linkerd Job Trends in London

linkerd
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring linkerd skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 432 438
Rank change year-on-year +57 +6 +266
Permanent jobs citing linkerd 4 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.029% 0.038% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.23% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £86,250 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £87,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% -56.82%
75th Percentile - £88,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - £101,875 -
England median annual salary - £87,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +34.62% -55.93%

All Systems Management Skills
London

linkerd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,536 2,645 2,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.22% 16.69% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 1,699 2,448
10th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £79,066
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.18% -1.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing linkerd relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

linkerd job vacancy trend in London

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Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing linkerd.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing linkerd

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (75.00%) VMS
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) GitOps
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) BCP
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Istio
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Argo
2 3 (75.00%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (75.00%) Mesos
3 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) VMware