Linux Administrator Jobs in London

Linux Administrator
England > London

The median Linux Administrator salary in London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 561 879
Rank change year-on-year +55 +318 -253
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 12 42 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.049% 0.13% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.14% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 12 39 41
10th Percentile - £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,438 £175,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,375 £185,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,340 29,809 71,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.99% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,175 22,417 34,826
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Central London +41 1 £27,500 -60.71%
Linux Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) Unix
3 6 (50.00%) DNS
4 5 (41.67%) VMware
5 4 (33.33%) SMTP
5 4 (33.33%) Python
5 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (25.00%) CentOS
6 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (25.00%) AWS
7 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (16.67%) Finance
7 2 (16.67%) Firewall
7 2 (16.67%) Banking
7 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (16.67%) AIX
7 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 2 (16.67%) Apache
7 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (16.67%) Bash
7 2 (16.67%) Puppet
7 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (16.67%) Ansible
7 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
8 1 (8.33%) Cost Control
8 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (8.33%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) SMTP
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) tcpdump
4 1 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) iGaming
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
1 1 (8.33%) Sports Betting
1 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
3 3 (25.00%) CentOS
4 2 (16.67%) AIX
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (8.33%) OpenBSD
5 1 (8.33%) VMS
5 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Coaching
3 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) High Availability
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Observability
3 1 (8.33%) Open Source
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Korn
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (8.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) KVM
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (8.33%) Postfix
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Avaya
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) SaltStack
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk