Linux Specialist Jobs

Linux Specialist
UK

The median Linux Specialist salary in the UK is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 690 975 1211
Rank change year-on-year +285 +236 -300
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 220 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.020% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.022% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 24
10th Percentile £47,750 - £35,810
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,725 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% +3.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £79,719 £50,413 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,038 £55,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in the UK

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Specialist in the UK

Linux Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Specialist over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Specialist in the UK

Linux Specialist
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +289 220 £58,750 +30.56% 3
Work from Home +269 218 £50,000 +11.11% 1
London +271 150 £58,750 -47.78% 1
UK excluding London +41 70 £60,000 +33.33% 2
South East +77 69 £60,000 +33.33% 1
East of England +13 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 220 (100.00%) Linux
2 213 (96.82%) Bash
3 212 (96.36%) Azure
3 212 (96.36%) Cybersecurity
3 212 (96.36%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (95.91%) Tanium
4 211 (95.91%) Artificial Intelligence
5 210 (95.45%) Microsoft
5 210 (95.45%) Active Directory
5 210 (95.45%) CRM
5 210 (95.45%) Broadband
5 210 (95.45%) Ubuntu
5 210 (95.45%) Social Media
5 210 (95.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 210 (95.45%) 5G
5 210 (95.45%) IT Strategy
5 210 (95.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 210 (95.45%) Technology Strategy
5 210 (95.45%) Jamf Pro
5 210 (95.45%) Entra ID
5 210 (95.45%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.18%) Python
7 6 (2.73%) Perl
8 5 (2.27%) Migration
8 5 (2.27%) DNS
8 5 (2.27%) High Availability
8 5 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.27%) Social Skills
9 4 (1.82%) CentOS
10 3 (1.36%) Onboarding

Linux Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 212 (96.36%) Azure
2 210 (95.45%) Entra ID
3 3 (1.36%) AWS
4 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
4 2 (0.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 210 (95.45%) 5G
1 210 (95.45%) Broadband
2 5 (2.27%) DNS
3 3 (1.36%) HTTP
4 2 (0.91%) Firewall
4 2 (0.91%) Internet
4 2 (0.91%) SNMP
4 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.91%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
1 2 (0.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
General
1 212 (96.36%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (95.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (2.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.45%) Banking
5 1 (0.45%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 210 (95.45%) Social Media
2 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
3 2 (0.91%) Clustering
4 1 (0.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 220 (100.00%) Linux
2 210 (95.45%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.82%) CentOS
5 2 (0.91%) Windows
6 1 (0.45%) AIX
6 1 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (96.36%) Cybersecurity
2 211 (95.91%) Artificial Intelligence
3 210 (95.45%) CRM
3 210 (95.45%) IT Strategy
3 210 (95.45%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (2.27%) High Availability
4 5 (2.27%) Migration
5 2 (0.91%) Agile
5 2 (0.91%) Business Continuity
5 2 (0.91%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (0.91%) CI/CD
5 2 (0.91%) Code Quality
5 2 (0.91%) Containerisation
5 2 (0.91%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (0.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (0.91%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (0.91%) Load Balancing
5 2 (0.91%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (0.91%) Test Automation
5 2 (0.91%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (96.82%) Bash
2 7 (3.18%) Python
3 6 (2.73%) Perl
4 3 (1.36%) PHP
4 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
1 2 (0.91%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 210 (95.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 210 (95.45%) Jamf Pro
1 210 (95.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.91%) Ansible
2 2 (0.91%) Grafana
2 2 (0.91%) Graphite
2 2 (0.91%) HAProxy
2 2 (0.91%) Nagios
2 2 (0.91%) Puppet
2 2 (0.91%) Terraform
2 2 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 211 (95.91%) Tanium
2 210 (95.45%) CyberArk
2 210 (95.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.45%) Symantec
4 1 (0.45%) VMware