Senior Linux Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 652 635
Rank change year-on-year +74 -17 +253
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 39 27 45
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.074% 0.056% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.061% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 34 20 41
10th Percentile £65,000 £49,711 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,438 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% -22.39%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £130,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 48,032 44,628 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,380 23,318 36,700
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Linux Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Linux Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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 +59 14 £100,000 -23.08% 2
East of England +27 8 £65,000 +22.64% 2
South West +12 6 £80,000 +49.53%
South East +39 5 £70,000 +16.67% 7
North East - 5 £70,000 -
North of England - 5 £70,000 -
Midlands +19 1 £55,000 -13.39%
West Midlands +18 1 £55,000 -13.39%
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (28.21%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 7 (17.95%) High Availability
4 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (12.82%) Presales
5 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (12.82%) VMware
6 4 (10.26%) Ansible
6 4 (10.26%) AWS
6 4 (10.26%) Python
6 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
7 3 (7.69%) Bash
7 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.69%) Dell
7 3 (7.69%) Perl
7 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (7.69%) SAN
7 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
7 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) Systematic Trading
8 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
8 2 (5.13%) Apache
8 2 (5.13%) C++
8 2 (5.13%) CentOS
8 2 (5.13%) DHCP
8 2 (5.13%) DNS

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) AWS
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) SAN
2 2 (5.13%) DHCP
2 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 2 (5.13%) LAN
2 2 (5.13%) NAS
2 2 (5.13%) SNMP
2 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.13%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) InfiniBand
3 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MySQL
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.08%) Finance
1 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Hedge funds
2 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) FPGA
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.13%) CentOS
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (17.95%) High Availability
3 5 (12.82%) DevOps
3 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (12.82%) Presales
3 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
4 3 (7.69%) Systematic Trading
5 2 (5.13%) Fintech
5 2 (5.13%) ITIL
6 1 (2.56%) Batch Scheduling
6 1 (2.56%) CI/CD
6 1 (2.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (2.56%) ITSM
6 1 (2.56%) People Management
6 1 (2.56%) Project Delivery
6 1 (2.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) Bash
2 3 (7.69%) Perl
3 2 (5.13%) C++
3 2 (5.13%) Java
3 2 (5.13%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (2.56%) LPIC
3 1 (2.56%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (2.56%) Lustre
2 1 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (2.56%) Puppet
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) VMware
3 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.69%) Dell
5 2 (5.13%) HP
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) EMC
6 1 (2.56%) IBM
6 1 (2.56%) Mellanox
6 1 (2.56%) NetApp
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk