Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in Oxfordshire

Linux System Administrator
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Linux System Administrator salary in Oxfordshire is £49,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.66% - 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% - 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,000 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 - £50,000
75th Percentile £51,000 - £52,500
90th Percentile £54,900 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £49,250
% change year-on-year +22.22% -8.63% +23.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 673 1,610 1,322
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.20% 95.83% 84.74%
Number of salaries quoted 359 1,294 805
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,293 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -7.41% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £70,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in Oxfordshire

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in Oxfordshire

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Oxford - 5 £49,000 -
Linux Systems Administrator
South East

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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