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 £55,000 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 540 717 672
Rank change year-on-year +177 -45 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 35 46 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.064% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.068% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 46 42
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,344 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,938 £56,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £68,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +33.33%

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 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 19 May 2025.

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 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 +108 15 £55,000 +18.92% 3
South West +88 7 £67,500 +45.95% 5
East of England +41 5 £75,000 +50.00% 10
North of England +48 4 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Wales +38 4 £47,500 -5.00%
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West -5 1 £55,000 +22.22% 4
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 19 May 2025, 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 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (71.43%) Bash
3 24 (68.57%) Python
4 18 (51.43%) VMware
5 17 (48.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
6 16 (45.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (37.14%) Ansible
7 13 (37.14%) Docker
7 13 (37.14%) Containerisation
8 12 (34.29%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (34.29%) Windows
9 10 (28.57%) Red Hat
10 9 (25.71%) Firewall
11 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
11 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (22.86%) Terraform
12 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
12 7 (20.00%) Machine Learning
12 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
12 7 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (17.14%) High Availability
13 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
14 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
14 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
14 5 (14.29%) Change Control
14 5 (14.29%) DevOps
14 5 (14.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 5 (14.29%) Customer Service

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 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) AWS
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.86%) AWS IoT
2 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) MariaDB
1 4 (11.43%) MySQL
1 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
1 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.57%) Retail
3 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (45.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (34.29%) Windows
4 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (14.29%) SUSE
5 5 (14.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (11.43%) CentOS
6 4 (11.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (8.57%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Containerisation
2 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (17.14%) High Availability
5 5 (14.29%) Change Control
5 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 5 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.43%) Security Patching
7 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
8 1 (2.86%) Asset Management
8 1 (2.86%) Case Management
8 1 (2.86%) CI/CD
8 1 (2.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (2.86%) Mentoring
8 1 (2.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) Bash
2 24 (68.57%) Python
3 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (37.14%) Docker
3 12 (34.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 5 (14.29%) NFS
5 4 (11.43%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (11.43%) vSphere
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Ansible
2 8 (22.86%) Terraform
3 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.43%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) Graylog
5 1 (2.86%) Nagios
5 1 (2.86%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) VMware
2 10 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 5 (14.29%) SAP
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Juniper
5 1 (2.86%) NetApp
5 1 (2.86%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage