Linux Systems Engineer Jobs in London

Linux Systems Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Systems Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 588 859
Rank change year-on-year +98 +271 -278
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Engineer 10 40 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.042% 0.12% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.12% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 10 34 24
10th Percentile £60,400 £58,750 £49,875
25th Percentile £64,063 £65,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +83.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £185,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £99,000 - £73,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.04% +22.73% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,274 32,686 65,100
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.09% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,684 24,117 34,486
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Linux Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Engineer in London

Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Engineer in London

Linux Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Engineer in London

Linux Systems 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 Systems Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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 £43,000 -
Linux Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Linux Systems 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 8 (80.00%) DNS
3 8 (80.00%) Bash
4 6 (60.00%) Firewall
5 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (50.00%) DHCP
5 5 (50.00%) Windows
5 5 (50.00%) VMware
5 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (40.00%) Server Management
6 4 (40.00%) Ansible
6 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (40.00%) AWS
6 4 (40.00%) Apache
7 3 (30.00%) Finance
7 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
7 3 (30.00%) Fintech
7 3 (30.00%) Terraform
7 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
8 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
8 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working

Linux Systems 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
3 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) DKIM
4 2 (20.00%) DMARC
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) SMTP
5 1 (10.00%) tcpdump
5 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) git-flow
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LAMP
1 2 (20.00%) LEMP Stack
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (10.00%) CentOS
5 1 (10.00%) Debian
5 1 (10.00%) Solaris
5 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Server Management
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Fintech
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Coaching
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) Bash
3 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Korn
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (10.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) KVM
3 1 (10.00%) NFS
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk