 £145,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,462 41,558 65,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,940 29,452 41,851
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,503 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +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 April 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 April 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.

1 124 (100.00%) Linux
2 60 (48.39%) Ansible
3 59 (47.58%) Bash
4 58 (46.77%) Python
5 53 (42.74%) AWS
6 40 (32.26%) Red Hat
6 40 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 38 (30.65%) Social Skills
8 37 (29.84%) Terraform
9 35 (28.23%) DevOps
10 34 (27.42%) Azure
10 34 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (25.81%) CI/CD
12 31 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (24.19%) Docker
14 29 (23.39%) Puppet
14 29 (23.39%) Ubuntu
15 27 (21.77%) Firewall
15 27 (21.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 27 (21.77%) Git
16 25 (20.16%) PowerShell
16 25 (20.16%) Software Engineering
17 24 (19.35%) Windows
17 24 (19.35%) CentOS
18 23 (18.55%) Kubernetes
18 23 (18.55%) C
18 23 (18.55%) TCP/IP
18 23 (18.55%) Finance
19 22 (17.74%) Agile
20 21 (16.94%) Migration

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 3 (2.42%) nginx
2 1 (0.81%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 53 (42.74%) AWS
2 34 (27.42%) Azure
3 11 (8.87%) Amazon S3
3 11 (8.87%) GCP
4 9 (7.26%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.65%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.65%) SaaS
5 7 (5.65%) Slack
6 6 (4.84%) GitHub
6 6 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.61%) AWS OpsWorks
9 2 (1.61%) CloudFront
9 2 (1.61%) Serverless
9 2 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (21.77%) Firewall
2 23 (18.55%) TCP/IP
3 18 (14.52%) DNS
4 14 (11.29%) Internet
4 14 (11.29%) SAN
5 12 (9.68%) LAN
6 11 (8.87%) WAN
7 10 (8.06%) SNMP
8 9 (7.26%) tcpdump
9 7 (5.65%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (4.03%) 5G
10 5 (4.03%) SD-WAN
11 3 (2.42%) DHCP
11 3 (2.42%) HTTP
12 2 (1.61%) NAS
12 2 (1.61%) VSAN
13 1 (0.81%) MQTT
13 1 (0.81%) RS-485
13 1 (0.81%) VLAN
13 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.13%) MySQL
2 9 (7.26%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (7.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.61%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (21.77%) Git
2 17 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.45%) JIRA
4 6 (4.84%) GitLab
5 5 (4.03%) DTrace
5 5 (4.03%) GDB
5 5 (4.03%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.03%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.81%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.81%) ClearQuest
9 1 (0.81%) Redmine
9 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 38 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.55%) Finance
3 16 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.06%) Banking
5 9 (7.26%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.84%) Marketing
8 5 (4.03%) Advertising
8 5 (4.03%) Aerospace
8 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.03%) Retail
9 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.87%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (7.26%) YAML
3 8 (6.45%) GTK
4 3 (2.42%) ADO
4 3 (2.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (2.42%) Middleware
4 3 (2.42%) Yocto
5 1 (0.81%) JSON
5 1 (0.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (11.29%) Clustering
3 11 (8.87%) Client/Server
4 8 (6.45%) PKI
5 7 (5.65%) CMDB
6 6 (4.84%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.03%) FPGA
7 5 (4.03%) GNSS
7 5 (4.03%) Replication
8 3 (2.42%) Device Driver
8 3 (2.42%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.61%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.61%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.61%) PropTech
9 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 124 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (23.39%) Ubuntu
3 27 (21.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (19.35%) CentOS
4 24 (19.35%) Windows
5 16 (12.90%) Debian
6 11 (8.87%) Unix
7 7 (5.65%) CoreOS
7 7 (5.65%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (5.65%) Solaris
8 6 (4.84%) Windows Server
9 4 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (3.23%) SUSE
10 1 (0.81%) Fedora
10 1 (0.81%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (28.23%) DevOps
3 34 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 31 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (20.16%) Software Engineering
7 22 (17.74%) Agile
8 21 (16.94%) Migration
9 20 (16.13%) Computer Science
10 18 (14.52%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (13.71%) Configuration Management
11 17 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (12.90%) Time Management
13 15 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (12.10%) High Availability
13 15 (12.10%) Test Automation
14 14 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (11.29%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.58%) Bash
2 58 (46.77%) Python
3 25 (20.16%) PowerShell
4 23 (18.55%) C
5 21 (16.94%) Perl
6 12 (9.68%) Shell Script
7 11 (8.87%) C++
8 7 (5.65%) Ruby
9 5 (4.03%) C#
9 5 (4.03%) OCaml
9 5 (4.03%) SystemTap
10 4 (3.23%) Korn
11 3 (2.42%) Ada
11 3 (2.42%) Java
11 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.42%) SQL
12 2 (1.61%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (13.71%) Degree
2 13 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) QA
2 6 (4.84%) SLA
3 5 (4.03%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (24.19%) Docker
2 9 (7.26%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (7.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.03%) NFS
4 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.42%) KVM
6 2 (1.61%) vSphere
7 1 (0.81%) Samba
Systems Management
1 60 (48.39%) Ansible
2 37 (29.84%) Terraform
3 29 (23.39%) Puppet
4 23 (18.55%) Kubernetes
5 11 (8.87%) Grafana
6 10 (8.06%) Nagios
7 9 (7.26%) Graphite
7 9 (7.26%) HAProxy
7 9 (7.26%) vCenter Server
8 7 (5.65%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (4.03%) Progress Chef
10 5 (4.03%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
12 2 (1.61%) Rancher
13 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (32.26%) Red Hat
2 11 (8.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.26%) VMware
4 7 (5.65%) Oracle
5 6 (4.84%) Cisco
5 6 (4.84%) Meraki
5 6 (4.84%) TOWER Software
5 6 (4.84%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (4.03%) Intel
6 5 (4.03%) Serena
7 4 (3.23%) F5
7 4 (3.23%) Sun
8 2 (1.61%) Google
8 2 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.81%) Dell
9 1 (0.81%) HP
9 1 (0.81%) SaltStack