Linux Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 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 536 545 642
Rank change year-on-year +9 +97 -239
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 247 216 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.42% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 207 155 167
10th Percentile £37,340 £41,250 £35,790
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -51 10 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 247 (100.00%) Linux
2 68 (27.53%) Ansible
3 61 (24.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 57 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (21.05%) Security Cleared
6 51 (20.65%) Red Hat
7 49 (19.84%) AWS
8 47 (19.03%) Software Engineering
9 45 (18.22%) C
10 43 (17.41%) Bash
11 40 (16.19%) Ubuntu
12 38 (15.38%) Social Skills
13 37 (14.98%) Python
14 36 (14.57%) CentOS
15 34 (13.77%) DevOps
16 33 (13.36%) SC Cleared
16 33 (13.36%) Embedded Linux
17 32 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 32 (12.96%) Git
18 31 (12.55%) Docker
19 30 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
19 30 (12.15%) Agile
20 28 (11.34%) C++
20 28 (11.34%) Azure
21 27 (10.93%) Kubernetes
22 26 (10.53%) IoT
23 24 (9.72%) Unix
24 23 (9.31%) DV Cleared
24 23 (9.31%) Computer Science
24 23 (9.31%) Containerisation

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (2.83%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.43%) Confluence
3 4 (1.62%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.62%) nginx
4 3 (1.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.40%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.84%) AWS
2 28 (11.34%) Azure
3 12 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (4.86%) SaaS
4 9 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (3.64%) OpenShift
5 7 (2.83%) Slack
6 4 (1.62%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.62%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (1.62%) GCP
7 2 (0.81%) Serverless
8 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.50%) Firewall
2 13 (5.26%) LAN
3 11 (4.45%) Internet
4 8 (3.24%) SAN
5 7 (2.83%) WAN
5 7 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.83%) Wireless
6 6 (2.43%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.21%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.81%) DHCP
8 2 (0.81%) DNS
8 2 (0.81%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.81%) VPN
8 2 (0.81%) VSAN
9 1 (0.40%) 3G
9 1 (0.40%) 5G
9 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.40%) MQTT
9 1 (0.40%) RS-485
9 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.48%) MySQL
2 8 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.83%) MariaDB
4 5 (2.02%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.21%) Big Data
5 3 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 32 (12.96%) Git
2 17 (6.88%) JIRA
3 12 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.43%) ClearCase
4 6 (2.43%) ClearQuest
5 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.40%) GDB
6 1 (0.40%) Redmine
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 38 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.45%) Finance
4 9 (3.64%) Aerospace
4 9 (3.64%) Automotive
5 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.43%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.02%) Electronics
6 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.62%) Banking
7 4 (1.62%) Military
8 3 (1.21%) Advertising
9 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Local Government
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.48%) Yocto
2 11 (4.45%) Middleware
3 8 (3.24%) JSON
4 7 (2.83%) JSON Schema
4 7 (2.83%) KML
4 7 (2.83%) Regular Expression
4 7 (2.83%) XML
5 4 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.21%) Kafka
6 3 (1.21%) React
6 3 (1.21%) REST
6 3 (1.21%) YAML
7 2 (0.81%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (0.81%) LAMP
7 2 (0.81%) LAPP Stack
7 2 (0.81%) LDAP
7 2 (0.81%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (0.81%) OpenMP
7 2 (0.81%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.53%) IoT
2 15 (6.07%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.45%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.24%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.83%) CMDB
6 6 (2.43%) Device Driver
7 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.02%) PKI
8 4 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.81%) Beowulf
10 2 (0.81%) FPGA
11 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.40%) EMC VNX
11 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 247 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (16.19%) Ubuntu
3 36 (14.57%) CentOS
4 33 (13.36%) Embedded Linux
5 32 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (9.72%) Unix
7 20 (8.10%) Windows
8 15 (6.07%) Debian
9 11 (4.45%) Solaris
10 9 (3.64%) CoreOS
11 7 (2.83%) SUSE
12 6 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (2.02%) Windows 10
13 5 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (1.62%) Windows Server
15 2 (0.81%) Rocky
15 2 (0.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.40%) Fedora
16 1 (0.40%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (19.03%) Software Engineering
4 34 (13.77%) DevOps
5 30 (12.15%) Agile
6 23 (9.31%) Computer Science
6 23 (9.31%) Containerisation
7 21 (8.50%) Configuration Management
8 17 (6.88%) CI/CD
8 17 (6.88%) Time Management
9 16 (6.48%) ITIL
10 15 (6.07%) Customer Service
11 14 (5.67%) Mathematics
12 13 (5.26%) Scrum
13 12 (4.86%) Embedded Software Development
13 12 (4.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (4.45%) Change Management
14 11 (4.45%) Migration
14 11 (4.45%) Open Source
15 10 (4.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 45 (18.22%) C
2 43 (17.41%) Bash
3 37 (14.98%) Python
4 28 (11.34%) C++
5 14 (5.67%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.86%) Java
7 11 (4.45%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.05%) Ada
8 10 (4.05%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.83%) Perl
10 4 (1.62%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.21%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.21%) PHP
12 2 (0.81%) C#
12 2 (0.81%) Ruby
13 1 (0.40%) AWK
13 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 52 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.31%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.67%) Degree
5 13 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.67%) QA
2 8 (3.24%) PMO
3 7 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.43%) SLA
5 5 (2.02%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (12.55%) Docker
2 17 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.07%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.43%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 5 (2.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (2.02%) KVM
6 4 (1.62%) NFS
7 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.81%) Firmware
8 2 (0.81%) GPFS
8 2 (0.81%) Lustre
8 2 (0.81%) QEMU
8 2 (0.81%) vSphere
8 2 (0.81%) Xen
9 1 (0.40%) iptables
9 1 (0.40%) Samba
9 1 (0.40%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 68 (27.53%) Ansible
2 27 (10.93%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.91%) Puppet
4 18 (7.29%) Terraform
5 10 (4.05%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (3.24%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.02%) Nagios
8 5 (2.02%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 4 (1.62%) Grafana
10 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.81%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.40%) Rancher
11 1 (0.40%) SCOM
11 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (20.65%) Red Hat
2 19 (7.69%) VMware
3 17 (6.88%) Cisco
4 16 (6.48%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.64%) IBM
6 6 (2.43%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.43%) Juniper
6 6 (2.43%) Meraki
6 6 (2.43%) Ubiquiti
7 5 (2.02%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.21%) EMC
9 3 (1.21%) Google
9 3 (1.21%) Oracle
10 2 (0.81%) Intel
10 2 (0.81%) Mellanox
10 2 (0.81%) NetApp
11 1 (0.40%) Dell
11 1 (0.40%) HP
11 1 (0.40%) Veeam