Linux Administrator Contracts in London

Linux Administrator
England > London

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 383 477
Rank change year-on-year +41 +94 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 11 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.045% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.048% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 10
10th Percentile - £325 £358
25th Percentile £425 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £645 - £640
90th Percentile £666 £460 £654
England median daily rate £475 £450 £449
% change year-on-year +5.56% +0.22% +5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £58.75
% change year-on-year - - +23.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London - 1 £670 -
Linux Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat
2 10 (90.91%) Bash
3 9 (81.82%) Ansible
3 9 (81.82%) DevOps
3 9 (81.82%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (72.73%) VMware
4 8 (72.73%) Clustering
4 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
4 8 (72.73%) DNS
4 8 (72.73%) Perl
4 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 8 (72.73%) REST
5 7 (63.64%) High Availability
5 7 (63.64%) Splunk
5 7 (63.64%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (63.64%) TeamCity
5 7 (63.64%) Git
5 7 (63.64%) Replication
5 7 (63.64%) Qualys
5 7 (63.64%) GitHub
5 7 (63.64%) Kernel Tuning
5 7 (63.64%) SaltStack
5 7 (63.64%) API Integration
5 7 (63.64%) CyberArk
5 7 (63.64%) QRadar
5 7 (63.64%) Solaris
5 7 (63.64%) Subversion

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub
2 6 (54.55%) Nutanix
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
2 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
1 7 (63.64%) Subversion
1 7 (63.64%) TeamCity
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
2 7 (63.64%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Eurex
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Solaris
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Unix
4 2 (18.18%) CentOS
4 2 (18.18%) Rocky
4 2 (18.18%) Windows
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
1 9 (81.82%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) API Integration
3 7 (63.64%) High Availability
3 7 (63.64%) Kernel Tuning
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Security Auditing
4 4 (36.36%) Storage Management
5 3 (27.27%) Data Security
5 3 (27.27%) Security Hardening
6 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Client Onboarding
7 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Bash
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Korn
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
1 6 (54.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) NFS
3 3 (27.27%) Veritas File System
3 3 (27.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Ansible
2 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (63.64%) QRadar
4 5 (45.45%) Tivoli
5 4 (36.36%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (36.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (9.09%) Control-M
6 1 (9.09%) Nagios
6 1 (9.09%) Netcool
6 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
6 1 (9.09%) Rundeck
6 1 (9.09%) Terraform
6 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Red Hat
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
3 7 (63.64%) CyberArk
3 7 (63.64%) Qualys
3 7 (63.64%) SaltStack
3 7 (63.64%) Splunk
4 5 (45.45%) IBM
4 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
5 4 (36.36%) EMC
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle
7 1 (9.09%) Bloomberg
7 1 (9.09%) BMC
7 1 (9.09%) CQG
7 1 (9.09%) ION Trading
7 1 (9.09%) Patsystems
7 1 (9.09%) Reuters
7 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (9.09%) Sybase
7 1 (9.09%) Trayport