Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £78,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 428 735
Rank change year-on-year +18 +307 -291
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 106 192 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.57% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.60% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 90 166 154
10th Percentile £58,375 £50,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £115,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £158,125 £97,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +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 22,313 32,109 66,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,649 23,746 34,560
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,449 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in London

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 Linux Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London +66 16 £70,000 +9.14% 3
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 106 (100.00%) Linux
2 72 (67.92%) Python
3 57 (53.77%) Bash
3 57 (53.77%) Ansible
4 46 (43.40%) Red Hat
5 42 (39.62%) TCP/IP
6 35 (33.02%) AWS
7 32 (30.19%) Finance
8 29 (27.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (26.42%) Terraform
9 28 (26.42%) DNS
10 27 (25.47%) Windows
11 26 (24.53%) Firewall
11 26 (24.53%) Software Engineering
11 26 (24.53%) Kubernetes
11 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
12 25 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (21.70%) Perl
14 21 (19.81%) C
14 21 (19.81%) Ubuntu
14 21 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (18.87%) PowerShell
15 20 (18.87%) Docker
16 19 (17.92%) Puppet
16 19 (17.92%) Debian
16 19 (17.92%) CI/CD
17 18 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
17 18 (16.98%) Jenkins
18 16 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
18 16 (15.09%) Configuration Management

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 12 (11.32%) Apache
2 10 (9.43%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.02%) AWS
2 15 (14.15%) Azure
3 13 (12.26%) Amazon S3
4 10 (9.43%) GCP
5 7 (6.60%) GitHub
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.89%) Kong
9 2 (1.89%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.94%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.94%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 42 (39.62%) TCP/IP
2 28 (26.42%) DNS
3 26 (24.53%) Firewall
4 12 (11.32%) Internet
5 11 (10.38%) SAN
5 11 (10.38%) SNMP
6 10 (9.43%) tcpdump
7 9 (8.49%) DHCP
8 7 (6.60%) LAN
8 7 (6.60%) VPN
8 7 (6.60%) WAN
9 6 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (3.77%) NAS
11 2 (1.89%) DKIM
11 2 (1.89%) DMARC
11 2 (1.89%) HTTP
11 2 (1.89%) Network Security
11 2 (1.89%) SMTP
11 2 (1.89%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.94%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (10.38%) MySQL
3 8 (7.55%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.89%) Redis
5 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.98%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.60%) Git
3 5 (4.72%) DTrace
3 5 (4.72%) GDB
3 5 (4.72%) GitLab
3 5 (4.72%) JIRA
3 5 (4.72%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.83%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.83%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.89%) git-flow
5 2 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 32 (30.19%) Finance
2 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.09%) Banking
4 9 (8.49%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.55%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.83%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.89%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.94%) Electronics
8 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (9.43%) LDAP
2 8 (7.55%) YAML
3 7 (6.60%) GTK
4 3 (2.83%) .NET
4 3 (2.83%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.83%) LAMP
5 2 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.89%) Kafka
5 2 (1.89%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.89%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.89%) Middleware
6 1 (0.94%) CSS
6 1 (0.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Clustering
1 13 (12.26%) PKI
2 11 (10.38%) Client/Server
3 9 (8.49%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.60%) Replication
5 5 (4.72%) FPGA
5 5 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.77%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.89%) PropTech
8 2 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 106 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (27.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (25.47%) Windows
4 21 (19.81%) Ubuntu
5 19 (17.92%) Debian
6 13 (12.26%) CentOS
7 9 (8.49%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (8.49%) Unix
8 8 (7.55%) Windows Server
9 6 (5.66%) Solaris
10 1 (0.94%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.53%) Software Engineering
2 25 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.92%) CI/CD
5 18 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (15.09%) Configuration Management
6 16 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (14.15%) Agile
7 15 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (14.15%) DevOps
7 15 (14.15%) High Availability
7 15 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (12.26%) Containerisation
9 13 (12.26%) Key Management
9 13 (12.26%) Load Balancing
9 13 (12.26%) Security Hardening
10 11 (10.38%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (9.43%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 72 (67.92%) Python
2 57 (53.77%) Bash
3 23 (21.70%) Perl
4 21 (19.81%) C
5 20 (18.87%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.43%) Java
7 8 (7.55%) C#
7 8 (7.55%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.60%) C++
9 5 (4.72%) OCaml
9 5 (4.72%) SystemTap
10 3 (2.83%) Go
10 3 (2.83%) Ruby
10 3 (2.83%) Rust
11 2 (1.89%) SQL
12 1 (0.94%) Korn
12 1 (0.94%) PHP
12 1 (0.94%) Tcl
12 1 (0.94%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 15 (14.15%) Degree
2 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.89%) Linux+ Certification
2 2 (1.89%) RHCE
2 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (18.87%) Docker
2 10 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.77%) KVM
4 4 (3.77%) NFS
5 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.94%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 57 (53.77%) Ansible
2 28 (26.42%) Terraform
3 26 (24.53%) Kubernetes
4 19 (17.92%) Puppet
5 12 (11.32%) Grafana
6 11 (10.38%) Nagios
6 11 (10.38%) Progress Chef
6 11 (10.38%) Prometheus
7 8 (7.55%) Graphite
7 8 (7.55%) HAProxy
7 8 (7.55%) vCenter Server
8 6 (5.66%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.77%) HP Data Protector
10 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.89%) Rancher
12 1 (0.94%) Podman
12 1 (0.94%) SCCM
12 1 (0.94%) systemd
12 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (43.40%) Red Hat
2 11 (10.38%) F5
3 10 (9.43%) Oracle
3 10 (9.43%) VMware
4 8 (7.55%) Palo Alto
5 7 (6.60%) Dell
6 6 (5.66%) Cisco
6 6 (5.66%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.66%) HP
6 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
7 5 (4.72%) Serena
8 4 (3.77%) EMC
9 3 (2.83%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.89%) Google
10 2 (1.89%) Intel
10 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.89%) Splunk
10 2 (1.89%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.94%) Brocade
11 1 (0.94%) SAP