Linux Specialist Jobs

Linux Specialist
UK

The median Linux Specialist 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 667 958 1190
Rank change year-on-year +291 +232 -314
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 223 20 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.019% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.021% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 22
10th Percentile £42,500 - £35,770
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,725 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £74,000 £51,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £55,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year - +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 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 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 23 April 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 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 +312 223 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Work from Home +282 221 £50,000 +11.11% 1
London +282 151 £50,000 -55.56% 1
UK excluding London +56 72 £45,000 - 2
South East +75 71 £45,000 - 1
East of England +30 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 223 (100.00%) Linux
2 213 (95.52%) Bash
3 212 (95.07%) Azure
3 212 (95.07%) Cybersecurity
3 212 (95.07%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (94.62%) Tanium
4 211 (94.62%) Artificial Intelligence
5 210 (94.17%) Microsoft
5 210 (94.17%) Active Directory
5 210 (94.17%) CRM
5 210 (94.17%) Broadband
5 210 (94.17%) Ubuntu
5 210 (94.17%) Social Media
5 210 (94.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 210 (94.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 210 (94.17%) Technology Strategy
5 210 (94.17%) 5G
5 210 (94.17%) IT Strategy
5 210 (94.17%) Jamf Pro
5 210 (94.17%) Entra ID
5 210 (94.17%) CyberArk
6 10 (4.48%) Python
7 9 (4.04%) Perl
8 8 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (3.14%) CentOS
10 6 (2.69%) Social Skills
10 6 (2.69%) High Availability
10 6 (2.69%) DNS
10 6 (2.69%) Migration
11 5 (2.24%) AWS

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 (95.07%) Azure
2 210 (94.17%) Entra ID
3 5 (2.24%) AWS
4 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (0.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 210 (94.17%) 5G
1 210 (94.17%) Broadband
2 6 (2.69%) DNS
3 4 (1.79%) HTTP
4 2 (0.90%) Firewall
4 2 (0.90%) Internet
4 2 (0.90%) SNMP
4 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.90%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
1 2 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 212 (95.07%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (94.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (2.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.45%) Banking
5 1 (0.45%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 210 (94.17%) Social Media
2 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 223 (100.00%) Linux
2 210 (94.17%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.14%) CentOS
5 2 (0.90%) Windows
6 1 (0.45%) AIX
6 1 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (95.07%) Cybersecurity
2 211 (94.62%) Artificial Intelligence
3 210 (94.17%) CRM
3 210 (94.17%) IT Strategy
3 210 (94.17%) Technology Strategy
4 6 (2.69%) High Availability
4 6 (2.69%) Migration
5 3 (1.35%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (1.35%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (0.90%) CI/CD
6 2 (0.90%) Code Quality
6 2 (0.90%) Containerisation
6 2 (0.90%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (0.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (0.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (0.90%) DevOps
6 2 (0.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (0.90%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (0.90%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (0.90%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 213 (95.52%) Bash
2 10 (4.48%) Python
3 9 (4.04%) Perl
4 4 (1.79%) PHP
4 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
1 2 (0.90%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 210 (94.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 210 (94.17%) Jamf Pro
1 210 (94.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.90%) Ansible
2 2 (0.90%) Grafana
2 2 (0.90%) Graphite
2 2 (0.90%) HAProxy
2 2 (0.90%) Nagios
2 2 (0.90%) Puppet
2 2 (0.90%) Terraform
2 2 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 211 (94.62%) Tanium
2 210 (94.17%) CyberArk
2 210 (94.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.45%) Symantec
4 1 (0.45%) VMware