Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £79,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 443 713
Rank change year-on-year +46 +270 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 108 191 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.57% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 95 165 155
10th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £45,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.93% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £150,750 £96,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,181 33,417 64,405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,675 24,567 34,955
10th Percentile £38,084 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £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 £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 5 May 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 5 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
Central London +49 12 £70,000 +9.14% 4
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Linux
2 75 (69.44%) Python
3 63 (58.33%) Bash
4 60 (55.56%) Ansible
5 47 (43.52%) Red Hat
6 41 (37.96%) TCP/IP
7 37 (34.26%) AWS
8 31 (28.70%) Finance
9 30 (27.78%) Windows
10 29 (26.85%) DNS
10 29 (26.85%) Firewall
11 28 (25.93%) Terraform
12 27 (25.00%) Software Engineering
13 26 (24.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 26 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (24.07%) Social Skills
14 25 (23.15%) Kubernetes
15 24 (22.22%) CI/CD
16 23 (21.30%) Docker
17 22 (20.37%) Perl
18 21 (19.44%) C
18 21 (19.44%) PowerShell
18 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
19 20 (18.52%) Jenkins
19 20 (18.52%) Ubuntu
20 19 (17.59%) Debian
20 19 (17.59%) DevOps
21 18 (16.67%) Puppet
21 18 (16.67%) High Availability
21 18 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery

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 10 (9.26%) Apache
2 9 (8.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) AWS
2 16 (14.81%) Azure
3 14 (12.96%) Amazon S3
4 11 (10.19%) GCP
5 10 (9.26%) GitHub
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.85%) Kong
8 2 (1.85%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.93%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 41 (37.96%) TCP/IP
2 29 (26.85%) DNS
2 29 (26.85%) Firewall
3 13 (12.04%) Internet
4 12 (11.11%) SAN
4 12 (11.11%) SNMP
5 10 (9.26%) tcpdump
6 9 (8.33%) LAN
6 9 (8.33%) WAN
7 8 (7.41%) VPN
8 7 (6.48%) DHCP
9 6 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.78%) BGP
10 3 (2.78%) IPv6
10 3 (2.78%) NAS
11 2 (1.85%) DKIM
11 2 (1.85%) DMARC
11 2 (1.85%) HTTP
11 2 (1.85%) Network Security
11 2 (1.85%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (12.04%) MySQL
2 9 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.85%) Redis
4 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.33%) Git
3 8 (7.41%) GitLab
4 6 (5.56%) JIRA
5 5 (4.63%) DTrace
5 5 (4.63%) GDB
5 5 (4.63%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.70%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.85%) git-flow
7 2 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (28.70%) Finance
2 26 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Banking
4 10 (9.26%) Telecoms
5 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.78%) Games
6 3 (2.78%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.19%) Elastic Stack
1 11 (10.19%) LDAP
2 9 (8.33%) YAML
3 7 (6.48%) GTK
4 4 (3.70%) .NET
4 4 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.78%) LAMP
6 2 (1.85%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (0.93%) CSS
7 1 (0.93%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.93%) Middleware
7 1 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Clustering
2 13 (12.04%) PKI
3 12 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 11 (10.19%) Client/Server
5 7 (6.48%) Replication
6 5 (4.63%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.70%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.78%) FPGA
9 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.85%) PropTech
9 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 108 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (27.78%) Windows
3 26 (24.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (18.52%) Ubuntu
5 19 (17.59%) Debian
6 13 (12.04%) CentOS
7 10 (9.26%) Windows Server
8 8 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (7.41%) Unix
9 6 (5.56%) Solaris
10 1 (0.93%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (17.59%) DevOps
6 18 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (16.67%) High Availability
7 16 (14.81%) Agile
7 16 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (13.89%) Containerisation
8 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (12.96%) Load Balancing
9 14 (12.96%) Security Hardening
10 13 (12.04%) Key Management
10 13 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (11.11%) Configuration Management
12 11 (10.19%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (9.26%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 75 (69.44%) Python
2 63 (58.33%) Bash
3 22 (20.37%) Perl
4 21 (19.44%) C
4 21 (19.44%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.33%) C#
5 9 (8.33%) Java
6 7 (6.48%) C++
6 7 (6.48%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.56%) Ruby
8 5 (4.63%) OCaml
8 5 (4.63%) SystemTap
9 4 (3.70%) Go
9 4 (3.70%) Rust
10 3 (2.78%) Korn
11 2 (1.85%) PHP
11 2 (1.85%) SQL
12 1 (0.93%) Tcl
12 1 (0.93%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) Degree
2 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.93%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (0.93%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.85%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (21.30%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.56%) NFS
4 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.78%) KVM
6 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.93%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 60 (55.56%) Ansible
2 28 (25.93%) Terraform
3 25 (23.15%) Kubernetes
4 18 (16.67%) Puppet
5 12 (11.11%) Grafana
5 12 (11.11%) Progress Chef
6 10 (9.26%) Nagios
7 9 (8.33%) Graphite
7 9 (8.33%) HAProxy
7 9 (8.33%) vCenter Server
8 8 (7.41%) Prometheus
8 8 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.70%) HP Data Protector
11 3 (2.78%) Salt
12 2 (1.85%) Rancher
12 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.93%) Podman
13 1 (0.93%) SCCM
13 1 (0.93%) systemd
Vendors
1 47 (43.52%) Red Hat
2 9 (8.33%) F5
2 9 (8.33%) Oracle
2 9 (8.33%) VMware
3 8 (7.41%) Cisco
3 8 (7.41%) Palo Alto
4 6 (5.56%) Dell
4 6 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 6 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.63%) HP
5 5 (4.63%) Serena
6 4 (3.70%) EMC
6 4 (3.70%) Intel
6 4 (3.70%) TOWER Software
7 3 (2.78%) Juniper
8 2 (1.85%) Google
8 2 (1.85%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.85%) Sun
9 1 (0.93%) Splunk