Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 649 767 879
Rank change year-on-year +118 +112 +203
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 6 76 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.013% 0.089% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.094% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 5 59 43
10th Percentile £52,300 £47,250 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £65,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -14.47% +26.67%
75th Percentile £225,000 £80,000 £121,250
90th Percentile - £81,250 £127,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 2025. 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 +85 4 £225,000 +190.32% 7
South West +108 2 £53,500 +1.90%
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) Go
3 3 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) C
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Puppet
4 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Rust
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment

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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Kernel Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Go
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft