Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux System Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux System Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 671 784
Rank change year-on-year -53 +113 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 46 62 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 46 42 69
10th Percentile £41,500 £33,875 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,906 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,125 £65,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £55,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West -29 22 £48,750 -27.78% 7
Midlands -2 12 £50,000 +21.95% 3
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -9 4 £54,000 +31.71%
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 3
North of England +29 3 £65,000 +36.84% 1
East of England -9 3 £50,000 -20.00% 1
North West -15 3 £65,000 +48.57% 1
South East -29 2 £46,250 -7.50% 4
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Linux Systems 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (54.35%) CentOS
3 22 (47.83%) VMware
4 21 (45.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (45.65%) Bash
4 21 (45.65%) Python
5 19 (41.30%) Ansible
6 17 (36.96%) Red Hat
6 17 (36.96%) Git
7 14 (30.43%) Unix
7 14 (30.43%) Puppet
8 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
9 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
9 12 (26.09%) DV Cleared
9 12 (26.09%) AWS
9 12 (26.09%) DevOps
10 11 (23.91%) Azure
11 10 (21.74%) Debian
11 10 (21.74%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (19.57%) CoreOS
12 9 (19.57%) OpenShift
12 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (19.57%) Windows
12 9 (19.57%) ITIL
12 9 (19.57%) Time Management
13 8 (17.39%) Ubuntu
13 8 (17.39%) Load Balancing
13 8 (17.39%) SQL
14 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
14 7 (15.22%) SUSE

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 11 (23.91%) Azure
3 9 (19.57%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.87%) SaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) HTTPS
1 4 (8.70%) SSL
2 3 (6.52%) Internet
2 3 (6.52%) VPN
3 2 (4.35%) Intranet
4 1 (2.17%) DNS
4 1 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.17%) Firewall
4 1 (2.17%) SSH
4 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Ingres
1 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (36.96%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (10.87%) Finance
1 5 (10.87%) Retail
2 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.17%) Games
4 1 (2.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) EDI
2 1 (2.17%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (54.35%) CentOS
3 21 (45.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (30.43%) Unix
5 10 (21.74%) Debian
6 9 (19.57%) CoreOS
6 9 (19.57%) Windows
7 8 (17.39%) Ubuntu
8 7 (15.22%) SUSE
9 3 (6.52%) Solaris
9 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) DevOps
2 9 (19.57%) ITIL
2 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) Time Management
3 8 (17.39%) Load Balancing
4 5 (10.87%) Business Continuity
4 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
4 5 (10.87%) Customer Experience
4 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
4 5 (10.87%) High Availability
4 5 (10.87%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (8.70%) Capacity Management
5 4 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (8.70%) Change Management
5 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
5 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (8.70%) Inventory Management
5 4 (8.70%) Logistics
5 4 (8.70%) Problem Management
5 4 (8.70%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Bash
1 21 (45.65%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.52%) AWK
4 3 (6.52%) sed
5 1 (2.17%) PHP
5 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 12 (26.09%) DV Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 5 (10.87%) RHCE
4 5 (10.87%) RHCSA
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.70%) Docker
3 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (41.30%) Ansible
2 14 (30.43%) Puppet
3 5 (10.87%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) VMware
2 17 (36.96%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.52%) Veeam
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft