Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in England

Linux System Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux System Administrator salary in England is £60,000 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 643 778 831
Rank change year-on-year +135 +53 +182
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 46 53 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.062% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.065% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 33 53 90
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,500 £40,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +35.59%
75th Percentile £75,000 £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 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 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 14 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 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 +121 16 £55,000 -4.35% 13
South East +113 15 £55,000 +22.22% 5
South West +88 6 £67,500 +42.11% 9
East of England +48 5 £75,000 +50.00% 13
North of England +55 4 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West +6 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 14 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 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (78.26%) Bash
3 31 (67.39%) Python
4 23 (50.00%) VMware
5 22 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 21 (45.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (45.65%) Ansible
6 21 (45.65%) Red Hat
7 20 (43.48%) PowerShell
8 15 (32.61%) DevOps
8 15 (32.61%) Windows
9 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
10 13 (28.26%) Docker
11 11 (23.91%) AWS
11 11 (23.91%) Finance
11 11 (23.91%) Terraform
12 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (21.74%) Nagios
13 9 (19.57%) Firewall
13 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
14 8 (17.39%) Data Centre
14 8 (17.39%) Banking
14 8 (17.39%) Azure
14 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
14 8 (17.39%) Git
14 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
15 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
15 7 (15.22%) SolarWinds
15 7 (15.22%) High Availability

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 (8.70%) nginx
2 3 (6.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 8 (17.39%) Azure
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
3 3 (6.52%) GitHub
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.17%) AWS IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) Firewall
2 5 (10.87%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) VLAN
3 4 (8.70%) LAN
3 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.52%) Multicast
5 2 (4.35%) HTTP
5 2 (4.35%) WAN
6 1 (2.17%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.17%) RTP
6 1 (2.17%) Telnet
6 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Banking
3 7 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Retail
7 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) LDAP
1 3 (6.52%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (6.52%) Node.js
2 2 (4.35%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.17%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (2.17%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.35%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.17%) Derivative
4 1 (2.17%) Equities
4 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.17%) IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Life Science
4 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (45.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (32.61%) Windows
4 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
5 5 (10.87%) SUSE
5 5 (10.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (8.70%) CentOS
6 4 (8.70%) Rocky
7 3 (6.52%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.17%) Debian
9 1 (2.17%) Solaris
9 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) DevOps
2 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (15.22%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (15.22%) High Availability
5 7 (15.22%) Machine Learning
6 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
7 5 (10.87%) Change Control
7 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
7 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (8.70%) Customer-Centricity
8 4 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (6.52%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (6.52%) ITIL
9 3 (6.52%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (6.52%) Load Balancing
9 3 (6.52%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 36 (78.26%) Bash
2 31 (67.39%) Python
3 20 (43.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) Perl
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) RHCSA
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) RHCE
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (28.26%) Docker
3 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
4 5 (10.87%) NFS
5 2 (4.35%) Postfix
5 2 (4.35%) vSphere
6 1 (2.17%) Corosync
6 1 (2.17%) Kamailio
6 1 (2.17%) KVM
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (45.65%) Ansible
2 11 (23.91%) Terraform
3 10 (21.74%) Nagios
4 6 (13.04%) Puppet
5 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
6 3 (6.52%) Proxmox
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.35%) Grafana
7 2 (4.35%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.17%) Graylog
8 1 (2.17%) Icinga
8 1 (2.17%) Pacemaker
8 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.17%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) VMware
2 21 (45.65%) Red Hat
3 7 (15.22%) SolarWinds
4 6 (13.04%) SAP
5 4 (8.70%) Oracle
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.52%) Pure Storage
7 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) Juniper
7 1 (2.17%) NetApp
7 1 (2.17%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.17%) Veeam