Linux Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer salary in Work from Home is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 397 701
Rank change year-on-year -75 +304 -316
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 120 268 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.67% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.70% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 112 236 161
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £106,125 £150,000 £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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,819 38,389 70,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,114 27,311 42,144
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,536 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +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%

Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Linux Engineer.

Linux Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Linux Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 120 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (52.50%) Ansible
3 53 (44.17%) AWS
4 51 (42.50%) Python
5 45 (37.50%) Bash
6 42 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 41 (34.17%) Red Hat
8 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
8 37 (30.83%) Terraform
9 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (25.83%) DevOps
11 31 (25.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (25.83%) Azure
11 31 (25.83%) Firewall
12 30 (25.00%) Docker
13 29 (24.17%) Ubuntu
14 28 (23.33%) CI/CD
15 26 (21.67%) TCP/IP
15 26 (21.67%) Kubernetes
15 26 (21.67%) Git
15 26 (21.67%) Puppet
16 25 (20.83%) Agile
17 23 (19.17%) C
17 23 (19.17%) CentOS
18 22 (18.33%) PowerShell
19 20 (16.67%) DNS
20 19 (15.83%) Debian
21 18 (15.00%) Migration
21 18 (15.00%) Software Engineering

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.17%) nginx
2 2 (1.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 53 (44.17%) AWS
2 31 (25.83%) Azure
3 10 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 10 (8.33%) GCP
4 9 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (7.50%) SaaS
5 7 (5.83%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.83%) Slack
6 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.67%) AWS OpsWorks
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub
8 2 (1.67%) Kong
8 2 (1.67%) Serverless
8 2 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (25.83%) Firewall
2 26 (21.67%) TCP/IP
3 20 (16.67%) DNS
4 15 (12.50%) SAN
5 13 (10.83%) Internet
6 12 (10.00%) LAN
6 12 (10.00%) SNMP
7 8 (6.67%) tcpdump
8 7 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (5.00%) NAS
9 6 (5.00%) WAN
10 4 (3.33%) DHCP
11 2 (1.67%) HTTP
11 2 (1.67%) VPN
11 2 (1.67%) VSAN
12 1 (0.83%) IPsec
12 1 (0.83%) MQTT
12 1 (0.83%) RS-485
12 1 (0.83%) SSL
12 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.00%) MySQL
2 8 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.67%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (21.67%) Git
2 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.83%) JIRA
4 5 (4.17%) DTrace
4 5 (4.17%) GDB
4 5 (4.17%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.67%) GitLab
5 2 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
General
1 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.17%) Finance
3 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.50%) Banking
4 9 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Advertising
6 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.67%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (7.50%) YAML
3 8 (6.67%) GTK
4 4 (3.33%) LDAP
5 3 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.50%) Kafka
5 3 (2.50%) Middleware
6 2 (1.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (1.67%) Yocto
7 1 (0.83%) ADO
7 1 (0.83%) JSON
7 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (10.83%) Clustering
3 11 (9.17%) Client/Server
4 10 (8.33%) FPGA
5 9 (7.50%) Data Centre
6 8 (6.67%) PKI
7 7 (5.83%) CMDB
8 6 (5.00%) Management Information System
9 5 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (4.17%) Replication
10 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.67%) Device Driver
11 2 (1.67%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.67%) PropTech
12 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.83%) IoT
12 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 120 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (25.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (24.17%) Ubuntu
4 23 (19.17%) CentOS
5 19 (15.83%) Debian
6 17 (14.17%) Windows
7 11 (9.17%) Oracle Linux
7 11 (9.17%) Unix
8 7 (5.83%) CoreOS
8 7 (5.83%) Solaris
9 4 (3.33%) SUSE
10 3 (2.50%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.83%) Fedora
12 1 (0.83%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (25.83%) DevOps
5 28 (23.33%) CI/CD
6 25 (20.83%) Agile
7 18 (15.00%) Migration
7 18 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 17 (14.17%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 15 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (12.50%) Time Management
10 14 (11.67%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.83%) High Availability
11 13 (10.83%) ITIL
11 13 (10.83%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (10.83%) Scrum
11 13 (10.83%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.50%) Python
2 45 (37.50%) Bash
3 23 (19.17%) C
4 22 (18.33%) PowerShell
5 14 (11.67%) Perl
6 11 (9.17%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.33%) Java
8 6 (5.00%) C++
9 5 (4.17%) C#
9 5 (4.17%) OCaml
9 5 (4.17%) SystemTap
10 3 (2.50%) Ada
10 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.67%) Ruby
11 2 (1.67%) SQL
12 1 (0.83%) AWK
12 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.17%) Degree
3 8 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.67%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (25.00%) Docker
2 9 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.50%) KVM
6 2 (1.67%) NFS
6 2 (1.67%) vSphere
7 1 (0.83%) Samba
Systems Management
1 63 (52.50%) Ansible
2 37 (30.83%) Terraform
3 26 (21.67%) Kubernetes
3 26 (21.67%) Puppet
4 12 (10.00%) Nagios
5 10 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
5 10 (8.33%) Grafana
6 8 (6.67%) Graphite
6 8 (6.67%) HAProxy
6 8 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 8 (6.67%) vCenter Server
7 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.67%) Rancher
8 2 (1.67%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 41 (34.17%) Red Hat
2 12 (10.00%) Oracle
3 10 (8.33%) F5
4 9 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.50%) VMware
5 6 (5.00%) Cisco
5 6 (5.00%) Meraki
5 6 (5.00%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (4.17%) Serena
7 2 (1.67%) Dell
7 2 (1.67%) Google
7 2 (1.67%) HP
7 2 (1.67%) Intel
7 2 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.67%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.83%) SaltStack