Linux Support Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Support salary for remote or hybrid work is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 560 637
Rank change year-on-year +178 +77 +167
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 15 32 36
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.095% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.099% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 34
10th Percentile £31,750 £24,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £54,063 £51,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £57,250 £52,500 £66,250
UK median annual salary £40,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% - -14.29%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Linux Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Linux Support
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Support salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Support
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Linux Support over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Linux Support salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
4 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 5 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 5 (33.33%) Vehicle Telematics
5 5 (33.33%) ITIL
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 5 (33.33%) Telematics
5 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (33.33%) VMware
5 5 (33.33%) SSH
6 4 (26.67%) Banking
6 4 (26.67%) AWS
6 4 (26.67%) Ansible
6 4 (26.67%) Bash
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (20.00%) RHCSA
7 3 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
7 3 (20.00%) Server Patching
7 3 (20.00%) Server Building
7 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
7 3 (20.00%) Change Management
7 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery

Linux Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) SSH
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) HTTP
3 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) Debian
4 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 5 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) Telematics
3 5 (33.33%) Vehicle Telematics
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) Server Building
4 3 (20.00%) Server Patching
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) CRM
5 2 (13.33%) ITSM
6 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (20.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (20.00%) Symantec
3 3 (20.00%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow