Linux Engineer Jobs in the South West

Linux Engineer
England > South West

The median Linux Engineer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 232 236
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 66 37 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.56% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.63% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 43 30 52
10th Percentile £34,250 £40,875 £28,988
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,313 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -14.23% +44.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £69,125 £76,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 9,582 5,850 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,009 3,668 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,150
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,879 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol -7 18 £60,000 +6.19% 2
Gloucestershire -12 18 £45,000 -33.33%
Wiltshire +1 15 £45,000 +9.09% 1
Devon -2 12 £37,500 -22.28%
Somerset +1 3 £40,000 -20.00% 1
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 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 South West region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 22 (33.33%) Bash
3 22 (33.33%) Ansible
4 21 (31.82%) Python
5 17 (25.76%) Red Hat
6 16 (24.24%) Ubuntu
7 15 (22.73%) Computer Science
7 15 (22.73%) CentOS
8 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (16.67%) Git
10 11 (16.67%) AWS
10 11 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
10 11 (16.67%) Time Management
10 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
11 10 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (15.15%) Degree
11 10 (15.15%) ITIL
11 10 (15.15%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (15.15%) DevOps
12 9 (13.64%) Puppet
12 9 (13.64%) CoreOS
12 9 (13.64%) OpenShift
12 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (13.64%) Debian
12 9 (13.64%) Management Information System
12 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
12 9 (13.64%) Containerisation

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (6.06%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.67%) AWS
2 9 (13.64%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) DHCP
1 2 (3.03%) DNS
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) 2G
2 1 (1.52%) 3G
2 1 (1.52%) 4G
2 1 (1.52%) 5G
2 1 (1.52%) Internet
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.03%) Maven
General
1 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) JSON
1 7 (10.61%) JSON Schema
1 7 (10.61%) KML
1 7 (10.61%) Regular Expression
1 7 (10.61%) XML
2 3 (4.55%) Middleware
3 2 (3.03%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (24.24%) Ubuntu
3 15 (22.73%) CentOS
4 13 (19.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (13.64%) CoreOS
5 9 (13.64%) Debian
6 8 (12.12%) Unix
7 4 (6.06%) Solaris
8 1 (1.52%) Fedora
8 1 (1.52%) openSUSE
8 1 (1.52%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.73%) Computer Science
2 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (16.67%) Time Management
4 10 (15.15%) DevOps
4 10 (15.15%) ITIL
5 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.12%) B2B
6 8 (12.12%) Configuration Management
6 8 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (12.12%) Mathematics
6 8 (12.12%) Physics
6 8 (12.12%) Security Patching
6 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
6 8 (12.12%) Validation
7 7 (10.61%) CAD
7 7 (10.61%) Coaching
7 7 (10.61%) OWASP
7 7 (10.61%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.33%) Bash
2 21 (31.82%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.55%) Ada
4 3 (4.55%) C
4 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.52%) C++
6 1 (1.52%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 24 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (15.15%) Degree
3 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) PMO
2 7 (10.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (7.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.06%) NFS
3 4 (6.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 22 (33.33%) Ansible
2 9 (13.64%) Puppet
3 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.58%) Nagios
4 4 (6.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) Rancher
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.52%) SCOM
5 1 (1.52%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (1.52%) Dell
3 1 (1.52%) Google
3 1 (1.52%) HP
3 1 (1.52%) IBM
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle
3 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds