Linux Administrator Jobs in Gloucestershire

Linux Administrator
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Linux Administrator salary in Gloucestershire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 108 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 6 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.91% 0.50% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.52% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £38,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,125 -
90th Percentile - £56,000 -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -33.33% +80.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 612 1,355 1,009
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 96.44% 85.51%
Number of salaries quoted 377 884 548
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,500 £80,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,222
% change year-on-year - -7.79% +8.44%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in Gloucestershire

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in Gloucestershire

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Cheltenham +32 2 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Linux Administrator
South West

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) CoreOS
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat