Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 427 755
Rank change year-on-year +27 +328 -293
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 111 176 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.56% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.59% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 91 157 155
10th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% +7.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +45 17 £70,000 - 2
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 111 (100.00%) Linux
2 71 (63.96%) Python
3 59 (53.15%) Ansible
4 56 (50.45%) Bash
5 52 (46.85%) Red Hat
6 43 (38.74%) TCP/IP
7 36 (32.43%) Finance
7 36 (32.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (28.83%) AWS
9 29 (26.13%) DNS
9 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
10 26 (23.42%) Perl
11 24 (21.62%) Firewall
11 24 (21.62%) Software Engineering
11 24 (21.62%) Kubernetes
11 24 (21.62%) Terraform
12 23 (20.72%) Windows
12 23 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (18.92%) C
13 21 (18.92%) Debian
14 20 (18.02%) Ubuntu
14 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (16.22%) Puppet
16 17 (15.32%) PowerShell
16 17 (15.32%) Banking
16 17 (15.32%) Configuration Management
16 17 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 17 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
17 16 (14.41%) Degree

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (10.81%) Apache
2 10 (9.01%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.83%) AWS
2 11 (9.91%) Amazon S3
2 11 (9.91%) Azure
3 8 (7.21%) GCP
4 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (4.50%) GitHub
5 4 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.80%) Kong
6 2 (1.80%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.90%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (38.74%) TCP/IP
2 29 (26.13%) DNS
3 24 (21.62%) Firewall
4 12 (10.81%) SAN
4 12 (10.81%) SNMP
5 10 (9.01%) DHCP
5 10 (9.01%) Internet
6 9 (8.11%) NAS
6 9 (8.11%) tcpdump
7 8 (7.21%) LAN
7 8 (7.21%) VPN
7 8 (7.21%) WAN
8 6 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (2.70%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.80%) DKIM
10 2 (1.80%) DMARC
10 2 (1.80%) HTTP
10 2 (1.80%) Network Security
10 2 (1.80%) SMTP
11 1 (0.90%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (8.11%) MySQL
3 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.80%) Redis
5 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.31%) Git
3 5 (4.50%) DTrace
3 5 (4.50%) GDB
3 5 (4.50%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.60%) JIRA
5 3 (2.70%) GitLab
6 2 (1.80%) git-flow
6 2 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (32.43%) Finance
2 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.32%) Banking
4 8 (7.21%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.70%) Japanese Language
6 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.90%) Electronics
8 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) LDAP
2 8 (7.21%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.31%) GTK
4 6 (5.41%) YAML
5 4 (3.60%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (3.60%) Kafka
6 3 (2.70%) Keycloak
6 3 (2.70%) LAMP
6 3 (2.70%) Middleware
7 2 (1.80%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.90%) .NET
8 1 (0.90%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.90%) CSS
8 1 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Data Centre
1 13 (11.71%) PKI
2 12 (10.81%) Client/Server
3 11 (9.91%) Clustering
4 9 (8.11%) FPGA
5 7 (6.31%) Replication
6 5 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.50%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.80%) PropTech
9 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 111 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (32.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (20.72%) Windows
4 21 (18.92%) Debian
5 20 (18.02%) Ubuntu
6 14 (12.61%) CentOS
7 11 (9.91%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (9.01%) Unix
9 7 (6.31%) Windows Server
10 5 (4.50%) Solaris
11 1 (0.90%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.62%) Software Engineering
2 23 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (15.32%) Configuration Management
4 17 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (13.51%) CI/CD
5 15 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (12.61%) DevOps
6 14 (12.61%) High Availability
7 13 (11.71%) Agile
7 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (11.71%) Key Management
8 11 (9.91%) Identity Management
8 11 (9.91%) Load Balancing
8 11 (9.91%) Security Hardening
9 10 (9.01%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (9.01%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (63.96%) Python
2 56 (50.45%) Bash
3 26 (23.42%) Perl
4 21 (18.92%) C
5 17 (15.32%) PowerShell
6 13 (11.71%) Java
7 9 (8.11%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.31%) C++
9 6 (5.41%) C#
10 5 (4.50%) OCaml
10 5 (4.50%) SystemTap
11 2 (1.80%) SQL
12 1 (0.90%) Go
12 1 (0.90%) Korn
12 1 (0.90%) PHP
12 1 (0.90%) Ruby
12 1 (0.90%) Rust
12 1 (0.90%) Tcl
12 1 (0.90%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 16 (14.41%) Degree
2 5 (4.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) Linux+ Certification
4 3 (2.70%) RHCE
5 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (13.51%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.41%) NFS
3 6 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.50%) KVM
5 3 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.90%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 59 (53.15%) Ansible
2 24 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.62%) Terraform
3 18 (16.22%) Puppet
4 14 (12.61%) Prometheus
5 11 (9.91%) Grafana
5 11 (9.91%) Nagios
6 8 (7.21%) Progress Chef
7 6 (5.41%) Graphite
7 6 (5.41%) HAProxy
7 6 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (5.41%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.60%) HP Data Protector
8 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.80%) Rancher
9 2 (1.80%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.90%) Podman
10 1 (0.90%) SCCM
10 1 (0.90%) systemd
Vendors
1 52 (46.85%) Red Hat
2 16 (14.41%) F5
3 13 (11.71%) Oracle
4 10 (9.01%) VMware
5 8 (7.21%) Palo Alto
6 7 (6.31%) Dell
7 6 (5.41%) Cisco
7 6 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 6 (5.41%) HP
7 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
8 5 (4.50%) Serena
9 4 (3.60%) EMC
10 3 (2.70%) SaltStack
10 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.70%) Splunk
11 2 (1.80%) Google
12 1 (0.90%) Brocade
12 1 (0.90%) Intel
12 1 (0.90%) SAP
12 1 (0.90%) TOWER Software