Linux Server Engineer Jobs in London

Linux Server Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Server Engineer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 - 589
Rank change year-on-year - - +345
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Server Engineer 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.015% - 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% - 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - £62,845
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £64,140
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £65,436
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £35,000 £64,140
% change year-on-year +85.71% -45.43% -4.98%

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 11,985 22,890 28,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 94.43% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,303 16,801 21,842
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Linux Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Server Engineer in London

Linux Server Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Server Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Linux Server Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Linux Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Linux Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware