Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in England

Linux System Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux System Administrator salary in England is £50,000 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 810 794 1076
Rank change year-on-year -16 +282 -253
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 53 100 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.055% 0.12% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.13% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 50 82 96
10th Percentile £39,625 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,063 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £42,658
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +40.65% -5.20%
75th Percentile £58,438 £75,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £62,750 £185,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in England

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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 -42 19 £45,000 -33.33% 5
Midlands -26 14 £50,000 +21.95% 2
East Midlands - 10 £50,000 - 2
London +64 9 £57,500 -20.69% 2
West Midlands -9 4 £54,000 +31.71%
South East -43 4 £46,250 -7.50% 2
North of England +9 3 £65,000 +100.00% 1
East of England -15 3 £50,000 -20.00% 1
North West -24 3 £65,000 +100.00% 1
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 England region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (50.94%) VMware
3 22 (41.51%) Python
3 22 (41.51%) CentOS
4 20 (37.74%) Bash
5 18 (33.96%) Red Hat
6 17 (32.08%) Unix
7 16 (30.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (28.30%) Git
8 15 (28.30%) Ansible
8 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (26.42%) VMware Infrastructure
9 14 (26.42%) Azure
9 14 (26.42%) DevOps
10 13 (24.53%) Puppet
11 11 (20.75%) AWS
11 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
12 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
13 9 (16.98%) Debian
14 8 (15.09%) Windows
14 8 (15.09%) SQL
14 8 (15.09%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
15 7 (13.21%) CoreOS
15 7 (13.21%) Data Centre
15 7 (13.21%) ITIL
15 7 (13.21%) DNS
15 7 (13.21%) SUSE
15 7 (13.21%) Load Balancing
15 7 (13.21%) Time Management

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.77%) Apache
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) Azure
2 11 (20.75%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) OpenShift
4 6 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.55%) SaaS
6 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.89%) IaaS
7 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) DNS
2 5 (9.43%) VPN
3 4 (7.55%) SMTP
4 3 (5.66%) Firewall
4 3 (5.66%) Internet
4 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.77%) Intranet
6 1 (1.89%) DHCP
6 1 (1.89%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.89%) IPsec
6 1 (1.89%) LAN
6 1 (1.89%) SSH
6 1 (1.89%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.89%) WAN
6 1 (1.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Ingres
1 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Retail
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.66%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Electronics
5 1 (1.89%) Games
5 1 (1.89%) iGaming
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) EDI
2 1 (1.89%) CSS
2 1 (1.89%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (13.21%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.77%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (41.51%) CentOS
3 17 (32.08%) Unix
4 16 (30.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (16.98%) Debian
6 8 (15.09%) Windows
7 7 (13.21%) CoreOS
7 7 (13.21%) SUSE
8 6 (11.32%) Ubuntu
9 3 (5.66%) Windows 10
10 2 (3.77%) Solaris
11 1 (1.89%) AIX
11 1 (1.89%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (26.42%) DevOps
3 7 (13.21%) ITIL
3 7 (13.21%) Load Balancing
3 7 (13.21%) Time Management
4 6 (11.32%) Business Continuity
4 6 (11.32%) High Availability
5 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
5 5 (9.43%) Customer Service
5 5 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (9.43%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (9.43%) Problem Management
5 5 (9.43%) Task Automation
6 4 (7.55%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (7.55%) Change Management
6 4 (7.55%) Data Protection
6 4 (7.55%) Logistics
7 3 (5.66%) Configuration Management
7 3 (5.66%) IC Design
7 3 (5.66%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Python
2 20 (37.74%) Bash
3 8 (15.09%) SQL
4 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.66%) AWK
5 3 (5.66%) sed
6 1 (1.89%) Korn
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) RHCE
4 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (9.43%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) RHCSA
4 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.66%) Docker
4 3 (5.66%) vSphere
5 2 (3.77%) KVM
6 1 (1.89%) NFS
6 1 (1.89%) Postfix
6 1 (1.89%) QEMU
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Ansible
2 13 (24.53%) Puppet
3 5 (9.43%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.66%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.77%) Grafana
6 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.77%) systemd
6 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) VMware
2 18 (33.96%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.66%) Veeam
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Splunk