Senior Linux Administrator Jobs in London

Senior Linux Administrator
England > London

The median Senior Linux Administrator salary in London 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 507 600 918
Rank change year-on-year +93 +318 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Administrator 2 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.010% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £69,125 £44,098 -
25th Percentile £69,688 £44,245 £53,940
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £47,525 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year +55.18% -17.29% -25.86%
75th Percentile £77,188 £81,530 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,375 £100,112 -
England median annual salary £73,750 £63,750 £57,458
% change year-on-year +15.69% +10.95% -25.86%

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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Administrator in London

Senior Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Linux Administrator in London

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

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 London 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 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 (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