Linux Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 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 714 684 789
Rank change year-on-year -30 +105 -185
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 61 70 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 57 45 73
10th Percentile £41,400 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56,000 £65,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £55,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the UK excluding London 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 West -21 28 £46,250 -31.48% 1
Midlands +4 12 £50,000 +21.95% 2
South East -12 9 £55,000 +10.00% 3
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 2
East of England -7 7 £50,000 -21.57% 1
West Midlands +11 4 £54,000 +31.71%
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 2
North of England +41 1 £45,000 -2.70% 2
North West +1 1 £45,000 +2.86% 1
Linux Administrator
UK

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Linux 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (47.54%) VMware
3 27 (44.26%) CentOS
4 26 (42.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (42.62%) Bash
5 25 (40.98%) Python
6 23 (37.70%) Red Hat
6 23 (37.70%) Ansible
7 18 (29.51%) Git
8 16 (26.23%) AWS
9 15 (24.59%) Puppet
9 15 (24.59%) DevOps
9 15 (24.59%) Unix
10 14 (22.95%) Windows
10 14 (22.95%) Azure
11 13 (21.31%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
12 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
12 12 (19.67%) DV Cleared
13 11 (18.03%) Debian
13 11 (18.03%) SQL
14 10 (16.39%) CoreOS
14 10 (16.39%) OpenShift
14 10 (16.39%) ITIL
14 10 (16.39%) Time Management
15 9 (14.75%) Ubuntu
15 9 (14.75%) Load Balancing
15 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
16 8 (13.11%) Shell Script

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.64%) Apache
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) AWS
2 14 (22.95%) Azure
3 10 (16.39%) OpenShift
4 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.20%) SaaS
6 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) GCP
7 2 (3.28%) IaaS
7 2 (3.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) VPN
2 5 (8.20%) Firewall
3 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
3 4 (6.56%) Internet
3 4 (6.56%) SSL
4 3 (4.92%) BGP
5 1 (1.64%) DNS
5 1 (1.64%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.64%) SSH
5 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Ingres
1 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (29.51%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (8.20%) Finance
1 5 (8.20%) Retail
2 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.64%) Games
4 1 (1.64%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) EDI
2 1 (1.64%) LDAP
2 1 (1.64%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.64%) REST
2 1 (1.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.28%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (44.26%) CentOS
3 26 (42.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (24.59%) Unix
5 14 (22.95%) Windows
6 11 (18.03%) Debian
7 10 (16.39%) CoreOS
8 9 (14.75%) Ubuntu
9 7 (11.48%) SUSE
10 3 (4.92%) Solaris
10 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) DevOps
2 10 (16.39%) ITIL
2 10 (16.39%) Time Management
3 9 (14.75%) Load Balancing
3 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (8.20%) Business Continuity
4 5 (8.20%) Computer Science
4 5 (8.20%) Customer Experience
4 5 (8.20%) Customer Service
4 5 (8.20%) High Availability
4 5 (8.20%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (6.56%) Capacity Management
5 4 (6.56%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (6.56%) Change Management
5 4 (6.56%) Configuration Management
5 4 (6.56%) Data Protection
5 4 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (6.56%) Logistics
5 4 (6.56%) Problem Management
5 4 (6.56%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) Bash
2 25 (40.98%) Python
3 11 (18.03%) SQL
4 8 (13.11%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.92%) AWK
6 3 (4.92%) sed
7 1 (1.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 5 (8.20%) RHCE
4 5 (8.20%) RHCSA
System Software
1 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.48%) Docker
3 5 (8.20%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
4 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.92%) vSphere
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.64%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 23 (37.70%) Ansible
2 15 (24.59%) Puppet
3 5 (8.20%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (6.56%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.64%) Grafana
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) VMware
2 23 (37.70%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.92%) Juniper
3 3 (4.92%) Veeam
4 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft