Senior Linux Specialist Jobs

Senior Linux Specialist
UK

The median Senior Linux Specialist salary in the UK is £79,125 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 - 1202
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Specialist 130 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% - 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £77,813 - -
25th Percentile £77,906 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,125 - -
75th Percentile £80,656 - -
90th Percentile £80,938 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Specialist in the UK

Senior Linux Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Specialist in the UK

Senior Linux Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 - 130 £79,125 -
Work from Home - 129 £79,125 -
London - 92 £79,125 -
UK excluding London - 38 - -
South East - 38 - -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 130 (100.00%) Linux
2 129 (99.23%) Azure
2 129 (99.23%) Bash
2 129 (99.23%) Cybersecurity
2 129 (99.23%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (98.46%) Tanium
4 127 (97.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 127 (97.69%) Ubuntu
4 127 (97.69%) CRM
4 127 (97.69%) Broadband
4 127 (97.69%) Microsoft
4 127 (97.69%) Active Directory
4 127 (97.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (97.69%) IT Strategy
4 127 (97.69%) Entra ID
4 127 (97.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (97.69%) 5G
4 127 (97.69%) Jamf Pro
4 127 (97.69%) CyberArk
4 127 (97.69%) Social Media
4 127 (97.69%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (1.54%) Containerisation
5 2 (1.54%) Code Quality
5 2 (1.54%) tcpdump
5 2 (1.54%) Puppet
5 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.54%) High Availability
5 2 (1.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch

Senior Linux Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 129 (99.23%) Azure
2 127 (97.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (1.54%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.54%) AWS
3 2 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 127 (97.69%) 5G
1 127 (97.69%) Broadband
2 2 (1.54%) DNS
2 2 (1.54%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) Internet
2 2 (1.54%) SNMP
2 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.54%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 129 (99.23%) Analytical Skills
2 127 (97.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (1.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 127 (97.69%) Social Media
2 2 (1.54%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 130 (100.00%) Linux
2 127 (97.69%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (99.23%) Cybersecurity
2 127 (97.69%) Artificial Intelligence
2 127 (97.69%) CRM
2 127 (97.69%) IT Strategy
2 127 (97.69%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (1.54%) Agile
3 2 (1.54%) Business Continuity
3 2 (1.54%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (1.54%) CI/CD
3 2 (1.54%) Code Quality
3 2 (1.54%) Containerisation
3 2 (1.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (1.54%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (1.54%) High Availability
3 2 (1.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (1.54%) Load Balancing
3 2 (1.54%) Migration
3 2 (1.54%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (1.54%) Test Automation
3 2 (1.54%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (99.23%) Bash
2 2 (1.54%) Perl
2 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.54%) Python
System Software
1 127 (97.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (97.69%) Jamf Pro
1 127 (97.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.54%) Ansible
2 2 (1.54%) Grafana
2 2 (1.54%) Graphite
2 2 (1.54%) HAProxy
2 2 (1.54%) Nagios
2 2 (1.54%) Puppet
2 2 (1.54%) Terraform
2 2 (1.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 128 (98.46%) Tanium
2 127 (97.69%) CyberArk
2 127 (97.69%) Microsoft