Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in the South West

Senior Linux Engineer
England > South West

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in the South West is £53,500 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 179 287 267
Rank change year-on-year +108 -20 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.057% 0.098% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.10% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £50,950 - £39,450
25th Percentile £51,625 £51,250 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +9.38% -33.79%
75th Percentile £54,625 £53,750 £49,875
90th Percentile £54,850 - £51,000
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
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,270 8,876 6,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.59% 96.22% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,027 6,478 3,834
10th Percentile £27,650 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the South West

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the South West

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol - 1 £52,000 -
Somerset - 1 £55,000 -
Senior Linux Engineer
England

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft