Linux Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Linux Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Linux Engineer salary in the City of London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 231 259
Rank change year-on-year +66 +28 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 13 5 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.39% 0.11% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.11% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 24
10th Percentile £52,700 £51,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,125 £52,500 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -23.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £79,688 £120,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,875 - £86,750
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £64,140 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.14% -14.48% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,231 4,577 6,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.44% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 3,850 5,625
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the City of London

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in the City of London

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 City of London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
3 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
3 8 (61.54%) Bash
3 8 (61.54%) Ansible
4 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 6 (46.15%) Apache
5 5 (38.46%) HP
5 5 (38.46%) Dell
5 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
5 5 (38.46%) SAN
5 5 (38.46%) nginx
5 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
6 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (30.77%) HP Data Protector
6 4 (30.77%) EMC
7 3 (23.08%) C
7 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Debian
7 3 (23.08%) CentOS
8 2 (15.38%) Open Source Development
8 2 (15.38%) Key Management
8 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 2 (15.38%) Open Source
8 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
8 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (15.38%) GTK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (46.15%) Apache
2 5 (38.46%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (38.46%) SAN
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) NAS
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) GTK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
3 3 (23.08%) CentOS
3 3 (23.08%) Debian
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (7.69%) Solaris
5 1 (7.69%) Unix
5 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
2 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
2 2 (15.38%) Key Management
2 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 2 (15.38%) Open Source Development
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) C
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) Java
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
3 4 (30.77%) HP Data Protector
3 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 2 (15.38%) Puppet
5 1 (7.69%) Nagios
5 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) Dell
2 5 (38.46%) HP
3 4 (30.77%) EMC
4 2 (15.38%) F5
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (7.69%) SaltStack
5 1 (7.69%) TOWER Software
3 Linux Engineer jobs in Central London