Junior Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Junior Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Junior Linux Engineer salary in London is £80,000 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 390 504 629
Rank change year-on-year +114 +125 +247
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Linux Engineer 10 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.079% 0.013% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.014% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +63.16% -
75th Percentile - £95,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £101,750 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% +63.16% +26.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Junior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Linux Engineer in London

Junior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior Linux Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Junior Linux Engineer in London

Junior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Junior 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 London region featuring Junior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) Ruby
1 10 (100.00%) Puppet
1 10 (100.00%) Go
1 10 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 10 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 10 (100.00%) Fintech
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
1 10 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 10 (100.00%) Bicep
1 10 (100.00%) Podman
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Junior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Fintech
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Bicep
1 10 (100.00%) Go
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Podman
1 10 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 10 (100.00%) Puppet
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform