The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 17 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 Surrey 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 76 99 99
Rank change year-on-year
+23 0
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.088% 0.061% 0.107%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.065% 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1068 1529 1761
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.77% 92.89% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 809 867
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £538 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 125 81
Average hourly rate £17.00 £24.00 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.16% +1.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Linux Administrator
South East

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Linux Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Staines - 1 - -
Linux Administrator
South East

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (93.33%) Red Hat
3 12 (80.00%) Apache
4 11 (73.33%) Puppet
5 10 (66.67%) Tomcat
6 9 (60.00%) JBoss
6 9 (60.00%) Java
7 8 (53.33%) SQL
7 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
7 8 (53.33%) SSL
8 7 (46.67%) Finance
9 5 (33.33%) VMware
9 5 (33.33%) Banking
9 5 (33.33%) Squid
9 5 (33.33%) Bash shell
9 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
9 5 (33.33%) Nagios
9 5 (33.33%) Oracle
9 5 (33.33%) SAP
10 4 (26.67%) JDBC
10 4 (26.67%) MySQL
10 4 (26.67%) Perl
10 4 (26.67%) LDAP
10 4 (26.67%) SMTP
10 4 (26.67%) DHCP
10 4 (26.67%) HTTP
10 4 (26.67%) NFS
10 4 (26.67%) SNMP
10 4 (26.67%) TELNET
10 4 (26.67%) EMC

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (26.67%) JDBC
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 12 (80.00%) Apache
2 10 (66.67%) Tomcat
3 4 (26.67%) Liferay
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (13.33%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SSL
1 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) iSCSI
2 4 (26.67%) NAS
2 4 (26.67%) tcpdump
2 4 (26.67%) SAN
2 4 (26.67%) TELNET
2 4 (26.67%) LDAP
2 4 (26.67%) SMTP
2 4 (26.67%) DHCP
2 4 (26.67%) HTTP
2 4 (26.67%) SNMP
3 1 (6.667%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
1 4 (26.67%) Hudson
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.667%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
1 4 (26.67%) Cryptography
1 4 (26.67%) Open Source
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 1 (6.667%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) CentOS
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
1 4 (26.67%) Memory Management
2 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.667%) Investment Management
3 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 5 (33.33%) Bash shell
4 4 (26.67%) sed
4 4 (26.67%) AWK
4 4 (26.67%) Perl
5 2 (13.33%) PHP
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Squid
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) Postfix
2 4 (26.67%) NFS
2 4 (26.67%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Puppet
2 5 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (6.667%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Red Hat
2 9 (60.00%) JBoss
3 5 (33.33%) Oracle
3 5 (33.33%) SAP
3 5 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (26.67%) EMC
4 4 (26.67%) NetApp
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