Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in London

Linux System Administrator
England > London

The median Linux System Administrator salary in London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 496 589
Rank change year-on-year +127 +93 +243
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 16 9 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.038% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.041% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 44
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,250 £55,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £165,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £185,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +33.33%

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 11,521 22,183 33,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 94.12% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,470 16,676 24,569
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £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 Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in London

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in London

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in London

Linux Systems Administrator
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 Systems Administrator within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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 +33 4 £70,000 +154.55%
Linux Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 London region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Red Hat
3 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 10 (62.50%) VMware
4 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (56.25%) Bash
4 9 (56.25%) DevOps
5 8 (50.00%) Ansible
5 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (50.00%) Nagios
6 7 (43.75%) Git
6 7 (43.75%) Banking
7 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds
7 6 (37.50%) DNS
7 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
8 5 (31.25%) SQL
8 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
8 5 (31.25%) Python
8 5 (31.25%) AWS
8 5 (31.25%) VLAN
9 4 (25.00%) Azure
9 4 (25.00%) CentOS
9 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (25.00%) Firewall
9 4 (25.00%) Rocky
9 4 (25.00%) RHCSA
10 3 (18.75%) GCP
10 3 (18.75%) Node.js

Linux Systems Administrator 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 3 (18.75%) nginx
1 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) VLAN
3 4 (25.00%) Firewall
4 3 (18.75%) LAN
4 3 (18.75%) Multicast
4 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (12.50%) SMTP
5 2 (12.50%) WAN
6 1 (6.25%) HTTP
6 1 (6.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) CentOS
3 4 (25.00%) Rocky
4 3 (18.75%) Unix
4 3 (18.75%) Windows
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (6.25%) Debian
6 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
4 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (18.75%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
5 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Bash
2 5 (31.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Postfix
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Ansible
1 8 (50.00%) Nagios
2 3 (18.75%) Proxmox
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 2 (12.50%) ZABBIX
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Red Hat
2 10 (62.50%) VMware
3 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 2 (12.50%) Pure Storage
6 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
6 1 (6.25%) Veeam