Linux Administrator Jobs in Cardiff

Linux Administrator
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Linux Administrator salary in Cardiff is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 178 620 525
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.27% 93.80% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 126 539 401
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,157 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,656 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year - -0.34% -4.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,766 £67,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £45,496
% change year-on-year +14.44% -1.09% -9.01%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in Cardiff

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in Cardiff

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Linux 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 Cardiff region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) CentOS
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Servers

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) CentOS
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware