Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 878 1078
Rank change year-on-year +112 +200 -303
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 76 51 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.055% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.060% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 59 43 49
10th Percentile £47,250 £42,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £76,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +26.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £121,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £127,500 £89,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
London +121 26 £77,500 -27.06% 6
Midlands +24 18 £65,000 -10.03%
West Midlands +39 16 £65,000 -10.03%
South East +19 9 £57,500 +11.65% 1
South West -20 9 £52,500 +9.38%
North of England +49 7 £50,341 +11.25%
East of England +18 7 £80,000 - 4
North East - 6 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £51,250 -
Yorkshire +92 1 £40,681 -7.54%
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (34.21%) Embedded Linux
4 25 (32.89%) Python
4 25 (32.89%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (31.58%) Agile
6 23 (30.26%) Software Engineering
7 22 (28.95%) Ansible
7 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
8 21 (27.63%) C
9 20 (26.32%) C++
10 19 (25.00%) Bash
11 18 (23.68%) Yocto
11 18 (23.68%) TCP/IP
12 16 (21.05%) DNS
13 15 (19.74%) Windows
13 15 (19.74%) IoT
14 14 (18.42%) Embedded Software Development
14 14 (18.42%) Puppet
14 14 (18.42%) Firewall
14 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
15 13 (17.11%) DevOps
15 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
16 12 (15.79%) Docker
16 12 (15.79%) Azure
16 12 (15.79%) AWS
16 12 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
17 11 (14.47%) Internet
17 11 (14.47%) MySQL
17 11 (14.47%) VMware

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.95%) Apache
2 2 (2.63%) JBoss
2 2 (2.63%) nginx
2 2 (2.63%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.79%) AWS
1 12 (15.79%) Azure
2 9 (11.84%) Amazon S3
2 9 (11.84%) GCP
3 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.32%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.68%) TCP/IP
2 16 (21.05%) DNS
3 14 (18.42%) Firewall
4 11 (14.47%) Internet
5 10 (13.16%) tcpdump
6 9 (11.84%) SNMP
7 6 (7.89%) DHCP
8 3 (3.95%) SAN
9 1 (1.32%) BGP
9 1 (1.32%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.32%) FTP
9 1 (1.32%) IPv6
9 1 (1.32%) MQTT
9 1 (1.32%) RS-485
9 1 (1.32%) VLAN
9 1 (1.32%) VPN
9 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (14.47%) MySQL
2 9 (11.84%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) Git
2 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 25 (32.89%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
4 9 (11.84%) Finance
5 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.95%) Advertising
6 3 (3.95%) Electronics
7 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.63%) Marketing
7 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.68%) Yocto
2 9 (11.84%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (11.84%) YAML
3 3 (3.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 3 (3.95%) Kafka
3 3 (3.95%) Middleware
3 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.95%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) CSS
4 1 (1.32%) JSON
4 1 (1.32%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) IoT
2 9 (11.84%) Clustering
3 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.95%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.95%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.95%) FPGA
5 1 (1.32%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 76 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (34.21%) Embedded Linux
3 15 (19.74%) Windows
4 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.95%) CentOS
6 3 (3.95%) Debian
6 3 (3.95%) Unix
7 2 (2.63%) Rocky
7 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (31.58%) Agile
3 23 (30.26%) Software Engineering
4 14 (18.42%) Embedded Software Development
5 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
5 13 (17.11%) DevOps
6 12 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (14.47%) High Availability
7 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (14.47%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.16%) Business Continuity
8 10 (13.16%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 10 (13.16%) Code Quality
8 10 (13.16%) Load Balancing
9 9 (11.84%) Continuous Deployment
9 9 (11.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 9 (11.84%) Migration
9 9 (11.84%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) Python
2 21 (27.63%) C
3 20 (26.32%) C++
4 19 (25.00%) Bash
5 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
6 10 (13.16%) Perl
7 8 (10.53%) Java
8 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.32%) Korn
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) PMO
1 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
2 11 (14.47%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (7.89%) KVM
5 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.63%) NFS
7 1 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (1.32%) Firmware
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (28.95%) Ansible
2 14 (18.42%) Puppet
3 11 (14.47%) Terraform
3 11 (14.47%) vCenter Server
4 10 (13.16%) Grafana
4 10 (13.16%) Nagios
5 9 (11.84%) Graphite
5 9 (11.84%) HAProxy
6 7 (9.21%) Kubernetes
7 5 (6.58%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.63%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (1.32%) Salt
10 1 (1.32%) SCCM
10 1 (1.32%) systemd
10 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) VMware
2 8 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.95%) Dell
3 3 (3.95%) EMC
4 2 (2.63%) HP
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (1.32%) Brocade
5 1 (1.32%) F5
5 1 (1.32%) Juniper
5 1 (1.32%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.32%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.32%) Splunk
5 1 (1.32%) Veeam