Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 546 804
Rank change year-on-year +29 +258 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 339 402 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.51% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 283 315 308
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +70 111 £80,000 +14.29% 25
South West +2 63 £52,500 -2.33% 5
South East -1 48 £57,500 +15.00% 12
East of England -3 42 £62,500 +8.70% 4
Midlands +5 40 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North of England +28 36 £52,500 +23.53% 5
East Midlands +8 26 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire +45 15 £45,000 +5.88% 2
West Midlands -3 14 £65,000 -
North East +4 11 £58,000 +28.89%
North West +10 10 £52,500 +5.53% 3
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 339 (100.00%) Linux
2 118 (34.81%) Ansible
3 112 (33.04%) Python
4 101 (29.79%) Red Hat
5 100 (29.50%) Bash
6 76 (22.42%) AWS
7 72 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (20.65%) Software Engineering
9 68 (20.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 65 (19.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 64 (18.88%) C
12 60 (17.70%) Ubuntu
13 59 (17.40%) Social Skills
14 52 (15.34%) TCP/IP
15 51 (15.04%) CentOS
15 51 (15.04%) Kubernetes
16 50 (14.75%) Security Cleared
17 49 (14.45%) DevOps
18 47 (13.86%) Docker
18 47 (13.86%) Firewall
19 45 (13.27%) Windows
19 45 (13.27%) Agile
20 42 (12.39%) Puppet
21 41 (12.09%) Azure
21 41 (12.09%) Finance
22 39 (11.50%) Git
23 38 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
23 38 (11.21%) Terraform
24 36 (10.62%) Configuration Management
25 35 (10.32%) CI/CD

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (4.42%) Apache
2 14 (4.13%) nginx
3 7 (2.06%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.77%) Confluence
5 4 (1.18%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.29%) Simulink
2 1 (0.29%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 76 (22.42%) AWS
2 41 (12.09%) Azure
3 17 (5.01%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.54%) GCP
4 12 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.54%) SaaS
5 11 (3.24%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.77%) GitHub
7 5 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.18%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.59%) Kong
9 2 (0.59%) Serverless
9 2 (0.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (15.34%) TCP/IP
2 47 (13.86%) Firewall
3 34 (10.03%) DNS
4 23 (6.78%) Internet
5 22 (6.49%) LAN
6 16 (4.72%) WAN
7 14 (4.13%) SNMP
8 13 (3.83%) DHCP
8 13 (3.83%) SAN
9 11 (3.24%) tcpdump
10 9 (2.65%) VPN
11 7 (2.06%) NAS
11 7 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.06%) Wireless
12 6 (1.77%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.88%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.88%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.59%) HTTP
14 2 (0.59%) Network Security
14 2 (0.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.96%) MySQL
2 12 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.36%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.06%) MariaDB
5 5 (1.47%) InfluxDB
6 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.88%) Big Data
6 3 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.59%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.59%) Redis
7 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (11.50%) Git
2 29 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.31%) JIRA
4 6 (1.77%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.77%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.77%) GDB
5 5 (1.47%) DTrace
5 5 (1.47%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.18%) GitLab
7 3 (0.88%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.59%) git-flow
8 2 (0.59%) Maven
8 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.29%) Redmine
9 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 59 (17.40%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.09%) Finance
3 38 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.72%) Banking
5 15 (4.42%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.65%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.65%) Automotive
7 7 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.18%) Electronics
9 4 (1.18%) Military
10 3 (0.88%) Advertising
10 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.88%) Japanese Language
10 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.59%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.29%) Marketing
12 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.72%) Yocto
2 15 (4.42%) LDAP
3 14 (4.13%) Middleware
4 11 (3.24%) YAML
5 10 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (2.36%) JSON
7 7 (2.06%) GTK
7 7 (2.06%) JSON Schema
7 7 (2.06%) KML
7 7 (2.06%) Regular Expression
7 7 (2.06%) XML
8 6 (1.77%) Kafka
9 5 (1.47%) LAMP
10 4 (1.18%) LEMP Stack
10 4 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (0.88%) Keycloak
11 3 (0.88%) REST
12 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.67%) IoT
2 19 (5.60%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.31%) PKI
4 16 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.83%) Clustering
7 11 (3.24%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.95%) FPGA
9 7 (2.06%) Replication
10 6 (1.77%) Device Driver
11 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.47%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.59%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 339 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (19.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 60 (17.70%) Ubuntu
4 51 (15.04%) CentOS
5 45 (13.27%) Windows
6 34 (10.03%) Debian
7 33 (9.73%) Embedded Linux
8 32 (9.44%) Unix
9 15 (4.42%) Solaris
10 11 (3.24%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (3.24%) Windows Server
11 9 (2.65%) CoreOS
12 7 (2.06%) SUSE
13 6 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (1.47%) Windows 10
14 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.88%) Rocky
16 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.29%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (20.65%) Software Engineering
3 68 (20.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (14.45%) DevOps
5 45 (13.27%) Agile
6 36 (10.62%) Configuration Management
7 35 (10.32%) CI/CD
7 35 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (9.73%) Containerisation
9 29 (8.55%) Computer Science
10 25 (7.37%) Time Management
11 24 (7.08%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (5.31%) Customer Experience
14 18 (5.31%) Open Source
15 17 (5.01%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (5.01%) Test Automation
16 16 (4.72%) High Availability
16 16 (4.72%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 112 (33.04%) Python
2 100 (29.50%) Bash
3 64 (18.88%) C
4 33 (9.73%) C++
4 33 (9.73%) Perl
5 29 (8.55%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.78%) Java
6 23 (6.78%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.95%) Ada
7 10 (2.95%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.06%) C#
9 5 (1.47%) OCaml
9 5 (1.47%) SystemTap
10 4 (1.18%) Embedded C++
10 4 (1.18%) PHP
10 4 (1.18%) Ruby
11 3 (0.88%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.59%) Go
12 2 (0.59%) Rust
12 2 (0.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.55%) Degree
3 28 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.67%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.88%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (0.88%) RHCE
8 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.13%) QA
2 8 (2.36%) PMO
3 7 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.77%) SLA
5 5 (1.47%) NCSC
6 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (13.86%) Docker
2 28 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.95%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.95%) KVM
6 9 (2.65%) NFS
7 7 (2.06%) Active Directory
8 6 (1.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.59%) Firmware
10 2 (0.59%) GPFS
10 2 (0.59%) Lustre
10 2 (0.59%) QEMU
10 2 (0.59%) vSphere
10 2 (0.59%) Xen
11 1 (0.29%) iptables
11 1 (0.29%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (34.81%) Ansible
2 51 (15.04%) Kubernetes
3 42 (12.39%) Puppet
4 38 (11.21%) Terraform
5 17 (5.01%) Grafana
5 17 (5.01%) Nagios
6 14 (4.13%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.83%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.95%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (2.95%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.65%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 8 (2.36%) Graphite
10 8 (2.36%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.36%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.18%) HP Data Protector
13 3 (0.88%) Rancher
14 2 (0.59%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 101 (29.79%) Red Hat
2 30 (8.85%) VMware
3 23 (6.78%) Cisco
4 22 (6.49%) Microsoft
5 16 (4.72%) Oracle
6 15 (4.42%) F5
7 11 (3.24%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.65%) IBM
9 8 (2.36%) Dell
9 8 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.06%) EMC
10 7 (2.06%) HP
11 6 (1.77%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.77%) Juniper
11 6 (1.77%) Meraki
11 6 (1.77%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.47%) Serena
13 4 (1.18%) Intel
14 3 (0.88%) Google
14 3 (0.88%) SaltStack