Linux Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK 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 832 922 1197
Rank change year-on-year +90 +275 -314
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 75 25 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.026% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.029% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 71 25 53
10th Percentile £37,101 £42,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +9.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 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
England +78 66 £55,000 +7.32% 6
UK excluding London +13 60 £50,000 -4.76% 6
Work from Home +74 41 £55,000 +18.92% 2
London +120 15 £85,000 +88.89%
South East +3 14 £50,000 -7.41% 1
Midlands - 13 £57,500 - 1
East Midlands - 12 £57,500 - 1
South West -23 10 £45,000 -10.00% 1
North of England - 8 £43,750 - 1
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
East of England +3 6 £55,500 +22.65% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
North West - 3 £40,000 - 1
Scotland -64 2 £82,500 +57.14% 1
West Midlands - 1 £56,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Linux
2 74 (98.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (49.33%) AWS
4 28 (37.33%) Ansible
5 24 (32.00%) Docker
6 23 (30.67%) Firewall
7 19 (25.33%) Azure
7 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
8 18 (24.00%) DevOps
8 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
9 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (20.00%) Windows
11 14 (18.67%) Agile
11 14 (18.67%) Terraform
12 13 (17.33%) CI/CD
12 13 (17.33%) Bash
13 12 (16.00%) Ubuntu
13 12 (16.00%) QA
13 12 (16.00%) Git
13 12 (16.00%) Scrum
13 12 (16.00%) Data Centre
14 11 (14.67%) Containerisation
14 11 (14.67%) VMware
15 10 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
16 9 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
16 9 (12.00%) SaaS
16 9 (12.00%) Analytics

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.33%) Jupyter
2 3 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (1.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 37 (49.33%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Azure
3 9 (12.00%) SaaS
4 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
4 7 (9.33%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.33%) Slack
5 4 (5.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 4 (5.33%) GCP
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.67%) GitHub
7 2 (2.67%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 23 (30.67%) Firewall
2 8 (10.67%) LAN
3 7 (9.33%) SAN
4 6 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.67%) DNS
6 2 (2.67%) HTTP
6 2 (2.67%) Internet
6 2 (2.67%) WAN
7 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) MySQL
2 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) Git
2 8 (10.67%) JIRA
3 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.67%) GitLab
General
1 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Finance
3 6 (8.00%) Banking
3 6 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.00%) Advertising
4 3 (4.00%) Automotive
4 3 (4.00%) Japanese Language
4 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (5.33%) Kafka
2 1 (1.33%) Middleware
2 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.33%) CMDB
3 4 (5.33%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.67%) PropTech
5 1 (1.33%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (20.00%) Windows
3 12 (16.00%) Ubuntu
4 10 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.33%) CentOS
5 4 (5.33%) Debian
5 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.67%) Rocky
7 1 (1.33%) Unix
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (98.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (24.00%) DevOps
3 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (18.67%) Agile
6 13 (17.33%) CI/CD
7 12 (16.00%) Scrum
8 11 (14.67%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.00%) Analytics
9 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (10.67%) Change Management
11 7 (9.33%) Line Management
11 7 (9.33%) Migration
11 7 (9.33%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (8.00%) Customer Service
12 6 (8.00%) Incident Management
12 6 (8.00%) Service Delivery
12 6 (8.00%) Software Engineering
12 6 (8.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.33%) Bash
2 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.00%) Python
4 2 (2.67%) Java
5 1 (1.33%) AWK
5 1 (1.33%) C
5 1 (1.33%) C++
5 1 (1.33%) PHP
5 1 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (32.00%) Docker
2 9 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.67%) KVM
4 4 (5.33%) NFS
4 4 (5.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.67%) QEMU
5 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.67%) Xen
6 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (37.33%) Ansible
2 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (18.67%) Terraform
4 9 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (6.67%) Nagios
6 5 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 4 (5.33%) Grafana
7 4 (5.33%) Puppet
8 2 (2.67%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) VMware
2 9 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (8.00%) Cisco
3 6 (8.00%) Meraki
3 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.00%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (5.33%) Google
5 3 (4.00%) Oracle
6 2 (2.67%) F5
6 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) EMC
7 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.33%) Veeam