Linux Administrator Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux Administrator
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Linux Administrator salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.094% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 1,029 292 989
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.62% 94.81% 97.44%
Number of salaries quoted 814 225 833
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,759 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +18.95% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -9.52%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux Administrator' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Linux Administrator job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for Linux Administrator job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Administrator job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 30 April 2026, Linux Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) systemd
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) systemd
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform