Linux Systems Administrator Contracts in London

Linux System Administrator
England > London

The median Linux System Administrator daily rate in London is £588, 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 351 387 483
Rank change year-on-year +36 +96 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 2 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.022% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.024% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £509 - £346
25th Percentile £522 £325 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -12.50% -4.48%
75th Percentile £647 £425 £544
90th Percentile £656 £455 £670
England median daily rate £513 £475 £437
% change year-on-year +7.89% +8.82% +2.71%
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 - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -5.62%

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 Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in London

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

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

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Rocky
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Trayport
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Eurex
2 1 (50.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer

Linux Systems 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Rocky
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) CQG
2 1 (50.00%) ION Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Patsystems
2 1 (50.00%) Reuters
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Trayport
2 1 (50.00%) VMware