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Linux Administration

-1.6%
Cybersecurity (PenTesting)
123Live openings
$156,713Median salary
58Roles demanding it
20.4%Avg. posting demand

Demand over time

Where it's in demand

Roles whose live postings ask for this skill most often.

Systems Administrator
80%
$114,368
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
70%
$200,000
Penetration Tester
60%
$154,689
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
60%
$176,000
DevOps Engineer
50%
$161,200
Platform Engineer
40%
$218,124
People Operations Manager
33%
$115,498
Senior DevOps Engineer
30%
$184,500
Junior Software Engineer
30%
$132,125
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
30%
$239,500

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Skills that show up alongside this one, beyond chance.

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