Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in England

Linux System Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux System Administrator salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 782 837
Rank change year-on-year +157 +55 +178
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 45 55 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.064% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.068% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 32 53 90
10th Percentile £46,325 £41,500 £40,200
25th Percentile £51,125 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +35.59%
75th Percentile £72,188 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,500 - £185,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 +105 16 £55,000 -4.35% 5
South East +108 15 £55,000 +22.22% 1
South West +100 6 £67,500 +42.11%
North of England +64 4 £55,000 +22.22% 3
East of England +41 4 £75,000 +50.00% 4
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West +11 1 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 England region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (73.33%) Bash
3 28 (62.22%) Python
4 24 (53.33%) VMware
5 21 (46.67%) Red Hat
5 21 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (46.67%) Ansible
6 19 (42.22%) PowerShell
7 14 (31.11%) Windows
7 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
8 13 (28.89%) Docker
8 13 (28.89%) DevOps
9 11 (24.44%) Terraform
10 10 (22.22%) Finance
10 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
11 9 (20.00%) Nagios
11 9 (20.00%) Azure
11 9 (20.00%) AWS
12 8 (17.78%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
12 8 (17.78%) Firewall
13 7 (15.56%) Banking
13 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
13 7 (15.56%) DV Cleared
13 7 (15.56%) Git
13 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
13 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity

Linux Systems 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 (8.89%) nginx
2 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) AWS
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) GCP
2 3 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.22%) AWS IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) DNS
3 5 (11.11%) VLAN
4 3 (6.67%) LAN
4 3 (6.67%) Multicast
4 3 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.44%) SMTP
5 2 (4.44%) WAN
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.22%) HTTP
6 1 (2.22%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 7 (15.56%) Banking
2 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (6.67%) Node.js
2 2 (4.44%) LDAP
3 1 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.44%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.22%) Derivative
4 1 (2.22%) Equities
4 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 45 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (31.11%) Windows
4 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (11.11%) SUSE
5 5 (11.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (8.89%) CentOS
6 4 (8.89%) Rocky
7 3 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (6.67%) Unix
8 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.22%) Debian
9 1 (2.22%) Solaris
9 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
2 13 (28.89%) DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
5 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
5 6 (13.33%) High Availability
6 5 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 5 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (8.89%) Change Control
7 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (6.67%) Load Balancing
8 3 (6.67%) Low Latency
8 3 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (73.33%) Bash
2 28 (62.22%) Python
3 19 (42.22%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) RHCSA
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) RHCE
4 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (28.89%) Docker
3 8 (17.78%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (11.11%) NFS
5 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
6 2 (4.44%) Postfix
6 2 (4.44%) vSphere
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (46.67%) Ansible
2 11 (24.44%) Terraform
3 9 (20.00%) Nagios
4 6 (13.33%) Puppet
5 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
6 3 (6.67%) Proxmox
6 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.44%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.22%) Grafana
8 1 (2.22%) Graylog
8 1 (2.22%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) VMware
2 21 (46.67%) Red Hat
3 6 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 5 (11.11%) SAP
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.67%) Oracle
5 3 (6.67%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Citrix
6 1 (2.22%) Juniper
6 1 (2.22%) NetApp
6 1 (2.22%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.22%) Veeam