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Linux Administrator Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 70 Linux Administrator job vacancies in England

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 England 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
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 422 383 444
Rank change year-on-year
-39 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 108 183 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.246% 0.351% 0.246%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.266% 0.379% 0.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 125 80
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £392 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £320
% change year-on-year
-7.01% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +63.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +63.63%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 40666 48260 52962
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.45% 92.52% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24069 27435 29642
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £243 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1999 2368 2784
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.36 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Administrator
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Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Linux Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England Linux Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Linux Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Linux Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
London -41 59 £363 +3.57% 34
East of England +24 14 £375 +7.14% 7
South East +20 14 £319 -8.92% 10
Yorkshire 0 8 £275 -16.03% 6
North East - 7 £350 - 5
South West +22 5 £330 -12.00% 2
West Midlands +7 1 - - 3
North West - - - - 2
East Midlands - - - - 1
Midlands - - - -
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Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 221 (100.00%) Linux
2 161 (72.85%) Red Hat
3 89 (40.27%) Apache
4 75 (33.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 69 (31.22%) UNIX
6 61 (27.60%) Puppet
6 61 (27.60%) VMware
7 54 (24.43%) CentOS
8 53 (23.98%) MySQL
9 50 (22.62%) Solaris
10 45 (20.36%) DNS
10 45 (20.36%) Tomcat
11 42 (19.00%) Perl
12 39 (17.65%) SAN
12 39 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
13 38 (17.19%) TCP/IP
14 37 (16.74%) Oracle
15 36 (16.29%) Finance
16 35 (15.84%) Nagios
17 34 (15.38%) Bash shell
18 33 (14.93%) Shell Script
18 33 (14.93%) Windows
19 31 (14.03%) DHCP
20 30 (13.57%) Java
21 29 (13.12%) ITIL
21 29 (13.12%) JBoss
21 29 (13.12%) RHCE
21 29 (13.12%) HP
21 29 (13.12%) Banking
22 28 (12.67%) Veritas

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (6.787%) LAMP
2 12 (5.430%) Web Services
3 10 (4.525%) JDBC
4 6 (2.715%) Node.js
5 4 (1.810%) J2EE
6 3 (1.357%) J2SE
7 2 (0.905%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.905%) Gearman
8 1 (0.452%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.452%) Memcached
8 1 (0.452%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.452%) Middleware
8 1 (0.452%) .NET
8 1 (0.452%) HTML
8 1 (0.452%) EJB
8 1 (0.452%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 89 (40.27%) Apache
2 45 (20.36%) Tomcat
3 15 (6.787%) Amazon AWS
4 9 (4.072%) Liferay
5 7 (3.167%) OpenStack
6 6 (2.715%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.262%) IIS
8 4 (1.810%) nginx
9 3 (1.357%) Rackspace Cloud
9 3 (1.357%) Jetty
9 3 (1.357%) SAS
10 2 (0.905%) Confluence
10 2 (0.905%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.905%) Route 53
11 1 (0.452%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.452%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.452%) Moodle
11 1 (0.452%) lighttpd
11 1 (0.452%) Drupal
11 1 (0.452%) Magento
Applications
1 7 (3.167%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.810%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.452%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.905%) Front Arena
1 2 (0.905%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 45 (20.36%) DNS
2 39 (17.65%) SAN
3 38 (17.19%) TCP/IP
4 31 (14.03%) DHCP
5 26 (11.76%) SSL
6 20 (9.050%) NAS
7 19 (8.597%) LDAP
8 17 (7.692%) Firewall
9 11 (4.977%) HTTP
10 10 (4.525%) SNMP
11 9 (4.072%) SMTP
11 9 (4.072%) Internet
12 8 (3.620%) iSCSI
13 7 (3.167%) tcpdump
13 7 (3.167%) VPN
13 7 (3.167%) TELNET
14 3 (1.357%) SSH
14 3 (1.357%) BGP
14 3 (1.357%) OSPF
14 3 (1.357%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (23.98%) MySQL
2 15 (6.787%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.167%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.262%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.810%) Informix
6 3 (1.357%) Redis
6 3 (1.357%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.905%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.905%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (0.905%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (0.905%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.452%) Big Data
8 1 (0.452%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (7.692%) Git (software)
2 14 (6.335%) Hudson
2 14 (6.335%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.882%) Subversion
4 5 (2.262%) JIRA
5 3 (1.357%) Maven
5 3 (1.357%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.905%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.452%) Redmine
7 1 (0.452%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.452%) Phing
7 1 (0.452%) Capistrano
7 1 (0.452%) PHPUnit
General
1 36 (16.29%) Finance
2 29 (13.12%) Banking
3 13 (5.882%) Investment Banking
4 7 (3.167%) Retail
5 6 (2.715%) Publishing
5 6 (2.715%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.905%) Back Office
6 2 (0.905%) Games
6 2 (0.905%) German Language
7 1 (0.452%) Marketing
7 1 (0.452%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.452%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.050%) Open Source
2 19 (8.597%) Clustering
3 8 (3.620%) Client/Server
4 7 (3.167%) Cryptography
5 5 (2.262%) IaaS
6 4 (1.810%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.357%) Replication
7 3 (1.357%) Firmware
8 2 (0.905%) Derivative
8 2 (0.905%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.452%) Equities
9 1 (0.452%) IPTV
9 1 (0.452%) SaaS
9 1 (0.452%) Online Games
9 1 (0.452%) FMCG
9 1 (0.452%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.452%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 221 (100.00%) Linux
2 75 (33.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 69 (31.22%) UNIX
4 54 (24.43%) CentOS
5 50 (22.62%) Solaris
6 33 (14.93%) Windows
7 27 (12.22%) SUSE
8 16 (7.240%) Debian
9 14 (6.335%) Ubuntu
10 12 (5.430%) HPUX
11 10 (4.525%) AIX
12 7 (3.167%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.810%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (1.357%) Gentoo
14 3 (1.357%) VMS
15 2 (0.905%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.905%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.452%) Fedora
16 1 (0.452%) Tru64
16 1 (0.452%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (13.12%) ITIL
2 19 (8.597%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (7.692%) Configuration Management
4 13 (5.882%) Change Management
5 10 (4.525%) Load Balancing
6 8 (3.620%) E-Commerce
6 8 (3.620%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (3.167%) Memory Management
7 7 (3.167%) Identity Management
8 6 (2.715%) Validation
8 6 (2.715%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (2.715%) Capacity Management
9 5 (2.262%) Migration
10 4 (1.810%) ERP
10 4 (1.810%) Project Management
10 4 (1.810%) Service Delivery
11 3 (1.357%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (1.357%) Content Management
11 3 (1.357%) Service Management
11 3 (1.357%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.00%) Perl
2 34 (15.38%) Bash shell
3 33 (14.93%) Shell Script
4 30 (13.57%) Java
5 24 (10.86%) PHP
6 19 (8.597%) SQL
7 12 (5.430%) Python
8 11 (4.977%) Ruby
9 8 (3.620%) AWK
9 8 (3.620%) sed
10 3 (1.357%) VBScript
10 3 (1.357%) C++
11 2 (0.905%) VB
11 2 (0.905%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.905%) Korn
12 1 (0.452%) C
12 1 (0.452%) C#
Qualifications
1 29 (13.12%) RHCE
2 9 (4.072%) Degree
3 8 (3.620%) RHCT
4 4 (1.810%) SCSA
5 3 (1.357%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.905%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.452%) RHCA
7 1 (0.452%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.452%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.452%) CISSP
7 1 (0.452%) CCNP
7 1 (0.452%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.810%) SLA
2 2 (0.905%) COBIT
3 1 (0.452%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.452%) QA
3 1 (0.452%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.452%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 39 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (8.145%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 16 (7.240%) NFS
4 15 (6.787%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 14 (6.335%) XenServer
6 12 (5.430%) VMware ESX
7 10 (4.525%) Squid
8 9 (4.072%) Postfix
9 8 (3.620%) Varnish
10 7 (3.167%) Nmap
11 6 (2.715%) Active Directory
11 6 (2.715%) vSphere
11 6 (2.715%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.810%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.905%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.452%) PowerHA
14 1 (0.452%) Samba
14 1 (0.452%) Xen
14 1 (0.452%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.452%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 61 (27.60%) Puppet
2 35 (15.84%) Nagios
3 10 (4.525%) NetBackup
4 6 (2.715%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 5 (2.262%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.810%) Splunk
7 3 (1.357%) CFEngine
7 3 (1.357%) Cobbler
8 2 (0.905%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.905%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.905%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 2 (0.905%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.905%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.452%) YUM
9 1 (0.452%) SCCM
9 1 (0.452%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.452%) Zenoss
9 1 (0.452%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.452%) Control-M
Vendors
1 161 (72.85%) Red Hat
2 61 (27.60%) VMware
3 37 (16.74%) Oracle
4 29 (13.12%) JBoss
4 29 (13.12%) HP
5 28 (12.67%) Veritas
6 26 (11.76%) Cisco
7 21 (9.502%) Citrix
8 20 (9.050%) EMC
9 15 (6.787%) NetApp
10 13 (5.882%) IBM
11 12 (5.430%) SAP
12 10 (4.525%) Microsoft
12 10 (4.525%) Sun
13 5 (2.262%) Murex
14 4 (1.810%) Akamai
15 3 (1.357%) F5
15 3 (1.357%) Percona
15 3 (1.357%) Rackspace
15 3 (1.357%) Mercator
Unix/Linux System Administrator - 3+ months
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Unix/Linux System Administrator required for a 3+ month contract. You will f. acilitate the design, implementation and optimisation of IS technology following the high level strategy defined...
Computer Futures
Posted: 10 June 2013
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Linux, Linux Systems Administrator, Senior Linux System AdministratorA Senior Linux Systems Administrator is required to join the exsisting team of a mobile network solutions business-Key skills:CentOS/...
OPUS
Rate: GBP350 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Yorkshire and the Humber
Job Title: Linux Systems AdministratorContract: 3 - 4 MonthsRate: £300 - £350 per dayLocation: YorkshireStart: 8th - 22nd July 2013 Key Skills: Linux Systems Administrator, Implementation, Active Directory, LAMP installation, Moodle...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Linux System Administrator
County Durham, North East
They are looking for someone with the following experience: - Linux system administration - Experience in CentOS - Experience with DNS, Wifi products, load balancing - Cisco - Clustering and high availability network...
Computer Futures
Posted: 28 May 2013
Linux System Administrator - Contract - Newcastle
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Austin Fraser are working with a leading client based in Newcastle who require a Linux System Administrator for a 3-6 Month Contract... As a professional company we...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator - East London
London
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Barnsley, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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