Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in Oxford

Linux System Administrator
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Linux System Administrator salary in Oxford is £49,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 2.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 - -
75th Percentile £51,000 - -
90th Percentile £54,900 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £49,000 - £50,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 217 621 399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 95.39% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 129 466 283
10th Percentile £39,500 £30,000 £26,550
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,750 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -4.17% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,375 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £46,293 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -7.41% -4.76%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in Oxford

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in Oxford

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 5 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 Oxford region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SUSE
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) NFS
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) SUSE
1 5 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) NFS
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
1 5 (100.00%) VMware