Linux Administrator Jobs in the City of London

Linux Administrator
Central London > City of London

The median Linux Administrator salary in the City of London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - 230
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 6 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.31% - 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £50,125
25th Percentile £52,500 - £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £27,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +100.00% -60.71% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,805 3,197 4,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 96.09% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,370 2,522 3,703
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,480
% change year-on-year - -1.33% +1.35%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the City of London

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in the City of London.

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the City of London

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the City of London

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 22 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 City of 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 the City of 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