Linux Support
UK

The median Linux Support salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 832 918 1146
Rank change year-on-year +86 +228 -278
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 46 54 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.053% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.058% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 41 47 88
10th Percentile £24,750 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +37.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £76,250 £78,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,750 £43,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +0.57% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in the UK

Linux Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Support in the UK

Linux Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Support over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Support in the UK

Linux Support
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +95 42 £45,000 -10.00% 12
Work from Home +79 30 £46,250 +2.78% 4
UK excluding London +3 30 £40,000 -8.57% 13
South East +15 18 £46,250 +5.71% 4
London +93 13 £61,250 -2.00% 1
East Midlands - 6 £24,750 - 2
Midlands - 6 £24,750 - 2
South West -15 3 £40,000 - 5
East of England - 2 £20,000 -
Wales - 1 £40,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 featuring Linux Support in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (28.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.09%) Red Hat
3 12 (26.09%) AWS
4 11 (23.91%) Ubuntu
4 11 (23.91%) SLA
4 11 (23.91%) Customer Service
5 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
5 10 (21.74%) Shell Script
5 10 (21.74%) SQL
6 9 (19.57%) MySQL
6 9 (19.57%) Perl
6 9 (19.57%) ITIL
7 8 (17.39%) Firewall
7 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
7 8 (17.39%) Bash
7 8 (17.39%) CentOS
7 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
8 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
8 7 (15.22%) VMware
8 7 (15.22%) Task Automation
9 6 (13.04%) Ubiquiti
9 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
9 6 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery

Linux Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (13.04%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Firewall
2 6 (13.04%) LAN
2 6 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (6.52%) DNS
4 2 (4.35%) HTTP
4 2 (4.35%) Internet
4 2 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) MySQL
2 2 (4.35%) MariaDB
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Billing
2 6 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Electronics
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) CSS
1 1 (2.17%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (28.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (23.91%) Ubuntu
4 8 (17.39%) CentOS
5 4 (8.70%) SUSE
5 4 (8.70%) Windows
6 3 (6.52%) AIX
6 3 (6.52%) Unix
7 2 (4.35%) Debian
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (2.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (23.91%) Customer Service
3 9 (19.57%) ITIL
4 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
4 7 (15.22%) Task Automation
5 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
5 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
6 4 (8.70%) Mathematics
6 4 (8.70%) Ticket Management
7 3 (6.52%) Change Management
7 3 (6.52%) ITSM
7 3 (6.52%) Problem Management
7 3 (6.52%) Service Management
7 3 (6.52%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.35%) High Availability
8 2 (4.35%) Migration
8 2 (4.35%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Shell Script
1 10 (21.74%) SQL
2 9 (19.57%) Perl
3 8 (17.39%) Bash
4 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) Python
5 3 (6.52%) PHP
6 2 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) COBOL
7 1 (2.17%) Korn
7 1 (2.17%) Tcl
7 1 (2.17%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) Degree
1 3 (6.52%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.52%) GPFS
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.35%) vSphere
4 1 (2.17%) NFS
4 1 (2.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Red Hat
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.22%) VMware
4 6 (13.04%) Cisco
4 6 (13.04%) Meraki
4 6 (13.04%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (8.70%) Symantec
6 1 (2.17%) SAP