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Lead and principal Linux jobs in the UK

Live lead and principal Linux jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly.

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81 Live vacancies
38 Employers hiring
£76,000 Median advertised
27% Remote
58 minutes ago Last updated

We are currently tracking 81 live vacancies matching lead and principal Linux jobs in the UK, advertised by 38 different employers. 19 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Pubmatic, Hr Champ, Remotefriendly and Nihilent. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.

Of the 81 roles, 7 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £76,000. The middle half of the market sits between £50,000 and £97,250, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for lead and principal Linux jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.

On working pattern, 27% are fully remote, 44% are hybrid and 1% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.

Employers hiring for Linux in this slice most often ask for it alongside AWS, Python, Java, Angular, React and SQL. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.

81 live vacancies

Lead Non-Functional Test Engineer | Careers

Nxzen · United Kingdom
AWS Azure Kubernetes Docker Jenkins
First seen 58 minutes ago

Senior Solutions Architect - Saudi Arabia @ Immersive Labs | Ten Eleven Ventures Job Board

1011Vc · Bristol · On-site
Linux
First seen 4 hours ago

Technical Delivery Lead

Spektrum · Leeds · On-site
Python Java C# JavaScript AWS
First seen 17 hours ago

Technical Lead Software Engineer - Multi-Agent Mission Systems

Appliedintuition · London · Remote
Remote
C++ Docker Linux SAP
First seen 1 day ago

Principal Cloud Operations Engineer

Eckoh · Hybrid
Hybrid
AWS Linux Databricks
First seen 1 day ago

IT Support Manager

Ravelin · London · On-site
Terraform Linux
First seen 3 days ago

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Sanver · London · On-site
AWS Linux Oracle
First seen 4 days ago

AWS Solutions Architect

Sanver · London · On-site
AWS Linux Oracle
First seen 4 days ago

Lead Server Engineer at Freshworks Company | Edu Jobs

Edubuzz360 · United Kingdom
AWS Azure Linux Redis PowerShell
First seen 5 days ago

Cyber Security Architect

Spektrum · Leeds · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Linux
First seen 5 days ago

Principal Software Engineer - Autonomy | Careers | Kraken Technology

Krakentechnology · United Kingdom
Python C++ Kubernetes Docker Linux
First seen 5 days ago

Engineering Manager - Robotic Systems and Test

Appliedintuition · London · Remote
Remote
Python C++ Jenkins Linux
First seen 6 days ago

Full Stack Tech Lead – Connected Vehicle IoT Platform

Tataelxsi · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# C++ Go
First seen 6 days ago

QA Lead – Connected Vehicle IoT Platform

Tataelxsi · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# C++ Go
First seen 6 days ago

Solution Architect (Hybris or IBM WebSphere Commerce Server)

Architecturecrossing · Bristol · Remote
Remote
C# Linux
First seen 6 days ago

Solutions Architect

Architecturecrossing · Bristol · Remote
Remote
C# Linux
First seen 6 days ago

Senior Manager – ServiceNow Sales

Nihilent · United Kingdom
JavaScript AWS Azure Terraform Jenkins
First seen 6 days ago

Staff Engineering Support Engineer

Dragos · Remote
Remote
£76,000 a year
AWS Azure Google Cloud Kubernetes Linux
First seen 6 days ago

Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs · Remote
Remote
£103,958 – £124,750 a year
Python Java AWS Azure Google Cloud
First seen 6 days ago

Principal Embedded Software Engineer I

Cesiumastro · On-site
C++ Linux
First seen 1 week ago

Job titles employers are advertising

The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.

Questions about these roles

How many lead and principal Linux jobs in the UK are there right now?

We are tracking 81 live vacancies across 38 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.

What do lead and principal Linux jobs in the UK pay?

The median advertised ceiling is £76,000, based on the 7 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £50,000 to £97,250. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.

Can these roles be done remotely?

27% are advertised as fully remote and 44% as hybrid. The rest are on-site or do not say — where an employer is silent we leave it blank rather than guessing.

Are these contract or permanent roles?

1% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.

Which employers are hiring?

The most active right now are Pubmatic, Hr Champ, Remotefriendly, Nihilent and Eckoh. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.

What other skills do these roles ask for?

Most often AWS, Python, Java, Angular and React. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.

How much does a Linux developer earn in the UK?

£76,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 38% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 74 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.

Can you work from home as a Linux developer in the UK?

58 of the 81 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 22 fully remote and 36 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.

Are there entry-level or graduate Linux developer jobs in the UK?

Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.

What job titles are used for this role?

Employers on this page advertise it as SOLUTION ARCHITECT, Technical Project Manager, ServiceNow Architect, Lead ServiceNow upgrades planning and execution. and Network Architect & Voice Full-Stack — Nexbridge Communications. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.

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