Senior Linux Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 593 840
Rank change year-on-year +15 +247 -270
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 24 40 61
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.11% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.11% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 23 40 61
10th Percentile - £50,925 -
25th Percentile £37,101 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,250 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £129,750 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.59% -2.92% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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%

Senior Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Linux Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer.

Senior Linux Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Senior Linux Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (87.50%) Ansible
3 19 (79.17%) Social Skills
4 18 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (70.83%) Terraform
6 16 (66.67%) AWS
7 13 (54.17%) Puppet
7 13 (54.17%) Migration
8 11 (45.83%) Python
9 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (37.50%) DevOps
11 8 (33.33%) DNS
11 8 (33.33%) SAN
12 7 (29.17%) SNMP
12 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
12 7 (29.17%) Change Management
12 7 (29.17%) Agile
12 7 (29.17%) CMDB
12 7 (29.17%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (29.17%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
12 7 (29.17%) Line Management
12 7 (29.17%) Slack
12 7 (29.17%) Proactive Monitoring
12 7 (29.17%) Code Quality
13 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
13 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
13 6 (25.00%) vCenter Server
13 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (29.17%) Slack
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) DNS
1 8 (33.33%) SAN
2 7 (29.17%) SNMP
2 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
3 6 (25.00%) Firewall
3 6 (25.00%) Internet
3 6 (25.00%) tcpdump
4 1 (4.17%) DHCP
4 1 (4.17%) LAN
4 1 (4.17%) MQTT
4 1 (4.17%) NAS
4 1 (4.17%) RS-485
4 1 (4.17%) VLAN
4 1 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) WAN
4 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 19 (79.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.50%) Advertising
3 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (25.00%) YAML
2 1 (4.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) CMDB
2 6 (25.00%) Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (8.33%) FPGA
5 1 (4.17%) Device Driver
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (4.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.17%) CentOS
4 1 (4.17%) Debian
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (54.17%) Migration
3 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (37.50%) DevOps
5 7 (29.17%) Agile
5 7 (29.17%) Change Management
5 7 (29.17%) Code Quality
5 7 (29.17%) Line Management
5 7 (29.17%) Proactive Monitoring
5 7 (29.17%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
6 6 (25.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (25.00%) Load Balancing
6 6 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Bash
2 6 (25.00%) Perl
2 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) C
3 3 (12.50%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
1 6 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (12.50%) KVM
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (87.50%) Ansible
2 17 (70.83%) Terraform
3 13 (54.17%) Puppet
4 6 (25.00%) Grafana
4 6 (25.00%) Graphite
4 6 (25.00%) HAProxy
4 6 (25.00%) Nagios
4 6 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 6 (25.00%) vCenter Server
5 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) F5
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle