Linux Engineer Jobs in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 429 753
Rank change year-on-year +41 +324 -298
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 111 182 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.57% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.60% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 92 162 156
10th Percentile £59,125 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £59,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £102,500 £114,375 £75,313
90th Percentile £119,500 £163,625 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 22,868 30,463 70,595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 95.03% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,938 22,839 34,712
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +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 2 June 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 2 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
Central London +51 17 £70,000 - 2
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 111 (100.00%) Linux
2 74 (66.67%) Python
3 60 (54.05%) Ansible
4 56 (50.45%) Bash
5 51 (45.95%) Red Hat
6 45 (40.54%) TCP/IP
7 35 (31.53%) AWS
8 34 (30.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 34 (30.63%) Finance
9 31 (27.93%) DNS
10 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
11 26 (23.42%) Kubernetes
11 26 (23.42%) Terraform
12 25 (22.52%) Software Engineering
12 25 (22.52%) Windows
12 25 (22.52%) Perl
12 25 (22.52%) Firewall
13 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (18.92%) C
15 20 (18.02%) Debian
15 20 (18.02%) Ubuntu
16 19 (17.12%) PowerShell
16 19 (17.12%) Puppet
17 18 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
18 17 (15.32%) Configuration Management
18 17 (15.32%) Docker
18 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
18 17 (15.32%) Platform Engineering

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 (10.81%) Apache
2 10 (9.01%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 35 (31.53%) AWS
2 14 (12.61%) Azure
3 12 (10.81%) Amazon S3
4 9 (8.11%) GCP
5 6 (5.41%) GitHub
6 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.80%) Kong
8 2 (1.80%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.90%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 45 (40.54%) TCP/IP
2 31 (27.93%) DNS
3 25 (22.52%) Firewall
4 13 (11.71%) SAN
4 13 (11.71%) SNMP
5 11 (9.91%) DHCP
5 11 (9.91%) Internet
6 10 (9.01%) tcpdump
7 9 (8.11%) LAN
7 9 (8.11%) WAN
8 7 (6.31%) NAS
8 7 (6.31%) VPN
9 6 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.70%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.80%) DKIM
11 2 (1.80%) DMARC
11 2 (1.80%) HTTP
11 2 (1.80%) Network Security
11 2 (1.80%) SMTP
12 1 (0.90%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.91%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (9.01%) MySQL
3 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.80%) Redis
5 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.31%) Git
3 5 (4.50%) DTrace
3 5 (4.50%) GDB
3 5 (4.50%) JIRA
3 5 (4.50%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.60%) GitLab
5 2 (1.80%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.80%) git-flow
5 2 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (30.63%) Finance
2 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.41%) Banking
4 8 (7.21%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.70%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.80%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.90%) Electronics
8 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) LDAP
2 9 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.31%) GTK
3 7 (6.31%) YAML
4 4 (3.60%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (3.60%) Kafka
5 3 (2.70%) Keycloak
5 3 (2.70%) LAMP
5 3 (2.70%) Middleware
6 2 (1.80%) .NET
6 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.80%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (0.90%) CSS
7 1 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) PKI
2 12 (10.81%) Clustering
3 11 (9.91%) Client/Server
3 11 (9.91%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.21%) FPGA
5 7 (6.31%) Replication
6 5 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.50%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.80%) PropTech
8 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 111 (100.00%) Linux
2 34 (30.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (22.52%) Windows
4 20 (18.02%) Debian
4 20 (18.02%) Ubuntu
5 15 (13.51%) CentOS
6 11 (9.91%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (8.11%) Unix
8 8 (7.21%) Windows Server
9 5 (4.50%) Solaris
10 1 (0.90%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.52%) Software Engineering
2 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
5 17 (15.32%) Configuration Management
5 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (14.41%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (13.51%) High Availability
8 14 (12.61%) Agile
8 14 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (12.61%) DevOps
9 13 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.71%) Key Management
10 12 (10.81%) Load Balancing
10 12 (10.81%) Security Hardening
11 11 (9.91%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.91%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (9.01%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 74 (66.67%) Python
2 56 (50.45%) Bash
3 25 (22.52%) Perl
4 21 (18.92%) C
5 19 (17.12%) PowerShell
6 13 (11.71%) Java
7 9 (8.11%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.31%) C#
8 7 (6.31%) C++
9 5 (4.50%) OCaml
9 5 (4.50%) SystemTap
10 2 (1.80%) Go
10 2 (1.80%) Ruby
10 2 (1.80%) Rust
10 2 (1.80%) SQL
11 1 (0.90%) Korn
11 1 (0.90%) PHP
11 1 (0.90%) Tcl
11 1 (0.90%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 15 (13.51%) Degree
2 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
2 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Linux+ Certification
3 3 (2.70%) RHCE
4 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (15.32%) Docker
2 11 (9.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.31%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.50%) KVM
4 5 (4.50%) NFS
5 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.90%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 60 (54.05%) Ansible
2 26 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 26 (23.42%) Terraform
3 19 (17.12%) Puppet
4 13 (11.71%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.81%) Grafana
6 11 (9.91%) Nagios
7 10 (9.01%) Progress Chef
8 7 (6.31%) Graphite
8 7 (6.31%) HAProxy
8 7 (6.31%) vCenter Server
9 6 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.60%) HP Data Protector
10 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.80%) Rancher
12 1 (0.90%) Podman
12 1 (0.90%) SCCM
12 1 (0.90%) systemd
12 1 (0.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (45.95%) Red Hat
2 15 (13.51%) F5
3 13 (11.71%) Oracle
4 11 (9.91%) VMware
5 8 (7.21%) Palo Alto
6 7 (6.31%) Dell
7 6 (5.41%) Cisco
7 6 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 6 (5.41%) HP
7 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
8 5 (4.50%) Serena
9 4 (3.60%) EMC
10 3 (2.70%) SaltStack
10 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.70%) Splunk
11 2 (1.80%) Google
11 2 (1.80%) Intel
12 1 (0.90%) Brocade
12 1 (0.90%) SAP
12 1 (0.90%) TOWER Software