Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer salary in England is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 548 818
Rank change year-on-year +27 +270 -361
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 337 407 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.47% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.51% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 283 319 308
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,625 £75,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,000 £140,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

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 83,672 79,663 133,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.47% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 62,204 50,990 75,326
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 27 May 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 27 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
London +23 111 £80,000 +14.29% 48
South West +4 63 £52,500 -2.33% 7
South East -2 49 £57,500 +15.00% 33
East of England +1 42 £62,500 +8.70% 5
Midlands -1 38 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North of England +26 35 £48,750 +14.71% 5
East Midlands +3 24 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire +35 15 £45,000 +5.88% 2
West Midlands -11 14 £65,000 -
North West +12 10 £52,500 +5.53% 3
North East +6 10 £60,000 +33.33%
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 across the England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 337 (100.00%) Linux
2 119 (35.31%) Ansible
3 111 (32.94%) Python
4 100 (29.67%) Red Hat
4 100 (29.67%) Bash
5 75 (22.26%) AWS
6 70 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (20.47%) Software Engineering
8 68 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 66 (19.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 64 (18.99%) C
11 59 (17.51%) Ubuntu
12 58 (17.21%) Social Skills
13 51 (15.13%) Kubernetes
13 51 (15.13%) CentOS
13 51 (15.13%) Security Cleared
13 51 (15.13%) TCP/IP
14 49 (14.54%) DevOps
15 48 (14.24%) Docker
16 47 (13.95%) Firewall
17 45 (13.35%) Windows
17 45 (13.35%) Agile
18 42 (12.46%) Puppet
19 41 (12.17%) Finance
20 40 (11.87%) Azure
21 39 (11.57%) Terraform
22 38 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
22 38 (11.28%) Git
23 36 (10.68%) Configuration Management
23 36 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (4.15%) Apache
1 14 (4.15%) nginx
2 7 (2.08%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.78%) Confluence
4 4 (1.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.30%) Simulink
2 1 (0.30%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.26%) AWS
2 40 (11.87%) Azure
3 17 (5.04%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.56%) GCP
4 12 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.56%) SaaS
5 11 (3.26%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.78%) GitHub
7 5 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.19%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.59%) Kong
9 2 (0.59%) Serverless
9 2 (0.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.13%) TCP/IP
2 47 (13.95%) Firewall
3 33 (9.79%) DNS
4 23 (6.82%) Internet
5 22 (6.53%) LAN
6 16 (4.75%) WAN
7 14 (4.15%) SNMP
8 13 (3.86%) SAN
9 12 (3.56%) DHCP
10 10 (2.97%) tcpdump
11 9 (2.67%) VPN
12 7 (2.08%) NAS
12 7 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.08%) Wireless
13 6 (1.78%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.89%) Ethernet
15 2 (0.59%) HTTP
15 2 (0.59%) Network Security
15 2 (0.59%) SMTP
15 2 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.01%) MySQL
2 12 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.37%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.08%) MariaDB
5 5 (1.48%) InfluxDB
6 3 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.89%) Big Data
6 3 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.59%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.59%) Redis
7 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (11.28%) Git
2 29 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.34%) JIRA
4 6 (1.78%) ClearCase
4 6 (1.78%) ClearQuest
4 6 (1.78%) GDB
5 5 (1.48%) DTrace
5 5 (1.48%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.19%) GitLab
7 3 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.59%) git-flow
8 2 (0.59%) Maven
8 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.30%) Redmine
9 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 58 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.17%) Finance
3 38 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.04%) Banking
5 14 (4.15%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.67%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.67%) Automotive
7 8 (2.37%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.19%) Military
10 3 (0.89%) Advertising
10 3 (0.89%) Electronics
10 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.89%) Japanese Language
10 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.59%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.45%) LDAP
1 15 (4.45%) Yocto
2 13 (3.86%) Middleware
3 11 (3.26%) YAML
4 10 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.37%) JSON
6 7 (2.08%) GTK
6 7 (2.08%) JSON Schema
6 7 (2.08%) KML
6 7 (2.08%) Regular Expression
6 7 (2.08%) XML
7 6 (1.78%) Kafka
8 5 (1.48%) LAMP
9 4 (1.19%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.89%) REST
11 2 (0.59%) Keycloak
11 2 (0.59%) LAPP Stack
11 2 (0.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.72%) IoT
2 19 (5.64%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.34%) PKI
4 16 (4.75%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (4.15%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.86%) Clustering
7 11 (3.26%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.97%) FPGA
9 7 (2.08%) Replication
10 6 (1.78%) Device Driver
11 5 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.89%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.59%) Beowulf
14 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 337 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (19.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 59 (17.51%) Ubuntu
4 51 (15.13%) CentOS
5 45 (13.35%) Windows
6 34 (10.09%) Debian
7 32 (9.50%) Embedded Linux
7 32 (9.50%) Unix
8 15 (4.45%) Solaris
9 11 (3.26%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (3.26%) Windows Server
10 9 (2.67%) CoreOS
11 6 (1.78%) SUSE
11 6 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.48%) Windows 10
12 5 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.89%) Rocky
14 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.30%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (20.47%) Software Engineering
3 68 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (14.54%) DevOps
5 45 (13.35%) Agile
6 36 (10.68%) Configuration Management
6 36 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (10.39%) CI/CD
8 33 (9.79%) Containerisation
9 28 (8.31%) Computer Science
10 25 (7.42%) Time Management
11 24 (7.12%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (6.23%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (5.64%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (5.34%) Customer Experience
14 18 (5.34%) Open Source
15 17 (5.04%) Test Automation
16 16 (4.75%) ITIL
16 16 (4.75%) Performance Tuning
17 15 (4.45%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 111 (32.94%) Python
2 100 (29.67%) Bash
3 64 (18.99%) C
4 33 (9.79%) Perl
5 32 (9.50%) C++
6 29 (8.61%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.82%) Java
8 22 (6.53%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.97%) Ada
9 10 (2.97%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.08%) C#
11 5 (1.48%) OCaml
11 5 (1.48%) SystemTap
12 4 (1.19%) PHP
12 4 (1.19%) Ruby
13 3 (0.89%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.89%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.59%) Go
14 2 (0.59%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.61%) Degree
2 29 (8.61%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.01%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.59%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.15%) QA
2 8 (2.37%) PMO
3 7 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.78%) SLA
5 5 (1.48%) NCSC
6 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (14.24%) Docker
2 27 (8.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.26%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.97%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.67%) KVM
6 9 (2.67%) NFS
7 7 (2.08%) Active Directory
8 6 (1.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.59%) GPFS
10 2 (0.59%) Lustre
10 2 (0.59%) QEMU
10 2 (0.59%) vSphere
10 2 (0.59%) Xen
11 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.30%) iptables
11 1 (0.30%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 119 (35.31%) Ansible
2 51 (15.13%) Kubernetes
3 42 (12.46%) Puppet
4 39 (11.57%) Terraform
5 17 (5.04%) Nagios
6 16 (4.75%) Grafana
7 14 (4.15%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.56%) Prometheus
9 10 (2.97%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (2.97%) vCenter Server
10 9 (2.67%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 8 (2.37%) Graphite
11 8 (2.37%) HAProxy
11 8 (2.37%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.19%) HP Data Protector
14 3 (0.89%) Rancher
15 2 (0.59%) ZABBIX
16 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (29.67%) Red Hat
2 29 (8.61%) VMware
3 23 (6.82%) Cisco
4 22 (6.53%) Microsoft
5 16 (4.75%) Oracle
6 15 (4.45%) F5
7 11 (3.26%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.67%) IBM
9 8 (2.37%) Dell
9 8 (2.37%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.08%) EMC
10 7 (2.08%) HP
11 6 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.78%) Juniper
11 6 (1.78%) Meraki
11 6 (1.78%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.48%) Serena
13 4 (1.19%) Intel
14 3 (0.89%) Google
14 3 (0.89%) SaltStack