Linux Engineer Jobs in Central London

Linux Engineer
London > Central London

The median Linux Engineer salary in Central London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 217 296
Rank change year-on-year +44 +79 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 17 16 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.34% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 16
10th Percentile £65,000 £54,375 £46,875
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,845 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £84,375 £87,813 £89,375
90th Percentile £104,250 £120,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,633 4,753 8,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 96.02% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,746 3,925 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Central London

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in Central London

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in Central London

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
City of London +49 13 £70,000 - 2
Linux Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, 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 Central London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (82.35%) Red Hat
3 11 (64.71%) Python
4 10 (58.82%) Ansible
5 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
5 9 (52.94%) Finance
5 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
7 7 (41.18%) Bash
8 6 (35.29%) nginx
8 6 (35.29%) Debian
8 6 (35.29%) SAN
8 6 (35.29%) HP
8 6 (35.29%) Dell
8 6 (35.29%) Apache
9 5 (29.41%) F5
10 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (23.53%) Kafka
10 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (23.53%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (23.53%) Java
10 4 (23.53%) Perl
10 4 (23.53%) EMC
10 4 (23.53%) Nagios
10 4 (23.53%) Banking
10 4 (23.53%) FPGA
10 4 (23.53%) HP Data Protector
10 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
10 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (35.29%) Apache
1 6 (35.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
2 6 (35.29%) SAN
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
4 2 (11.76%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) NAS
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) GTK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) FPGA
2 2 (11.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (35.29%) Debian
4 3 (17.65%) CentOS
4 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
3 2 (11.76%) Information Security
3 2 (11.76%) Key Management
3 2 (11.76%) Open Source
3 2 (11.76%) Open Source Development
4 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) Perl
4 3 (17.65%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
2 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
3 4 (23.53%) HP Data Protector
3 4 (23.53%) Nagios
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Red Hat
2 6 (35.29%) Dell
2 6 (35.29%) HP
3 5 (29.41%) F5
4 4 (23.53%) EMC
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle