Linux Engineer Job Trends in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 346 378
Rank change year-on-year +32 +32 +120
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 59 77 76
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.53% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 46 52 74
10th Percentile £42,938 £61,000 £55,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £68,438 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £101,250
90th Percentile - £129,250 £110,000
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 12,655 14,456 17,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.71% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,401 8,366 13,731
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,500 £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 £95,531 £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% - -2.04%

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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 2026. 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%
East London - 5 £85,000 -
South London - 2 - -
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 2026, 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 59 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (49.15%) Python
3 28 (47.46%) DevOps
4 27 (45.76%) Red Hat
5 25 (42.37%) Ansible
5 25 (42.37%) AWS
6 22 (37.29%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (32.20%) Terraform
8 17 (28.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (25.42%) Bash
10 14 (23.73%) Kubernetes
10 14 (23.73%) Perl
11 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
11 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (20.34%) SQL Server
13 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (16.95%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (16.95%) GDPR
14 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (16.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (16.95%) Security Hardening
14 10 (16.95%) Windows
15 9 (15.25%) AWS Certification
15 9 (15.25%) Data Security
15 9 (15.25%) High Availability
16 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (13.56%) Degree
16 8 (13.56%) Firewall

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 (11.86%) WebSphere
2 5 (8.47%) Tomcat
2 5 (8.47%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.08%) Apache
4 2 (3.39%) nginx
5 1 (1.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 25 (42.37%) AWS
2 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (13.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (11.86%) Amazon S3
3 7 (11.86%) GitHub
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.47%) Route 53
5 5 (8.47%) Serverless
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.08%) Azure
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.39%) GCP
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.69%) Datadog
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Firewall
1 8 (13.56%) LAN
1 8 (13.56%) TCP/IP
1 8 (13.56%) WAN
2 6 (10.17%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (8.47%) SSL
4 4 (6.78%) DNS
5 2 (3.39%) DHCP
5 2 (3.39%) FTP
5 2 (3.39%) HTTP
5 2 (3.39%) NAS
5 2 (3.39%) Network Security
5 2 (3.39%) SAN
5 2 (3.39%) SMTP
5 2 (3.39%) SNMP
5 2 (3.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (13.56%) MySQL
4 5 (8.47%) DB2
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Subversion
3 2 (3.39%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.69%) Ant
4 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (52.54%) Finance
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) LDAP
2 5 (8.47%) LAMP
2 5 (8.47%) LAPP Stack
2 5 (8.47%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) Loki
4 1 (1.69%) Middleware
4 1 (1.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Hedge funds
1 7 (11.86%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.47%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.39%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 59 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (28.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (16.95%) Windows
4 8 (13.56%) Unix
5 7 (11.86%) CentOS
6 3 (5.08%) Rocky
6 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.39%) Debian
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.39%) VMS
8 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) DevOps
2 22 (37.29%) Platform Engineering
3 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
3 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (16.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.95%) Security Hardening
5 9 (15.25%) Data Security
5 9 (15.25%) High Availability
6 7 (11.86%) Containerisation
6 7 (11.86%) ITIL
6 7 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.17%) Release Management
8 5 (8.47%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (8.47%) Change Management
8 5 (8.47%) Service Management
8 5 (8.47%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Security
9 3 (5.08%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) Python
2 15 (25.42%) Bash
3 14 (23.73%) Perl
4 4 (6.78%) Java
5 3 (5.08%) Groovy
5 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.08%) SQL
6 2 (3.39%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) C++
6 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) AWS Certification
2 8 (13.56%) Degree
3 5 (8.47%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (6.78%) RHCE
5 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.39%) RHCSA
6 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) CISA
7 1 (1.69%) CISSP
7 1 (1.69%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) GDPR
1 10 (16.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (8.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Docker
1 6 (10.17%) NFS
1 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (10.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (42.37%) Ansible
2 19 (32.20%) Terraform
3 14 (23.73%) Kubernetes
4 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (8.47%) Nagios
6 2 (3.39%) Grafana
6 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.69%) Podman
7 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (45.76%) Red Hat
2 6 (10.17%) Cisco
2 6 (10.17%) Commvault
2 6 (10.17%) IBM
2 6 (10.17%) Pure Storage
2 6 (10.17%) VMware
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Dell
4 2 (3.39%) HP
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk