Linux Support Jobs in England

Linux Support
UK > England

The median Linux Support salary in England is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 861 1078
Rank change year-on-year +64 +217 -232
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 39 48 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.044% 0.055% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.061% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 33 42 85
10th Percentile £24,750 £41,250 £37,200
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,500 £67,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +40.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Linux Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in England

Linux Support
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Support in England.

Salary trend for Linux Support in England

Linux Support
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Support in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Support in England

Linux Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
South East +4 16 £46,250 +2.78% 5
London +124 11 £70,000 +12.00% 2
East Midlands - 7 £24,750 - 1
Midlands - 7 £24,750 - 1
South West -24 3 £40,000 - 3
East of England - 2 £20,000 -
Linux Support
UK

Linux Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Linux Support in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 12 (30.77%) Ubuntu
4 11 (28.21%) AWS
4 11 (28.21%) SLA
4 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (25.64%) Customer Service
5 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
5 10 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (23.08%) Management Information System
6 9 (23.08%) ITIL
6 9 (23.08%) MySQL
7 8 (20.51%) Firewall
7 8 (20.51%) Bash
7 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
8 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
8 7 (17.95%) VMware
8 7 (17.95%) SQL
9 6 (15.38%) Cisco
9 6 (15.38%) LAN
9 6 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
9 6 (15.38%) JIRA
9 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (15.38%) Meraki
9 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
9 6 (15.38%) CentOS
9 6 (15.38%) Documentation Skills

Linux Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Firewall
2 6 (15.38%) LAN
2 6 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (5.13%) Internet
3 2 (5.13%) VSAN
4 1 (2.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) MariaDB
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 6 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (2.56%) Electronics
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) CSS
1 1 (2.56%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (30.77%) Ubuntu
3 10 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (15.38%) CentOS
5 5 (12.82%) SUSE
6 4 (10.26%) Windows
7 3 (7.69%) AIX
7 3 (7.69%) Unix
8 2 (5.13%) Debian
8 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
9 1 (2.56%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.64%) Customer Service
3 9 (23.08%) ITIL
4 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
4 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
5 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 5 (12.82%) Mathematics
6 5 (12.82%) Ticket Management
7 4 (10.26%) Task Automation
8 3 (7.69%) Change Management
8 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis
8 3 (7.69%) ITSM
8 3 (7.69%) Problem Management
8 3 (7.69%) Service Management
8 3 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 2 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (5.13%) Open Source
9 2 (5.13%) Proactive Maintenance
9 2 (5.13%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) Bash
2 7 (17.95%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.69%) Perl
5 3 (7.69%) Python
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) COBOL
7 1 (2.56%) Korn
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) Tcl
7 1 (2.56%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
1 3 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) GPFS
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.13%) vSphere
3 1 (2.56%) NFS
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.95%) VMware
4 6 (15.38%) Cisco
4 6 (15.38%) Meraki
4 6 (15.38%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (10.26%) Symantec
6 1 (2.56%) SAP