Linux Systems Administrator Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux System Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux System Administrator salary for remote or hybrid work is £55,000 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 377 573 629
Rank change year-on-year +196 +56 +154
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 20 19 44
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.056% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.058% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17 19 40
10th Percentile - £41,050 £42,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £52,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.93% +35.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £170,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £60,100 £185,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +33.33%

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 Systems Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Systems Administrator trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Systems Administrator salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Systems Administrator salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (70.00%) Red Hat
4 10 (50.00%) Bash
5 9 (45.00%) Python
6 8 (40.00%) VMware
7 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
8 6 (30.00%) CentOS
8 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (30.00%) MySQL
9 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
9 5 (25.00%) Ansible
9 5 (25.00%) Security Patching
10 4 (20.00%) DevOps
10 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (20.00%) MariaDB
10 4 (20.00%) vSphere
10 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (20.00%) Finance
10 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
10 4 (20.00%) Degree
10 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 4 (20.00%) DNS
10 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
10 4 (20.00%) Firewall
11 3 (15.00%) Nagios
11 3 (15.00%) Banking
11 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds

Linux Systems Administrator 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 2 (10.00%) nginx
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Multicast
2 2 (10.00%) SMTP
2 2 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) MariaDB
2 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (30.00%) CentOS
4 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Rocky
5 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (5.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Bash
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) RHCSA
3 1 (5.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Nagios
3 2 (10.00%) Puppet
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle