Linux Administrator
UK

The median Linux Administrator salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 869 1072
Rank change year-on-year +50 +203 -274
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 85 124 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 79 99 135
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £169,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +44 74 £52,500 -12.50% 20
UK excluding London +13 66 £50,000 - 15
Work from Home +77 33 £55,000 -18.52% 12
South West -10 30 £48,750 -27.78% 2
London +86 12 £62,500 -10.71% 6
Midlands +22 12 £50,000 -8.68% 4
South East -3 10 £55,000 +10.00% 1
East of England +15 9 £50,000 -21.57% 2
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +17 4 £54,000 -1.37% 3
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 1
North of England +41 1 £45,000 - 5
North West +2 1 £45,000 +16.13% 3

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Linux 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 featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 85 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (43.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (41.18%) CentOS
3 35 (41.18%) VMware
4 34 (40.00%) Ansible
5 33 (38.82%) Python
6 32 (37.65%) Bash
7 29 (34.12%) Red Hat
8 23 (27.06%) Unix
9 22 (25.88%) Azure
9 22 (25.88%) AWS
10 20 (23.53%) Git
11 19 (22.35%) DevOps
11 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (21.18%) Puppet
12 18 (21.18%) Ubuntu
13 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
14 16 (18.82%) Windows
15 15 (17.65%) Shell Script
16 14 (16.47%) SQL
17 13 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
17 13 (15.29%) DV Cleared
18 12 (14.12%) Linux Command Line
18 12 (14.12%) Docker
18 12 (14.12%) Telecoms
19 11 (12.94%) Finance
19 11 (12.94%) Debian
19 11 (12.94%) Configuration Management
19 11 (12.94%) ITIL
19 11 (12.94%) Time Management

Linux Administrator 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 6 (7.06%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.18%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.88%) AWS
1 22 (25.88%) Azure
2 11 (12.94%) OpenShift
3 10 (11.76%) SaaS
4 7 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.71%) GCP
6 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.53%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.35%) IaaS
7 2 (2.35%) PaaS
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.18%) Route 53
8 1 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) DNS
1 8 (9.41%) HTTPS
1 8 (9.41%) SSL
1 8 (9.41%) VPN
2 7 (8.24%) Firewall
3 5 (5.88%) Internet
4 4 (4.71%) BGP
4 4 (4.71%) SMTP
4 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.18%) DHCP
5 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.18%) HTTP
5 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.18%) SAN
5 1 (1.18%) SSH
5 1 (1.18%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.53%) Ingres
3 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.18%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 8 (9.41%) Vagrant
3 2 (2.35%) GitLab
3 2 (2.35%) Subversion
4 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.18%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.18%) ClearQuest
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) Redmine
4 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (14.12%) Telecoms
2 11 (12.94%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Retail
6 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.53%) Billing
8 2 (2.35%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Electronics
9 1 (1.18%) Games
9 1 (1.18%) iGaming
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) EDI
1 3 (3.53%) Web Services
2 1 (1.18%) CSS
2 1 (1.18%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.18%) LDAP
2 1 (1.18%) Middleware
2 1 (1.18%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.18%) REST
2 1 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.35%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) Replication
4 1 (1.18%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 85 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (43.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (41.18%) CentOS
4 23 (27.06%) Unix
5 18 (21.18%) Ubuntu
6 16 (18.82%) Windows
7 11 (12.94%) CoreOS
7 11 (12.94%) Debian
8 7 (8.24%) SUSE
9 4 (4.71%) Solaris
10 3 (3.53%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (3.53%) Windows 10
11 2 (2.35%) AIX
11 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (1.18%) OpenBSD
12 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.35%) DevOps
1 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (12.94%) Configuration Management
2 11 (12.94%) ITIL
2 11 (12.94%) Time Management
3 10 (11.76%) Customer Experience
3 10 (11.76%) Load Balancing
4 9 (10.59%) High Availability
5 8 (9.41%) Capacity Management
5 8 (9.41%) Inventory Management
5 8 (9.41%) Software Delivery
6 7 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (7.06%) Business Continuity
8 5 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (5.88%) Computer Science
8 5 (5.88%) Customer Service
8 5 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
8 5 (5.88%) Problem Management
8 5 (5.88%) Task Automation
9 4 (4.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 33 (38.82%) Python
2 32 (37.65%) Bash
3 15 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 14 (16.47%) SQL
5 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.53%) AWK
6 3 (3.53%) sed
7 2 (2.35%) Perl
7 2 (2.35%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) Korn
8 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.18%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.24%) Degree
5 6 (7.06%) RHCE
6 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.88%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.18%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (14.12%) Docker
3 7 (8.24%) Hyper-V
4 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
5 5 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.53%) vSphere
7 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.18%) KVM
8 1 (1.18%) NFS
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.18%) Postfix
8 1 (1.18%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 34 (40.00%) Ansible
2 18 (21.18%) Puppet
3 7 (8.24%) Progress Chef
4 6 (7.06%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.53%) Check_MK
6 3 (3.53%) HAProxy
6 3 (3.53%) SCCM
6 3 (3.53%) Terraform
7 2 (2.35%) Grafana
7 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.35%) systemd
8 1 (1.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 35 (41.18%) VMware
2 29 (34.12%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Juniper
4 3 (3.53%) Veeam
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.18%) Avaya
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) F5
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk