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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 336 392
Rank change year-on-year -23 +56 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 46 48 110
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.22% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.45% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 43 39 93
10th Percentile £47,250 £38,500 £59,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -9.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £102,500
90th Percentile - £88,000 £119,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%

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 19,313 10,704 22,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 90.00% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 13,233 6,837 16,746
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,108
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 £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,200 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.52% -13.65%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +1 14 £85,000 +3.03% 1
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 16 (34.78%) DevOps
2 16 (34.78%) High Availability
2 16 (34.78%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (26.09%) Python
5 8 (17.39%) AWS
5 8 (17.39%) Red Hat
5 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
6 7 (15.22%) Bash
6 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
6 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
7 6 (13.04%) Ansible
7 6 (13.04%) Azure
7 6 (13.04%) CentOS
7 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
7 6 (13.04%) Observability
7 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (13.04%) SAN
7 6 (13.04%) SIEM
7 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) VMware
7 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (13.04%) Windows
7 6 (13.04%) Windows Server
8 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
8 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.87%) Containerisation

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
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) AWS
2 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
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%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) SAN
2 5 (10.87%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) KDB
2 4 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
General
1 19 (41.30%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Banking
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (4.35%) LAMP
3 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.17%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Hedge funds
2 5 (10.87%) Fixed Income
2 5 (10.87%) PKI
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (13.04%) CentOS
2 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.17%) Rocky
4 1 (2.17%) SUSE
4 1 (2.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) DevOps
1 16 (34.78%) High Availability
1 16 (34.78%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.04%) Observability
4 6 (13.04%) SIEM
4 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
5 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
5 5 (10.87%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (10.87%) Low Latency
6 4 (8.70%) Architectural Design
6 4 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
6 4 (8.70%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Security
7 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.52%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Bash
2 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Perl
4 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) CCNA
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.17%) MCSE
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) vSphere
3 4 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Ansible
1 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Grafana
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 5 (10.87%) WSUS
3 4 (8.70%) Nagios
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Red Hat
2 6 (13.04%) VMware
3 5 (10.87%) McAfee
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle
4 4 (8.70%) Rapid7
4 4 (8.70%) Splunk
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) SAP
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam