Hybrid/Remote Linux Engineer Job Trends

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 403 460
Rank change year-on-year +38 +57 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 53 24 125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.16% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.17% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 50 20 108
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +15.22% -8.00%
75th Percentile £98,125 £75,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £76,250 £107,875
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 18,758 14,142 33,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 92.12% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,672 8,631 25,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Linux Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Linux Engineer job vacancies

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Linux Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 17 June 2026, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (33.96%) Platform Engineering
3 17 (32.08%) High Availability
4 14 (26.42%) DevOps
5 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (18.87%) Red Hat
6 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
7 8 (15.09%) Degree
7 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
7 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.21%) Bash
8 7 (13.21%) Python
9 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
9 6 (11.32%) Docker
9 6 (11.32%) Terraform
9 6 (11.32%) Unix
10 5 (9.43%) Ansible
10 5 (9.43%) AWS
10 5 (9.43%) CentOS
10 5 (9.43%) Dell
10 5 (9.43%) Firmware
10 5 (9.43%) Puppet
10 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
10 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
11 4 (7.55%) Cisco
11 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
11 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
11 4 (7.55%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (7.55%) ITIL
11 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.43%) AWS
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (3.77%) CloudFront
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Azure
3 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.89%) GitHub
3 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
1 3 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (5.66%) Wireless
2 2 (3.77%) Bluetooth
2 2 (3.77%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.77%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.77%) RFID
2 2 (3.77%) SAN
3 1 (1.89%) DNS
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) LTE
3 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.89%) VLAN
3 1 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) WAN
3 1 (1.89%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) MySQL
1 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.89%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.77%) GitLab
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) GDB
3 1 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) WinDbg
General
1 14 (26.42%) Finance
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Electronics
5 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Loki
1 2 (3.77%) Yocto
2 1 (1.89%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Hedge funds
2 10 (18.87%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.55%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.77%) Clustering
5 2 (3.77%) FPGA
5 2 (3.77%) PCIe
5 2 (3.77%) Photography
5 2 (3.77%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.89%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (11.32%) Unix
3 5 (9.43%) CentOS
3 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
4 4 (7.55%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.66%) SUSE
6 2 (3.77%) Windows
7 1 (1.89%) Debian
7 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (32.08%) High Availability
3 14 (26.42%) DevOps
4 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
7 4 (7.55%) ITIL
7 4 (7.55%) Software Engineering
8 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (5.66%) Mathematics
8 3 (5.66%) Patch Management
8 3 (5.66%) Proactive Maintenance
8 3 (5.66%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (5.66%) Ticket Management
9 2 (3.77%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (3.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.77%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (3.77%) Mentoring
9 2 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) Bash
1 7 (13.21%) Python
2 3 (5.66%) C++
2 3 (5.66%) Perl
3 2 (3.77%) C
3 2 (3.77%) Korn
3 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) Degree
3 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (3.77%) LPIC
6 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.89%) RHCE
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 5 (9.43%) Firmware
3 3 (5.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.32%) Terraform
3 5 (9.43%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Puppet
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 2 (3.77%) Podman
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Red Hat
2 5 (9.43%) Dell
3 4 (7.55%) Cisco
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.77%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.89%) Juniper
5 1 (1.89%) Mirantis
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
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