Senior Linux Administrator Jobs in England

Senior Linux Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Administrator salary in England is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 886 1173
Rank change year-on-year +25 +287 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Administrator 2 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.002% 0.010% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.011% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile £69,125 £44,342 -
25th Percentile £69,688 £52,372 £53,940
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £63,750 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% +10.95% -25.86%
75th Percentile £77,188 £71,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,375 £89,050 -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £63,750 £57,458
% change year-on-year -25.49% +10.95% -25.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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%

Senior Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Administrator in England

Senior Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Administrator in England

Senior Linux Administrator
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Linux Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +93 2 £73,750 +55.18%
Senior Linux Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) systemd
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu

Senior Linux Administrator 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware