Linux Engineer Job Trends in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 355 394
Rank change year-on-year -10 +39 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 46 52 106
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.44% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 41 42 92
10th Percentile £43,375 £38,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,000 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -12.12% +17.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £86,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £61,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.74% -6.15% +1.34%

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 17,754 11,701 21,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 90.63% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,912 7,555 16,645
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +23 14 £64,375 -29.45% 6
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (39.13%) Platform Engineering
3 16 (34.78%) DevOps
4 15 (32.61%) High Availability
5 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (26.09%) Python
7 11 (23.91%) Ansible
8 10 (21.74%) AWS
9 9 (19.57%) CentOS
10 8 (17.39%) SQL
11 7 (15.22%) Bash
11 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
11 7 (15.22%) DNS
11 7 (15.22%) Red Hat
11 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (15.22%) SAN
11 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
11 7 (15.22%) Windows
12 6 (13.04%) Azure
12 6 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
12 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
12 6 (13.04%) MySQL
12 6 (13.04%) Nagios
12 6 (13.04%) Shell Script
13 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
13 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
13 5 (10.87%) GCP
13 5 (10.87%) Grafana

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 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) AWS
2 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (10.87%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.17%) Datadog
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DNS
1 7 (15.22%) SAN
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) LAN
2 2 (4.35%) NAS
2 2 (4.35%) SNMP
2 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) MySQL
2 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.35%) KDB
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (41.30%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) LAMP
2 2 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (4.35%) LDAP
3 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Hedge funds
2 5 (10.87%) PKI
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.35%) FPGA
4 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (19.57%) CentOS
3 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (15.22%) Windows
4 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.70%) Rocky
5 4 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.17%) SUSE
7 1 (2.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (34.78%) DevOps
3 15 (32.61%) High Availability
4 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
7 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.87%) SIEM
7 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.70%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (8.70%) Low Latency
8 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (6.52%) Architectural Design
9 3 (6.52%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (6.52%) Fintech
9 3 (6.52%) Observability
9 3 (6.52%) Systematic Trading
9 3 (6.52%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Bash
4 6 (13.04%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.52%) Perl
5 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.35%) C++
6 2 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CISA
4 1 (2.17%) CISSP
4 1 (2.17%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
1 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (10.87%) vSphere
2 4 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Ansible
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Nagios
3 5 (10.87%) Grafana
3 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 5 (10.87%) WSUS
4 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.87%) McAfee
2 5 (10.87%) VMware
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) Rapid7
5 2 (4.35%) Dell
5 2 (4.35%) HP
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) SAP