Senior Linux Systems Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Systems Engineer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 846 894 1187
Rank change year-on-year +48 +293 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Systems Engineer 13 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.001% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.001% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £69,125 - -
25th Percentile £78,125 £73,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £76,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +38.18% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £79,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £135,000 - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £76,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.42% +38.18% -

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 89,619 75,210 137,772
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 91.22% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 65,535 49,495 75,192
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,300 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +0.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Systems Engineer in England

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Systems Engineer in England

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Systems Engineer in England

Senior Linux Systems 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 Systems Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. 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 - 9 £90,000 - 1
East of England - 2 £80,000 -
West Midlands -11 1 £56,000 -26.32%
Midlands -29 1 £56,000 -26.32%
South West - 1 - -
Senior Linux Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 England region featuring Senior Linux Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
3 6 (46.15%) DNS
3 6 (46.15%) Bash
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
4 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (38.46%) VMware
4 5 (38.46%) DHCP
4 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
5 4 (30.77%) Firewall
5 4 (30.77%) Windows
5 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
5 4 (30.77%) AWS
5 4 (30.77%) Puppet
5 4 (30.77%) Ansible
5 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
5 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
5 4 (30.77%) Server Management
5 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (23.08%) Fintech
6 3 (23.08%) Terraform
6 3 (23.08%) Java
6 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (15.38%) Finance

Senior Linux Systems 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) JBoss
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 4 (30.77%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) tcpdump
4 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (7.69%) Debian
4 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
3 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Server Management
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) Fintech
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
6 1 (7.69%) B2B
6 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
6 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
6 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
6 1 (7.69%) Physics
6 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
6 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
6 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Korn
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (7.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) Docker
4 1 (7.69%) KVM
4 1 (7.69%) NFS
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
2 4 (30.77%) Puppet
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) SaltStack
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk