Linux Systems Administrator Jobs

Linux System Administrator
UK

The median Linux System Administrator salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 845 850 1096
Rank change year-on-year +5 +246 -284
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 62 110 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.11% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.12% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 62 90 121
10th Percentile £41,500 £40,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,063 £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 £57,500 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £185,000 £62,500
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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
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 £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK

Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +20 51 £50,000 -16.67% 9
UK excluding London -18 46 £50,000 - 7
South West -8 24 £46,250 -31.48%
Work from Home +43 19 £50,000 -25.93% 2
Midlands +9 12 £50,000 -8.68% 1
London +65 9 £57,500 -17.86% 4
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 -
West Midlands +14 4 £54,000 -1.37% 1
Wales - 4 £50,000 -
East of England -2 3 £50,000 -21.57%
South East -21 2 £46,250 -7.50% 6
North of England +39 1 £45,000 -5.26%
North West -3 1 £45,000 +2.86%

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Linux
2 32 (51.61%) CentOS
3 29 (46.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (45.16%) VMware
4 28 (45.16%) Ansible
5 25 (40.32%) Bash
6 24 (38.71%) Python
7 22 (35.48%) Unix
7 22 (35.48%) Red Hat
8 18 (29.03%) Ubuntu
8 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (27.42%) Git
9 17 (27.42%) Azure
10 15 (24.19%) AWS
10 15 (24.19%) Puppet
10 15 (24.19%) Shell Script
11 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
11 13 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
11 13 (20.97%) DevOps
12 12 (19.35%) DV Cleared
12 12 (19.35%) Telecoms
12 12 (19.35%) Windows
13 11 (17.74%) Finance
13 11 (17.74%) Debian
14 10 (16.13%) Load Balancing
14 10 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (14.52%) CoreOS
15 9 (14.52%) Customer Experience
15 9 (14.52%) Time Management
15 9 (14.52%) SaaS

Linux Systems 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 (9.68%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.42%) Azure
2 15 (24.19%) AWS
3 9 (14.52%) OpenShift
3 9 (14.52%) SaaS
4 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.23%) IaaS
6 2 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.90%) HTTPS
1 8 (12.90%) SSL
2 7 (11.29%) DNS
3 5 (8.06%) Internet
4 4 (6.45%) SMTP
4 4 (6.45%) VPN
5 2 (3.23%) Firewall
5 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.61%) DHCP
6 1 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.61%) SSH
6 1 (1.61%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Ingres
1 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Git
2 8 (12.90%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 12 (19.35%) Telecoms
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Retail
6 4 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.84%) Billing
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Electronics
8 1 (1.61%) Games
8 1 (1.61%) iGaming
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
8 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) EDI
1 3 (4.84%) Web Services
2 1 (1.61%) CSS
2 1 (1.61%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.61%) LDAP
2 1 (1.61%) Middleware
2 1 (1.61%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.61%) REST
2 1 (1.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.23%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 62 (100.00%) Linux
2 32 (51.61%) CentOS
3 29 (46.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (35.48%) Unix
5 18 (29.03%) Ubuntu
6 12 (19.35%) Windows
7 11 (17.74%) Debian
8 9 (14.52%) CoreOS
9 7 (11.29%) SUSE
10 4 (6.45%) Solaris
11 3 (4.84%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
12 1 (1.61%) AIX
12 1 (1.61%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.97%) DevOps
3 10 (16.13%) Load Balancing
4 9 (14.52%) Configuration Management
4 9 (14.52%) Customer Experience
4 9 (14.52%) High Availability
4 9 (14.52%) ITIL
4 9 (14.52%) Time Management
5 8 (12.90%) Capacity Management
5 8 (12.90%) Inventory Management
5 8 (12.90%) Software Delivery
6 6 (9.68%) Business Continuity
7 5 (8.06%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
7 5 (8.06%) Customer Service
7 5 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (8.06%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (8.06%) Problem Management
7 5 (8.06%) Task Automation
8 4 (6.45%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Bash
2 24 (38.71%) Python
3 15 (24.19%) Shell Script
4 8 (12.90%) SQL
5 3 (4.84%) AWK
5 3 (4.84%) sed
6 1 (1.61%) Korn
6 1 (1.61%) Perl
6 1 (1.61%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.68%) RHCE
5 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 5 (8.06%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.61%) Linux+ Certification
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.90%) Docker
3 7 (11.29%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.06%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.84%) vSphere
6 1 (1.61%) KVM
6 1 (1.61%) NFS
6 1 (1.61%) Postfix
6 1 (1.61%) Shibboleth
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (45.16%) Ansible
2 15 (24.19%) Puppet
3 6 (9.68%) Progress Chef
4 5 (8.06%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.84%) Check_MK
5 3 (4.84%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.23%) Grafana
6 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.23%) systemd
7 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (45.16%) VMware
2 22 (35.48%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) Veeam
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.61%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.61%) SAP
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk