The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 184 188 216
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 15 31 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.236% 0.394% 0.291%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.255% 0.430% 0.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 17
Average daily rate £400 £350 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -26.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £200 £337
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £378 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +54.54%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Systems Administrator
London

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the City of London region.

City of London Linux Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Linux Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Linux Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the City of London region.

City of London Linux Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Systems Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Linux Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (54.55%) Red Hat
3 16 (48.48%) Windows
4 15 (45.45%) VMware
5 13 (39.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (30.30%) Solaris
7 9 (27.27%) Apache
7 9 (27.27%) Nagios
8 7 (21.21%) TCP/IP
8 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
8 7 (21.21%) UNIX
8 7 (21.21%) Perl
8 7 (21.21%) MySQL
8 7 (21.21%) Finance
9 6 (18.18%) Banking
9 6 (18.18%) Oracle
9 6 (18.18%) PHP
9 6 (18.18%) DNS
9 6 (18.18%) CentOS
9 6 (18.18%) Puppet
10 5 (15.15%) Bash shell
10 5 (15.15%) SAN
10 5 (15.15%) DHCP
10 5 (15.15%) Degree
11 4 (12.12%) Ruby
11 4 (12.12%) Firewall
11 4 (12.12%) NFS
11 4 (12.12%) ITIL
11 4 (12.12%) Veritas
11 4 (12.12%) SSL

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Systems Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Linux Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (9.091%) LAMP
2 2 (6.061%) Web Services
3 1 (3.030%) HTML
3 1 (3.030%) .NET
3 1 (3.030%) Django
3 1 (3.030%) WSGI
Application Platforms
1 9 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (6.061%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (6.061%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.061%) IIS
3 1 (3.030%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.030%) Magento
3 1 (3.030%) Drupal
3 1 (3.030%) Gunicorn
3 1 (3.030%) Rackspace Cloud
3 1 (3.030%) nginx
3 1 (3.030%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Summit
1 2 (6.061%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.18%) DNS
3 5 (15.15%) SAN
3 5 (15.15%) DHCP
4 4 (12.12%) Firewall
4 4 (12.12%) SSL
5 3 (9.091%) FTP
5 3 (9.091%) VoIP
5 3 (9.091%) IPsec
6 2 (6.061%) NAS
6 2 (6.061%) LDAP
6 2 (6.061%) SMTP
6 2 (6.061%) HTTP
7 1 (3.030%) VPN
7 1 (3.030%) Internet
7 1 (3.030%) SNMP
7 1 (3.030%) POP3
7 1 (3.030%) SSH
7 1 (3.030%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) MySQL
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.061%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (6.061%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (6.061%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.030%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.030%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.030%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Subversion
2 1 (3.030%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.030%) JIRA
2 1 (3.030%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (21.21%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 3 (9.091%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.061%) Back Office
5 1 (3.030%) Publishing
5 1 (3.030%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Open Source
2 2 (6.061%) Replication
2 2 (6.061%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.030%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (48.48%) Windows
3 13 (39.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (30.30%) Solaris
5 7 (21.21%) UNIX
6 6 (18.18%) CentOS
7 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (9.091%) Gentoo
7 3 (9.091%) SUSE
7 3 (9.091%) Debian
7 3 (9.091%) Ubuntu
7 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (6.061%) HPUX
9 1 (3.030%) AIX
9 1 (3.030%) Fedora
9 1 (3.030%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.12%) ITIL
2 3 (9.091%) Configuration Management
2 3 (9.091%) Project Management
3 2 (6.061%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (6.061%) IT Governance
3 2 (6.061%) Service Management
3 2 (6.061%) Service Delivery
3 2 (6.061%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.030%) PRINCE
4 1 (3.030%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.030%) Change Management
4 1 (3.030%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (3.030%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Perl
2 6 (18.18%) PHP
3 5 (15.15%) Bash shell
4 4 (12.12%) Ruby
5 3 (9.091%) Python
5 3 (9.091%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.061%) VBScript
6 2 (6.061%) VB
7 1 (3.030%) AWK
7 1 (3.030%) sed
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 1 (3.030%) CISSP
2 1 (3.030%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.061%) COBIT
2 1 (3.030%) SLA
2 1 (3.030%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (3.030%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.030%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) NFS
2 3 (9.091%) VMware ESX
2 3 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.061%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (6.061%) XenServer
3 2 (6.061%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.061%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.030%) qmail
4 1 (3.030%) Sendmail
4 1 (3.030%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (3.030%) vSphere
4 1 (3.030%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Nagios
2 6 (18.18%) Puppet
3 2 (6.061%) Splunk
3 2 (6.061%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (6.061%) Tivoli
3 2 (6.061%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (6.061%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (3.030%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.030%) ZABBIX
4 1 (3.030%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 15 (45.45%) VMware
3 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
4 6 (18.18%) Oracle
5 4 (12.12%) Veritas
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco
5 4 (12.12%) Murex
5 4 (12.12%) Citrix
6 3 (9.091%) HP
6 3 (9.091%) Sun
6 3 (9.091%) IBM
6 3 (9.091%) Juniper
6 3 (9.091%) F5
7 2 (6.061%) Sybase
7 2 (6.061%) EMC
7 2 (6.061%) Calypso
8 1 (3.030%) Dell
8 1 (3.030%) JBoss
8 1 (3.030%) Zend
8 1 (3.030%) WatchGuard
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