Hybrid/Remote Linux Support Engineer Job Trends

Linux Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Support Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 444 467
Rank change year-on-year +90 +23 +256
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 18 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.017% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.018% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 18 2 6
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,375 -
25th Percentile £41,563 £44,063 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +7.50% +16.28%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,063 £63,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £69,125 £67,500
UK median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%

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 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 14,336 16,942 19,047
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 96.27% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,312 10,582 15,490
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,651 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Linux Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Linux Support Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Linux Support Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Linux Support Engineer job vacancies

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Linux Support Engineer over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

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

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (55.56%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (55.56%) SLA
2 10 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (55.56%) Unix
3 8 (44.44%) Ansible
3 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (44.44%) MySQL
4 5 (27.78%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECR
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
4 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (27.78%) Bash
4 5 (27.78%) Change Management
4 5 (27.78%) Cohesity
4 5 (27.78%) DB2
4 5 (27.78%) Debian
4 5 (27.78%) Degree
4 5 (27.78%) Docker
4 5 (27.78%) IBM
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) ITIL

Linux Support 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 5 (27.78%) Tomcat
1 5 (27.78%) WebSphere
1 5 (27.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECR
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
2 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (27.78%) Cohesity
2 5 (27.78%) Route 53
2 5 (27.78%) Serverless
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) SAN
1 5 (27.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (44.44%) MySQL
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (27.78%) DB2
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) LAPP Stack
1 5 (27.78%) LDAP
1 5 (27.78%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (16.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (55.56%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Debian
3 5 (27.78%) Solaris
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
4 3 (16.67%) CentOS
4 3 (16.67%) Rocky
4 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (27.78%) Acceptance Criteria
2 5 (27.78%) Change Management
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Release Management
2 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
2 5 (27.78%) Service Management
2 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
2 5 (27.78%) Korn
3 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
1 5 (27.78%) ITIL Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) IBM
1 5 (27.78%) NetApp
1 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
1 5 (27.78%) VMware