Linux Systems Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux System Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux System Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 354 404
Rank change year-on-year -2 +50 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 8 28 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 18
10th Percentile £320 £398 £51
25th Percentile £425 £462 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% +11.80%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £579
90th Percentile - - £629
UK median daily rate £463 £520 £473
% change year-on-year -11.06% +10.05% +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £55.47
90th Percentile - - £58.56
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -5.62%

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 13,527 18,336 21,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.22% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,321 11,167 14,885
10th Percentile £215 £215 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 2,085 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.64 £16.58 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.85% +4.53% +90.48%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -37.13% -8.57% +70.37%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 +35 2 £475 -9.52% 2
South East +25 1 £475 -8.65% 2
Scotland +3 1 - - 1
Midlands -7 1 £450 -13.46%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

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

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Ansible
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (50.00%) SAN
4 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) ITSM
5 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
5 3 (37.50%) JIRA
5 3 (37.50%) iSCSI
5 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
5 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (37.50%) CentOS
5 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
6 2 (25.00%) Degree
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) Active Directory

Linux Systems 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 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) iSCSI
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) CentOS
2 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (12.50%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) RHCE
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) GPFS
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) BladeLogic
3 1 (12.50%) Nagios
3 1 (12.50%) SELinux
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Mellanox
4 1 (12.50%) Solarflare
4 1 (12.50%) Sun