Linux Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Administrator salary in the UK excluding London 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 719 654 800
Rank change year-on-year -65 +146 -184
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 61 74 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.13% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 56 48 63
10th Percentile £40,625 £36,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56,000 £64,063 £47,500
90th Percentile £59,125 £68,750 £54,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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 -37 24 £45,000 -33.33% 4
Midlands -26 14 £50,000 +21.95% 3
East Midlands - 10 £50,000 - 3
South East -44 9 £55,000 +10.00% 2
East of England -15 7 £50,000 -20.00% 1
West Midlands -9 4 £54,000 +31.71%
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 3
North of England +8 3 £65,000 +67.74% 1
North West -24 3 £65,000 +100.00% 1
Linux Administrator
UK

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (45.90%) VMware
3 25 (40.98%) CentOS
4 24 (39.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (37.70%) Python
6 22 (36.07%) Bash
7 21 (34.43%) Ansible
7 21 (34.43%) Red Hat
8 16 (26.23%) Git
9 13 (21.31%) AWS
9 13 (21.31%) DevOps
9 13 (21.31%) Puppet
10 12 (19.67%) Azure
10 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
11 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
11 11 (18.03%) Unix
11 11 (18.03%) Windows
11 11 (18.03%) SQL
11 11 (18.03%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (16.39%) DV Cleared
12 10 (16.39%) Debian
13 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (13.11%) OpenShift
14 8 (13.11%) CoreOS
14 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
14 8 (13.11%) Ubuntu
14 8 (13.11%) Time Management
14 8 (13.11%) ITIL
15 7 (11.48%) VPN
15 7 (11.48%) SUSE

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) AWS
2 12 (19.67%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) OpenShift
4 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.20%) SaaS
6 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.64%) IaaS
7 1 (1.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) VPN
2 6 (9.84%) Firewall
3 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
3 4 (6.56%) SSL
4 3 (4.92%) BGP
5 2 (3.28%) Internet
5 2 (3.28%) Intranet
6 1 (1.64%) DNS
6 1 (1.64%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.64%) IPsec
6 1 (1.64%) SSH
6 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Ingres
1 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (9.84%) Telecoms
2 5 (8.20%) Finance
2 5 (8.20%) Retail
3 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.64%) Games
4 1 (1.64%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) EDI
2 1 (1.64%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.28%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (40.98%) CentOS
3 24 (39.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (18.03%) Unix
4 11 (18.03%) Windows
5 10 (16.39%) Debian
6 8 (13.11%) CoreOS
6 8 (13.11%) Ubuntu
7 7 (11.48%) SUSE
8 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
9 2 (3.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.31%) DevOps
2 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.11%) ITIL
3 8 (13.11%) Time Management
4 7 (11.48%) Load Balancing
5 5 (8.20%) Business Continuity
5 5 (8.20%) Computer Science
5 5 (8.20%) Customer Experience
5 5 (8.20%) Customer Service
5 5 (8.20%) High Availability
5 5 (8.20%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (6.56%) Capacity Management
6 4 (6.56%) Change Management
6 4 (6.56%) Data Protection
6 4 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (6.56%) Inventory Management
6 4 (6.56%) Logistics
6 4 (6.56%) Problem Management
6 4 (6.56%) Software Delivery
6 4 (6.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) Bash
3 11 (18.03%) SQL
4 6 (9.84%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.92%) AWK
6 3 (4.92%) sed
7 1 (1.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
3 5 (8.20%) RHCE
3 5 (8.20%) RHCSA
3 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.48%) Docker
3 5 (8.20%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
4 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.92%) vSphere
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (34.43%) Ansible
2 13 (21.31%) Puppet
3 5 (8.20%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.64%) Grafana
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) systemd
Vendors
1 28 (45.90%) VMware
2 21 (34.43%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.92%) Juniper
3 3 (4.92%) Veeam
4 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft