Linux Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer salary in Work from Home is £57,500 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 474 402 704
Rank change year-on-year -72 +302 -319
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 115 270 169
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.67% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.69% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 107 236 160
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £150,000 £84,775
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +5.77%

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 32,504 38,918 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24,867 27,740 41,910
10th Percentile £33,081 £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 19 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 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Linux
2 58 (50.43%) Ansible
3 51 (44.35%) AWS
4 48 (41.74%) Python
5 46 (40.00%) Bash
6 40 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 38 (33.04%) Social Skills
8 37 (32.17%) Red Hat
9 36 (31.30%) Terraform
10 34 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (26.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (26.09%) DevOps
12 30 (26.09%) Azure
13 29 (25.22%) Docker
13 29 (25.22%) Firewall
13 29 (25.22%) Ubuntu
14 27 (23.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 27 (23.48%) CI/CD
15 25 (21.74%) Git
15 25 (21.74%) Puppet
16 24 (20.87%) Kubernetes
16 24 (20.87%) Agile
16 24 (20.87%) TCP/IP
16 24 (20.87%) C
17 22 (19.13%) PowerShell
18 21 (18.26%) CentOS
19 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
20 18 (15.65%) Debian
20 18 (15.65%) Migration
20 18 (15.65%) MySQL

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 (4.35%) nginx
2 2 (1.74%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) AWS
2 30 (26.09%) Azure
3 10 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 10 (8.70%) GCP
4 9 (7.83%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (6.96%) SaaS
6 7 (6.09%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.09%) Slack
7 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.48%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.74%) AWS OpsWorks
9 2 (1.74%) Kong
9 2 (1.74%) Serverless
9 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (25.22%) Firewall
2 24 (20.87%) TCP/IP
3 18 (15.65%) DNS
4 13 (11.30%) Internet
4 13 (11.30%) SAN
5 10 (8.70%) LAN
5 10 (8.70%) SNMP
6 8 (6.96%) tcpdump
7 7 (6.09%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.35%) WAN
9 4 (3.48%) DHCP
9 4 (3.48%) NAS
10 2 (1.74%) HTTP
10 2 (1.74%) VSAN
11 1 (0.87%) 5G
11 1 (0.87%) RS-485
11 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.87%) SSL
11 1 (0.87%) VLAN
11 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) MySQL
2 8 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (6.96%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.74%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (21.74%) Git
2 16 (13.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.09%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) DTrace
4 5 (4.35%) GDB
4 5 (4.35%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.78%) Finance
3 16 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Banking
4 8 (6.96%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Advertising
6 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.87%) Automotive
8 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (7.83%) YAML
3 8 (6.96%) GTK
4 3 (2.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (2.61%) Middleware
4 3 (2.61%) Yocto
5 2 (1.74%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.74%) Kafka
5 2 (1.74%) LDAP
6 1 (0.87%) ADO
6 1 (0.87%) JSON
6 1 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (11.30%) Clustering
3 11 (9.57%) Client/Server
4 9 (7.83%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.96%) FPGA
5 8 (6.96%) PKI
6 7 (6.09%) CMDB
7 6 (5.22%) Management Information System
8 5 (4.35%) Replication
9 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.61%) Device Driver
10 3 (2.61%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.74%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.74%) PropTech
12 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.87%) GNSS
12 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 115 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (25.22%) Ubuntu
3 27 (23.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (18.26%) CentOS
5 18 (15.65%) Debian
6 17 (14.78%) Windows
7 11 (9.57%) Unix
8 9 (7.83%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (6.09%) CoreOS
9 7 (6.09%) Solaris
10 4 (3.48%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (3.48%) SUSE
11 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.87%) Fedora
12 1 (0.87%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (26.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (26.09%) DevOps
5 27 (23.48%) CI/CD
6 24 (20.87%) Agile
7 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 18 (15.65%) Migration
9 16 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (13.04%) Computer Science
10 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
10 15 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (13.04%) Time Management
11 14 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.30%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (11.30%) High Availability
12 13 (11.30%) ITIL
12 13 (11.30%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (11.30%) Security Hardening
13 12 (10.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (41.74%) Python
2 46 (40.00%) Bash
3 24 (20.87%) C
4 22 (19.13%) PowerShell
5 13 (11.30%) Perl
6 11 (9.57%) Shell Script
7 8 (6.96%) C++
8 7 (6.09%) Java
9 5 (4.35%) C#
9 5 (4.35%) OCaml
9 5 (4.35%) SystemTap
10 3 (2.61%) Ada
10 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.74%) Ruby
11 2 (1.74%) SQL
12 1 (0.87%) AWK
12 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.43%) Degree
3 8 (6.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.09%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) SLA
3 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (25.22%) Docker
2 9 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.96%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.61%) KVM
6 2 (1.74%) NFS
6 2 (1.74%) vSphere
7 1 (0.87%) Samba
Systems Management
1 58 (50.43%) Ansible
2 36 (31.30%) Terraform
3 25 (21.74%) Puppet
4 24 (20.87%) Kubernetes
5 11 (9.57%) Nagios
6 10 (8.70%) Grafana
7 9 (7.83%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (6.96%) Graphite
8 8 (6.96%) HAProxy
8 8 (6.96%) vCenter Server
9 7 (6.09%) Progress Chef
10 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
12 2 (1.74%) Rancher
12 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (32.17%) Red Hat
2 10 (8.70%) Oracle
3 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.83%) VMware
4 7 (6.09%) F5
5 6 (5.22%) Cisco
5 6 (5.22%) Meraki
5 6 (5.22%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (4.35%) Serena
7 2 (1.74%) Dell
7 2 (1.74%) Google
7 2 (1.74%) HP
7 2 (1.74%) Intel
7 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.74%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.87%) SaltStack