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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 530 821
Rank change year-on-year +16 +291 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 370 400 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.53% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 309 322 313
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £73,750 £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% -

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 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £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 9 June 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 9 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
London +3 112 £80,000 +14.29% 19
South West +6 71 £45,000 -20.35% 2
South East -10 53 £50,000 - 9
East of England -1 49 £60,000 +4.35% 6
North of England +15 44 £45,000 +5.88% 10
Midlands -25 42 £57,500 -1.29% 4
East Midlands -6 30 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Yorkshire +39 18 £42,500 - 2
North West -3 15 £52,500 -0.94% 8
West Midlands -31 12 £65,000 +13.04%
North East -5 11 £58,000 +28.89%
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 370 (100.00%) Linux
2 117 (31.62%) Ansible
3 112 (30.27%) Python
4 108 (29.19%) Red Hat
5 99 (26.76%) Bash
6 78 (21.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 74 (20.00%) AWS
8 73 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (18.65%) Software Engineering
10 66 (17.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 63 (17.03%) C
12 62 (16.76%) Social Skills
13 60 (16.22%) Ubuntu
14 56 (15.14%) Security Cleared
15 51 (13.78%) TCP/IP
15 51 (13.78%) Kubernetes
16 49 (13.24%) Firewall
17 48 (12.97%) CentOS
17 48 (12.97%) DevOps
18 44 (11.89%) Docker
19 43 (11.62%) Puppet
19 43 (11.62%) Windows
19 43 (11.62%) Agile
20 42 (11.35%) Finance
21 40 (10.81%) Unix
22 39 (10.54%) Git
22 39 (10.54%) Azure
23 38 (10.27%) Terraform
24 37 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
25 36 (9.73%) Configuration Management

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 14 (3.78%) Apache
1 14 (3.78%) nginx
2 7 (1.89%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.62%) Confluence
4 4 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.27%) Simulink
2 1 (0.27%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.00%) AWS
2 39 (10.54%) Azure
3 16 (4.32%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.24%) SaaS
5 11 (2.97%) GCP
5 11 (2.97%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.35%) GitHub
7 4 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.08%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.54%) Kong
8 2 (0.54%) Serverless
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (13.78%) TCP/IP
2 49 (13.24%) Firewall
3 34 (9.19%) DNS
4 22 (5.95%) Internet
5 21 (5.68%) LAN
6 15 (4.05%) WAN
7 14 (3.78%) DHCP
7 14 (3.78%) SAN
8 13 (3.51%) SNMP
9 11 (2.97%) VPN
10 10 (2.70%) tcpdump
11 8 (2.16%) NAS
11 8 (2.16%) Wireless
12 7 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.81%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.81%) IPsec
14 3 (0.81%) Wireshark
15 2 (0.54%) HTTP
15 2 (0.54%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.03%) MySQL
2 11 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.89%) MariaDB
4 7 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.35%) InfluxDB
6 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.81%) Big Data
6 3 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.54%) Redis
7 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (10.54%) Git
2 27 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.59%) JIRA
4 6 (1.62%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.62%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.62%) GDB
5 5 (1.35%) DTrace
5 5 (1.35%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.81%) GitLab
7 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.54%) git-flow
7 2 (0.54%) Maven
7 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.27%) Redmine
8 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 62 (16.76%) Social Skills
2 42 (11.35%) Finance
3 37 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.86%) Telecoms
5 16 (4.32%) Banking
6 10 (2.70%) Automotive
7 9 (2.43%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.08%) Electronics
10 4 (1.08%) Military
10 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Advertising
11 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.81%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.81%) Retail
12 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.54%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.05%) Yocto
2 14 (3.78%) LDAP
2 14 (3.78%) Middleware
3 10 (2.70%) YAML
4 9 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.16%) JSON
6 7 (1.89%) GTK
6 7 (1.89%) JSON Schema
6 7 (1.89%) Kafka
6 7 (1.89%) KML
6 7 (1.89%) Regular Expression
6 7 (1.89%) XML
7 5 (1.35%) LAMP
8 4 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (1.08%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.81%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.81%) REST
10 2 (0.54%) LAPP Stack
10 2 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.84%) Data Centre
2 26 (7.03%) IoT
3 21 (5.68%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (4.86%) PKI
5 17 (4.59%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.51%) Client/Server
7 12 (3.24%) Clustering
8 11 (2.97%) FPGA
9 7 (1.89%) Replication
10 6 (1.62%) Device Driver
10 6 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.35%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.54%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 370 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (17.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 60 (16.22%) Ubuntu
4 48 (12.97%) CentOS
5 43 (11.62%) Windows
6 40 (10.81%) Unix
7 35 (9.46%) Debian
8 32 (8.65%) Embedded Linux
9 20 (5.41%) Solaris
10 11 (2.97%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (2.97%) Windows Server
11 9 (2.43%) CoreOS
12 7 (1.89%) SUSE
13 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (1.35%) Rocky
14 5 (1.35%) Windows 10
14 5 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.27%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (21.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 73 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (18.65%) Software Engineering
4 48 (12.97%) DevOps
5 43 (11.62%) Agile
6 36 (9.73%) Configuration Management
7 34 (9.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (8.92%) CI/CD
9 31 (8.38%) Computer Science
10 30 (8.11%) Containerisation
11 24 (6.49%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (6.49%) Time Management
12 21 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (4.86%) Customer Experience
13 18 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (4.59%) High Availability
14 17 (4.59%) Open Source
15 16 (4.32%) ITIL
15 16 (4.32%) Performance Tuning
15 16 (4.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (30.27%) Python
2 99 (26.76%) Bash
3 63 (17.03%) C
4 33 (8.92%) Perl
5 32 (8.65%) C++
6 30 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.22%) Java
7 23 (6.22%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.70%) Ada
8 10 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.62%) C#
10 5 (1.35%) OCaml
10 5 (1.35%) SQL
10 5 (1.35%) SystemTap
11 4 (1.08%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.08%) PHP
12 3 (0.81%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.81%) Ruby
13 1 (0.27%) Korn
13 1 (0.27%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 56 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.38%) Degree
3 31 (8.38%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.81%) Linux+ Certification
6 3 (0.81%) RHCE
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.78%) QA
2 8 (2.16%) PMO
3 7 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.62%) SLA
5 5 (1.35%) NCSC
6 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (11.89%) Docker
2 30 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.70%) KVM
6 9 (2.43%) NFS
7 7 (1.89%) Active Directory
8 6 (1.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.54%) Firmware
10 2 (0.54%) Lustre
10 2 (0.54%) QEMU
10 2 (0.54%) vSphere
10 2 (0.54%) Xen
11 1 (0.27%) GPFS
11 1 (0.27%) iptables
11 1 (0.27%) Samba
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (31.62%) Ansible
2 51 (13.78%) Kubernetes
3 43 (11.62%) Puppet
4 38 (10.27%) Terraform
5 17 (4.59%) Nagios
6 16 (4.32%) Grafana
7 14 (3.78%) Prometheus
8 12 (3.24%) Progress Chef
9 11 (2.97%) vCenter Server
10 10 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (2.43%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 8 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (1.89%) Graphite
13 7 (1.89%) HAProxy
14 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (1.08%) HP Data Protector
16 3 (0.81%) Rancher
17 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
18 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (29.19%) Red Hat
2 32 (8.65%) VMware
3 22 (5.95%) Cisco
3 22 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.14%) Oracle
5 16 (4.32%) F5
6 11 (2.97%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.43%) IBM
8 8 (2.16%) Dell
8 8 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.89%) EMC
9 7 (1.89%) HP
10 6 (1.62%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.62%) Juniper
10 6 (1.62%) Meraki
10 6 (1.62%) Ubiquiti
11 5 (1.35%) Serena
12 3 (0.81%) Google
12 3 (0.81%) Intel
12 3 (0.81%) SaltStack