Linux Engineer Jobs

Linux Engineer
UK

The median Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £61,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 589 559 578
Rank change year-on-year -30 +19 +218
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 98 365 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.39% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 85 303 375
10th Percentile £39,100 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £102,500 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +2.78% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,426 92,901 96,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 94.63% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 27,313 66,762 60,428
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,956 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -11.74% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. 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 -40 87 £61,000 -6.15% 81
London +58 52 £72,500 -9.38% 39
UK excluding London +24 39 £51,000 -8.11% 49
Work from Home +59 23 £53,500 -10.83% 34
North of England +59 12 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Midlands +50 11 £40,000 -30.43% 3
North West +38 10 £43,750 -20.45% 6
South East +62 5 £70,000 +21.74% 10
South West +61 5 £55,000 +7.32% 8
West Midlands +56 5 £47,500 -26.92% 3
East Midlands +46 5 £40,000 -23.81%
East of England +29 5 £55,000 -13.73% 14
Scotland +128 4 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Yorkshire +56 1 £47,500 +5.56% 2
North East +43 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2025, 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 98 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (37.76%) Ansible
3 35 (35.71%) Python
4 32 (32.65%) Windows
4 32 (32.65%) AWS
5 28 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 28 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 24 (24.49%) Bash
7 23 (23.47%) DevOps
8 22 (22.45%) Terraform
8 22 (22.45%) VMware
8 22 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (20.41%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (20.41%) Ubuntu
9 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
9 20 (20.41%) Docker
10 19 (19.39%) Puppet
11 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (16.33%) Azure
12 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
13 14 (14.29%) Go
13 14 (14.29%) Windows Server
14 13 (13.27%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (13.27%) Progress Chef
14 13 (13.27%) Low Latency
14 13 (13.27%) Ruby
14 13 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (13.27%) Red Hat
15 12 (12.24%) Shell Script

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 10 (10.20%) nginx
2 4 (4.08%) Apache
3 3 (3.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.65%) AWS
2 16 (16.33%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) Pulumi
4 7 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (3.06%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.06%) Serverless
8 2 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.04%) GitHub
8 2 (2.04%) IaaS
9 1 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) SSL
2 7 (7.14%) Firewall
3 6 (6.12%) SSH
4 4 (4.08%) DNS
4 4 (4.08%) HTTP
5 2 (2.04%) DHCP
5 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.02%) FTP
6 1 (1.02%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.02%) Multicast
6 1 (1.02%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.02%) SAN
6 1 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) MySQL
2 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.02%) Metadata
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.10%) JIRA
3 4 (4.08%) Git
4 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (3.06%) GitLab
4 3 (3.06%) Vagrant
5 2 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.02%) Maven
6 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.22%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (2.04%) Automotive
6 1 (1.02%) Aviation
6 1 (1.02%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.02%) Electronics
6 1 (1.02%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.04%) Django
1 2 (2.04%) LDAP
1 2 (2.04%) REST
1 2 (2.04%) Web Services
1 2 (2.04%) YAML
2 1 (1.02%) EDI
2 1 (1.02%) LAMP
2 1 (1.02%) Loki
2 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.18%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.04%) Clustering
4 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.04%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.04%) Replication
4 2 (2.04%) Robotics
4 2 (2.04%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 98 (100.00%) Linux
2 32 (32.65%) Windows
3 20 (20.41%) Ubuntu
4 14 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (11.22%) Debian
6 9 (9.18%) CentOS
6 9 (9.18%) Unix
7 8 (8.16%) Mac OS
7 8 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (7.14%) AIX
9 5 (5.10%) Solaris
10 4 (4.08%) Rocky
11 3 (3.06%) VMS
11 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
12 2 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 23 (23.47%) DevOps
3 22 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (20.41%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (13.27%) Deployment Automation
6 13 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (13.27%) Low Latency
6 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (11.22%) Fintech
7 11 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (10.20%) Service Delivery
8 10 (10.20%) Systems Engineering
9 8 (8.16%) Agile
9 8 (8.16%) Asset Management
9 8 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.16%) High Availability
10 7 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (7.14%) ITIL
10 7 (7.14%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.71%) Python
2 24 (24.49%) Bash
3 14 (14.29%) Go
4 13 (13.27%) Ruby
5 12 (12.24%) Shell Script
6 11 (11.22%) Perl
7 10 (10.20%) Bicep
8 4 (4.08%) C
9 3 (3.06%) Groovy
9 3 (3.06%) Java
9 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.04%) C++
10 2 (2.04%) Rust
11 1 (1.02%) AWK
11 1 (1.02%) Korn
11 1 (1.02%) PHP
11 1 (1.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) RHCE
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.02%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) SLA
2 6 (6.12%) GDPR
3 5 (5.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (20.41%) Docker
2 12 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.06%) KVM
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.04%) Postfix
5 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.02%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.02%) Sendmail
6 1 (1.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (37.76%) Ansible
2 22 (22.45%) Terraform
3 19 (19.39%) Puppet
4 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
5 13 (13.27%) Progress Chef
6 10 (10.20%) Podman
7 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (5.10%) Nessus
8 5 (5.10%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (4.08%) Nagios
9 4 (4.08%) SCCM
10 3 (3.06%) Grafana
10 3 (3.06%) Proxmox
11 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
12 1 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) VMware
2 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.27%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.14%) Apple
5 4 (4.08%) Cisco
5 4 (4.08%) Citrix
5 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.06%) Juniper
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle
7 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.04%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.02%) IBM
8 1 (1.02%) NetApp
8 1 (1.02%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.02%) SAP
8 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.02%) Sophos
8 1 (1.02%) Splunk
8 1 (1.02%) Symantec
8 1 (1.02%) Veritas