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 £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 735 717
Rank change year-on-year +171 -18 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 11 28 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.039% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.041% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 15
10th Percentile - £24,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £47,500
90th Percentile - £52,500 £47,800
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -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 36,142 67,932 52,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.86% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,697 47,996 30,020
10th Percentile £26,987 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -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 19 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 +84 5 £32,500 -29.73% 1
North West - 5 £42,500 - 3
North of England - 5 £42,500 - 3
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 19 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 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
3 5 (45.45%) Telematics
3 5 (45.45%) SSH
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (45.45%) Vehicle Telematics
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Billing
4 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
4 4 (36.36%) Perl
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) Unix
5 1 (9.09%) Windows
5 1 (9.09%) Apache
5 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
5 1 (9.09%) HTTP
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) SSL
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Debian
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA

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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SSH
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Billing
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Debian
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
2 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
2 5 (45.45%) Telematics
2 5 (45.45%) Vehicle Telematics
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Perl
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat