Senior Linux Systems Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Linux Systems Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 630 874
Rank change year-on-year +132 +244 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Systems Engineer 7 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.030% 0.006% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.006% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £71,000 £60,125 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £62,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £68,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £76,375 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £68,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.09% +24.55% -

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 22,206 32,343 66,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 95.12% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 23,852 34,726
10th Percentile £37,500 £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%

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Systems Engineer in London

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Systems Engineer in London

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Systems Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Senior Linux Systems 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 Senior Linux Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Bash
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
3 5 (71.43%) DHCP
3 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (57.14%) Server Management
4 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
4 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (57.14%) Firewall
4 4 (57.14%) Windows
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 2 (28.57%) Puppet
5 2 (28.57%) Ansible
5 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (14.29%) KVM
6 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
6 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 1 (14.29%) Cost Control
6 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu

Senior Linux Systems 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) DHCP
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) tcpdump
4 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Server Management
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Control
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Fintech
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Bash
3 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Korn
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (14.29%) RHCE
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) KVM
3 1 (14.29%) NFS
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) systemd
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) SaltStack
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk