Remote Linux jobs in the UK
Live remote Linux jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role is fully remote or work-from-home.
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We are currently tracking 140 live vacancies matching remote Linux jobs in the UK, advertised by 65 different employers. 15 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Remotefriendly, Spire, Pubmatic and Brookfieldglobal. 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 140 roles, 13 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £45,000. The middle half of the market sits between £32,000 and £76,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for remote 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, 100% are fully remote and 1% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 59% at mid level and 23% at senior level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Employers hiring for Linux in this slice most often ask for it alongside Python, AWS, JavaScript, SQL, Docker and PHP. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Software Engineer (C, Authentication & Identity) – Remote (f/m/d)
HR Systems Analyst
Software Engineer - Yocto/Linux
Software and Satellite Operations Quality Assurance Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer
Senior Software Engineer - Space Reliability
Senior Network Engineer
Senior Firmware Engineer
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Quality Assurance Engineer
Director of Software Engineering
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Director of IT — CE Africa
Founder & Director — Noiz Cybersecurity
Experience as PHP senior developer at least 3 years;
Senior PHP Developer Yii2
Work with databases, APIs and other back-end development tools;
Experience in fullstack development for at least 3 years;
Fullstack Middle Developer (PHP/JavaScript/CSS)
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many remote Linux jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 140 live vacancies across 65 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 remote Linux jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £45,000, based on the 13 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £32,000 to £76,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
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 Remotefriendly, Spire, Pubmatic, Brookfieldglobal and Naspa. 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 Python, AWS, JavaScript, SQL and Docker. 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?
£45,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 18% below the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 127 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Are there entry-level or graduate Linux developer jobs in the UK?
2 of the roles on this page read as graduate or junior level, which is 1% of what is live. Level is read from the job title, so a role advertised without one is counted as mid-level and may still be open to less experience.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Technical Project Manager, Application Developer, Lead, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer I (Historian), Senior Software Engineer I (Java) and Senior System Administrator (Linux & Virtualization). Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
How much experience do these roles need?
The largest group is mid level (59% of the page). Seniority is read from the job title, so a role that does not signal a level in its title is counted as mid-level.
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