Linux Specialist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Specialist salary in Work from Home is £78,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 647 850
Rank change year-on-year +272 +203 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 214 14 17
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.035% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.037% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 17
10th Percentile £68,550 £38,740 £35,750
25th Percentile £72,000 £38,870 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +74.44% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £80,188 £49,575 -
90th Percentile £80,750 £54,233 -
UK median annual salary £76,750 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +70.56% +3.45% -17.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,724 38,299 70,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 95.94% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 27,230 42,182
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Linux Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Specialist.

Linux Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, Linux Specialist 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Specialist in the job title.

1 214 (100.00%) Linux
2 212 (99.07%) Azure
2 212 (99.07%) Bash
2 212 (99.07%) Cybersecurity
2 212 (99.07%) Analytical Skills
3 210 (98.13%) Jamf Pro
3 210 (98.13%) Entra ID
3 210 (98.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 210 (98.13%) 5G
3 210 (98.13%) IT Strategy
3 210 (98.13%) Tanium
3 210 (98.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 210 (98.13%) Technology Strategy
3 210 (98.13%) CyberArk
3 210 (98.13%) Social Media
3 210 (98.13%) Artificial Intelligence
3 210 (98.13%) Ubuntu
3 210 (98.13%) Microsoft
3 210 (98.13%) Active Directory
3 210 (98.13%) CRM
3 210 (98.13%) Broadband
4 2 (0.93%) Agile
4 2 (0.93%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (0.93%) Firewall
4 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
4 2 (0.93%) Migration
4 2 (0.93%) Clustering
4 2 (0.93%) Business Continuity
4 2 (0.93%) SNMP
4 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 212 (99.07%) Azure
2 210 (98.13%) Entra ID
3 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
3 2 (0.93%) AWS
3 2 (0.93%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 210 (98.13%) 5G
1 210 (98.13%) Broadband
2 2 (0.93%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) Internet
2 2 (0.93%) SNMP
2 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.93%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
1 2 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 212 (99.07%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (98.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (0.93%) Social Skills
3 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.47%) Banking
4 1 (0.47%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 210 (98.13%) Social Media
2 2 (0.93%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 214 (100.00%) Linux
2 210 (98.13%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.93%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) AIX
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (99.07%) Cybersecurity
2 210 (98.13%) Artificial Intelligence
2 210 (98.13%) CRM
2 210 (98.13%) IT Strategy
2 210 (98.13%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (0.93%) Agile
3 2 (0.93%) Business Continuity
3 2 (0.93%) CI/CD
3 2 (0.93%) Code Quality
3 2 (0.93%) Containerisation
3 2 (0.93%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (0.93%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (0.93%) DevOps
3 2 (0.93%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (0.93%) High Availability
3 2 (0.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (0.93%) Migration
3 2 (0.93%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (0.93%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (0.93%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 212 (99.07%) Bash
2 2 (0.93%) Perl
2 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
1 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 210 (98.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 210 (98.13%) Jamf Pro
1 210 (98.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.93%) Ansible
2 2 (0.93%) Grafana
2 2 (0.93%) Graphite
2 2 (0.93%) HAProxy
2 2 (0.93%) Nagios
2 2 (0.93%) Puppet
2 2 (0.93%) Terraform
2 2 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 210 (98.13%) CyberArk
1 210 (98.13%) Microsoft
1 210 (98.13%) Tanium
2 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
2 1 (0.47%) Symantec
2 1 (0.47%) VMware