Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux System Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux System Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 696 733
Rank change year-on-year -8 +37 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 51 55 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.089% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.100% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49 41 87
10th Percentile £41,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56,000 £67,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £55,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

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 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
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 Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 West -12 27 £47,500 -29.63% 1
Midlands +15 12 £50,000 -8.68% 3
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 -
West Midlands +27 4 £54,000 -1.37% 3
South East +12 4 £47,500 -2.06%
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 2
East of England +22 3 £50,000 -23.08%
North of England +38 1 £45,000 - 3
North West +3 1 £45,000 +38.46% 3
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Linux Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (54.90%) CentOS
3 26 (50.98%) Bash
3 26 (50.98%) Python
4 24 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (45.10%) VMware
6 20 (39.22%) Ansible
7 18 (35.29%) Git
7 18 (35.29%) Red Hat
8 17 (33.33%) Unix
9 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
10 15 (29.41%) Puppet
11 14 (27.45%) AWS
12 13 (25.49%) DV Cleared
12 13 (25.49%) DevOps
13 12 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
13 12 (23.53%) Azure
14 11 (21.57%) Debian
14 11 (21.57%) Windows
14 11 (21.57%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (19.61%) CoreOS
15 10 (19.61%) OpenShift
15 10 (19.61%) ITIL
15 10 (19.61%) Shell Script
15 10 (19.61%) Load Balancing
15 10 (19.61%) Time Management
16 9 (17.65%) Ubuntu
17 8 (15.69%) SQL
17 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared

Linux Systems Administrator 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 (1.96%) Apache
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) Azure
3 10 (19.61%) OpenShift
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (11.76%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.92%) IaaS
6 2 (3.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Internet
2 4 (7.84%) HTTPS
2 4 (7.84%) SSL
3 3 (5.88%) DNS
3 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.88%) VPN
4 2 (3.92%) HTTP
5 1 (1.96%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.96%) Firewall
5 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.96%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Ingres
1 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (35.29%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Vagrant
3 2 (3.92%) GitLab
General
1 5 (9.80%) Finance
1 5 (9.80%) Retail
2 4 (7.84%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) EDI
2 1 (1.96%) LDAP
2 1 (1.96%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.96%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (54.90%) CentOS
3 24 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (33.33%) Unix
5 11 (21.57%) Debian
5 11 (21.57%) Windows
6 10 (19.61%) CoreOS
7 9 (17.65%) Ubuntu
8 7 (13.73%) SUSE
9 4 (7.84%) Solaris
10 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
11 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) DevOps
2 10 (19.61%) ITIL
2 10 (19.61%) Load Balancing
2 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (19.61%) Time Management
3 6 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (11.76%) High Availability
4 5 (9.80%) Business Continuity
4 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
4 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
4 5 (9.80%) Customer Experience
4 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
4 5 (9.80%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (7.84%) Change Management
5 4 (7.84%) Data Protection
5 4 (7.84%) Inventory Management
5 4 (7.84%) Logistics
5 4 (7.84%) Problem Management
5 4 (7.84%) Software Delivery
5 4 (7.84%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.98%) Bash
1 26 (50.98%) Python
2 10 (19.61%) Shell Script
3 8 (15.69%) SQL
4 3 (5.88%) AWK
4 3 (5.88%) PHP
4 3 (5.88%) sed
5 2 (3.92%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (13.73%) Degree
5 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.80%) RHCE
5 5 (9.80%) RHCSA
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.80%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.84%) Docker
3 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.88%) vSphere
5 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.96%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Ansible
2 15 (29.41%) Puppet
3 5 (9.80%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (9.80%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.92%) SCCM
4 2 (3.92%) Terraform
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) systemd
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) VMware
2 18 (35.29%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.88%) Veeam
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft