Linux Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Support salary in the UK excluding London is £39,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 737 743
Rank change year-on-year +182 +6 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 16 28 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.038% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.040% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 16 28 14
10th Percentile - £24,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £47,500
90th Percentile - £52,500 £52,025
UK median annual salary £39,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -18.18% +4.76%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend 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 28 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
North West - 6 £42,500 - 3
North of England - 6 £42,500 - 6
East of England +46 5 £39,000 +95.00% 2
South East +78 4 £32,500 -29.73%
Scotland - 1 £37,500 -
Linux Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Linux Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Vehicle Telematics
4 5 (31.25%) Task Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (31.25%) Bash
4 5 (31.25%) Telematics
4 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
4 5 (31.25%) Mac OS
4 5 (31.25%) SSH
4 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 4 (25.00%) Perl
5 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (25.00%) Unix
5 4 (25.00%) Apple
5 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Asset Management
5 4 (25.00%) Billing
5 4 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (25.00%) Chatbot
5 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (25.00%) Conversational UI
6 2 (12.50%) DevOps

Linux Support 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SSH
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) HTTP
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Billing
3 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Mac OS
3 4 (25.00%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Debian
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
2 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
2 5 (31.25%) Task Automation
2 5 (31.25%) Telematics
2 5 (31.25%) Vehicle Telematics
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Bash
2 4 (25.00%) Perl
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Apple
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat