Linux Administrator Jobs in Central London

Linux Administrator
London > Central London

The median Linux Administrator salary in Central London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 185 247
Rank change year-on-year +29 +62 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 6 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.24% 0.027% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.028% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £50,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £26,250 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £27,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -60.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £28,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

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

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,277 3,581 4,957
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 95.32% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 2,771 4,126
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in Central London

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in Central London

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in Central London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in Central London

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 6 £55,000 - 1
Linux Administrator
London

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 21 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 Central London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Nagios
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 4 (66.67%) CentOS
3 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Banking
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Ansible
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
5 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (33.33%) Node.js
5 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
5 2 (33.33%) nginx
5 2 (33.33%) VLAN
5 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 2 (33.33%) QA
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
5 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) MySQL
5 2 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (33.33%) nginx
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Multicast
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) CentOS
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Rocky
4 1 (16.67%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Nagios
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) VMware