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 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 369 374
Rank change year-on-year +36 +5 +249
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 56 78 88
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.44% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41 52 86
10th Percentile £42,500 £67,500 £54,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £120,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £130,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 11,668 16,573 18,261
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 94.88% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,502 10,137 14,894
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,000 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,168 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% -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 15 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 15 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 - 1
Central London +34 4 £43,750 -61.96% 10
South London - 2 - -
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 35 (62.50%) Red Hat
3 33 (58.93%) Ansible
3 33 (58.93%) Python
4 28 (50.00%) DevOps
5 24 (42.86%) AWS
6 23 (41.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (41.07%) Terraform
7 20 (35.71%) Bash
7 20 (35.71%) Kubernetes
8 17 (30.36%) CI/CD
8 17 (30.36%) Windows
9 16 (28.57%) Perl
10 13 (23.21%) Firewall
10 13 (23.21%) GDPR
10 13 (23.21%) Git
10 13 (23.21%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (23.21%) Red Hat Satellite
10 13 (23.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (23.21%) Security Hardening
11 12 (21.43%) Data Security
11 12 (21.43%) GitHub
11 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
11 12 (21.43%) VMware
12 11 (19.64%) Commvault
12 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
12 11 (19.64%) Fibre Channel
12 11 (19.64%) LAN
12 11 (19.64%) TCP/IP
12 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure

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 8 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 5 (8.93%) Tomcat
2 5 (8.93%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.36%) Apache
4 2 (3.57%) JBoss
5 1 (1.79%) Confluence
5 1 (1.79%) nginx
5 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) 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
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (3.57%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.57%) GCP
7 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.21%) Firewall
2 11 (19.64%) Fibre Channel
2 11 (19.64%) LAN
2 11 (19.64%) TCP/IP
2 11 (19.64%) WAN
3 5 (8.93%) SSL
4 3 (5.36%) DNS
5 2 (3.57%) FTP
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) Network Security
5 2 (3.57%) SAN
5 2 (3.57%) SMTP
5 2 (3.57%) SSH
6 1 (1.79%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (1.79%) NAS
6 1 (1.79%) SNMP
6 1 (1.79%) VLAN
6 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.29%) MySQL
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.93%) DB2
6 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 2 (3.57%) Ant
4 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.57%) Maven
4 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.57%) Subversion
4 2 (3.57%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 32 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Banking
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Automotive
6 1 (1.79%) Electronics
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) LDAP
2 5 (8.93%) LAPP Stack
2 5 (8.93%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (7.14%) LAMP
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
4 2 (3.57%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) REST
5 1 (1.79%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) 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%) FPGA
3 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (41.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (30.36%) Windows
4 8 (14.29%) Unix
5 7 (12.50%) CentOS
6 4 (7.14%) Ubuntu
7 3 (5.36%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (5.36%) Rocky
7 3 (5.36%) VMS
8 2 (3.57%) Debian
9 1 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) DevOps
2 17 (30.36%) CI/CD
3 13 (23.21%) Platform Engineering
3 13 (23.21%) Security Hardening
4 12 (21.43%) Data Security
5 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
6 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (14.29%) ITIL
8 7 (12.50%) Release Management
8 7 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.93%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (8.93%) Change Management
9 5 (8.93%) Configuration Management
9 5 (8.93%) Service Management
9 5 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (5.36%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (58.93%) Python
2 20 (35.71%) Bash
3 16 (28.57%) Perl
4 4 (7.14%) Groovy
4 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.36%) Java
5 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) C++
6 2 (3.57%) Ruby
6 2 (3.57%) SQL
7 1 (1.79%) C
7 1 (1.79%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) 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%) CISA
6 1 (1.79%) CISSP
6 1 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.21%) GDPR
1 13 (23.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (8.93%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.86%) NFS
2 10 (17.86%) vSphere
3 8 (14.29%) Docker
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (58.93%) Ansible
2 23 (41.07%) Terraform
3 20 (35.71%) Kubernetes
4 13 (23.21%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (10.71%) Nagios
6 3 (5.36%) Grafana
7 2 (3.57%) Podman
7 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.57%) Puppet
8 1 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.79%) systemd
Vendors
1 35 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 12 (21.43%) VMware
3 11 (19.64%) Commvault
4 10 (17.86%) Cisco
4 10 (17.86%) Pure Storage
5 6 (10.71%) IBM
6 5 (8.93%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) Dell
7 1 (1.79%) EMC
7 1 (1.79%) HP
7 1 (1.79%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) Zerto