Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in London is £225,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 481 602
Rank change year-on-year +85 +121 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 4 26 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.031% 0.11% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.12% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 28
10th Percentile £125,000 £62,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £162,500 £70,625 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £225,000 £77,500 £106,250
Median % change year-on-year +190.32% -27.06% +60.38%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £127,500
90th Percentile - £95,000 -
England median annual salary £100,000 £65,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year +53.85% -14.47% +26.67%

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 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £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 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 2025. 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 +26 1 £100,000 - 3
Senior Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Go
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Rust
3 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Unix
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) YAML
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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:

Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform