Linux Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Linux Engineer
England > East of England

The median Linux Engineer salary in the East of England is £61,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 182 270
Rank change year-on-year -2 +88 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 40 43 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.65% 0.83% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.99% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 38 36 7
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,375 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -8.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,875 £69,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 5,800 4,355 6,221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 84.04% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,430 2,201 2,891
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,356 £35,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,213 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the East of England

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the East of England

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the East of England

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +1 19 £60,000 +4.35% 3
Cambridgeshire +17 14 £80,000 +52.38% 3
Norfolk - 5 £46,000 -
Essex +4 2 £85,000 +36.00%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 19 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 job ads across the East of England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (45.00%) C
3 14 (35.00%) Red Hat
4 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (22.50%) Shell Script
5 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
6 8 (20.00%) IBM
7 7 (17.50%) Ada
7 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
7 7 (17.50%) Middleware
7 7 (17.50%) Ubuntu
7 7 (17.50%) Ansible
7 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (15.00%) DevOps
8 6 (15.00%) Confluence
8 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (15.00%) JIRA
8 6 (15.00%) Atlassian
8 6 (15.00%) ClearQuest
8 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
8 6 (15.00%) Automotive
8 6 (15.00%) ClearCase
9 5 (12.50%) Aerospace
9 5 (12.50%) Puppet
9 5 (12.50%) AWS
10 4 (10.00%) IoT
10 4 (10.00%) Docker
10 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (15.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
2 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Abaqus
2 1 (2.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Internet
1 4 (10.00%) Wireless
2 2 (5.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (5.00%) InfiniBand
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) ClearCase
1 6 (15.00%) ClearQuest
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.50%) Redmine
3 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Automotive
4 5 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 3 (7.50%) Advertising
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Middleware
2 2 (5.00%) OpenMP
3 1 (2.50%) ADO
3 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (10.00%) IoT
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.00%) Beowulf
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) SUSE
3 2 (5.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (15.00%) DevOps
3 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (7.50%) Resource Management
6 2 (5.00%) Batch Scheduling
6 2 (5.00%) Benchmarking
6 2 (5.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (2.50%) DevSecOps
7 1 (2.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 1 (2.50%) ITIL
7 1 (2.50%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) C
2 9 (22.50%) Shell Script
3 7 (17.50%) Ada
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.00%) C++
4 4 (10.00%) Java
5 3 (7.50%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) Embedded C
6 2 (5.00%) Perl
6 2 (5.00%) Python
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) AWK
7 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.50%) PHP
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) KVM
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Lustre
3 2 (5.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.50%) iptables
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Ansible
2 5 (12.50%) Puppet
3 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (20.00%) IBM
3 6 (15.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.50%) VMware
5 2 (5.00%) EMC
5 2 (5.00%) Intel
5 2 (5.00%) Mellanox
5 2 (5.00%) NetApp
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle