Linux Systems Administrator Jobs in the South West

Linux System Administrator
England > South West

The median Linux System Administrator salary in the South West is £45,000 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 276 234 312
Rank change year-on-year -42 +78 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 19 21 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.37% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 5
10th Percentile £39,000 £55,125 -
25th Percentile £41,500 £57,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £67,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +80.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £38,750
90th Percentile - - £44,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £42,658
% change year-on-year -16.67% +40.65% -5.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 10,157 5,725 8,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 88.79% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,334 3,659 5,114
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Gloucestershire - 9 £52,500 -
Wiltshire -12 5 £45,000 -33.33% 2
Bristol -10 3 £43,000 -36.30%
Somerset -7 1 £35,000 -44.00% 2
Devon - 1 £58,000 -
Linux Systems Administrator
England

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (68.42%) Ansible
3 12 (63.16%) Puppet
3 12 (63.16%) CentOS
3 12 (63.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (63.16%) Red Hat
4 11 (57.89%) Unix
4 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
5 10 (52.63%) Bash
5 10 (52.63%) DV Cleared
6 9 (47.37%) AWS
7 8 (42.11%) Git
7 8 (42.11%) Python
8 7 (36.84%) ITIL
8 7 (36.84%) Load Balancing
8 7 (36.84%) Time Management
8 7 (36.84%) VMware
8 7 (36.84%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (36.84%) CoreOS
8 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
9 6 (31.58%) DevOps
10 5 (26.32%) RHCSA
10 5 (26.32%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
10 5 (26.32%) Performance Monitoring
10 5 (26.32%) High Availability
10 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (26.32%) Business Continuity

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
General
1 5 (26.32%) Retail
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (63.16%) CentOS
2 12 (63.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (57.89%) Unix
4 7 (36.84%) CoreOS
5 4 (21.05%) Windows
6 2 (10.53%) Debian
6 2 (10.53%) Solaris
6 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) ITIL
1 7 (36.84%) Load Balancing
1 7 (36.84%) Time Management
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Business Continuity
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
3 5 (26.32%) High Availability
3 5 (26.32%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.26%) Customer Experience
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.26%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Bash
2 8 (42.11%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) DV Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) RHCE
3 5 (26.32%) RHCSA
3 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Ansible
2 12 (63.16%) Puppet
3 5 (26.32%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Red Hat
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft