Senior Linux Systems Administrator Jobs

Senior Linux System Administrator
UK

The median Senior Linux System Administrator salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 905 968 1229
Rank change year-on-year +63 +261 -324
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Systems Administrator 5 11 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.011% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.012% 0.005%
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% -23.39%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,875 £60,976
90th Percentile £77,000 £89,050 £61,738
UK excluding London median annual salary - £67,500 -

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
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%

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Systems Administrator in the UK

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Systems Administrator in the UK

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Linux Systems Administrator in the UK

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Linux Systems Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
London +126 2 £73,750 -18.06% 1
England +97 2 £73,750 +8.46% 1

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (80.00%) Apache
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) Billing
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (60.00%) Check_MK
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (60.00%) HAProxy
4 2 (40.00%) Bash
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (20.00%) Grafana
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
5 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (20.00%) Social Skills

Senior Linux Systems 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 4 (80.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
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
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) KVM
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Check_MK
2 3 (60.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) VMware