Senior Linux Engineer
UK

The median Senior Linux Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 793 907 1166
Rank change year-on-year +114 +259 -313
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 91 68 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.068% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.075% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 73 64 64
10th Percentile £39,112 £48,975 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £116,250 £82,575
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK

Senior Linux Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +124 77 £65,000 -13.33% 9
UK excluding London +33 57 £60,000 +20.00% 2
London +114 27 £78,000 -14.52% 8
Work from Home +66 27 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Midlands +7 16 £65,000 -10.03%
West Midlands +25 14 £65,000 -10.03%
South East +11 9 £57,500 +10.05% 1
South West -15 9 £52,500 +19.32%
East of England - 9 £60,000 - 1
North of England +41 7 £50,341 +11.25%
Wales - 7 £41,067 -
North East - 6 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £51,250 -
Yorkshire +82 1 £40,681 -7.54%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) Linux
2 42 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (34.07%) Ansible
3 31 (34.07%) Software Engineering
4 28 (30.77%) C
4 28 (30.77%) Python
4 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 25 (27.47%) Embedded Linux
6 22 (24.18%) Agile
6 22 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (21.98%) AWS
7 20 (21.98%) C++
8 19 (20.88%) TCP/IP
8 19 (20.88%) Bash
8 19 (20.88%) Terraform
9 17 (18.68%) Yocto
9 17 (18.68%) DNS
10 16 (17.58%) Puppet
11 15 (16.48%) Migration
12 14 (15.38%) Windows
12 14 (15.38%) IoT
13 13 (14.29%) Embedded Software Development
13 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
14 12 (13.19%) VMware
14 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (13.19%) Firewall
14 12 (13.19%) Perl
14 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (13.19%) Azure
14 12 (13.19%) DevOps

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (4.40%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.98%) AWS
2 12 (13.19%) Azure
3 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
3 8 (8.79%) GCP
4 7 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (7.69%) Slack
5 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.10%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (20.88%) TCP/IP
2 17 (18.68%) DNS
3 12 (13.19%) Firewall
4 10 (10.99%) Internet
4 10 (10.99%) SAN
4 10 (10.99%) tcpdump
5 9 (9.89%) SNMP
6 8 (8.79%) DHCP
7 2 (2.20%) WAN
7 2 (2.20%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.10%) 5G
8 1 (1.10%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.10%) FTP
8 1 (1.10%) LAN
8 1 (1.10%) MQTT
8 1 (1.10%) RS-485
8 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.10%) VLAN
8 1 (1.10%) VPN
8 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (9.89%) MySQL
3 8 (8.79%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.20%) Big Data
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Finance
4 9 (9.89%) Aerospace
4 9 (9.89%) Electronics
4 9 (9.89%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.30%) Advertising
7 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) Yocto
2 8 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (8.79%) YAML
3 3 (3.30%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 3 (3.30%) Kafka
3 3 (3.30%) Middleware
3 3 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.30%) REST
4 2 (2.20%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.10%) CSS
5 1 (1.10%) JSON
5 1 (1.10%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) IoT
2 8 (8.79%) Clustering
3 7 (7.69%) CMDB
4 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.30%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.30%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.30%) FPGA
5 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.10%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.10%) GNSS
6 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (27.47%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (15.38%) Windows
4 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.49%) CentOS
6 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.30%) Unix
8 2 (2.20%) Debian
8 2 (2.20%) Rocky
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (34.07%) Software Engineering
3 22 (24.18%) Agile
4 15 (16.48%) Migration
5 13 (14.29%) Embedded Software Development
6 12 (13.19%) Containerisation
6 12 (13.19%) DevOps
6 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (12.09%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (12.09%) Test Automation
8 10 (10.99%) Business Continuity
8 10 (10.99%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (10.99%) High Availability
9 9 (9.89%) Code Quality
9 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (9.89%) Load Balancing
10 8 (8.79%) CI/CD
10 8 (8.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.77%) C
1 28 (30.77%) Python
2 20 (21.98%) C++
3 19 (20.88%) Bash
4 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.19%) Perl
6 8 (8.79%) Java
7 3 (3.30%) Embedded C
7 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.10%) Korn
8 1 (1.10%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) Degree
1 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (2.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) PMO
2 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Docker
1 10 (10.99%) VMware ESXi
1 10 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.69%) KVM
3 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.20%) NFS
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (34.07%) Ansible
2 19 (20.88%) Terraform
3 16 (17.58%) Puppet
4 10 (10.99%) Grafana
4 10 (10.99%) vCenter Server
5 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
5 9 (9.89%) Nagios
6 8 (8.79%) Graphite
6 8 (8.79%) HAProxy
7 7 (7.69%) Progress Chef
8 5 (5.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.20%) HP Data Protector
11 1 (1.10%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (1.10%) SCCM
11 1 (1.10%) systemd
11 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) VMware
2 9 (9.89%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.30%) Dell
3 3 (3.30%) EMC
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle
4 2 (2.20%) F5
4 2 (2.20%) HP
4 2 (2.20%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.20%) Splunk
5 1 (1.10%) Brocade
5 1 (1.10%) SAP
5 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.10%) Veeam