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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 384 379
Rank change year-on-year +50 -5 +346
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 62 77 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.42% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 48 49 108
10th Percentile £38,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £68,750 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £76,563 £108,750 £103,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £122,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 - 3 £85,000 -
South London - 2 - - 2
Central London +19 1 £55,000 -50.00% 2
North London - 1 £70,000 -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (59.68%) Red Hat
3 34 (54.84%) Finance
3 34 (54.84%) Ansible
4 33 (53.23%) Python
5 30 (48.39%) Bash
5 30 (48.39%) DevOps
6 23 (37.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (35.48%) AWS
7 22 (35.48%) Terraform
8 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
9 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
10 18 (29.03%) Perl
11 16 (25.81%) Git
11 16 (25.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (25.81%) GDPR
11 16 (25.81%) Security Hardening
12 15 (24.19%) Windows
13 14 (22.58%) Firewall
13 14 (22.58%) Data Security
13 14 (22.58%) VMware
13 14 (22.58%) Red Hat Satellite
13 14 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
15 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
16 11 (17.74%) GitHub
16 11 (17.74%) Fibre Channel
16 11 (17.74%) Commvault
16 11 (17.74%) Cisco
17 10 (16.13%) NFS

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.29%) WebSphere
2 3 (4.84%) Apache
2 3 (4.84%) JBoss
2 3 (4.84%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.84%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (35.48%) AWS
2 11 (17.74%) GitHub
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.06%) Azure
3 5 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.84%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.84%) Route 53
4 3 (4.84%) Serverless
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (3.23%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.58%) Firewall
2 11 (17.74%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (16.13%) LAN
3 10 (16.13%) TCP/IP
3 10 (16.13%) WAN
4 3 (4.84%) SSL
5 2 (3.23%) DNS
5 2 (3.23%) FTP
5 2 (3.23%) HTTP
5 2 (3.23%) Network Security
5 2 (3.23%) SMTP
5 2 (3.23%) SSH
6 1 (1.61%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.61%) SAN
6 1 (1.61%) VLAN
6 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.06%) MySQL
4 3 (4.84%) DB2
5 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Git
2 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) Artifactory
3 4 (6.45%) JIRA
4 3 (4.84%) Ant
4 3 (4.84%) Maven
4 3 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.23%) Subversion
5 2 (3.23%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (54.84%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Automotive
5 1 (1.61%) Avionics
5 1 (1.61%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.84%) Kafka
2 3 (4.84%) LAPP Stack
2 3 (4.84%) LDAP
2 3 (4.84%) Middleware
2 3 (4.84%) REST
2 3 (4.84%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.61%) LAMP
3 1 (1.61%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (14.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (37.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (24.19%) Windows
4 7 (11.29%) Mac OS
4 7 (11.29%) Unix
5 4 (6.45%) CentOS
6 3 (4.84%) VMS
7 2 (3.23%) Debian
7 2 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.23%) Solaris
8 1 (1.61%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) DevOps
2 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.81%) Security Hardening
4 14 (22.58%) Data Security
4 14 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
6 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.90%) Problem Management
8 7 (11.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (11.29%) Asset Management
8 7 (11.29%) Configuration Management
8 7 (11.29%) Conversational UI
8 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (9.68%) Release Management
9 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (8.06%) ITIL
11 4 (6.45%) High Availability
11 4 (6.45%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) Python
2 30 (48.39%) Bash
3 18 (29.03%) Perl
4 7 (11.29%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.06%) Groovy
6 2 (3.23%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) Java
6 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.23%) Ruby
7 1 (1.61%) C
7 1 (1.61%) C++
7 1 (1.61%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) AWS Certification
2 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) RHCE
3 3 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (4.84%) RHCSA
3 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.61%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.81%) GDPR
1 16 (25.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (16.13%) NFS
2 10 (16.13%) vSphere
3 8 (12.90%) Docker
4 2 (3.23%) KVM
5 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (54.84%) Ansible
2 22 (35.48%) Terraform
3 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
4 14 (22.58%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (8.06%) Puppet
7 4 (6.45%) Nagios
8 3 (4.84%) Podman
9 2 (3.23%) Grafana
10 1 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 37 (59.68%) Red Hat
2 14 (22.58%) VMware
3 11 (17.74%) Cisco
3 11 (17.74%) Commvault
4 10 (16.13%) Pure Storage
5 7 (11.29%) Apple
5 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.45%) IBM
6 4 (6.45%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) Dell
7 1 (1.61%) EMC
7 1 (1.61%) HP
7 1 (1.61%) Juniper
7 1 (1.61%) NetApp
7 1 (1.61%) Zerto