Linux Administrator Jobs in England

Linux Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux Administrator salary in England is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 759 817
Rank change year-on-year +123 +58 +187
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 53 72 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.084% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.089% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40 68 96
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £65,000 £175,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London +126 24 £75,000 +20.00% 18
South East +106 15 £55,000 - 9
South West +83 5 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England +43 5 £75,000 +50.00% 13
North of England +55 4 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West +6 1 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Linux Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 England region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (67.92%) Bash
3 31 (58.49%) Python
4 26 (49.06%) Red Hat
5 23 (43.40%) Ansible
6 22 (41.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (41.51%) VMware
7 21 (39.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (37.74%) PowerShell
9 18 (33.96%) Windows
10 16 (30.19%) DevOps
11 14 (26.42%) Nagios
12 13 (24.53%) Docker
12 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
13 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
13 12 (22.64%) Firewall
14 11 (20.75%) Finance
14 11 (20.75%) Azure
14 11 (20.75%) AWS
15 10 (18.87%) CentOS
15 10 (18.87%) Terraform
16 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (16.98%) Git
17 8 (15.09%) VMware ESXi
17 8 (15.09%) Banking
17 8 (15.09%) Data Centre
18 7 (13.21%) Collaborative Working
18 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (7.55%) nginx
2 3 (5.66%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) AWS
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.66%) GCP
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.77%) GitHub
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.89%) AWS IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.89%) PaaS
4 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.64%) Firewall
2 5 (9.43%) DNS
2 5 (9.43%) VLAN
3 4 (7.55%) LAN
3 4 (7.55%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.66%) Multicast
4 3 (5.66%) VPN
5 2 (3.77%) HTTP
5 2 (3.77%) WAN
6 1 (1.89%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.89%) RTP
6 1 (1.89%) Telnet
6 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (20.75%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Banking
3 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Retail
5 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) LDAP
1 3 (5.66%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (5.66%) Node.js
2 2 (3.77%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.89%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (1.89%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Wiki
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.77%) Cyberattack
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Derivative
4 1 (1.89%) Equities
4 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Life Science
4 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (39.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (33.96%) Windows
4 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
5 10 (18.87%) CentOS
6 5 (9.43%) Solaris
6 5 (9.43%) SUSE
6 5 (9.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 5 (9.43%) Unix
7 4 (7.55%) Rocky
8 3 (5.66%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.89%) CoreOS
10 1 (1.89%) Debian
10 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) DevOps
2 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
2 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (13.21%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (13.21%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (13.21%) Machine Learning
5 6 (11.32%) High Availability
5 6 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (9.43%) Change Control
6 5 (9.43%) Configuration Management
6 5 (9.43%) Customer Service
7 4 (7.55%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.55%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (7.55%) ITIL
7 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.55%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (5.66%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 36 (67.92%) Bash
2 31 (58.49%) Python
3 20 (37.74%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.32%) SQL
5 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) DV Cleared
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) RHCE
2 4 (7.55%) RHCSA
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.66%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (41.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (24.53%) Docker
3 8 (15.09%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.43%) NFS
5 2 (3.77%) Postfix
5 2 (3.77%) vSphere
6 1 (1.89%) Corosync
6 1 (1.89%) Kamailio
6 1 (1.89%) KVM
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (43.40%) Ansible
2 14 (26.42%) Nagios
3 10 (18.87%) Terraform
4 7 (13.21%) Puppet
5 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
6 4 (7.55%) Graylog
7 3 (5.66%) Opsgenie
7 3 (5.66%) Proxmox
7 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.77%) Grafana
8 2 (3.77%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.89%) Icinga
9 1 (1.89%) Pacemaker
9 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.89%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) Red Hat
2 22 (41.51%) VMware
3 7 (13.21%) SolarWinds
4 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 6 (11.32%) SAP
5 4 (7.55%) Cisco
5 4 (7.55%) Oracle
6 3 (5.66%) IBM
6 3 (5.66%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.66%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.89%) Citrix
7 1 (1.89%) Juniper
7 1 (1.89%) NetApp
7 1 (1.89%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.89%) Veeam