Linux Engineer
UK

The median Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 574 837
Rank change year-on-year +24 +263 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 365 451 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.45% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.50% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 305 359 350
10th Percentile £39,334 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £121,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +7.53%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +25 323 £62,500 - 69
UK excluding London +6 237 £55,000 +4.76% 49
Work from Home -53 116 £57,500 -8.00% 30
London +27 105 £78,500 +12.14% 32
South West +6 61 £52,500 -5.83% 10
South East +11 50 £57,500 +15.00% 16
East of England +3 40 £61,250 +6.52% 7
Midlands +1 36 £57,500 -16.06% 7
North of England +10 32 £45,000 +5.88% 5
East Midlands 0 21 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Yorkshire +45 15 £45,000 +5.88% 1
West Midlands +3 15 £65,000 -2.62%
Scotland -58 11 £50,000 -9.09% 3
North East - 10 £60,000 -
Wales - 9 £41,067 - 1
North West 0 7 £55,000 +10.55% 4

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 365 (100.00%) Linux
2 126 (34.52%) Ansible
3 113 (30.96%) Python
4 106 (29.04%) Bash
5 92 (25.21%) Red Hat
6 89 (24.38%) Software Engineering
7 86 (23.56%) AWS
8 78 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (21.37%) C
9 74 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 66 (18.08%) Social Skills
11 64 (17.53%) Ubuntu
12 63 (17.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 53 (14.52%) TCP/IP
13 53 (14.52%) Security Cleared
13 53 (14.52%) Kubernetes
14 51 (13.97%) Docker
15 50 (13.70%) DevOps
16 49 (13.42%) CentOS
16 49 (13.42%) Windows
17 48 (13.15%) Terraform
18 47 (12.88%) Agile
19 46 (12.60%) Firewall
19 46 (12.60%) Azure
20 45 (12.33%) Finance
21 41 (11.23%) Puppet
22 40 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
23 38 (10.41%) Debian
23 38 (10.41%) Configuration Management
23 38 (10.41%) C++

Linux 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 14 (3.84%) Apache
1 14 (3.84%) nginx
2 7 (1.92%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.64%) Confluence
4 4 (1.10%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.27%) Simulink
2 1 (0.27%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 86 (23.56%) AWS
2 46 (12.60%) Azure
3 19 (5.21%) Amazon S3
4 14 (3.84%) GCP
5 12 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.29%) SaaS
6 11 (3.01%) OpenShift
7 9 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.92%) GitHub
8 7 (1.92%) Slack
9 6 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.10%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.55%) Kong
12 2 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 53 (14.52%) TCP/IP
2 46 (12.60%) Firewall
3 31 (8.49%) DNS
4 22 (6.03%) Internet
5 20 (5.48%) LAN
6 19 (5.21%) SAN
7 15 (4.11%) WAN
8 12 (3.29%) DHCP
8 12 (3.29%) SNMP
9 10 (2.74%) tcpdump
10 8 (2.19%) VPN
11 7 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.64%) Wireless
13 4 (1.10%) NAS
14 3 (0.82%) 5G
14 3 (0.82%) Ethernet
15 2 (0.55%) DKIM
15 2 (0.55%) HTTP
15 2 (0.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.95%) MySQL
2 12 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.19%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.92%) MariaDB
5 5 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.37%) InfluxDB
6 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.82%) Big Data
8 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (10.41%) Git
2 30 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.30%) JIRA
4 6 (1.64%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.64%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.64%) GDB
5 5 (1.37%) DTrace
5 5 (1.37%) GitLab
5 5 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.55%) git-flow
7 2 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.27%) Redmine
8 1 (0.27%) Subversion
8 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (18.08%) Social Skills
2 45 (12.33%) Finance
3 40 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.48%) Banking
5 16 (4.38%) Aerospace
6 12 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.01%) Electronics
8 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.92%) Automotive
10 6 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.10%) Military
12 3 (0.82%) Advertising
12 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.82%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.82%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.66%) Yocto
2 13 (3.56%) LDAP
2 13 (3.56%) Middleware
3 11 (3.01%) YAML
4 10 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (2.74%) GTK
5 8 (2.19%) JSON
6 7 (1.92%) JSON Schema
6 7 (1.92%) KML
6 7 (1.92%) Regular Expression
6 7 (1.92%) XML
7 5 (1.37%) Kafka
7 5 (1.37%) LAMP
8 4 (1.10%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.10%) React
9 3 (0.82%) .NET
9 3 (0.82%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.12%) IoT
2 21 (5.75%) PKI
3 18 (4.93%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.84%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.56%) Clustering
7 11 (3.01%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.19%) FPGA
9 7 (1.92%) CMDB
9 7 (1.92%) Device Driver
9 7 (1.92%) Replication
10 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.37%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 365 (100.00%) Linux
2 64 (17.53%) Ubuntu
3 63 (17.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (13.42%) CentOS
4 49 (13.42%) Windows
5 38 (10.41%) Debian
6 34 (9.32%) Embedded Linux
7 32 (8.77%) Unix
8 14 (3.84%) Solaris
9 13 (3.56%) Windows Server
10 9 (2.47%) CoreOS
10 9 (2.47%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (1.64%) SUSE
11 6 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.37%) Windows 10
12 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.82%) Rocky
14 2 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.27%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (24.38%) Software Engineering
2 78 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 50 (13.70%) DevOps
5 47 (12.88%) Agile
6 38 (10.41%) Configuration Management
6 38 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (10.14%) Containerisation
8 36 (9.86%) CI/CD
9 29 (7.95%) Computer Science
10 25 (6.85%) Time Management
11 24 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (6.30%) Open Source
13 21 (5.75%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (5.48%) Cybersecurity
15 19 (5.21%) Migration
16 18 (4.93%) Customer Experience
16 18 (4.93%) Test Automation
17 17 (4.66%) ITIL
18 16 (4.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 113 (30.96%) Python
2 106 (29.04%) Bash
3 78 (21.37%) C
4 38 (10.41%) C++
5 32 (8.77%) Perl
6 31 (8.49%) PowerShell
7 24 (6.58%) Shell Script
8 23 (6.30%) Java
9 10 (2.74%) Ada
9 10 (2.74%) C#
9 10 (2.74%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.37%) OCaml
10 5 (1.37%) Ruby
10 5 (1.37%) SQL
10 5 (1.37%) SystemTap
11 4 (1.10%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.10%) PHP
12 3 (0.82%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.82%) Go
12 3 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 53 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.22%) Degree
2 30 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.03%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.55%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.55%) RHCE
7 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.84%) QA
2 9 (2.47%) PMO
3 7 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.64%) SLA
5 5 (1.37%) NCSC
6 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (13.97%) Docker
2 29 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.74%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.47%) KVM
7 8 (2.19%) NFS
8 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
9 6 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (1.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.55%) GPFS
11 2 (0.55%) Lustre
11 2 (0.55%) QEMU
11 2 (0.55%) vSphere
11 2 (0.55%) Xen
12 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) iptables
12 1 (0.27%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 126 (34.52%) Ansible
2 53 (14.52%) Kubernetes
3 48 (13.15%) Terraform
4 41 (11.23%) Puppet
5 18 (4.93%) Progress Chef
6 16 (4.38%) Grafana
6 16 (4.38%) Nagios
7 11 (3.01%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.74%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (2.74%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 8 (2.19%) Graphite
10 8 (2.19%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.10%) HP Data Protector
13 3 (0.82%) Rancher
14 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 92 (25.21%) Red Hat
2 31 (8.49%) VMware
3 23 (6.30%) Cisco
3 23 (6.30%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.84%) Oracle
5 12 (3.29%) F5
6 11 (3.01%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.47%) IBM
8 8 (2.19%) Dell
8 8 (2.19%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.92%) EMC
9 7 (1.92%) HP
9 7 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.64%) Juniper
10 6 (1.64%) Meraki
10 6 (1.64%) Ubiquiti
11 5 (1.37%) Google
11 5 (1.37%) Serena
12 4 (1.10%) Intel