Linux Engineer Job Trends in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 354 368
Rank change year-on-year +35 +14 +164
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 56 77 76
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.41% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.52% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 43 53 74
10th Percentile £42,675 £61,000 £57,650
25th Percentile £53,125 £67,500 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.12% +13.79%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £106,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £128,500 £132,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 12,466 14,725 16,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 93.26% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,246 8,633 13,655
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in London

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Central London +39 8 £64,375 -41.48% 7
East London - 5 £85,000 -
South London - 2 - - 2
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, 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 London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (53.57%) Python
3 27 (48.21%) Red Hat
4 26 (46.43%) AWS
5 25 (44.64%) Ansible
6 24 (42.86%) DevOps
7 19 (33.93%) Terraform
8 18 (32.14%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (30.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (28.57%) Bash
11 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
11 14 (25.00%) Perl
12 13 (23.21%) CI/CD
13 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
14 11 (19.64%) Red Hat Satellite
14 11 (19.64%) Windows
15 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (17.86%) GDPR
15 10 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (17.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (17.86%) Security Hardening
16 9 (16.07%) AWS Certification
16 9 (16.07%) Data Security
16 9 (16.07%) Firewall
16 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 8 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (14.29%) Degree
17 8 (14.29%) Git

Linux 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 7 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 5 (8.93%) Tomcat
2 5 (8.93%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.36%) Apache
4 2 (3.57%) nginx
5 1 (1.79%) JBoss
5 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 8 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 7 (12.50%) GitHub
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.93%) Route 53
5 5 (8.93%) Serverless
6 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.14%) Azure
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (3.57%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.57%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) Firewall
2 8 (14.29%) LAN
2 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 8 (14.29%) WAN
3 6 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (8.93%) SSL
5 4 (7.14%) DNS
6 2 (3.57%) DHCP
6 2 (3.57%) FTP
6 2 (3.57%) HTTP
6 2 (3.57%) NAS
6 2 (3.57%) Network Security
6 2 (3.57%) SAN
6 2 (3.57%) SMTP
6 2 (3.57%) SNMP
6 2 (3.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (14.29%) MySQL
4 5 (8.93%) DB2
5 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Subversion
3 2 (3.57%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.79%) Ant
4 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) GitLab
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Maven
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Banking
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) LDAP
2 5 (8.93%) LAMP
2 5 (8.93%) LAPP Stack
2 5 (8.93%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.79%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) Loki
4 1 (1.79%) Middleware
4 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.93%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.57%) FPGA
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (30.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (19.64%) Windows
4 8 (14.29%) Unix
5 7 (12.50%) CentOS
6 3 (5.36%) Rocky
6 3 (5.36%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.57%) Debian
7 2 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.57%) VMS
8 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) DevOps
2 18 (32.14%) Platform Engineering
3 13 (23.21%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (17.86%) Security Hardening
5 9 (16.07%) Data Security
5 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 7 (12.50%) ITIL
6 7 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.71%) Release Management
8 5 (8.93%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (8.93%) Change Management
8 5 (8.93%) High Availability
8 5 (8.93%) Service Management
8 5 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (7.14%) Configuration Management
10 3 (5.36%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) Bash
3 14 (25.00%) Perl
4 4 (7.14%) Java
5 3 (5.36%) Groovy
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.36%) SQL
6 2 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) C++
6 2 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) AWS Certification
2 8 (14.29%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (7.14%) RHCE
5 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.57%) RHCSA
6 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) CISA
7 1 (1.79%) CISSP
7 1 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) GDPR
1 10 (17.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (8.93%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
1 6 (10.71%) NFS
1 6 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (10.71%) vSphere
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (44.64%) Ansible
2 19 (33.93%) Terraform
3 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (19.64%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (8.93%) Nagios
6 2 (3.57%) Grafana
6 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.79%) Podman
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) Red Hat
2 6 (10.71%) Cisco
2 6 (10.71%) Commvault
2 6 (10.71%) IBM
2 6 (10.71%) Pure Storage
2 6 (10.71%) VMware
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Dell
4 2 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk