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 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 739 875 1085
Rank change year-on-year +136 +210 -323
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 76 52 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.056% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.061% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 59 43 49
10th Percentile £47,250 £42,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +131 25 £77,500 -27.06% 3
Midlands +15 18 £65,000 -10.03%
West Midlands +40 16 £65,000 -10.03%
South East +19 10 £57,500 +11.65%
South West -12 9 £52,500 +9.38%
North of England +41 7 £50,341 +11.25%
East of England +15 7 £80,000 - 5
North East - 6 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £51,250 -
Yorkshire +93 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 28 April 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 35 (46.05%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (34.21%) Embedded Linux
4 25 (32.89%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (31.58%) Agile
5 24 (31.58%) Python
6 23 (30.26%) Software Engineering
7 21 (27.63%) C
7 21 (27.63%) Ansible
7 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
8 20 (26.32%) C++
9 18 (23.68%) Yocto
9 18 (23.68%) Bash
10 17 (22.37%) TCP/IP
11 16 (21.05%) DNS
11 16 (21.05%) Windows
12 15 (19.74%) IoT
13 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
13 14 (18.42%) Embedded Software Development
13 14 (18.42%) Firewall
14 13 (17.11%) Puppet
14 13 (17.11%) DevOps
14 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
15 12 (15.79%) Docker
16 11 (14.47%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (14.47%) VMware ESXi
16 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
16 11 (14.47%) Azure
16 11 (14.47%) AWS
16 11 (14.47%) vCenter Server

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 2 (2.63%) Apache
1 2 (2.63%) JBoss
1 2 (2.63%) nginx
1 2 (2.63%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.47%) AWS
1 11 (14.47%) 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 17 (22.37%) TCP/IP
2 16 (21.05%) DNS
3 14 (18.42%) Firewall
4 11 (14.47%) Internet
5 9 (11.84%) SNMP
5 9 (11.84%) tcpdump
6 5 (6.58%) DHCP
7 3 (3.95%) SAN
8 1 (1.32%) BGP
8 1 (1.32%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.32%) FTP
8 1 (1.32%) IPv6
8 1 (1.32%) MQTT
8 1 (1.32%) RS-485
8 1 (1.32%) VLAN
8 1 (1.32%) VPN
8 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
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%) PostgreSQL
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 21 (27.63%) 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%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.95%) REST
4 2 (2.63%) Middleware
5 1 (1.32%) CSS
5 1 (1.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) IoT
2 9 (11.84%) Clustering
3 5 (6.58%) 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%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (34.21%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (21.05%) Windows
4 7 (9.21%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.95%) Debian
6 3 (3.95%) Unix
7 2 (2.63%) CentOS
7 2 (2.63%) Rocky
8 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) 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 11 (14.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
7 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
7 10 (13.16%) Code Quality
7 10 (13.16%) High Availability
7 10 (13.16%) Load Balancing
7 10 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (11.84%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (11.84%) Continuous Deployment
8 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (11.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (11.84%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.58%) Python
2 21 (27.63%) C
3 20 (26.32%) C++
4 18 (23.68%) Bash
5 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
6 9 (11.84%) Perl
7 8 (10.53%) Java
8 1 (1.32%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.32%) Korn
8 1 (1.32%) PHP
8 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
8 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%) ITIL Certification
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 5 (6.58%) KVM
5 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
7 2 (2.63%) NFS
8 1 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (1.32%) Firmware
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (27.63%) Ansible
2 13 (17.11%) Puppet
3 11 (14.47%) Terraform
3 11 (14.47%) vCenter Server
4 10 (13.16%) Nagios
5 9 (11.84%) Grafana
5 9 (11.84%) Graphite
5 9 (11.84%) HAProxy
6 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
7 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (5.26%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.63%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.63%) SCCM
10 1 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (1.32%) Salt
10 1 (1.32%) SCOM
10 1 (1.32%) SCSM
10 1 (1.32%) SCVMM
10 1 (1.32%) systemd
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) VMware
2 7 (9.21%) 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%) Citrix
5 1 (1.32%) F5
5 1 (1.32%) Juniper
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.32%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.32%) Veeam