Hybrid/Remote Linux Administrator Contract Job Trends

Linux Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Administrator daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £477, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 312 392
Rank change year-on-year +8 +80 +140
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 9 14 20
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.090% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £451 £410 £374
25th Percentile £453 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £480 £493
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.54% +10.99%
75th Percentile £509 £495 £525
90th Percentile £526 £521 £593
UK median daily rate £450 £506 £523
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.11% +22.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -32.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,356 11,262 17,605
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 93.16% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,132 7,061 12,313
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 196 389
10th Percentile £14.82 £19.15 £17.11
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.76 £25.18
Median hourly rate £41.68 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +53.98%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Linux Administrator' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Linux Administrator job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Linux Administrator job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Linux Administrator job vacancies

Linux Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Linux Administrator job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Linux Administrator job vacancies

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Linux Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (55.56%) Progress Chef
4 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
4 4 (44.44%) VMware
4 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (33.33%) Ansible
5 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 3 (33.33%) Bash
5 3 (33.33%) Git
5 3 (33.33%) Perl
5 3 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) QA
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Apache
6 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
6 2 (22.22%) Build Automation
6 2 (22.22%) CentOS
6 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
6 2 (22.22%) Confluence
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Debian
6 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) DNS
6 2 (22.22%) Docker
6 2 (22.22%) Icinga
6 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (22.22%) JIRA

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Vagrant
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LAMP
1 2 (22.22%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) Debian
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) Build Automation
1 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
1 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
1 2 (22.22%) Server Building
1 2 (22.22%) Server Patching
1 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
1 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
2 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
2 1 (11.11%) Runbook
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Perl
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (22.22%) VirtualBox
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Progress Chef
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Icinga
3 2 (22.22%) Nagios
3 2 (22.22%) Puppet
3 2 (22.22%) Salt
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (11.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) New Relic
2 2 (22.22%) Rackspace
2 2 (22.22%) Zend
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) Trend Micro
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas
14 hybrid/remote Linux Administrator jobs