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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 421 748
Rank change year-on-year +3 +327 -285
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 112 177 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.56% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.59% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 93 158 155
10th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,000 £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 £115,938 £75,625
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £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 23,153 29,839 71,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 94.99% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,040 22,415 34,936
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,578 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 9 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 9 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 +44 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 9 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.

1 112 (100.00%) Linux
2 73 (65.18%) Python
3 59 (52.68%) Ansible
4 56 (50.00%) Bash
5 51 (45.54%) Red Hat
6 45 (40.18%) TCP/IP
7 35 (31.25%) Finance
7 35 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 34 (30.36%) AWS
9 31 (27.68%) DNS
10 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
11 26 (23.21%) Perl
12 25 (22.32%) Windows
12 25 (22.32%) Firewall
12 25 (22.32%) Kubernetes
12 25 (22.32%) Terraform
13 24 (21.43%) Software Engineering
13 24 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (18.75%) C
16 20 (17.86%) Debian
16 20 (17.86%) Ubuntu
17 19 (16.96%) PowerShell
17 19 (16.96%) Puppet
18 18 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
19 17 (15.18%) Configuration Management
19 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 17 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
20 16 (14.29%) CI/CD
20 16 (14.29%) Degree

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 (10.71%) Apache
2 10 (8.93%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.36%) AWS
2 13 (11.61%) Azure
3 12 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 9 (8.04%) GCP
5 5 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.46%) GitHub
6 4 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.79%) Kong
7 2 (1.79%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.89%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (40.18%) TCP/IP
2 31 (27.68%) DNS
3 25 (22.32%) Firewall
4 13 (11.61%) SNMP
5 12 (10.71%) SAN
6 11 (9.82%) DHCP
6 11 (9.82%) Internet
7 10 (8.93%) tcpdump
8 8 (7.14%) LAN
8 8 (7.14%) NAS
8 8 (7.14%) WAN
9 7 (6.25%) VPN
10 6 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (2.68%) Wireshark
12 2 (1.79%) DKIM
12 2 (1.79%) DMARC
12 2 (1.79%) HTTP
12 2 (1.79%) Network Security
12 2 (1.79%) SMTP
13 1 (0.89%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (8.93%) MySQL
3 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.79%) Redis
5 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (13.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.25%) Git
3 5 (4.46%) DTrace
3 5 (4.46%) GDB
3 5 (4.46%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.57%) JIRA
5 3 (2.68%) GitLab
6 2 (1.79%) git-flow
6 2 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (31.25%) Finance
2 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.29%) Banking
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.68%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.89%) Electronics
8 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing
8 1 (0.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) LDAP
2 9 (8.04%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.25%) GTK
3 7 (6.25%) YAML
4 4 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (3.57%) Kafka
5 3 (2.68%) Keycloak
5 3 (2.68%) LAMP
5 3 (2.68%) Middleware
6 2 (1.79%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (0.89%) .NET
7 1 (0.89%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.89%) CSS
7 1 (0.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) PKI
2 12 (10.71%) Client/Server
2 12 (10.71%) Clustering
2 12 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.04%) FPGA
4 7 (6.25%) Replication
5 5 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.46%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.79%) PropTech
7 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 112 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (22.32%) Windows
4 20 (17.86%) Debian
4 20 (17.86%) Ubuntu
5 14 (12.50%) CentOS
6 11 (9.82%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (8.04%) Unix
8 8 (7.14%) Windows Server
9 5 (4.46%) Solaris
10 1 (0.89%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 24 (21.43%) Software Engineering
2 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (15.18%) Configuration Management
4 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 16 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (13.39%) High Availability
7 14 (12.50%) Agile
7 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (12.50%) DevOps
8 13 (11.61%) Key Management
9 12 (10.71%) Load Balancing
9 12 (10.71%) Security Hardening
10 11 (9.82%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (9.82%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (8.93%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (65.18%) Python
2 56 (50.00%) Bash
3 26 (23.21%) Perl
4 21 (18.75%) C
5 19 (16.96%) PowerShell
6 13 (11.61%) Java
7 9 (8.04%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.25%) C++
9 6 (5.36%) C#
10 5 (4.46%) OCaml
10 5 (4.46%) SystemTap
11 2 (1.79%) SQL
12 1 (0.89%) Go
12 1 (0.89%) Korn
12 1 (0.89%) PHP
12 1 (0.89%) Ruby
12 1 (0.89%) Rust
12 1 (0.89%) Tcl
12 1 (0.89%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 16 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) Linux+ Certification
4 3 (2.68%) RHCE
5 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (14.29%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.46%) KVM
4 5 (4.46%) NFS
5 4 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.89%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 59 (52.68%) Ansible
2 25 (22.32%) Kubernetes
2 25 (22.32%) Terraform
3 19 (16.96%) Puppet
4 14 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.71%) Grafana
5 12 (10.71%) Nagios
6 9 (8.04%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.25%) Graphite
7 7 (6.25%) HAProxy
7 7 (6.25%) vCenter Server
8 6 (5.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.57%) HP Data Protector
9 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (1.79%) Rancher
11 1 (0.89%) Podman
11 1 (0.89%) SCCM
11 1 (0.89%) systemd
11 1 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (45.54%) Red Hat
2 16 (14.29%) F5
3 13 (11.61%) Oracle
4 11 (9.82%) VMware
5 8 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 7 (6.25%) Dell
7 6 (5.36%) Cisco
7 6 (5.36%) Fortinet
7 6 (5.36%) HP
7 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
8 5 (4.46%) Serena
9 4 (3.57%) EMC
10 3 (2.68%) SaltStack
10 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.68%) Splunk
11 2 (1.79%) Google
12 1 (0.89%) Brocade
12 1 (0.89%) Intel
12 1 (0.89%) SAP
12 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software