Linux Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 693 737
Rank change year-on-year +116 +44 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 2 70 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.099% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.10% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile - £44,500 -
25th Percentile - £47,500 £38,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £49,575
90th Percentile - £83,500 £51,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +50.00% +3.45%

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 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
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 £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in the UK excluding London

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux Specialist in the UK excluding London

Linux Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
East of England +47 2 £55,000 -
Linux Specialist
UK

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation

Linux Specialist 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:

Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware