Linux Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 701 661
Rank change year-on-year +159 -40 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 33 62 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.087% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.092% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23 58 47
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +106 15 £55,000 - 8
South West +86 5 £55,000 +18.92% 7
East of England +40 5 £75,000 +50.00% 12
North of England +54 4 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Wales +38 4 £47,500 -5.00%
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West +6 1 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Linux Administrator
UK

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Linux 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (72.73%) Bash
3 23 (69.70%) Python
4 17 (51.52%) VMware
4 17 (51.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (51.52%) PowerShell
5 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (39.39%) Docker
7 12 (36.36%) Containerisation
7 12 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (36.36%) Ansible
7 12 (36.36%) Windows
8 10 (30.30%) Red Hat
9 9 (27.27%) Firewall
10 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
10 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
10 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
10 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (21.21%) Terraform
10 7 (21.21%) Windows Server
11 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
11 5 (15.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
11 5 (15.15%) Azure
11 5 (15.15%) High Availability
11 5 (15.15%) Change Control
11 5 (15.15%) SUSE
11 5 (15.15%) SAP

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.03%) AWS IoT
3 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) MariaDB
1 4 (12.12%) MySQL
1 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
1 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) IoT
3 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (36.36%) Windows
4 7 (21.21%) Windows Server
5 5 (15.15%) SUSE
5 5 (15.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (12.12%) CentOS
6 4 (12.12%) Ubuntu
7 3 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (3.03%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Containerisation
2 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
3 5 (15.15%) Change Control
3 5 (15.15%) High Availability
4 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
4 4 (12.12%) Customer Service
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Security Patching
5 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.03%) Asset Management
7 1 (3.03%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (3.03%) ITIL
7 1 (3.03%) Mentoring
7 1 (3.03%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) Bash
2 23 (69.70%) Python
3 17 (51.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (39.39%) Docker
3 12 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (15.15%) NFS
5 4 (12.12%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (12.12%) vSphere
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.12%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Graylog
5 1 (3.03%) Nagios
5 1 (3.03%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) VMware
2 10 (30.30%) Red Hat
3 5 (15.15%) SAP
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) NetApp
5 1 (3.03%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.03%) Pure Storage