Senior Linux Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Linux Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 368 476
Rank change year-on-year -29 +108 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 7 9 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.038% 0.068% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.076% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £48,750 £38,700 -
25th Percentile £50,313 £48,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £56,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £68,900 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the South East

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the South East

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in the South East

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley -3 3 £50,000 +14.94%
Surrey -17 3 £72,500 -3.33%
Oxfordshire - 2 £50,000 -
Berkshire +10 1 - -
Hampshire -37 1 £57,500 +9.52%
Senior Linux Engineer
England

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 South East region featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Multithreading
3 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (42.86%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) C
4 2 (28.57%) C++
4 2 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
5 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Linux Kernel Development
5 1 (14.29%) EMC VNX
5 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (14.29%) RS-485
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (14.29%) Yocto
5 1 (14.29%) Device Driver Development
5 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (14.29%) IoT
5 1 (14.29%) MQTT
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
1 1 (14.29%) RS-485
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (14.29%) EMC VNX
1 1 (14.29%) FPGA
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Rocky
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Multithreading
2 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Device Driver Development
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Kernel Development
4 1 (14.29%) Memory Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) EMC
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam
1 1 (14.29%) VMware