Linux Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 385 404
Rank change year-on-year +74 +19 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 19 10 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.049% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.053% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 14
10th Percentile £240 £373 £51
25th Percentile £363 £399 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £509 £488 £539
90th Percentile £575 £512 £636
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +11.76% -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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,749 18,731 21,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.50% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,490 11,452 15,051
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 826 2,272 1,106
10th Percentile £13.93 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.74 £18.04
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.56 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South West - 6 £475 - 10
South East +47 5 £550 +23.53% 8
Midlands +15 4 £450 -
West Midlands - 4 £450 -
East of England - 4 £250 - 11
Linux Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (73.68%) Ansible
3 13 (68.42%) VMware
4 11 (57.89%) DNS
5 10 (52.63%) Python
5 10 (52.63%) AWS
6 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
6 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
7 7 (36.84%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
7 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
8 6 (31.58%) Firewall
8 6 (31.58%) Unix
8 6 (31.58%) Bash
8 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
8 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
8 6 (31.58%) High Availability
9 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
9 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
9 5 (26.32%) Degree
9 5 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (26.32%) Perl
9 5 (26.32%) SAN
9 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (21.05%) ITSM
10 4 (21.05%) DHCP
10 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
10 4 (21.05%) CentOS
10 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (21.05%) JIRA

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (15.79%) OpenStack
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) SAN
4 4 (21.05%) DHCP
4 4 (21.05%) iSCSI
5 2 (10.53%) FTP
5 2 (10.53%) SMTP
5 2 (10.53%) tcpdump
5 2 (10.53%) Telnet
6 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Subversion
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) Unix
3 5 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (21.05%) CentOS
4 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
5 3 (15.79%) Solaris
6 1 (5.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
2 6 (31.58%) High Availability
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) ITSM
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) GitOps
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Security Hardening
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
3 6 (31.58%) Bash
4 5 (26.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (5.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.79%) QA
3 2 (10.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) NFS
2 3 (15.79%) Samba
3 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Ansible
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Terraform
4 3 (15.79%) Grafana
4 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) SELinux
4 3 (15.79%) yum
5 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (5.26%) Nagios
6 1 (5.26%) Puppet
6 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) VMware
2 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
3 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
4 3 (15.79%) HP
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
5 2 (10.53%) Symantec
5 2 (10.53%) Veritas
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle