Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in Cambridge

Linux System Administrator
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Linux System Administrator salary in Cambridge is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 79 89
Rank change year-on-year +36 +10 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 1 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.39% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.31% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile - £52,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £90,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +80.00% -20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cambridge with a recognized job title 234 965 837
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 97.18% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 146 743 397
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,125 £31,150
25th Percentile £38,785 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,625 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in Cambridge

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in Cambridge.

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Linux Systems Administrator 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 permanent job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Graylog
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Graylog
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) VMware