The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems 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 Systems 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 System Administrator
Rank 73 - 99
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.351% - 0.107%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.375% - 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £425 - £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -7.14%
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 Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Linux Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 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
Camberley - 3 £425 -
Staines - 1 - -
Linux Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Red Hat
3 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 7 (50.00%) Apache
3 7 (50.00%) Puppet
3 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (42.86%) Tomcat
5 5 (35.71%) Java
5 5 (35.71%) JBoss
5 5 (35.71%) UNIX
5 5 (35.71%) SSL
5 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
5 5 (35.71%) Banking
6 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 4 (28.57%) Solaris
6 4 (28.57%) SAN
6 4 (28.57%) SQL
7 3 (21.43%) AIX
7 3 (21.43%) NFS
7 3 (21.43%) CentOS
7 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
7 3 (21.43%) Veritas
7 3 (21.43%) NAS
7 3 (21.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 3 (21.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (21.43%) Open Source
8 2 (14.29%) Equities
8 2 (14.29%) VMware
8 2 (14.29%) Clustering
8 2 (14.29%) Migration

Linux Systems 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 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 1 (7.143%) JDBC
1 1 (7.143%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) Apache
2 6 (42.86%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.143%) Liferay
3 1 (7.143%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (7.143%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) SSL
2 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) NAS
4 1 (7.143%) tcpdump
4 1 (7.143%) DNS
4 1 (7.143%) TELNET
4 1 (7.143%) Firewall
4 1 (7.143%) SSH
4 1 (7.143%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.143%) LDAP
4 1 (7.143%) SMTP
4 1 (7.143%) DHCP
4 1 (7.143%) HTTP
4 1 (7.143%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
1 1 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.143%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
1 1 (7.143%) Hudson
1 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.143%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.143%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Open Source
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Equities
3 1 (7.143%) Cryptography
3 1 (7.143%) SaaS
3 1 (7.143%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (35.71%) UNIX
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 3 (21.43%) CentOS
5 3 (21.43%) AIX
6 2 (14.29%) HPUX
7 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
2 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (7.143%) Memory Management
2 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
2 1 (7.143%) ERP
2 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
2 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (7.143%) PHP
4 1 (7.143%) AWK
4 1 (7.143%) Bourne shell
4 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
4 1 (7.143%) sed
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) NFS
1 3 (21.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (14.29%) Squid
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.143%) Postfix
3 1 (7.143%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (7.143%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (35.71%) JBoss
3 3 (21.43%) Veritas
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) EMC
5 1 (7.143%) NetApp
5 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
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
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