Unix Systems Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix System Administrator (Unix Sysadmin)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Unix System Administrator (Unix Sysadmin) salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 745 733 824
Rank change year-on-year -12 +91 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Systems Administrator 17 16 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.027% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.030% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 25
10th Percentile - £39,375 £43,750
25th Percentile £35,520 £39,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £76,188 £56,250
90th Percentile - £77,875 -
UK median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% +5.00%

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 67,190 53,191 68,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.20% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,534 30,285 42,785
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 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Unix Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Unix Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Unix Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Unix Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Unix 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 Unix Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 West -22 13 £52,500 -
South East +10 4 £35,520 -
Unix Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Unix 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 Unix Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Unix
2 12 (70.59%) Linux
3 11 (64.71%) ITIL
3 11 (64.71%) Time Management
3 11 (64.71%) AWS
4 10 (58.82%) Bash
4 10 (58.82%) CentOS
4 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (58.82%) Python
4 10 (58.82%) Red Hat
4 10 (58.82%) CoreOS
4 10 (58.82%) Puppet
4 10 (58.82%) OpenShift
4 10 (58.82%) Ansible
4 10 (58.82%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (58.82%) Git
5 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
6 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
6 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
6 8 (47.06%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (11.76%) Degree
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
7 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
8 1 (5.88%) LAN
8 1 (5.88%) WAN
8 1 (5.88%) DHCP
8 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP

Unix 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) LAN
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VSAN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Git
General
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Unix
2 12 (70.59%) Linux
3 10 (58.82%) CentOS
3 10 (58.82%) CoreOS
3 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Windows
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) ITIL
1 11 (64.71%) Time Management
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.88%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Bash
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
1 10 (58.82%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (5.88%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) McAfee
2 1 (5.88%) VMware