Linux Support Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Support salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 January 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 555 532
Rank change year-on-year +73 -23 +210
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 28 19 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.051% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.055% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 24 14 21
10th Percentile - - £42,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £35,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £51,250
90th Percentile - £43,375 £57,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +12.99%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 37,905 34,350 29,872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.99% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 22,968 17,009 22,660
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -0.79%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux Support' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Linux Support job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Linux Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Support in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
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 Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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 +35 18 £50,000 +25.00% 5
East of England - 8 £42,500 -
North of England - 2 £50,000 -
North West - 2 £50,000 -
Linux Support
UK

Linux Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 January 2026, Linux Support 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Support in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (46.43%) SaaS
3 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (42.86%) Python
3 12 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (39.29%) Bash
5 9 (32.14%) AWS
5 9 (32.14%) Service Delivery
5 9 (32.14%) VMware
6 8 (28.57%) Ansible
6 8 (28.57%) Cohesity
6 8 (28.57%) NetApp
6 8 (28.57%) SAN
6 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 8 (28.57%) Solaris
6 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (25.00%) Debian
7 7 (25.00%) Korn
7 7 (25.00%) SLA
7 7 (25.00%) Unix
8 5 (17.86%) Azure
8 5 (17.86%) CentOS
8 5 (17.86%) DNS
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
8 5 (17.86%) Perl
8 5 (17.86%) SQL
8 5 (17.86%) Windows
9 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
9 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
9 4 (14.29%) Customer Service

Linux Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) SaaS
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) Cohesity
4 5 (17.86%) Azure
5 4 (14.29%) GCP
5 4 (14.29%) Google Workspace
5 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) SAN
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
3 4 (14.29%) DHCP
3 4 (14.29%) Firewall
3 4 (14.29%) PuTTY
3 4 (14.29%) SSH
4 1 (3.57%) HTTP
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
General
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 4 (14.29%) Video on Demand
1 4 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (28.57%) Solaris
4 7 (25.00%) Debian
4 7 (25.00%) Unix
5 5 (17.86%) CentOS
5 5 (17.86%) Windows
6 4 (14.29%) VMS
7 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) Service Delivery
3 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 4 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (7.14%) Service Management
5 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (3.57%) DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (3.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Bash
3 7 (25.00%) Korn
4 5 (17.86%) Perl
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 4 (14.29%) DCL
5 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 4 (14.29%) Tcl
6 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) VMware
2 8 (28.57%) NetApp
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 4 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) Meraki
5 1 (3.57%) Peplink
5 1 (3.57%) Ubiquiti