Linux Administrator Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Administrator salary in Work from Home 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 552 612 801
Rank change year-on-year +60 +189 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 33 40 68
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.096% 0.10% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.10% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 29 35 58
10th Percentile £41,000 £44,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £36,567
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +17.48% +27.68%
75th Percentile £58,750 £185,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 - £78,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 33,036 38,142 71,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.90% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25,238 27,095 42,472
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Administrator.

Linux Administrator salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Administrator over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Linux Administrator salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) VMware
2 13 (39.39%) CentOS
2 13 (39.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (39.39%) Ansible
3 11 (33.33%) Docker
4 10 (30.30%) Azure
4 10 (30.30%) Shell Script
5 9 (27.27%) Finance
5 9 (27.27%) Python
5 9 (27.27%) Ubuntu
5 9 (27.27%) Customer Experience
6 8 (24.24%) Inventory Management
6 8 (24.24%) DevOps
6 8 (24.24%) Software Delivery
6 8 (24.24%) SaaS
6 8 (24.24%) Bash
6 8 (24.24%) Capacity Management
6 8 (24.24%) Vagrant
6 8 (24.24%) HTTPS
6 8 (24.24%) SSL
6 8 (24.24%) Telecoms
7 6 (18.18%) Firewall
7 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
7 6 (18.18%) SQL
7 6 (18.18%) Unix
7 6 (18.18%) Windows
8 5 (15.15%) AWS
8 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
9 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes

Linux 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 (6.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) SaaS
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) HTTPS
1 8 (24.24%) SSL
2 6 (18.18%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) VPN
4 3 (9.09%) BGP
4 3 (9.09%) DNS
4 3 (9.09%) SMTP
5 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.03%) Internet
5 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Ingres
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Vagrant
2 4 (12.12%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Telecoms
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) EDI
2 1 (3.03%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) CentOS
2 13 (39.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (27.27%) Ubuntu
4 6 (18.18%) Unix
4 6 (18.18%) Windows
5 4 (12.12%) Debian
6 3 (9.09%) SUSE
7 1 (3.03%) AIX
7 1 (3.03%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Customer Experience
2 8 (24.24%) Capacity Management
2 8 (24.24%) DevOps
2 8 (24.24%) Inventory Management
2 8 (24.24%) Software Delivery
3 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (9.09%) IT Strategy
4 3 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (6.06%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.06%) Open Source
6 1 (3.03%) CI/CD
6 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.03%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (3.03%) Incident Response
6 1 (3.03%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.03%) Observability
6 1 (3.03%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Shell Script
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 8 (24.24%) Bash
4 6 (18.18%) SQL
5 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.09%) AWK
6 3 (9.09%) sed
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.09%) vSphere
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.03%) Postfix
5 1 (3.03%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Ansible
2 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) VMware
2 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.09%) Juniper
3 3 (9.09%) Veeam
4 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
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