Senior Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in England

Senior Linux System Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior Linux System Administrator salary in England is £73,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 840 889 1161
Rank change year-on-year +49 +272 -269
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Systems Administrator 2 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.002% 0.008% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £69,125 £50,796 -
25th Percentile £69,688 £55,000 £53,940
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £67,500 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +17.48% -23.39%
75th Percentile £77,188 £73,875 £60,976
90th Percentile £77,375 £92,400 £61,738
UK median annual salary £47,500 £67,500 £57,458
% change year-on-year -29.63% +17.48% -23.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Systems Administrator in England

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Systems Administrator in England

Senior 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 Senior Linux Systems Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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 +101 2 £73,750 -3.29%
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) systemd
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu

Senior 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware