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 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 423 753
Rank change year-on-year +23 +330 -306
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 111 189 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.57% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.60% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 94 164 157
10th Percentile £59,875 £50,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £118,500 £160,875 £97,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 22,451 31,517 69,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 95.13% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,733 23,286 34,804
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,143 £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%

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 27 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 27 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 +42 17 £70,000 - 4
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Linux
2 75 (67.57%) Python
3 61 (54.95%) Ansible
4 57 (51.35%) Bash
5 50 (45.05%) Red Hat
6 45 (40.54%) TCP/IP
7 35 (31.53%) AWS
8 34 (30.63%) Finance
9 33 (29.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 31 (27.93%) DNS
11 28 (25.23%) Terraform
12 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
13 26 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (23.42%) Kubernetes
13 26 (23.42%) Windows
13 26 (23.42%) Perl
13 26 (23.42%) Firewall
14 25 (22.52%) Software Engineering
15 21 (18.92%) C
15 21 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (18.02%) Ubuntu
16 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
16 20 (18.02%) Puppet
17 19 (17.12%) Docker
17 19 (17.12%) Debian
18 18 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
18 18 (16.22%) CI/CD
19 17 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
19 17 (15.32%) Configuration Management
19 17 (15.32%) Banking

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 11 (9.91%) 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 13 (11.71%) Amazon S3
4 10 (9.01%) 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 26 (23.42%) Firewall
4 14 (12.61%) SNMP
5 13 (11.71%) SAN
6 12 (10.81%) Internet
7 10 (9.01%) DHCP
7 10 (9.01%) tcpdump
8 9 (8.11%) LAN
8 9 (8.11%) WAN
9 7 (6.31%) NAS
9 7 (6.31%) VPN
10 6 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
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
11 2 (1.80%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.90%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (9.91%) MySQL
3 8 (7.21%) 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 17 (15.32%) 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 17 (15.32%) Banking
4 9 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) 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 10 (9.01%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (7.21%) YAML
4 7 (6.31%) GTK
5 3 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.70%) Kafka
5 3 (2.70%) LAMP
6 2 (1.80%) .NET
6 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.80%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.80%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (1.80%) Middleware
7 1 (0.90%) CSS
7 1 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Clustering
1 13 (11.71%) PKI
2 11 (9.91%) Client/Server
2 11 (9.91%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.21%) FPGA
4 7 (6.31%) Replication
5 5 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.50%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.80%) PropTech
7 2 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 111 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (29.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (23.42%) Windows
4 20 (18.02%) Ubuntu
5 19 (17.12%) Debian
6 15 (13.51%) CentOS
7 11 (9.91%) Oracle Linux
8 9 (8.11%) Unix
9 8 (7.21%) Windows Server
10 5 (4.50%) Solaris
11 1 (0.90%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (22.52%) Software Engineering
3 21 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.22%) CI/CD
4 18 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (15.32%) Configuration Management
5 17 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (14.41%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (13.51%) Agile
7 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (13.51%) DevOps
7 15 (13.51%) High Availability
8 13 (11.71%) Key Management
8 13 (11.71%) Load Balancing
8 13 (11.71%) Security Hardening
9 12 (10.81%) Containerisation
10 11 (9.91%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (9.01%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 75 (67.57%) Python
2 57 (51.35%) Bash
3 26 (23.42%) Perl
4 21 (18.92%) C
5 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
6 13 (11.71%) Java
7 8 (7.21%) 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 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
2 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.80%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (1.80%) 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 19 (17.12%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.21%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.50%) NFS
5 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.60%) KVM
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.90%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 61 (54.95%) Ansible
2 28 (25.23%) Terraform
3 26 (23.42%) Kubernetes
4 20 (18.02%) Puppet
5 12 (10.81%) Grafana
5 12 (10.81%) Nagios
5 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.01%) Progress Chef
7 8 (7.21%) Graphite
7 8 (7.21%) HAProxy
7 8 (7.21%) vCenter Server
8 6 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.60%) HP Data Protector
9 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (1.80%) Rancher
11 1 (0.90%) Podman
11 1 (0.90%) SCCM
11 1 (0.90%) systemd
11 1 (0.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (45.05%) Red Hat
2 15 (13.51%) F5
3 13 (11.71%) Oracle
4 10 (9.01%) 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
11 2 (1.80%) Google
11 2 (1.80%) Intel
11 2 (1.80%) Splunk
11 2 (1.80%) TOWER Software
12 1 (0.90%) Brocade
12 1 (0.90%) SAP