Linux Support Engineer Jobs in London

Linux Support Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Support Engineer salary in London is £39,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 497 603
Rank change year-on-year +113 +106 +232
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 8 5 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.063% 0.021% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.022% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 24
10th Percentile £37,825 £50,075 £43,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £53,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +9.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £39,500 £69,188 £66,250
90th Percentile - £73,425 £67,125
England median annual salary £39,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.89% -5.00% -25.93%

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 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Linux Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support Engineer in London

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux Support Engineer in London

Linux Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Problem Management
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Apple
2 7 (87.50%) Shell Script
2 7 (87.50%) Asset Management
2 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Bash
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (87.50%) Chatbot
2 7 (87.50%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (87.50%) Conversational UI
2 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Windows

Linux Support 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:

Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Chatbot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Asset Management
1 7 (87.50%) Conversational UI
1 7 (87.50%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Bash
1 7 (87.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Apple
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
9 Linux Support Engineer jobs in England