Linux Administrator Job Trends in Stockport

Linux Administrator
Manchester > Stockport

The median Linux Administrator salary in Stockport is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 1.82% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Stockport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Stockport. 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 Stockport with a recognized job title 54 87 65
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.18% 85.29% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 21 31 51
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £44,375 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +46.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £51,250 £63,750 £49,375
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Manchester median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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 Stockport.

Linux Administrator job vacancy trend in Stockport

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for Linux Administrator job vacancies in Stockport.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Administrator job vacancies in Stockport

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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 Stockport region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware