Linux Engineer Job Trends in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 351 383
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 53 78 93
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.55% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 43 56 86
10th Percentile £43,375 £61,000 £56,875
25th Percentile £58,125 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £130,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £56,250 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.79% +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 13,535 14,114 19,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 91.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,952 8,073 16,048
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 February 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 1 February 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 +31 9 £85,000 -26.09% 2
East London -5 5 £85,000 +17.24%
South London - 1 - - 2
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (41.51%) AWS
2 22 (41.51%) Red Hat
3 21 (39.62%) DevOps
3 21 (39.62%) Python
4 19 (35.85%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (32.08%) Ansible
6 14 (26.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (26.42%) Terraform
7 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (20.75%) Bash
9 10 (18.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
9 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
9 10 (18.87%) Windows
10 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
10 9 (16.98%) High Availability
10 9 (16.98%) Perl
10 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (15.09%) AWS Certification
11 8 (15.09%) CentOS
11 8 (15.09%) Degree
11 8 (15.09%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (13.21%) ITIL
12 7 (13.21%) LDAP
12 7 (13.21%) MySQL

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 6 (11.32%) WebSphere
2 5 (9.43%) Tomcat
2 5 (9.43%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) nginx
3 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) AWS
2 7 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (13.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon S3
3 6 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECR
4 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (9.43%) Route 53
4 5 (9.43%) Serverless
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.77%) Azure
7 2 (3.77%) GCP
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon Glacier
8 1 (1.89%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.89%) Datadog
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) DNS
1 5 (9.43%) Firewall
1 5 (9.43%) LAN
1 5 (9.43%) SSL
1 5 (9.43%) TCP/IP
1 5 (9.43%) WAN
2 4 (7.55%) SAN
3 3 (5.66%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.77%) DHCP
4 2 (3.77%) NAS
4 2 (3.77%) Network Security
4 2 (3.77%) SNMP
5 1 (1.89%) FTP
5 1 (1.89%) HTTP
5 1 (1.89%) SMTP
5 1 (1.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (13.21%) MySQL
4 5 (9.43%) DB2
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) Subversion
3 1 (1.89%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (47.17%) Finance
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) LDAP
2 5 (9.43%) LAMP
2 5 (9.43%) LAPP Stack
2 5 (9.43%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.89%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Hedge funds
2 6 (11.32%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) FPGA
4 2 (3.77%) PKI
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (26.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (18.87%) Windows
4 8 (15.09%) CentOS
5 7 (13.21%) Unix
6 4 (7.55%) Rocky
6 4 (7.55%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.77%) Debian
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) DevOps
2 19 (35.85%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.87%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.98%) High Availability
5 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (13.21%) ITIL
6 7 (13.21%) Security Hardening
7 6 (11.32%) Data Security
8 5 (9.43%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (9.43%) Change Management
8 5 (9.43%) Containerisation
8 5 (9.43%) Release Management
8 5 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (9.43%) Service Management
8 5 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.66%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) Python
2 11 (20.75%) Bash
3 9 (16.98%) Perl
4 5 (9.43%) SQL
5 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.66%) Java
7 2 (3.77%) C++
7 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.89%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) Groovy
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) AWS Certification
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) RHCE
4 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (3.77%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.89%) CISA
6 1 (1.89%) CISSP
6 1 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) GDPR
1 6 (11.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (9.43%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
1 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (9.43%) vSphere
2 3 (5.66%) NFS
3 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Ansible
2 14 (26.42%) Terraform
3 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
4 8 (15.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (7.55%) Nagios
6 2 (3.77%) Grafana
6 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (3.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.32%) IBM
3 5 (9.43%) VMware
4 3 (5.66%) Cisco
4 3 (5.66%) Commvault
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 3 (5.66%) Pure Storage
5 2 (3.77%) Dell
5 2 (3.77%) HP
5 2 (3.77%) McAfee
6 1 (1.89%) Splunk