Linux Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 436 481
Rank change year-on-year +67 +45 +344
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 11 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.094% 0.028% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.030% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £66,500
25th Percentile £72,500 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,375 - £88,750
90th Percentile £82,750 - £104,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +57.89% +3.26% -16.36%

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 10,668 16,826 19,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 95.18% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,970 10,528 16,098
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,976
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +6.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, Linux Infrastructure 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 London region featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Ansible
2 10 (90.91%) Cisco
2 10 (90.91%) Commvault
2 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Fibre Channel
2 10 (90.91%) Firewall
2 10 (90.91%) Git
2 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) LAN
2 10 (90.91%) NFS
2 10 (90.91%) Pure Storage
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (90.91%) TCP/IP
2 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 10 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (90.91%) vSphere
2 10 (90.91%) WAN
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Python
3 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Windows
6 1 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) IBM

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Fibre Channel
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
1 10 (90.91%) LAN
1 10 (90.91%) TCP/IP
1 10 (90.91%) WAN
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Git
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) NFS
1 10 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (90.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
1 10 (90.91%) Commvault
1 10 (90.91%) Pure Storage
1 10 (90.91%) Red Hat
1 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) IBM