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 £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 478 400
Rank change year-on-year +37 -78 +304
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 26 118 233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.35% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.36% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 22 99 213
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,125 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,938 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £107,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.07% -6.67% +9.09%

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 18,881 32,734 34,586
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 96.20% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,537 24,599 25,656
10th Percentile £25,267 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,749
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 £80,549
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 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) Ansible
3 15 (57.69%) Red Hat
4 13 (50.00%) Python
4 13 (50.00%) DevOps
4 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (46.15%) Finance
6 10 (38.46%) Bash
6 10 (38.46%) GDPR
7 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (34.62%) Security Hardening
7 9 (34.62%) Perl
7 9 (34.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (30.77%) Data Security
8 8 (30.77%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (26.92%) VMware
9 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
11 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (19.23%) Telematics
11 5 (19.23%) AWS
11 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
11 5 (19.23%) SSH
11 5 (19.23%) Analytical Thinking
11 5 (19.23%) Vehicle Telematics
12 4 (15.38%) Windows
12 4 (15.38%) RHCE
12 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu

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 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) SSH
2 1 (3.85%) 3GPP
2 1 (3.85%) 4G
2 1 (3.85%) 5G
2 1 (3.85%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) SCTP
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.85%) PyCharm
3 1 (3.85%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Avionics
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) LAMP
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) gRPC
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Clustering
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Replication
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (15.38%) CentOS
3 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 4 (15.38%) Windows
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Solaris
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.85%) Debian
5 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) Security Hardening
3 8 (30.77%) Data Security
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
4 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 5 (19.23%) Telematics
4 5 (19.23%) Vehicle Telematics
5 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.69%) API Integration
7 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (7.69%) Hardware Maintenance
7 2 (7.69%) Kernel Tuning
7 2 (7.69%) Load Balancing
7 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) Bash
3 9 (34.62%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) RHCE
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) RHCSA
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) GDPR
2 9 (34.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
3 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.85%) Dovecot
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) KVM
4 1 (3.85%) Postfix
4 1 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Ansible
2 8 (30.77%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.69%) Terraform
5 1 (3.85%) Nagios
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Red Hat
2 7 (26.92%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) Juniper
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) Okta
4 1 (3.85%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.85%) Symantec
4 1 (3.85%) Veritas