Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 877 1110
Rank change year-on-year +120 +233 -300
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 79 32 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.037% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.040% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 61 28 42
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,625 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,625 £96,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +159 30 £79,125 -1.09% 5
Midlands +9 15 £65,000 -14.47%
West Midlands +22 13 £65,000 -14.47%
South West -21 9 £52,500 +9.95%
East of England - 9 £60,000 -
North of England +54 8 £56,000 +23.76%
South East +1 8 £57,500 +9.52%
North East - 7 £58,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £51,250 -
Yorkshire +79 1 £40,681 -7.54%
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 England region featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Linux
2 34 (43.04%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (39.24%) Python
4 27 (34.18%) Ansible
5 24 (30.38%) Embedded Linux
6 23 (29.11%) Software Engineering
7 21 (26.58%) Agile
7 21 (26.58%) TCP/IP
7 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
7 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (25.32%) C
9 19 (24.05%) DNS
9 19 (24.05%) Bash
10 18 (22.78%) Puppet
10 18 (22.78%) C++
11 16 (20.25%) Yocto
12 15 (18.99%) AWS
13 14 (17.72%) Windows
14 13 (16.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (16.46%) VMware
14 13 (16.46%) PowerShell
14 13 (16.46%) Azure
14 13 (16.46%) IoT
14 13 (16.46%) Terraform
15 12 (15.19%) Containerisation
15 12 (15.19%) DevOps
15 12 (15.19%) Embedded Software Development
15 12 (15.19%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (15.19%) Firewall
15 12 (15.19%) Perl

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (6.33%) Apache
2 2 (2.53%) nginx
3 1 (1.27%) JBoss
3 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.99%) AWS
2 13 (16.46%) Azure
3 8 (10.13%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.13%) GCP
4 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (26.58%) TCP/IP
2 19 (24.05%) DNS
3 12 (15.19%) Firewall
4 11 (13.92%) tcpdump
5 10 (12.66%) Internet
5 10 (12.66%) SNMP
6 9 (11.39%) DHCP
7 4 (5.06%) SAN
8 3 (3.80%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.53%) LAN
9 2 (2.53%) WAN
10 1 (1.27%) Ethernet
10 1 (1.27%) FTP
10 1 (1.27%) MQTT
10 1 (1.27%) NAS
10 1 (1.27%) RS-485
10 1 (1.27%) VLAN
10 1 (1.27%) VPN
10 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.66%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (11.39%) MySQL
3 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.53%) Big Data
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
General
1 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
2 9 (11.39%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.06%) Electronics
3 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.80%) Advertising
5 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.27%) Automotive
6 1 (1.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) Yocto
2 8 (10.13%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.13%) YAML
3 4 (5.06%) Middleware
4 3 (3.80%) Kafka
4 3 (3.80%) Keycloak
4 3 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.80%) REST
5 2 (2.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (2.53%) LDAP
6 1 (1.27%) CSS
6 1 (1.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) IoT
2 8 (10.13%) Clustering
3 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.80%) FPGA
3 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.53%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.53%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.27%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (30.38%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (17.72%) Windows
4 7 (8.86%) CentOS
5 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
6 5 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.06%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.80%) Unix
9 2 (2.53%) Debian
9 2 (2.53%) Rocky
10 1 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (29.11%) Software Engineering
3 21 (26.58%) Agile
4 13 (16.46%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (15.19%) Containerisation
5 12 (15.19%) DevOps
5 12 (15.19%) Embedded Software Development
5 12 (15.19%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (13.92%) Business Continuity
6 11 (13.92%) Capacity Planning
6 11 (13.92%) High Availability
6 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (12.66%) Test Automation
8 9 (11.39%) Code Quality
8 9 (11.39%) Load Balancing
9 8 (10.13%) Configuration Management
9 8 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (10.13%) Migration
9 8 (10.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.24%) Python
2 20 (25.32%) C
3 19 (24.05%) Bash
4 18 (22.78%) C++
5 13 (16.46%) PowerShell
6 12 (15.19%) Perl
7 9 (11.39%) Java
8 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.80%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.27%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.27%) Korn
10 1 (1.27%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 6 (7.59%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.80%) Linux+ Certification
3 3 (3.80%) RHCE
4 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) PMO
1 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.66%) Docker
2 10 (12.66%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (10.13%) KVM
4 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.53%) Firmware
6 2 (2.53%) NFS
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (34.18%) Ansible
2 18 (22.78%) Puppet
3 13 (16.46%) Terraform
4 11 (13.92%) Grafana
4 11 (13.92%) Kubernetes
5 10 (12.66%) vCenter Server
6 9 (11.39%) Nagios
6 9 (11.39%) Progress Chef
7 8 (10.13%) Graphite
7 8 (10.13%) HAProxy
8 5 (6.33%) Prometheus
8 5 (6.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (2.53%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (1.27%) SCCM
10 1 (1.27%) systemd
10 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (16.46%) VMware
2 11 (13.92%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.06%) Oracle
4 3 (3.80%) Dell
4 3 (3.80%) EMC
4 3 (3.80%) F5
4 3 (3.80%) SaltStack
4 3 (3.80%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) HP
6 1 (1.27%) Brocade
6 1 (1.27%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.27%) Veeam