The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Linux Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Tyne and Wear 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux Administrator
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Administrator 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 3.315% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.636% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 -
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
165 312 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 91.16% 92.86% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 159 116
Average daily rate £301 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.14% +12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 28 15
Average hourly rate £11.81 £22.50 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.53% +38.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Linux Administrator
North East

Senior Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear Senior Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Tyne and Wear Senior Linux Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Linux Administrator within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 22 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £300 -
Senior Linux Administrator
North East

Senior Linux Administrator
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Administrator in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) CentOS
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) VPN
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 4 (66.67%) Citrix
4 3 (50.00%) Nagios
4 3 (50.00%) LDAP
4 3 (50.00%) XenServer
4 3 (50.00%) HP
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (33.33%) SAN
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco
6 1 (16.67%) OSPF
6 1 (16.67%) BGP
6 1 (16.67%) Internet
6 1 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) Wireless
6 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (16.67%) Validation
6 1 (16.67%) Debian
6 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu

Senior Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) LDAP
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) OSPF
5 1 (16.67%) BGP
5 1 (16.67%) Internet
5 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Debian
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) HP
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco