Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in the South West

Linux System Administrator
England > South West

The median Linux System Administrator salary in the South West is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 252 286
Rank change year-on-year -12 +34 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 27 16 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 8
10th Percentile - £56,250 -
25th Percentile £41,500 £63,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £67,500 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +63.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £48,438
90th Percentile - £75,000 £51,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,796 6,256 7,645
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.28% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,885 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Linux Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in the South West.

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Gloucestershire - 12 £52,500 -
Wiltshire -7 7 £45,000 -33.33%
Bristol +11 6 £43,625 -35.37% 1
Somerset -3 1 £55,000 -18.52%
Devon - 1 £58,000 -
Linux Systems Administrator
England

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Linux Systems Administrator 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 West region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (66.67%) Bash
3 17 (62.96%) Unix
4 16 (59.26%) Ansible
4 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
5 15 (55.56%) CentOS
5 15 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (55.56%) Puppet
5 15 (55.56%) Red Hat
6 14 (51.85%) AWS
7 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
7 13 (48.15%) Python
8 11 (40.74%) Git
9 10 (37.04%) Time Management
9 10 (37.04%) CoreOS
9 10 (37.04%) OpenShift
9 10 (37.04%) Load Balancing
9 10 (37.04%) ITIL
9 10 (37.04%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (33.33%) VMware
10 9 (33.33%) DevOps
11 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
11 8 (29.63%) Windows
12 6 (22.22%) Azure
13 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
13 5 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (18.52%) RHCSA
13 5 (18.52%) Performance Monitoring
13 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
13 5 (18.52%) High Availability

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) OpenShift
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) IaaS
4 2 (7.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Internet
2 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
General
1 5 (18.52%) Retail
2 1 (3.70%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) LDAP
1 1 (3.70%) REST
1 1 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (62.96%) Unix
3 15 (55.56%) CentOS
3 15 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (37.04%) CoreOS
5 8 (29.63%) Windows
6 4 (14.81%) Debian
6 4 (14.81%) Solaris
6 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
7 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) ITIL
1 10 (37.04%) Load Balancing
1 10 (37.04%) Time Management
2 9 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Business Continuity
3 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
3 5 (18.52%) Customer Service
3 5 (18.52%) High Availability
3 5 (18.52%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (7.41%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
5 2 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
5 2 (7.41%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (3.70%) CI/CD
6 1 (3.70%) Customer Experience
6 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.70%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) Bash
2 13 (48.15%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
3 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (18.52%) RHCE
4 5 (18.52%) RHCSA
5 4 (14.81%) Degree
6 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 16 (59.26%) Ansible
2 15 (55.56%) Puppet
3 5 (18.52%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.41%) SCCM
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Red Hat
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft