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 £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 160 221
Rank change year-on-year +28 +61 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 3 14 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.15% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.44% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £59,750 £57,950 £51,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £93,125 £79,688 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £94,875 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £64,140
% change year-on-year +17.86% +9.14% -14.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 1,896 3,193 4,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 96.00% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,450 2,523 3,702
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,044
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,875 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,875
% change year-on-year - -1.86% +1.90%

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 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in the City of London

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, 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 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) YAML
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Unix

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:

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat