Linux Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Linux Engineer
England > North of England

The median Linux Engineer salary in the North of England is £48,750 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 352 378 409
Rank change year-on-year +26 +31 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 35 56 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.38% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26 24 32
10th Percentile £38,195 - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £59,375 £46,313 £51,000
90th Percentile £60,875 £58,900 £58,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 17,212 14,849 17,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 89.39% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,281 8,065 10,980
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire +35 15 £45,000 +5.88% 2
North West +12 10 £52,500 +5.53% 3
North East +6 10 £60,000 +33.33%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) Unix
3 8 (22.86%) Windows
3 8 (22.86%) Red Hat
3 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (17.14%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (14.29%) Cisco
6 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
6 4 (11.43%) Solaris
6 4 (11.43%) Military
6 4 (11.43%) Puppet
6 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
7 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (8.57%) Bash
7 3 (8.57%) Presales
7 3 (8.57%) Ansible
7 3 (8.57%) Docker
7 3 (8.57%) DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) Azure
7 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (8.57%) Python
7 3 (8.57%) Project Management
8 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
8 2 (5.71%) Apache
8 2 (5.71%) PHP
8 2 (5.71%) MySQL
8 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) SaaS
2 2 (5.71%) Serverless
3 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MySQL
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (11.43%) Military
1 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.86%) Automotive
3 1 (2.86%) Electronics
3 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) LAMP
1 2 (5.71%) LAPP Stack
1 2 (5.71%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (5.71%) YAML
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) Unix
3 8 (22.86%) Windows
4 6 (17.14%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (11.43%) Solaris
6 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.86%) CentOS
7 1 (2.86%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (8.57%) DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (8.57%) Presales
3 3 (8.57%) Project Management
4 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (5.71%) Change Management
4 2 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (5.71%) Containerisation
4 2 (5.71%) Fintech
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (2.86%) Business Development
5 1 (2.86%) Line Management
5 1 (2.86%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (2.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (2.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Debt
5 1 (2.86%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Bash
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) PHP
3 1 (2.86%) C
3 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
1 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Puppet
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Red Hat
2 5 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (2.86%) Juniper
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft