Linux Administrator
UK

The median Linux Administrator salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 801 851 1098
Rank change year-on-year +50 +247 -272
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 83 124 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.12% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.14% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 79 95 126
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £58,125 £75,000 £60,732
90th Percentile £65,000 £177,000 £64,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK

Linux Administrator
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England +40 72 £51,250 -14.58% 12
UK excluding London -17 63 £50,000 - 8
Work from Home +77 34 £52,500 -22.22% 6
South West -16 29 £45,000 -33.33%
London +74 12 £62,500 -10.71% 5
Midlands +1 12 £50,000 -8.68% 1
South East -1 9 £55,000 +10.00% 5
East of England +4 8 £50,000 -21.57% 1
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 -
West Midlands +13 4 £54,000 -1.37% 1
Wales - 4 £50,000 -
North of England +28 1 £45,000 - 1
North West -7 1 £45,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (43.37%) VMware
3 35 (42.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (40.96%) CentOS
5 33 (39.76%) Ansible
6 30 (36.14%) Red Hat
7 29 (34.94%) Python
7 29 (34.94%) Bash
8 22 (26.51%) Azure
8 22 (26.51%) Unix
9 21 (25.30%) AWS
10 20 (24.10%) Ubuntu
11 18 (21.69%) Git
11 18 (21.69%) DevOps
11 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (20.48%) Puppet
13 16 (19.28%) Windows
14 15 (18.07%) Shell Script
15 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
15 14 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
16 13 (15.66%) SQL
16 13 (15.66%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (15.66%) Docker
17 12 (14.46%) Telecoms
17 12 (14.46%) Debian
17 12 (14.46%) DV Cleared
18 11 (13.25%) Finance
18 11 (13.25%) Data Centre
19 10 (12.05%) CoreOS
19 10 (12.05%) OpenShift

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (7.23%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.20%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.51%) Azure
2 21 (25.30%) AWS
3 10 (12.05%) OpenShift
3 10 (12.05%) SaaS
4 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.82%) GCP
6 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.41%) IaaS
7 2 (2.41%) PaaS
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.20%) Route 53
8 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) Firewall
1 8 (9.64%) HTTPS
1 8 (9.64%) SSL
1 8 (9.64%) VPN
2 7 (8.43%) DNS
3 6 (7.23%) Internet
4 4 (4.82%) BGP
4 4 (4.82%) SMTP
5 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.20%) DHCP
6 1 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.20%) LAN
6 1 (1.20%) SAN
6 1 (1.20%) SSH
6 1 (1.20%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.20%) WAN
6 1 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.61%) Ingres
2 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.41%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 12 (14.46%) Telecoms
2 11 (13.25%) Finance
3 8 (9.64%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Retail
6 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.61%) Billing
8 2 (2.41%) Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Electronics
9 1 (1.20%) Games
9 1 (1.20%) iGaming
9 1 (1.20%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) EDI
1 3 (3.61%) Web Services
2 1 (1.20%) CSS
2 1 (1.20%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.20%) LDAP
2 1 (1.20%) Middleware
2 1 (1.20%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.20%) REST
2 1 (1.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (13.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.41%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.20%) Replication
4 1 (1.20%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (42.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 34 (40.96%) CentOS
4 22 (26.51%) Unix
5 20 (24.10%) Ubuntu
6 16 (19.28%) Windows
7 12 (14.46%) Debian
8 10 (12.05%) CoreOS
9 7 (8.43%) SUSE
10 4 (4.82%) Solaris
11 3 (3.61%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (3.61%) Windows 10
12 2 (2.41%) AIX
13 1 (1.20%) OpenBSD
13 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.69%) DevOps
1 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (12.05%) Configuration Management
2 10 (12.05%) Customer Experience
2 10 (12.05%) ITIL
2 10 (12.05%) Load Balancing
2 10 (12.05%) Time Management
3 9 (10.84%) High Availability
4 8 (9.64%) Capacity Management
4 8 (9.64%) Inventory Management
4 8 (9.64%) Software Delivery
5 6 (7.23%) Business Continuity
6 5 (6.02%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (6.02%) Computer Science
6 5 (6.02%) Customer Service
6 5 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (6.02%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (6.02%) Problem Management
6 5 (6.02%) Task Automation
7 4 (4.82%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) Bash
1 29 (34.94%) Python
2 15 (18.07%) Shell Script
3 13 (15.66%) SQL
4 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.61%) AWK
5 3 (3.61%) sed
6 1 (1.20%) Korn
6 1 (1.20%) Perl
6 1 (1.20%) PHP
6 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.20%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.46%) DV Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.23%) RHCE
5 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.02%) Degree
5 5 (6.02%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.20%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.66%) Docker
3 7 (8.43%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.02%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.61%) vSphere
7 2 (2.41%) KVM
8 1 (1.20%) NFS
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.20%) Postfix
8 1 (1.20%) QEMU
8 1 (1.20%) Shibboleth
8 1 (1.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (39.76%) Ansible
2 17 (20.48%) Puppet
3 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.43%) Progress Chef
4 5 (6.02%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.61%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.61%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.41%) Grafana
6 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.41%) systemd
7 1 (1.20%) Nessus
7 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (43.37%) VMware
2 30 (36.14%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle
4 3 (3.61%) Juniper
4 3 (3.61%) Veeam
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.20%) Avaya
6 1 (1.20%) Citrix
6 1 (1.20%) F5
6 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) Splunk