Linux Administrator Contracts
 
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 across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

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 421 408 427
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 109 170 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.235% 0.292% 0.266%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.255% 0.315% 0.287%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 109 95
Average daily rate £340 £325 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -12.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £449 £425 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Linux Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Top 30 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 UK 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
England -14 105 £340 +4.61%
London -28 61 £375 +15.38%
City of London -10 15 £400 +14.28%
East of England +14 13 £330 -4.00%
South West +29 11 £310 -24.84%
North East - 10 £264 -
Cambridgeshire +9 9 £330 -2.22%
Cambridge +7 9 £330 -0.37%
Newcastle upon Tyne - 8 £281 -
Tyne and Wear - 8 £281 -
South East +11 6 £400 +23.07%
Bristol - 5 £310 -
Gloucester +30 4 £330 -26.66%
Gloucestershire +29 4 £330 -26.66%
Hertfordshire - 4 £325 -
Hemel Hempstead - 3 - -
Berkshire +13 2 £250 -33.33%
Reading +12 2 £250 -23.07%
Devon +2 2 £350 -
West Yorkshire +2 2 £275 -16.66%
Yorkshire -4 2 £275 -9.09%
Leeds -7 2 £275 -16.66%
Surbiton - 2 - -
Exeter - 2 £350 -
Docklands, London - 2 £413 -
Surrey +23 1 - -
North West +10 1 £250 -29.57%
Wales +10 1 - -
Edinburgh +9 1 - -
West Midlands +3 1 - -

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 248 (100.00%) Linux
2 162 (65.32%) Red Hat
3 99 (39.92%) Apache
4 83 (33.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 82 (33.06%) UNIX
6 72 (29.03%) Puppet
7 66 (26.61%) VMware
8 63 (25.40%) Perl
9 56 (22.58%) MySQL
10 52 (20.97%) Solaris
11 50 (20.16%) CentOS
11 50 (20.16%) Bash shell
12 46 (18.55%) DNS
13 43 (17.34%) Nagios
14 42 (16.94%) SAN
14 42 (16.94%) Tomcat
15 40 (16.13%) Shell Script
15 40 (16.13%) Finance
16 39 (15.73%) Oracle
16 39 (15.73%) PHP
17 38 (15.32%) VMware Infrastructure
18 37 (14.92%) Java
19 35 (14.11%) Windows
20 34 (13.71%) TCP/IP
20 34 (13.71%) Cisco
21 32 (12.90%) HP
21 32 (12.90%) Banking
22 31 (12.50%) Ubuntu
22 31 (12.50%) ITIL
23 29 (11.69%) DHCP

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 19 (7.661%) LAMP
2 14 (5.645%) Web Services
3 11 (4.435%) JDBC
4 6 (2.419%) Node.js
4 6 (2.419%) J2EE
5 5 (2.016%) J2SE
6 4 (1.613%) Memcached
7 2 (0.806%) Gearman
7 2 (0.806%) Django
7 2 (0.806%) Middleware
7 2 (0.806%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.806%) HTML
8 1 (0.403%) .NET
8 1 (0.403%) EJB
8 1 (0.403%) CSS
8 1 (0.403%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.403%) WSGI
Application Platforms
1 99 (39.92%) Apache
2 42 (16.94%) Tomcat
3 23 (9.274%) Amazon AWS
4 11 (4.435%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (3.629%) OpenStack
5 9 (3.629%) Liferay
6 7 (2.823%) IIS
7 5 (2.016%) nginx
8 3 (1.210%) SAS
8 3 (1.210%) Rackspace Cloud
9 2 (0.806%) Route 53
9 2 (0.806%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.806%) Confluence
10 1 (0.403%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.403%) Commerce Server
10 1 (0.403%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.403%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.403%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.403%) Drupal
10 1 (0.403%) Jetty
Applications
1 4 (1.613%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.806%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.806%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.806%) Summit
1 2 (0.806%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.55%) DNS
2 42 (16.94%) SAN
3 34 (13.71%) TCP/IP
4 29 (11.69%) DHCP
5 25 (10.08%) SSL
6 23 (9.274%) NAS
7 18 (7.258%) Firewall
8 17 (6.855%) LDAP
9 13 (5.242%) Internet
10 12 (4.839%) HTTP
10 12 (4.839%) SNMP
11 11 (4.435%) SMTP
11 11 (4.435%) iSCSI
12 7 (2.823%) tcpdump
12 7 (2.823%) TELNET
13 6 (2.419%) LAN
13 6 (2.419%) VPN
14 4 (1.613%) WAN
14 4 (1.613%) SSH
15 3 (1.210%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (22.58%) MySQL
2 14 (5.645%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.629%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.016%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.613%) Redis
6 3 (1.210%) Informix
6 3 (1.210%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.806%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (0.806%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (0.806%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.806%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.403%) Big Data
8 1 (0.403%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.403%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.403%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 21 (8.468%) Git (software)
2 14 (5.645%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.645%) Hudson
3 7 (2.823%) Subversion
4 3 (1.210%) Maven
4 3 (1.210%) JIRA
4 3 (1.210%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.806%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.403%) Redmine
6 1 (0.403%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.403%) Phing
6 1 (0.403%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.403%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.403%) Capistrano
General
1 40 (16.13%) Finance
2 32 (12.90%) Banking
3 12 (4.839%) Investment Banking
4 6 (2.419%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.016%) Retail
5 5 (2.016%) Publishing
6 2 (0.806%) Games
6 2 (0.806%) Back Office
6 2 (0.806%) German Language
7 1 (0.403%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.403%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.274%) Open Source
2 15 (6.048%) Clustering
3 7 (2.823%) Cryptography
3 7 (2.823%) Client/Server
3 7 (2.823%) IaaS
4 4 (1.613%) Firmware
4 4 (1.613%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.613%) Replication
5 3 (1.210%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.806%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.806%) Smartcard
6 2 (0.806%) EFT
6 2 (0.806%) EFTPOS
6 2 (0.806%) Online Games
6 2 (0.806%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.403%) SaaS
7 1 (0.403%) Streaming Media
7 1 (0.403%) Equities
7 1 (0.403%) iDTV
7 1 (0.403%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 248 (100.00%) Linux
2 83 (33.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 82 (33.06%) UNIX
4 52 (20.97%) Solaris
5 50 (20.16%) CentOS
6 35 (14.11%) Windows
7 31 (12.50%) Ubuntu
8 25 (10.08%) SUSE
9 24 (9.677%) Debian
10 14 (5.645%) AIX
10 14 (5.645%) HPUX
11 6 (2.419%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (1.613%) Fedora
13 3 (1.210%) Gentoo
13 3 (1.210%) VMS
13 3 (1.210%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.403%) Tru64
14 1 (0.403%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.403%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (12.50%) ITIL
2 17 (6.855%) Configuration Management
3 16 (6.452%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (5.645%) Change Management
5 13 (5.242%) E-Commerce
6 10 (4.032%) Load Balancing
6 10 (4.032%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (3.629%) Migration
8 8 (3.226%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (2.823%) Capacity Management
9 7 (2.823%) Memory Management
10 6 (2.419%) Project Management
11 5 (2.016%) ERP
12 4 (1.613%) E-business
13 3 (1.210%) Data Security
13 3 (1.210%) Service Management
13 3 (1.210%) Content Management
13 3 (1.210%) Root Cause Analysis
14 2 (0.806%) Agile Project Management
14 2 (0.806%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.40%) Perl
2 50 (20.16%) Bash shell
3 40 (16.13%) Shell Script
4 39 (15.73%) PHP
5 37 (14.92%) Java
6 22 (8.871%) Python
7 21 (8.468%) SQL
8 14 (5.645%) Ruby
9 10 (4.032%) AWK
9 10 (4.032%) sed
10 4 (1.613%) Korn
11 3 (1.210%) VBScript
11 3 (1.210%) C++
11 3 (1.210%) C
12 2 (0.806%) C#
12 2 (0.806%) VB
12 2 (0.806%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.403%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 28 (11.29%) RHCE
2 12 (4.839%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (3.629%) Degree
4 8 (3.226%) CCNA
5 4 (1.613%) CISSP
5 4 (1.613%) RHCT
6 3 (1.210%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.210%) SCSA
6 3 (1.210%) MCSE
6 3 (1.210%) CCNP
6 3 (1.210%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.806%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.806%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.403%) RHCA
8 1 (0.403%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.016%) SLA
2 2 (0.806%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.806%) COBIT
2 2 (0.806%) QA
3 1 (0.403%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.403%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 38 (15.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (8.871%) NFS
3 12 (4.839%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 10 (4.032%) VMware ESX
4 10 (4.032%) Squid
5 9 (3.629%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 9 (3.629%) Postfix
6 8 (3.226%) XenServer
6 8 (3.226%) Samba
6 8 (3.226%) Varnish
7 7 (2.823%) Nmap
7 7 (2.823%) vSphere
8 6 (2.419%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (2.419%) Active Directory
9 5 (2.016%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.613%) Xen
11 3 (1.210%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.806%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.403%) qmail
13 1 (0.403%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 72 (29.03%) Puppet
2 43 (17.34%) Nagios
3 9 (3.629%) NetBackup
4 7 (2.823%) Splunk
5 6 (2.419%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 5 (2.016%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (2.016%) Ganglia
7 3 (1.210%) CFEngine
7 3 (1.210%) Cobbler
7 3 (1.210%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (1.210%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.806%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.806%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 2 (0.806%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.806%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.806%) Zenoss
9 1 (0.403%) YUM
9 1 (0.403%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.403%) Control-M
9 1 (0.403%) SCCM
Vendors
1 162 (65.32%) Red Hat
2 66 (26.61%) VMware
3 39 (15.73%) Oracle
4 34 (13.71%) Cisco
5 32 (12.90%) HP
6 29 (11.69%) JBoss
7 25 (10.08%) EMC
8 22 (8.871%) Veritas
9 17 (6.855%) NetApp
10 16 (6.452%) Citrix
11 14 (5.645%) SAP
12 12 (4.839%) Microsoft
13 11 (4.435%) Sun
14 7 (2.823%) IBM
15 5 (2.016%) Murex
16 4 (1.613%) Akamai
17 3 (1.210%) F5
17 3 (1.210%) Percona
17 3 (1.210%) Rackspace
17 3 (1.210%) Mercator
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