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 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 400 675
Rank change year-on-year -77 +275 -300
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 116 278 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.67% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.70% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 109 241 161
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £150,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%

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 32,448 39,583 66,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.98% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,900 28,176 41,784
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 10 May 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 10 May 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.

1 116 (100.00%) Linux
2 59 (50.86%) Ansible
3 51 (43.97%) AWS
4 50 (43.10%) Bash
4 50 (43.10%) Python
5 39 (33.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (33.62%) Social Skills
6 37 (31.90%) Red Hat
7 36 (31.03%) Terraform
8 35 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (27.59%) DevOps
10 31 (26.72%) Azure
11 30 (25.86%) Docker
11 30 (25.86%) CI/CD
12 29 (25.00%) Ubuntu
12 29 (25.00%) Firewall
13 27 (23.28%) Puppet
14 26 (22.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 25 (21.55%) Git
15 25 (21.55%) TCP/IP
16 24 (20.69%) C
16 24 (20.69%) Agile
16 24 (20.69%) PowerShell
17 23 (19.83%) Kubernetes
18 22 (18.97%) CentOS
19 21 (18.10%) Software Engineering
20 20 (17.24%) Windows
21 19 (16.38%) MySQL
21 19 (16.38%) DNS

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 5 (4.31%) nginx
2 2 (1.72%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.97%) AWS
2 31 (26.72%) Azure
3 11 (9.48%) Amazon S3
3 11 (9.48%) GCP
4 9 (7.76%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (6.90%) SaaS
6 7 (6.03%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.03%) Slack
7 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (2.59%) GitHub
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.72%) AWS OpsWorks
10 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.72%) CloudFront
10 2 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (25.00%) Firewall
2 25 (21.55%) TCP/IP
3 19 (16.38%) DNS
4 14 (12.07%) Internet
4 14 (12.07%) SAN
5 11 (9.48%) LAN
5 11 (9.48%) SNMP
6 9 (7.76%) tcpdump
7 7 (6.03%) WAN
7 7 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.45%) DHCP
8 4 (3.45%) NAS
9 2 (1.72%) 5G
9 2 (1.72%) HTTP
9 2 (1.72%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.72%) VSAN
10 1 (0.86%) RS-485
10 1 (0.86%) SSL
10 1 (0.86%) VLAN
10 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.38%) MySQL
2 9 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (7.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.72%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (21.55%) Git
2 17 (14.66%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.03%) JIRA
4 5 (4.31%) DTrace
4 5 (4.31%) GDB
4 5 (4.31%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.59%) GitLab
6 2 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 17 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.76%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.90%) Banking
6 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Advertising
8 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.72%) Retail
9 2 (1.72%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.86%) Automotive
10 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.48%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (8.62%) YAML
3 8 (6.90%) GTK
4 3 (2.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (2.59%) Middleware
4 3 (2.59%) Yocto
5 2 (1.72%) ADO
5 2 (1.72%) LDAP
6 1 (0.86%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.86%) JSON
6 1 (0.86%) Kafka
6 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (12.07%) Clustering
3 11 (9.48%) Client/Server
4 8 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.90%) PKI
5 7 (6.03%) CMDB
5 7 (6.03%) FPGA
6 6 (5.17%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.31%) Replication
8 3 (2.59%) Device Driver
8 3 (2.59%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.72%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.72%) GNSS
9 2 (1.72%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.72%) PropTech
10 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.86%) IoT
10 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 116 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 26 (22.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (18.97%) CentOS
5 20 (17.24%) Windows
6 17 (14.66%) Debian
7 11 (9.48%) Unix
8 9 (7.76%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (6.03%) CoreOS
9 7 (6.03%) Solaris
10 4 (3.45%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (3.45%) SUSE
11 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.86%) Fedora
12 1 (0.86%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (27.59%) DevOps
3 32 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (25.86%) CI/CD
5 24 (20.69%) Agile
6 21 (18.10%) Software Engineering
7 19 (16.38%) Migration
8 16 (13.79%) Computer Science
8 16 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (13.79%) Time Management
9 15 (12.93%) Containerisation
9 15 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (12.07%) High Availability
10 14 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (12.07%) Security Hardening
11 13 (11.21%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.10%) Bash
1 50 (43.10%) Python
2 24 (20.69%) C
2 24 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 15 (12.93%) Perl
4 11 (9.48%) Shell Script
5 9 (7.76%) C++
6 6 (5.17%) Java
7 5 (4.31%) C#
7 5 (4.31%) OCaml
7 5 (4.31%) SystemTap
8 4 (3.45%) Ruby
9 3 (2.59%) Ada
9 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.72%) SQL
11 1 (0.86%) AWK
11 1 (0.86%) Korn
11 1 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.21%) Degree
3 8 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) QA
2 6 (5.17%) SLA
3 2 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (25.86%) Docker
2 9 (7.76%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.59%) KVM
4 3 (2.59%) NFS
5 2 (1.72%) vSphere
6 1 (0.86%) Samba
Systems Management
1 59 (50.86%) Ansible
2 36 (31.03%) Terraform
3 27 (23.28%) Puppet
4 23 (19.83%) Kubernetes
5 11 (9.48%) Grafana
5 11 (9.48%) Nagios
6 9 (7.76%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (7.76%) Graphite
6 9 (7.76%) HAProxy
6 9 (7.76%) vCenter Server
7 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.17%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.72%) Rancher
9 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 37 (31.90%) Red Hat
2 10 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.62%) Oracle
3 9 (7.76%) VMware
4 6 (5.17%) Cisco
4 6 (5.17%) F5
4 6 (5.17%) Meraki
4 6 (5.17%) Ubiquiti
5 5 (4.31%) Serena
6 3 (2.59%) Intel
6 3 (2.59%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.72%) Dell
7 2 (1.72%) Google
7 2 (1.72%) HP
7 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.86%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.86%) Sun