Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 606 849
Rank change year-on-year +122 +243 -287
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 25 29 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.080% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.085% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 22 29 20
10th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £105,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +58.49% -1.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £127,500 £77,813
90th Percentile £95,000 - £97,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £78,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.00% +14.29%

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 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in London

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Engineer in London

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 - 2 - - 1
Senior Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior Linux 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 Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (84.00%) Python
3 17 (68.00%) Bash
4 15 (60.00%) Ansible
4 15 (60.00%) TCP/IP
5 14 (56.00%) DNS
5 14 (56.00%) Windows
5 14 (56.00%) Firewall
5 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
6 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (44.00%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (44.00%) Internet
8 10 (40.00%) Telecoms
8 10 (40.00%) MySQL
8 10 (40.00%) Load Balancing
8 10 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (40.00%) Docker
8 10 (40.00%) Azure
8 10 (40.00%) AWS
8 10 (40.00%) High Availability
8 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 10 (40.00%) Terraform
9 9 (36.00%) Grafana
9 9 (36.00%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (36.00%) Graphite
9 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (36.00%) GCP
9 9 (36.00%) Security Hardening

Senior Linux 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 2 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) Amazon S3
2 9 (36.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 14 (56.00%) DNS
2 14 (56.00%) Firewall
3 11 (44.00%) Internet
4 9 (36.00%) SNMP
4 9 (36.00%) tcpdump
5 4 (16.00%) DHCP
6 3 (12.00%) SAN
7 1 (4.00%) BGP
7 1 (4.00%) FTP
7 1 (4.00%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (40.00%) MySQL
3 9 (36.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (36.00%) YAML
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Clustering
2 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (56.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
2 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) High Availability
3 10 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 10 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) Business Continuity
4 9 (36.00%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (36.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (36.00%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (36.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (36.00%) Migration
4 9 (36.00%) Security Hardening
4 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (36.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) Python
2 17 (68.00%) Bash
3 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (36.00%) Perl
5 1 (4.00%) Korn
5 1 (4.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) tcsh
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 9 (36.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (8.00%) KVM
5 2 (8.00%) NFS
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (60.00%) Ansible
2 10 (40.00%) Terraform
3 9 (36.00%) Grafana
3 9 (36.00%) Graphite
3 9 (36.00%) HAProxy
3 9 (36.00%) Nagios
3 9 (36.00%) Puppet
3 9 (36.00%) vCenter Server
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (8.00%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.00%) Salt
7 1 (4.00%) SCCM
7 1 (4.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Dell
4 2 (8.00%) EMC
4 2 (8.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) Brocade
5 1 (4.00%) F5
5 1 (4.00%) Juniper
5 1 (4.00%) SAP