Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in London is £79,125 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 461 620 896
Rank change year-on-year +159 +276 -303
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 30 16 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.049% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.051% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 26 16 19
10th Percentile £62,500 £61,875 £51,750
25th Percentile £72,813 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,125 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £116,250 £97,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

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 22,535 31,280 69,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 95.12% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,745 23,071 34,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,108 £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 £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

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 28 May 2024.

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 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
Central London - 2 - -
Senior Linux Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (90.00%) Python
3 21 (70.00%) Ansible
4 19 (63.33%) TCP/IP
5 18 (60.00%) DNS
5 18 (60.00%) Bash
6 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (46.67%) AWS
7 14 (46.67%) Puppet
8 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
8 13 (43.33%) Windows
9 12 (40.00%) Perl
9 12 (40.00%) Firewall
9 12 (40.00%) Azure
9 12 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (40.00%) Terraform
10 11 (36.67%) Grafana
10 11 (36.67%) tcpdump
10 11 (36.67%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (36.67%) High Availability
10 11 (36.67%) Business Continuity
10 11 (36.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
11 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
11 10 (33.33%) SNMP
11 10 (33.33%) Red Hat
11 10 (33.33%) Internet
11 10 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (30.00%) Load Balancing

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) AWS
2 12 (40.00%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (63.33%) TCP/IP
2 18 (60.00%) DNS
3 12 (40.00%) Firewall
4 11 (36.67%) tcpdump
5 10 (33.33%) Internet
5 10 (33.33%) SNMP
6 8 (26.67%) DHCP
7 4 (13.33%) SAN
8 3 (10.00%) Wireshark
9 2 (6.67%) LAN
9 2 (6.67%) WAN
10 1 (3.33%) FTP
10 1 (3.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 8 (26.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (26.67%) YAML
2 3 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 3 (10.00%) Middleware
3 2 (6.67%) LDAP
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.33%) FPGA
3 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (43.33%) Windows
3 5 (16.67%) CentOS
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (36.67%) Business Continuity
3 11 (36.67%) Capacity Planning
3 11 (36.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (36.67%) High Availability
3 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 9 (30.00%) Load Balancing
6 8 (26.67%) Agile
6 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (26.67%) Code Quality
6 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (26.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 8 (26.67%) DevOps
6 8 (26.67%) Migration
6 8 (26.67%) Security Hardening
6 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 8 (26.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (90.00%) Python
2 18 (60.00%) Bash
3 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
4 12 (40.00%) Perl
5 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.67%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) Korn
7 1 (3.33%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 3 (10.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
1 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) KVM
3 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.67%) NFS
6 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (70.00%) Ansible
2 14 (46.67%) Puppet
3 12 (40.00%) Terraform
4 11 (36.67%) Grafana
5 8 (26.67%) Graphite
5 8 (26.67%) HAProxy
5 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
5 8 (26.67%) Nagios
5 8 (26.67%) vCenter Server
6 6 (20.00%) Progress Chef
7 5 (16.67%) Prometheus
8 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (6.67%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (3.33%) SCCM
10 1 (3.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 8 (26.67%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Dell
3 3 (10.00%) F5
3 3 (10.00%) SaltStack
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) EMC
4 2 (6.67%) HP
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Brocade
5 1 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow