Senior Linux Administrator Jobs

Senior Linux Administrator
UK

The median Senior Linux Administrator salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 962 1211
Rank change year-on-year +62 +249 -330
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Administrator 5 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.011% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.012% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile - £55,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £60,063 £53,940
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £68,000 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +18.35% -25.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,875 £60,976
90th Percentile £72,750 £89,050 £61,738
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 -
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -

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 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Administrator in the UK

Senior Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Administrator in the UK

Senior Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Administrator over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Administrator in the UK

Senior Linux Administrator
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Linux Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +106 2 £68,750 +1.10% 2
London +133 1 £72,500 -19.44% 1
Work from Home +79 1 £65,000 -13.33% 1
UK excluding London -14 1 £65,000 -3.70% 1
East of England - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Apache
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (60.00%) Check_MK
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) HAProxy
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (60.00%) Billing
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) systemd
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2

Senior 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Route 53
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Korn
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Check_MK
2 3 (60.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) systemd
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SAP