Linux Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 704 823
Rank change year-on-year 0 +119 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 70 15 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.027% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.030% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 70 15 29
10th Percentile £37,101 £39,000 £27,150
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 -
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,300 £55,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,674 49,280 72,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 88.84% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 52,932 29,318 42,781
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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 East -16 14 £50,000 -7.41% 1
South West -23 13 £45,000 -10.00%
Midlands - 13 £57,500 - 1
East Midlands - 12 £57,500 - 1
East of England +2 11 £55,000 +21.55% 3
North of England - 10 £41,250 - 1
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
North West - 5 £40,000 - 1
Scotland -61 2 £82,500 +57.14% 1
West Midlands - 1 £56,000 -
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) Linux
2 69 (98.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (42.86%) AWS
4 28 (40.00%) Ansible
5 22 (31.43%) Docker
6 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
7 19 (27.14%) Azure
8 18 (25.71%) DevOps
8 18 (25.71%) Firewall
9 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (20.00%) Ubuntu
10 14 (20.00%) Agile
11 13 (18.57%) VMware
11 13 (18.57%) Bash
11 13 (18.57%) CI/CD
12 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
12 12 (17.14%) Terraform
12 12 (17.14%) Git
12 12 (17.14%) QA
12 12 (17.14%) Scrum
13 11 (15.71%) VMware Infrastructure
13 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
14 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
15 9 (12.86%) Analytics
15 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Management
15 9 (12.86%) SaaS
15 9 (12.86%) SAN
15 9 (12.86%) Data Centre
15 9 (12.86%) Docker Swarm

Linux Infrastructure 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 4 (5.71%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.43%) JBoss
2 1 (1.43%) nginx
2 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.43%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 30 (42.86%) AWS
2 19 (27.14%) Azure
3 9 (12.86%) SaaS
4 7 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.00%) Slack
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.71%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.71%) Firewall
2 9 (12.86%) SAN
3 8 (11.43%) LAN
4 6 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.86%) Internet
5 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.86%) WAN
6 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Git
2 8 (11.43%) JIRA
3 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Advertising
3 3 (4.29%) Automotive
3 3 (4.29%) Finance
3 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.43%) Middleware
1 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.00%) CMDB
3 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.43%) EMC VNX
4 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 8 (11.43%) Windows
4 5 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.71%) CentOS
5 4 (5.71%) Rocky
6 2 (2.86%) Debian
7 1 (1.43%) Unix
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (98.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (25.71%) DevOps
3 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (20.00%) Agile
5 13 (18.57%) CI/CD
6 12 (17.14%) Scrum
7 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
7 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (12.86%) Analytics
8 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Management
9 8 (11.43%) Change Management
10 7 (10.00%) Line Management
10 7 (10.00%) Migration
10 7 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
10 7 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (8.57%) Customer Service
11 6 (8.57%) Incident Management
11 6 (8.57%) ITIL
11 6 (8.57%) Service Delivery
12 5 (7.14%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.57%) Bash
2 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.71%) Python
4 2 (2.86%) Java
5 1 (1.43%) AWK
5 1 (1.43%) C
5 1 (1.43%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) PHP
5 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) QA
2 6 (8.57%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (31.43%) Docker
2 11 (15.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.14%) KVM
4 4 (5.71%) NFS
4 4 (5.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.86%) QEMU
5 2 (2.86%) Xen
6 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (40.00%) Ansible
2 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.14%) Terraform
4 9 (12.86%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (8.57%) Puppet
6 5 (7.14%) Nagios
6 5 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 4 (5.71%) Grafana
7 4 (5.71%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) VMware
2 6 (8.57%) Cisco
2 6 (8.57%) Meraki
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Ubiquiti
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) EMC
5 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.43%) Veeam