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 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 353 375
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +263
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 56 81 88
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.46% 0.47% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.49% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 42 54 87
10th Percentile £42,588 £67,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £68,750 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £120,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £130,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11,028 16,507 18,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 95.09% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,179 10,162 15,355
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 1 November 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 1 November 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
East London - 5 £85,000 -
Central London +32 3 £43,750 -60.23% 5
South London - 2 - -
North London - 1 £70,000 -
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 November 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 36 (64.29%) Red Hat
3 34 (60.71%) Ansible
3 34 (60.71%) Python
4 30 (53.57%) DevOps
5 25 (44.64%) AWS
6 24 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (41.07%) Terraform
8 22 (39.29%) Bash
9 21 (37.50%) Kubernetes
10 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
11 18 (32.14%) Windows
12 16 (28.57%) Perl
13 15 (26.79%) Git
14 14 (25.00%) Firewall
14 14 (25.00%) GDPR
14 14 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (25.00%) Security Hardening
15 13 (23.21%) Data Security
15 13 (23.21%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (23.21%) VMware
16 12 (21.43%) GitHub
16 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
16 12 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
17 11 (19.64%) Cisco
17 11 (19.64%) Commvault
17 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
17 11 (19.64%) Fibre Channel
18 10 (17.86%) AWS Certification

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 9 (16.07%) WebSphere
2 5 (8.93%) Tomcat
2 5 (8.93%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.36%) Apache
3 3 (5.36%) JBoss
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) AWS
2 12 (21.43%) GitHub
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 7 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (10.71%) Azure
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.93%) Route 53
5 5 (8.93%) Serverless
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (3.57%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.79%) Datadog
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.00%) Firewall
2 11 (19.64%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (17.86%) LAN
3 10 (17.86%) TCP/IP
3 10 (17.86%) WAN
4 5 (8.93%) SSL
5 2 (3.57%) DNS
5 2 (3.57%) FTP
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) Network Security
5 2 (3.57%) SMTP
5 2 (3.57%) SSH
6 1 (1.79%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.79%) SAN
6 1 (1.79%) VLAN
6 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (12.50%) MySQL
4 5 (8.93%) DB2
5 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) Git
2 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 4 (7.14%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) Ant
4 3 (5.36%) Maven
4 3 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.57%) Subversion
5 2 (3.57%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 33 (58.93%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Banking
3 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Automotive
5 1 (1.79%) Avionics
5 1 (1.79%) Electronics
5 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (8.93%) LAPP Stack
1 5 (8.93%) LDAP
1 5 (8.93%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (5.36%) Kafka
2 3 (5.36%) LAMP
2 3 (5.36%) Middleware
3 2 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.93%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.79%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (32.14%) Windows
4 8 (14.29%) Unix
5 6 (10.71%) CentOS
6 3 (5.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.36%) VMS
7 2 (3.57%) Debian
7 2 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.57%) Rocky
8 1 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) DevOps
2 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 13 (23.21%) Data Security
5 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
6 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (14.29%) ITIL
8 8 (14.29%) Release Management
9 7 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (10.71%) Configuration Management
11 5 (8.93%) Acceptance Criteria
11 5 (8.93%) Change Management
11 5 (8.93%) Service Management
11 5 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (7.14%) Storage Management
13 3 (5.36%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) Python
2 22 (39.29%) Bash
3 16 (28.57%) Perl
4 5 (8.93%) Groovy
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) Java
6 2 (3.57%) Ruby
6 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) C
7 1 (1.79%) C++
7 1 (1.79%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.79%) Rust
7 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) AWS Certification
2 8 (14.29%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (8.93%) RHCE
4 3 (5.36%) RHCSA
4 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.79%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.00%) GDPR
1 14 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (8.93%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.86%) NFS
2 10 (17.86%) vSphere
3 9 (16.07%) Docker
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) KVM
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (60.71%) Ansible
2 23 (41.07%) Terraform
3 21 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 13 (23.21%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (10.71%) Nagios
6 4 (7.14%) Puppet
7 3 (5.36%) Grafana
7 3 (5.36%) Podman
8 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.79%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (64.29%) Red Hat
2 13 (23.21%) VMware
3 11 (19.64%) Cisco
3 11 (19.64%) Commvault
4 10 (17.86%) Pure Storage
5 6 (10.71%) IBM
6 4 (7.14%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) Dell
7 1 (1.79%) EMC
7 1 (1.79%) HP
7 1 (1.79%) Juniper
7 1 (1.79%) NetApp
7 1 (1.79%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) Zerto