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 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 563 591
Rank change year-on-year +98 +28 +248
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 12 30 30
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.084% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.087% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 9 27 30
10th Percentile - £24,750 £40,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -11.63% +16.85%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £74,750 -
UK median annual salary £39,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.00% -9.09% +12.82%

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 18,036 34,462 35,104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 96.27% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 9,904 26,084 25,739
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,926 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Red Hat
3 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
4 5 (41.67%) SSH
4 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (41.67%) Telematics
4 5 (41.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (41.67%) Vehicle Telematics
5 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (33.33%) Bash
5 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
5 4 (33.33%) RHCSA
5 4 (33.33%) Nagios
5 4 (33.33%) Finance
5 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (33.33%) Banking
5 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (25.00%) Clustering
6 3 (25.00%) Symantec
6 3 (25.00%) Change Management
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) SSH
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Telematics
3 5 (41.67%) Vehicle Telematics
4 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Server Building
5 3 (25.00%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) RHCSA
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Nagios
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Symantec
3 3 (25.00%) Veritas