Linux Administrator Contracts in London

Linux Administrator
England > London

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 387 456
Rank change year-on-year +28 +69 +123
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 6 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.044% 0.064% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.068% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 12
10th Percentile - £325 £401
25th Percentile £425 £350 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £475 - £613
90th Percentile - £488 £654
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.88
25th Percentile - - £48.44
Median hourly rate - - £51.25
75th Percentile - - £53.44
90th Percentile - - £53.63
England median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

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 12,646 16,186 24,044
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 94.08% 94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 11,551 17,581
10th Percentile £331 £331 £360
25th Percentile £425 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 275 272
10th Percentile £17.98 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.98 £23.27
Median hourly rate £31.25 £30.16 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -19.40% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.55 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.64 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.90% -6.98% +70.01%

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (33.33%) Perl
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
4 2 (33.33%) Bash
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (16.67%) CentOS
5 1 (16.67%) Qualys
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) SaltStack
5 1 (16.67%) Salt
5 1 (16.67%) Icinga
5 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening

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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LAMP
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
2 1 (16.67%) Kernel Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Security Auditing
2 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) Server Building
2 1 (16.67%) Server Patching
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VirtualBox
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (16.67%) Icinga
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (16.67%) Salt
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) New Relic
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Rackspace
3 1 (16.67%) SaltStack
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Zend