Linux Systems Administrator Contracts in England

Linux System Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux System Administrator daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 516 604
Rank change year-on-year +20 +88 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 11 33 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.090% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.096% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 24
10th Percentile £313 £351 £156
25th Percentile £388 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £509 £461
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +10.35% +8.53%
75th Percentile £488 £530 £488
90th Percentile - £538 £594
UK median daily rate £463 £509 £475
% change year-on-year -9.14% +7.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £49.38
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £58.91
90th Percentile - - £71.00
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -5.62%

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 25,109 34,216 45,337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.93% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,354 22,394 32,126
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £740 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,217 2,460 1,400
10th Percentile £13.77 £13.00 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -9.09% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.59 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £39.55 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.00% -8.02% +67.45%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
East of England - 3 £250 -
South West +29 2 £475 -9.52%
London +23 2 - - 4
South East +33 1 £475 -8.65% 2
Midlands -5 1 £450 -13.46% 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (81.82%) Ansible
3 8 (72.73%) Python
4 7 (63.64%) VMware
4 7 (63.64%) Ubuntu
5 6 (54.55%) CentOS
5 6 (54.55%) AWS
5 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
5 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
6 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (45.45%) JIRA
6 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (45.45%) Windows
7 4 (36.36%) SAN
7 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
7 4 (36.36%) Agile
7 4 (36.36%) QA
7 4 (36.36%) Docker
7 4 (36.36%) Bash
8 3 (27.27%) Puppet
8 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (27.27%) Rackspace
8 3 (27.27%) MariaDB
8 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
8 3 (27.27%) Vagrant
8 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
8 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
8 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
8 3 (27.27%) Linux Command Line

Linux Systems 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 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SAN
2 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
4 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MariaDB
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Vagrant
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LAMP
2 2 (18.18%) Zend Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Ubuntu
3 6 (54.55%) CentOS
4 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (45.45%) Windows
5 3 (27.27%) Debian
6 1 (9.09%) AIX
6 1 (9.09%) Unix
6 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) ITSM
3 3 (27.27%) Server Patching
4 2 (18.18%) Build Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
4 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Security Hardening
4 2 (18.18%) Server Building
4 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (9.09%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) RHCE
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) Docker
3 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (18.18%) VirtualBox
5 1 (9.09%) GPFS
5 1 (9.09%) NFS
5 1 (9.09%) Samba
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Nagios
2 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
2 3 (27.27%) Puppet
3 2 (18.18%) Icinga
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Salt
4 1 (9.09%) BladeLogic
4 1 (9.09%) SELinux
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Rackspace
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
4 2 (18.18%) New Relic
4 2 (18.18%) Zend
5 1 (9.09%) Dell
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) IBM
5 1 (9.09%) Mellanox
5 1 (9.09%) Solarflare
5 1 (9.09%) Sun