The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 429 432 430
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 83 127 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.196% 0.237% 0.226%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.212% 0.256% 0.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 88 78
Average daily rate £375 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £210 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +45.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 2036 2429 2720
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 £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Linux Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
London -12 58 £375 +7.91%
North East - 10 £264 -
South East +19 7 £425 +30.76%
East of England +6 6 £328 -1.13%
South West +24 2 - -
Linux Systems Administrator
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Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 195 (100.00%) Linux
2 131 (67.18%) Red Hat
3 75 (38.46%) Apache
4 70 (35.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 68 (34.87%) UNIX
6 58 (29.74%) Puppet
7 54 (27.69%) VMware
8 52 (26.67%) Perl
8 52 (26.67%) Solaris
9 43 (22.05%) CentOS
10 40 (20.51%) MySQL
10 40 (20.51%) SAN
11 37 (18.97%) Bash shell
11 37 (18.97%) Finance
12 35 (17.95%) Windows
13 34 (17.44%) Shell Script
14 33 (16.92%) Nagios
15 32 (16.41%) DNS
16 30 (15.38%) Tomcat
17 29 (14.87%) PHP
17 29 (14.87%) VMware Infrastructure
18 27 (13.85%) Banking
18 27 (13.85%) Oracle
18 27 (13.85%) Cisco
18 27 (13.85%) Veritas
19 25 (12.82%) Java
20 24 (12.31%) Ubuntu
20 24 (12.31%) ITIL
21 23 (11.79%) TCP/IP
22 22 (11.28%) DHCP

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 18 (9.231%) LAMP
2 11 (5.641%) Web Services
3 7 (3.590%) JDBC
4 6 (3.077%) J2EE
5 5 (2.564%) J2SE
6 4 (2.051%) Node.js
7 2 (1.026%) Memcached
7 2 (1.026%) HTML
7 2 (1.026%) Middleware
7 2 (1.026%) Gearman
8 1 (0.513%) WSGI
8 1 (0.513%) EJB
8 1 (0.513%) CSS
8 1 (0.513%) .NET
8 1 (0.513%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.513%) Django
Application Platforms
1 75 (38.46%) Apache
2 30 (15.38%) Tomcat
3 16 (8.205%) Amazon AWS
4 8 (4.103%) OpenStack
5 6 (3.077%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.077%) IIS
6 5 (2.564%) Liferay
7 3 (1.538%) SAS
7 3 (1.538%) nginx
8 2 (1.026%) Confluence
8 2 (1.026%) Rackspace Cloud
9 1 (0.513%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.513%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.513%) lighttpd
9 1 (0.513%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.513%) Moodle
9 1 (0.513%) WordPress
9 1 (0.513%) Jetty
9 1 (0.513%) Magento
9 1 (0.513%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (2.051%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.026%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.513%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.026%) Summit
1 2 (1.026%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 40 (20.51%) SAN
2 32 (16.41%) DNS
3 23 (11.79%) TCP/IP
4 22 (11.28%) DHCP
5 20 (10.26%) NAS
6 19 (9.744%) Firewall
7 16 (8.205%) SSL
8 12 (6.154%) LDAP
9 8 (4.103%) HTTP
10 7 (3.590%) SNMP
10 7 (3.590%) SMTP
11 6 (3.077%) VPN
12 5 (2.564%) Internet
12 5 (2.564%) LAN
12 5 (2.564%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.538%) IPsec
13 3 (1.538%) TELNET
13 3 (1.538%) VoIP
13 3 (1.538%) WAN
13 3 (1.538%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.51%) MySQL
2 9 (4.615%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.103%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.051%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.538%) Informix
6 2 (1.026%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.026%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.026%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.026%) Redis
7 1 (0.513%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.513%) Big Data
7 1 (0.513%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.513%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 14 (7.179%) Git (software)
2 10 (5.128%) Hudson
3 9 (4.615%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.590%) Subversion
5 3 (1.538%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.538%) JIRA
5 3 (1.538%) Maven
6 1 (0.513%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.513%) Redmine
6 1 (0.513%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.513%) Phing
6 1 (0.513%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.513%) Capistrano
General
1 37 (18.97%) Finance
2 27 (13.85%) Banking
3 14 (7.179%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.077%) Publishing
5 5 (2.564%) Retail
6 3 (1.538%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.026%) Back Office
7 2 (1.026%) Games
8 1 (0.513%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.513%) German Language
8 1 (0.513%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.28%) Open Source
2 15 (7.692%) Clustering
3 6 (3.077%) IaaS
4 5 (2.564%) Firmware
4 5 (2.564%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.051%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.538%) Equities
6 3 (1.538%) Cryptography
7 2 (1.026%) Replication
7 2 (1.026%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.026%) Online Games
7 2 (1.026%) Smartcard
7 2 (1.026%) EFT
7 2 (1.026%) EFTPOS
7 2 (1.026%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.026%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.513%) iDTV
8 1 (0.513%) SaaS
8 1 (0.513%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 195 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (35.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 68 (34.87%) UNIX
4 52 (26.67%) Solaris
5 43 (22.05%) CentOS
6 35 (17.95%) Windows
7 24 (12.31%) Ubuntu
8 18 (9.231%) SUSE
9 17 (8.718%) AIX
10 16 (8.205%) Debian
11 12 (6.154%) HPUX
12 6 (3.077%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (1.538%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (1.538%) Fedora
13 3 (1.538%) Gentoo
14 2 (1.026%) VMS
15 1 (0.513%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.513%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (12.31%) ITIL
2 13 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 12 (6.154%) Change Management
4 11 (5.641%) E-Commerce
4 11 (5.641%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (4.615%) Migration
5 9 (4.615%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (3.077%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (2.564%) Capacity Management
7 5 (2.564%) Project Management
8 4 (2.051%) ERP
9 3 (1.538%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (1.538%) Data Security
9 3 (1.538%) E-business
9 3 (1.538%) Service Management
9 3 (1.538%) Memory Management
9 3 (1.538%) Load Balancing
9 3 (1.538%) Content Management
10 2 (1.026%) Automated Testing
10 2 (1.026%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.67%) Perl
2 37 (18.97%) Bash shell
3 34 (17.44%) Shell Script
4 29 (14.87%) PHP
5 25 (12.82%) Java
6 19 (9.744%) Python
7 14 (7.179%) SQL
8 12 (6.154%) Ruby
9 6 (3.077%) AWK
9 6 (3.077%) sed
10 3 (1.538%) VBScript
10 3 (1.538%) C
11 2 (1.026%) Korn
11 2 (1.026%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.026%) Bourne shell
11 2 (1.026%) VB
12 1 (0.513%) C#
12 1 (0.513%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (9.744%) RHCE
2 9 (4.615%) Degree
3 7 (3.590%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.051%) CCNA
5 3 (1.538%) CISSP
5 3 (1.538%) RHCT
5 3 (1.538%) SCSA
6 2 (1.026%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.026%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.026%) MCSE
6 2 (1.026%) CCNP
6 2 (1.026%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.026%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.513%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.564%) SLA
2 2 (1.026%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.026%) COBIT
3 1 (0.513%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (0.513%) QA
3 1 (0.513%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (14.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (8.718%) NFS
3 16 (8.205%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 13 (6.667%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 8 (4.103%) Varnish
5 8 (4.103%) XenServer
5 8 (4.103%) VMware ESX
6 6 (3.077%) Squid
6 6 (3.077%) vSphere
6 6 (3.077%) Active Directory
7 5 (2.564%) Postfix
7 5 (2.564%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (2.051%) Samba
8 4 (2.051%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.538%) Xen
9 3 (1.538%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.538%) Nmap
10 1 (0.513%) qmail
10 1 (0.513%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.513%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 58 (29.74%) Puppet
2 33 (16.92%) Nagios
3 8 (4.103%) NetBackup
4 5 (2.564%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (2.564%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 5 (2.564%) Splunk
5 3 (1.538%) CFEngine
5 3 (1.538%) Cobbler
5 3 (1.538%) Ganglia
6 2 (1.026%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.026%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.026%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.026%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.026%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (1.026%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.513%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.513%) Control-M
7 1 (0.513%) Zenoss
7 1 (0.513%) YUM
7 1 (0.513%) SCCM
Vendors
1 131 (67.18%) Red Hat
2 54 (27.69%) VMware
3 27 (13.85%) Oracle
3 27 (13.85%) Cisco
3 27 (13.85%) Veritas
4 22 (11.28%) EMC
5 21 (10.77%) HP
6 18 (9.231%) JBoss
7 16 (8.205%) Citrix
8 13 (6.667%) Microsoft
9 11 (5.641%) NetApp
10 9 (4.615%) SAP
11 8 (4.103%) Sun
12 6 (3.077%) IBM
13 4 (2.051%) Murex
13 4 (2.051%) Akamai
14 3 (1.538%) F5
14 3 (1.538%) Juniper
14 3 (1.538%) Mercator
15 2 (1.026%) Sybase
Weybridge, Surrey
450M+ IT Solutions Company requires a suitably experience Linux Systems Administrator to based at their established client site in Weybridge, Surrey. You will have strong RedHat Enterprise Linux...
Kelway Ltd
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day £350 - £400 Day Rate
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Linux, Unix, System Administrator, TCP/IP, Cluster, Veritas, DNS, Redhat, Operating systems, ITIL, Contract, Hemel Hempstead) Roc Search is currently recruiting for a Linux Systems Administrator on a...
Roc Search
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Linux (CentOS), MySQL, Apache, Exim, PHP, clustering (SAN, NAS), Senior Systems Administrator, Canary Wharf, Contract Role, Digital Agency... *Strong experience with MySQL, Apache, Exim and PHP... *Languages: Bash,...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £400 - £420 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
You will need an excellent knowledge of Linux systems such as Redhat, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora etc as well as experience working in Microsoft environments on Windows 7...
Senitor Associates
Rate: £300 - £360 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The role will involve moving the platform supporting the end client's key trading websites and will also entail building completely new e-commerce infrastructure and will require...
Roc Search
Posted: 18 May 2013
West London
Computer Futures are seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for a client based in West London. This is a 6 month contract with a view to go permanent thereafter.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
Knowledge of AIX, HpUX. Ability to deploy and configure Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server... Required skills; Linux, RHEL, Solaris, Shell Scripting, AIX, HpUX, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas...
iKas International
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013