Linux Support Jobs in London

Linux Support
England > London

The median Linux Support salary in London is £52,500 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 381 487 593
Rank change year-on-year +106 +106 +232
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 22 14 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.059% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.063% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 31
10th Percentile - £49,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £74,750 £82,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,677 22,261 33,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,473 16,753 24,565
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Support in London.

Salary trend for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Support in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the London 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
Central London - 5 £55,000 - 2
Linux Support
England

Linux Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Linux Support 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 London region featuring Linux Support in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (68.18%) Bash
3 12 (54.55%) Red Hat
4 11 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 9 (40.91%) Unix
5 9 (40.91%) Finance
5 9 (40.91%) Banking
6 8 (36.36%) ITIL
6 8 (36.36%) Python
6 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
6 8 (36.36%) DevOps
6 8 (36.36%) Problem Management
6 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (31.82%) Mac OS
7 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (31.82%) Chatbot
7 7 (31.82%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (31.82%) Conversational UI
7 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
7 7 (31.82%) Apple
7 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
7 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (31.82%) Asset Management
8 6 (27.27%) VMware
8 6 (27.27%) SQL
8 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (22.73%) Git
9 5 (22.73%) Oracle
9 5 (22.73%) DHCP
9 5 (22.73%) DNS

Linux Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
2 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
3 4 (18.18%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Banking
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (18.18%) Bitcoin
2 4 (18.18%) Clustering
2 4 (18.18%) Derivative
2 4 (18.18%) Equities
2 4 (18.18%) Eurex
2 4 (18.18%) Fixed Income
2 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Unix
3 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (31.82%) Mac OS
5 4 (18.18%) CentOS
5 4 (18.18%) Rocky
6 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps
1 8 (36.36%) ITIL
1 8 (36.36%) Problem Management
2 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (31.82%) Asset Management
2 7 (31.82%) Conversational UI
3 4 (18.18%) Change Management
3 4 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
3 4 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
3 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
3 4 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Server Building
3 4 (18.18%) Server Patching
4 1 (4.55%) Business Strategy
4 1 (4.55%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.55%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Bash
2 11 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 8 (36.36%) Python
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) RHCSA
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (18.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Grafana
2 4 (18.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 7 (31.82%) Apple
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (27.27%) VMware
4 5 (22.73%) Oracle
5 4 (18.18%) Atlassian
5 4 (18.18%) Bloomberg
5 4 (18.18%) CQG
5 4 (18.18%) ION Trading
5 4 (18.18%) Patsystems
5 4 (18.18%) Reuters
5 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 4 (18.18%) Trayport
5 4 (18.18%) Veritas
6 3 (13.64%) Symantec