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 £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 750 825
Rank change year-on-year +30 +75 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 31 18 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.029% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.033% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 31 16 30
10th Percentile £24,750 £30,000 £27,313
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,313 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,750 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.91% +14.67%
75th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 - £52,500
UK median annual salary £46,250 £46,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.54% -11.43% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,742 54,869 68,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,250 31,160 43,040
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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
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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +13 19 £45,000 +7.78% 2
East Midlands - 6 £24,750 - 2
Midlands - 6 £24,750 - 2
South West -20 3 £40,000 - 3
East of England - 2 £20,000 -
Wales - 1 £40,000 -
Linux Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (35.48%) Customer Service
3 10 (32.26%) AWS
3 10 (32.26%) Ubuntu
3 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
4 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (25.81%) SLA
5 8 (25.81%) MySQL
5 8 (25.81%) Firewall
6 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
6 6 (19.35%) Incident Management
6 6 (19.35%) JIRA
6 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
6 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
6 6 (19.35%) CentOS
6 6 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
6 6 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
6 6 (19.35%) ITIL
6 6 (19.35%) Cisco
6 6 (19.35%) LAN
6 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (19.35%) Azure
6 6 (19.35%) Bash
6 6 (19.35%) Meraki
6 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (19.35%) Ubiquiti
6 6 (19.35%) Documentation Skills

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 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) Firewall
2 6 (19.35%) LAN
2 6 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.45%) Internet
3 2 (6.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) MariaDB
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (19.35%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Billing
3 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Ubuntu
3 6 (19.35%) CentOS
3 6 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.90%) SUSE
4 4 (12.90%) Windows
5 2 (6.45%) Debian
5 2 (6.45%) Unix
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Customer Service
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
3 6 (19.35%) Incident Management
3 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (19.35%) ITIL
3 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
4 4 (12.90%) Mathematics
4 4 (12.90%) Ticket Management
5 3 (9.68%) Data Analysis
5 3 (9.68%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (6.45%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (6.45%) Open Source
6 2 (6.45%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (6.45%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) Bash
1 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.13%) Perl
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) COBOL
4 2 (6.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) GPFS
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Cisco
2 6 (19.35%) Meraki
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
2 6 (19.35%) Ubiquiti
3 2 (6.45%) VMware