Senior Linux Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £62,500 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 393 562 616
Rank change year-on-year +169 +54 +182
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 4 30 57
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.089% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.092% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3 25 52
10th Percentile £52,650 - £47,550
25th Percentile £55,875 £37,101 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - £81,200 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

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% -

Senior Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Linux Engineer.

Senior Linux Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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, Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) nginx
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery

Senior 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware