Linux Specialist Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Specialist salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 379 656
Rank change year-on-year -31 +277 +167
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 3 220 15
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.65% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.68% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 14
10th Percentile - £42,500 -
25th Percentile - - £38,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +11.11% +3.45%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £49,575
90th Percentile - £79,625 £51,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% +11.11% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Linux Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Linux Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Specialist trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Specialist.

Linux Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Linux Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Symantec
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Replication
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
1 3 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) SaltStack
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy
1 3 (100.00%) SaltStack
1 3 (100.00%) Symantec
1 3 (100.00%) VMware