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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 845 1108
Rank change year-on-year +12 +263 -281
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 62 107 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.11% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.12% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 62 87 119
10th Percentile £41,500 £39,300 £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 £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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
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 £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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 23 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 23 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 +45 51 £50,000 -16.67% 7
UK excluding London -7 45 £50,000 - 6
South West -15 23 £47,500 -29.63% 1
Work from Home +42 19 £50,000 -25.93% 3
Midlands -1 12 £50,000 -8.68%
London +85 9 £57,500 -17.86% 2
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 -
West Midlands +8 4 £54,000 -1.37%
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 1
East of England +5 3 £50,000 -21.57%
South East -7 2 £46,250 -7.50% 4
North of England +33 1 £45,000 -5.26%
North West -4 1 £45,000 +2.86%

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 24 (38.71%) Python
5 24 (38.71%) Bash
6 23 (37.10%) Red Hat
7 21 (33.87%) Unix
8 18 (29.03%) Ubuntu
8 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (27.42%) Git
10 16 (25.81%) Azure
11 15 (24.19%) Puppet
12 14 (22.58%) AWS
12 14 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
12 14 (22.58%) Shell Script
12 14 (22.58%) DevOps
13 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
14 12 (19.35%) DV Cleared
14 12 (19.35%) Telecoms
15 11 (17.74%) Finance
15 11 (17.74%) Windows
16 10 (16.13%) Debian
16 10 (16.13%) SaaS
16 10 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (14.52%) Docker
17 9 (14.52%) OpenShift
17 9 (14.52%) CoreOS
17 9 (14.52%) Customer Experience

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 16 (25.81%) Azure
2 14 (22.58%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) SaaS
4 9 (14.52%) OpenShift
5 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.23%) IaaS
7 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 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.23%) Firewall
7 1 (1.61%) DHCP
7 1 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.61%) LAN
7 1 (1.61%) SSH
7 1 (1.61%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.61%) WAN
7 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%) Jenkins
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 7 (11.29%) 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 21 (33.87%) Unix
5 18 (29.03%) Ubuntu
6 11 (17.74%) Windows
7 10 (16.13%) Debian
8 9 (14.52%) CoreOS
9 7 (11.29%) SUSE
10 3 (4.84%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (4.84%) Solaris
10 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
11 1 (1.61%) AIX
11 1 (1.61%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (22.58%) DevOps
3 9 (14.52%) Customer Experience
3 9 (14.52%) High Availability
3 9 (14.52%) ITIL
3 9 (14.52%) Load Balancing
3 9 (14.52%) Time Management
4 8 (12.90%) Capacity Management
4 8 (12.90%) Configuration Management
4 8 (12.90%) Inventory Management
4 8 (12.90%) Software Delivery
5 6 (9.68%) Business Continuity
6 5 (8.06%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
6 5 (8.06%) Customer Service
6 5 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.06%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (8.06%) Problem Management
6 5 (8.06%) Task Automation
7 4 (6.45%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.71%) Bash
1 24 (38.71%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) Shell Script
3 8 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (4.84%) AWK
4 3 (4.84%) sed
5 1 (1.61%) Korn
5 1 (1.61%) Perl
5 1 (1.61%) PHP
5 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
5 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 14 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (14.52%) Docker
3 7 (11.29%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.06%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.84%) vSphere
6 2 (3.23%) KVM
7 1 (1.61%) NFS
7 1 (1.61%) Postfix
7 1 (1.61%) QEMU
7 1 (1.61%) Shibboleth
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (45.16%) Ansible
2 15 (24.19%) Puppet
3 5 (8.06%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (8.06%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.84%) Check_MK
4 3 (4.84%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.23%) Grafana
5 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 28 (45.16%) VMware
2 23 (37.10%) 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