Linux Administrator Jobs in Hertford

Linux Administrator
Hertfordshire > Hertford

The median Linux Administrator salary in Hertford is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertford 20.00% - 33.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% - 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £61,500 - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £32,500
75th Percentile £75,000 - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £72,500 - £70,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hertford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertford. 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 Hertford with a recognized job title 25 17 3
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 19 16 3
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £33,250
25th Percentile - £48,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +29.41% -26.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £75,000 - £51,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.41%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertford

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in Hertford

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in Hertford

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in Hertford

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in Hertford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in Hertford over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in Hertford

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertford

For the 6 months to 3 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 Hertford region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (100.00%) Change Control
1 5 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (80.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) LDAP
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Docker

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertford 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Control
1 5 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker