Linux Administrator Contracts in England

Linux Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 514 601
Rank change year-on-year +55 +87 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 29 17 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.047% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.050% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 25
10th Percentile £280 £325 £161
25th Percentile £425 £352 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.05% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £450 £625
90th Percentile £622 £480 £654
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +8.82% -10.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.15
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £67.56
90th Percentile - - £77.25
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,371 33,770 45,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,864 22,424 32,556
10th Percentile £296 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 926 2,441 1,340
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in England.

Daily rate trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 10 £500 +17.65% 19
South East +42 5 £550 +23.53% 7
South West - 5 £354 - 8
Midlands +18 4 £450 -
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
East of England - 4 £250 - 10
Linux Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Linux Administrator contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (75.86%) Ansible
3 20 (68.97%) VMware
3 20 (68.97%) DNS
4 19 (65.52%) Python
5 15 (51.72%) Red Hat
5 15 (51.72%) Bash
6 14 (48.28%) High Availability
6 14 (48.28%) Perl
6 14 (48.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (41.38%) AWS
7 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
8 11 (37.93%) DevOps
8 11 (37.93%) TeamCity
8 11 (37.93%) Solaris
9 10 (34.48%) Unix
9 10 (34.48%) Subversion
9 10 (34.48%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (34.48%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
10 9 (31.03%) ServiceNow
10 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
10 9 (31.03%) Clustering
10 9 (31.03%) TCP/IP
11 8 (27.59%) Qualys
11 8 (27.59%) Git
11 8 (27.59%) Kernel Tuning
11 8 (27.59%) GitHub
11 8 (27.59%) SaltStack
11 8 (27.59%) CyberArk

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (10.34%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) GitHub
3 6 (20.69%) Nutanix
4 5 (17.24%) Azure
4 5 (17.24%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (68.97%) DNS
2 9 (31.03%) TCP/IP
3 6 (20.69%) Firewall
4 5 (17.24%) DHCP
5 4 (13.79%) iSCSI
5 4 (13.79%) SAN
6 3 (10.34%) Kerberos
7 2 (6.90%) FTP
7 2 (6.90%) SMTP
7 2 (6.90%) tcpdump
7 2 (6.90%) Telnet
8 1 (3.45%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) TeamCity
2 10 (34.48%) Subversion
3 8 (27.59%) Git
4 6 (20.69%) JIRA
5 3 (10.34%) GitLab
5 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) REST
2 4 (13.79%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Clustering
2 7 (24.14%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (20.69%) Replication
4 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
4 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Eurex
5 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (37.93%) Solaris
3 10 (34.48%) Unix
4 7 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (17.24%) CentOS
6 4 (13.79%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.45%) AIX
7 1 (3.45%) Rocky
7 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Disaster Recovery
1 14 (48.28%) High Availability
2 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (37.93%) DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) API Integration
4 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
4 8 (27.59%) Kernel Tuning
5 7 (24.14%) Security Hardening
6 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (20.69%) Task Automation
7 4 (13.79%) Data Security
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (13.79%) ITSM
7 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
7 4 (13.79%) Security Auditing
7 4 (13.79%) Storage Management
8 3 (10.34%) GitOps
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Python
2 15 (51.72%) Bash
3 14 (48.28%) Perl
4 7 (24.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.45%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) GDPR
2 6 (20.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (24.14%) NFS
2 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
4 4 (13.79%) Docker
4 4 (13.79%) Veritas File System
4 4 (13.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
5 3 (10.34%) Samba
6 2 (6.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (75.86%) Ansible
2 10 (34.48%) Red Hat Satellite
3 8 (27.59%) QRadar
4 6 (20.69%) Tivoli
5 4 (13.79%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
5 4 (13.79%) Terraform
5 4 (13.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Grafana
6 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (10.34%) SELinux
6 3 (10.34%) yum
7 2 (6.90%) Control-M
7 2 (6.90%) Netcool
7 2 (6.90%) ZABBIX
8 1 (3.45%) Nagios
8 1 (3.45%) Puppet
8 1 (3.45%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) VMware
2 15 (51.72%) Red Hat
3 9 (31.03%) ServiceNow
4 8 (27.59%) CyberArk
4 8 (27.59%) Qualys
4 8 (27.59%) SaltStack
4 8 (27.59%) Splunk
5 6 (20.69%) IBM
6 4 (13.79%) EMC
6 4 (13.79%) Oracle
7 3 (10.34%) HP
7 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
8 2 (6.90%) BMC
8 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
8 2 (6.90%) Symantec
8 2 (6.90%) Veritas
9 1 (3.45%) CQG
9 1 (3.45%) ION Trading
9 1 (3.45%) Patsystems
9 1 (3.45%) Trayport