Linux Administrator
UK

The median Linux Administrator salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 856 1052
Rank change year-on-year +53 +196 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 86 122 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 80 101 138
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £33,375
25th Percentile £44,688 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £165,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator.

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +73 75 £52,500 -12.50% 19
UK excluding London +5 68 £50,000 - 13
Work from Home +66 34 £55,000 -18.52% 7
South West +3 29 £47,500 -29.63% 1
South East +8 13 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Midlands +29 12 £50,000 -8.68% 3
London +93 11 £60,000 -14.29% 7
East of England +33 9 £50,000 -23.08% 1
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 -
West Midlands +31 4 £54,000 -1.37% 3
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 2
North of England +29 1 £45,000 -2.70% 5
North West -1 1 £45,000 +16.13% 3

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Linux 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 featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 86 (100.00%) Linux
2 38 (44.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (40.70%) CentOS
4 34 (39.53%) VMware
5 33 (38.37%) Python
6 32 (37.21%) Ansible
7 30 (34.88%) Bash
8 27 (31.40%) Red Hat
9 22 (25.58%) Unix
10 21 (24.42%) Azure
11 20 (23.26%) AWS
12 19 (22.09%) Git
12 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (22.09%) DevOps
13 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
13 17 (19.77%) Ubuntu
14 16 (18.60%) Puppet
14 16 (18.60%) Windows
15 15 (17.44%) Shell Script
16 14 (16.28%) SQL
17 13 (15.12%) DV Cleared
18 12 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
18 12 (13.95%) Telecoms
18 12 (13.95%) Docker
19 11 (12.79%) Linux Command Line
19 11 (12.79%) Debian
19 11 (12.79%) SaaS
20 10 (11.63%) Time Management
20 10 (11.63%) Load Balancing
20 10 (11.63%) Finance

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (5.81%) Apache
2 2 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.16%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.42%) Azure
2 20 (23.26%) AWS
3 11 (12.79%) SaaS
4 10 (11.63%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.65%) GCP
7 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.49%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.33%) IaaS
8 2 (2.33%) PaaS
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.16%) Route 53
9 1 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) DNS
2 8 (9.30%) HTTPS
2 8 (9.30%) SSL
2 8 (9.30%) VPN
3 7 (8.14%) Firewall
4 5 (5.81%) Internet
5 4 (4.65%) BGP
5 4 (4.65%) SMTP
6 3 (3.49%) HTTP
6 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.16%) SAN
7 1 (1.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.49%) Ingres
3 2 (2.33%) MySQL
4 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.16%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Git
2 8 (9.30%) Vagrant
3 2 (2.33%) GitLab
3 2 (2.33%) Subversion
4 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.16%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.16%) ClearQuest
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.16%) JIRA
4 1 (1.16%) Redmine
4 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (13.95%) Telecoms
2 10 (11.63%) Finance
2 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Retail
5 4 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.49%) Billing
7 2 (2.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Electronics
8 1 (1.16%) Games
8 1 (1.16%) iGaming
8 1 (1.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) EDI
1 3 (3.49%) Web Services
2 1 (1.16%) CSS
2 1 (1.16%) LDAP
2 1 (1.16%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.16%) REST
2 1 (1.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (11.63%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.33%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.16%) Replication
4 1 (1.16%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (100.00%) Linux
2 38 (44.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (40.70%) CentOS
4 22 (25.58%) Unix
5 17 (19.77%) Ubuntu
6 16 (18.60%) Windows
7 11 (12.79%) Debian
8 10 (11.63%) CoreOS
9 7 (8.14%) SUSE
10 4 (4.65%) Solaris
11 3 (3.49%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
12 2 (2.33%) AIX
12 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (1.16%) OpenBSD
13 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.09%) DevOps
1 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (11.63%) Configuration Management
2 10 (11.63%) Customer Experience
2 10 (11.63%) ITIL
2 10 (11.63%) Load Balancing
2 10 (11.63%) Time Management
3 9 (10.47%) High Availability
4 8 (9.30%) Capacity Management
4 8 (9.30%) Inventory Management
4 8 (9.30%) Software Delivery
5 6 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (5.81%) Business Continuity
6 5 (5.81%) Computer Science
6 5 (5.81%) Customer Service
6 5 (5.81%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (5.81%) Problem Management
7 4 (4.65%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (4.65%) Data Protection
7 4 (4.65%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (38.37%) Python
2 30 (34.88%) Bash
3 15 (17.44%) Shell Script
4 14 (16.28%) SQL
5 4 (4.65%) PHP
5 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.49%) AWK
6 3 (3.49%) Perl
6 3 (3.49%) sed
7 1 (1.16%) Korn
7 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.16%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.12%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.14%) Degree
5 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.81%) RHCE
5 5 (5.81%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 12 (13.95%) Docker
1 12 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.14%) Hyper-V
3 6 (6.98%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.49%) vSphere
6 1 (1.16%) NFS
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.16%) Postfix
6 1 (1.16%) Shibboleth
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (37.21%) Ansible
2 16 (18.60%) Puppet
3 6 (6.98%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.81%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.49%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.49%) HAProxy
5 3 (3.49%) SCCM
5 3 (3.49%) Terraform
6 2 (2.33%) systemd
7 1 (1.16%) Grafana
7 1 (1.16%) Nessus
7 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (39.53%) VMware
2 27 (31.40%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle
4 3 (3.49%) Juniper
4 3 (3.49%) Veeam
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Avaya
6 1 (1.16%) Citrix
6 1 (1.16%) F5
6 1 (1.16%) IBM
6 1 (1.16%) SAP