Linux Administrator Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 314 309 351
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 63 106 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.291% 0.393% 0.293%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.316% 0.426% 0.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 68 54
Average daily rate £375 £325 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -17.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £207 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £338 £320
% change year-on-year
-8.14% +5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +86.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +63.63%
Search 36 Linux Administrator jobs in London
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London -6 15 £375 +7.91%
Docklands, London - 2 £413 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Harrow - 1 £363 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 139 (100.00%) Linux
2 95 (68.35%) Red Hat
3 51 (36.69%) Apache
4 50 (35.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (32.37%) Puppet
6 44 (31.65%) Perl
7 42 (30.22%) UNIX
8 39 (28.06%) Solaris
8 39 (28.06%) VMware
9 33 (23.74%) Windows
10 32 (23.02%) MySQL
10 32 (23.02%) CentOS
10 32 (23.02%) Bash shell
11 27 (19.42%) Finance
12 25 (17.99%) Nagios
12 25 (17.99%) Tomcat
13 24 (17.27%) Banking
14 22 (15.83%) Oracle
14 22 (15.83%) SAN
14 22 (15.83%) Shell Script
15 21 (15.11%) Java
15 21 (15.11%) DNS
16 20 (14.39%) VMware Infrastructure
17 19 (13.67%) PHP
18 18 (12.95%) RHCE
18 18 (12.95%) Open Source
19 17 (12.23%) Ubuntu
19 17 (12.23%) TCP/IP
20 16 (11.51%) Cisco
20 16 (11.51%) Python

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 13 (9.353%) LAMP
2 9 (6.475%) Web Services
3 7 (5.036%) JDBC
4 6 (4.317%) J2EE
5 5 (3.597%) J2SE
6 4 (2.878%) Node.js
7 2 (1.439%) Django
7 2 (1.439%) HTML
8 1 (0.719%) EJB
8 1 (0.719%) CSS
8 1 (0.719%) .NET
8 1 (0.719%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.719%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.719%) WSGI
8 1 (0.719%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 51 (36.69%) Apache
2 25 (17.99%) Tomcat
3 13 (9.353%) Amazon AWS
4 7 (5.036%) OpenStack
5 5 (3.597%) IIS
5 5 (3.597%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (3.597%) Liferay
6 3 (2.158%) SAS
6 3 (2.158%) Rackspace Cloud
6 3 (2.158%) nginx
7 2 (1.439%) Confluence
8 1 (0.719%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.719%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.719%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.719%) Jetty
8 1 (0.719%) WordPress
8 1 (0.719%) Drupal
8 1 (0.719%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.719%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.719%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (2.878%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.439%) Front Arena
1 2 (1.439%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.83%) SAN
2 21 (15.11%) DNS
3 17 (12.23%) TCP/IP
4 13 (9.353%) SSL
5 11 (7.914%) DHCP
5 11 (7.914%) NAS
6 8 (5.755%) LDAP
7 7 (5.036%) HTTP
7 7 (5.036%) SNMP
7 7 (5.036%) Firewall
8 6 (4.317%) SMTP
9 5 (3.597%) Internet
10 4 (2.878%) iSCSI
11 3 (2.158%) FTP
11 3 (2.158%) LAN
11 3 (2.158%) VoIP
11 3 (2.158%) IPsec
11 3 (2.158%) TELNET
11 3 (2.158%) SSH
11 3 (2.158%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (23.02%) MySQL
2 11 (7.914%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.036%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.878%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.158%) Informix
6 2 (1.439%) Redis
6 2 (1.439%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.439%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.439%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.719%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.719%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (7.194%) Git (software)
1 10 (7.194%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.036%) Hudson
3 6 (4.317%) Subversion
4 3 (2.158%) JIRA
4 3 (2.158%) Maven
4 3 (2.158%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.439%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.719%) Redmine
6 1 (0.719%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.719%) Phing
6 1 (0.719%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.719%) Capistrano
General
1 27 (19.42%) Finance
2 24 (17.27%) Banking
3 10 (7.194%) Investment Banking
4 6 (4.317%) Publishing
5 3 (2.158%) Retail
6 2 (1.439%) German Language
6 2 (1.439%) Back Office
7 1 (0.719%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.95%) Open Source
2 7 (5.036%) Clustering
3 5 (3.597%) Client/Server
3 5 (3.597%) IaaS
4 3 (2.158%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.158%) Firmware
4 3 (2.158%) Cryptography
5 2 (1.439%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.439%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.439%) EFT
5 2 (1.439%) EFTPOS
5 2 (1.439%) Smartcard
5 2 (1.439%) Replication
6 1 (0.719%) iDTV
6 1 (0.719%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.719%) Streaming Media
6 1 (0.719%) Online Games
6 1 (0.719%) Equities
6 1 (0.719%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 139 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (35.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 42 (30.22%) UNIX
4 39 (28.06%) Solaris
5 33 (23.74%) Windows
6 32 (23.02%) CentOS
7 17 (12.23%) Ubuntu
8 14 (10.07%) SUSE
9 8 (5.755%) Debian
10 7 (5.036%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (4.317%) AIX
12 5 (3.597%) HPUX
13 4 (2.878%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (2.158%) Fedora
14 3 (2.158%) Gentoo
15 2 (1.439%) Windows 7
15 2 (1.439%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (10.79%) ITIL
2 12 (8.633%) Change Management
3 9 (6.475%) Configuration Management
4 8 (5.755%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (5.755%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (5.036%) E-Commerce
5 7 (5.036%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (2.878%) Load Balancing
6 4 (2.878%) Project Management
7 3 (2.158%) Capacity Management
7 3 (2.158%) Memory Management
8 2 (1.439%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (1.439%) Agile Project Management
8 2 (1.439%) Automated Testing
8 2 (1.439%) IT Governance
8 2 (1.439%) Mobile Commerce
8 2 (1.439%) Migration
8 2 (1.439%) Data Security
8 2 (1.439%) Service Management
8 2 (1.439%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.65%) Perl
2 32 (23.02%) Bash shell
3 22 (15.83%) Shell Script
4 21 (15.11%) Java
5 19 (13.67%) PHP
6 16 (11.51%) Python
7 9 (6.475%) Ruby
8 8 (5.755%) SQL
9 5 (3.597%) AWK
9 5 (3.597%) sed
10 3 (2.158%) VBScript
11 2 (1.439%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.439%) VB
12 1 (0.719%) C
12 1 (0.719%) C#
12 1 (0.719%) C++
12 1 (0.719%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (12.95%) RHCE
2 7 (5.036%) Degree
3 3 (2.158%) SCSA
4 2 (1.439%) RHCT
4 2 (1.439%) CISSP
4 2 (1.439%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.719%) CCNP
5 1 (0.719%) MCSE
5 1 (0.719%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.158%) SLA
2 2 (1.439%) COBIT
3 1 (0.719%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (0.719%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.719%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.719%) QA
System Software
1 20 (14.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (7.194%) NFS
3 7 (5.036%) VMware ESX
3 7 (5.036%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 7 (5.036%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (5.036%) Varnish
4 6 (4.317%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.597%) XenServer
5 5 (3.597%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.878%) Postfix
6 4 (2.878%) vSphere
6 4 (2.878%) Xen
6 4 (2.878%) Squid
7 3 (2.158%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.158%) Nmap
8 2 (1.439%) Sendmail
8 2 (1.439%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.719%) Samba
9 1 (0.719%) Shibboleth
9 1 (0.719%) qmail
Systems Management
1 45 (32.37%) Puppet
2 25 (17.99%) Nagios
3 6 (4.317%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 6 (4.317%) NetBackup
4 4 (2.878%) Splunk
5 3 (2.158%) Cobbler
6 2 (1.439%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.439%) Ganglia
6 2 (1.439%) Zenoss
6 2 (1.439%) CFEngine
6 2 (1.439%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.439%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.439%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (1.439%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.719%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.719%) Control-M
7 1 (0.719%) SCCM
7 1 (0.719%) YUM
Vendors
1 95 (68.35%) Red Hat
2 39 (28.06%) VMware
3 22 (15.83%) Oracle
4 16 (11.51%) Cisco
5 15 (10.79%) Veritas
6 13 (9.353%) HP
7 12 (8.633%) EMC
8 11 (7.914%) JBoss
9 10 (7.194%) Microsoft
9 10 (7.194%) Sun
10 7 (5.036%) NetApp
10 7 (5.036%) Citrix
11 6 (4.317%) SAP
11 6 (4.317%) IBM
12 5 (3.597%) Murex
13 3 (2.158%) Juniper
13 3 (2.158%) F5
13 3 (2.158%) Akamai
13 3 (2.158%) Rackspace
14 2 (1.439%) Calypso
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