Linux Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 447 455 454
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 87 131 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.185% 0.221% 0.219%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.200% 0.239% 0.236%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 88 79
Average daily rate £375 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £210 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.76% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 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 - £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +54.54%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Linux Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Linux Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

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 within the UK.

Linux Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 25 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 UK 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
England +15 86 £375 +15.38%
London +2 58 £375 +7.91%
City of London -7 15 £400 +14.28%
North East - 10 £264 -
South East +13 9 £425 +30.76%
Tyne and Wear - 8 £281 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 8 £281 -
Surrey +24 7 £425 -
East of England +11 7 £328 -1.13%
Hertfordshire - 5 £325 -
Camberley - 5 £425 -
Hemel Hempstead - 4 - -
Gloucester +32 2 - -
Gloucestershire +30 2 - -
South West +27 2 - -
Cambridgeshire +6 2 £330 +1.53%
Cambridge +5 2 £330 +1.53%
Docklands, London - 2 £413 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Wales +10 1 - -
South Wales +3 1 - -
Staines +1 1 - -
Weybridge - 1 £350 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Harrow - 1 £363 -

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 201 (100.00%) Linux
2 132 (65.67%) Red Hat
3 76 (37.81%) Apache
4 72 (35.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 70 (34.83%) UNIX
6 58 (28.86%) Puppet
7 54 (26.87%) VMware
8 53 (26.37%) Solaris
9 51 (25.37%) Perl
10 43 (21.39%) CentOS
11 42 (20.90%) MySQL
12 41 (20.40%) SAN
13 37 (18.41%) Bash shell
14 36 (17.91%) Finance
15 35 (17.41%) Shell Script
15 35 (17.41%) Windows
16 33 (16.42%) DNS
16 33 (16.42%) Nagios
17 30 (14.93%) Tomcat
17 30 (14.93%) PHP
18 29 (14.43%) Veritas
18 29 (14.43%) Banking
18 29 (14.43%) VMware Infrastructure
19 28 (13.93%) Oracle
20 27 (13.43%) Cisco
21 26 (12.94%) Java
22 25 (12.44%) ITIL
22 25 (12.44%) Ubuntu
23 24 (11.94%) TCP/IP
24 23 (11.44%) DHCP

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 19 (9.453%) LAMP
2 11 (5.473%) Web Services
3 7 (3.483%) JDBC
4 6 (2.985%) J2EE
5 5 (2.488%) J2SE
6 4 (1.990%) Node.js
7 2 (0.995%) Memcached
7 2 (0.995%) Middleware
7 2 (0.995%) HTML
7 2 (0.995%) Gearman
8 1 (0.498%) WSGI
8 1 (0.498%) EJB
8 1 (0.498%) CSS
8 1 (0.498%) .NET
8 1 (0.498%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.498%) Django
Application Platforms
1 76 (37.81%) Apache
2 30 (14.93%) Tomcat
3 17 (8.458%) Amazon AWS
4 8 (3.980%) OpenStack
5 6 (2.985%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (2.985%) IIS
6 5 (2.488%) Liferay
7 3 (1.493%) SAS
7 3 (1.493%) nginx
8 2 (0.995%) Confluence
8 2 (0.995%) Rackspace Cloud
9 1 (0.498%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.498%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.498%) Magento
9 1 (0.498%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.498%) Moodle
9 1 (0.498%) lighttpd
9 1 (0.498%) Jetty
9 1 (0.498%) Mule
9 1 (0.498%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.990%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.995%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.498%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.995%) Summit
1 2 (0.995%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.40%) SAN
2 33 (16.42%) DNS
3 24 (11.94%) TCP/IP
4 23 (11.44%) DHCP
5 22 (10.95%) NAS
6 20 (9.950%) Firewall
7 16 (7.960%) SSL
8 12 (5.970%) LDAP
9 8 (3.980%) HTTP
10 7 (3.483%) SNMP
10 7 (3.483%) SMTP
11 6 (2.985%) VPN
12 5 (2.488%) LAN
12 5 (2.488%) Internet
12 5 (2.488%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.493%) tcpdump
13 3 (1.493%) VoIP
13 3 (1.493%) WAN
13 3 (1.493%) FTP
13 3 (1.493%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.90%) MySQL
2 9 (4.478%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.980%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.990%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.493%) Informix
6 2 (0.995%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (0.995%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (0.995%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.995%) Redis
7 1 (0.498%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.498%) Big Data
7 1 (0.498%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.498%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 14 (6.965%) Git (software)
2 10 (4.975%) Hudson
3 9 (4.478%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.483%) Subversion
5 3 (1.493%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.493%) JIRA
5 3 (1.493%) Maven
6 1 (0.498%) Capistrano
6 1 (0.498%) Redmine
6 1 (0.498%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.498%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.498%) Phing
6 1 (0.498%) PHPUnit
General
1 36 (17.91%) Finance
2 29 (14.43%) Banking
3 16 (7.960%) Investment Banking
4 6 (2.985%) Retail
4 6 (2.985%) Publishing
5 4 (1.990%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.995%) Games
6 2 (0.995%) Back Office
7 1 (0.498%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.498%) German Language
7 1 (0.498%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.95%) Open Source
2 16 (7.960%) Clustering
3 6 (2.985%) Firmware
3 6 (2.985%) IaaS
4 5 (2.488%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.990%) Equities
5 4 (1.990%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.493%) Replication
6 3 (1.493%) Cryptography
7 2 (0.995%) Online Games
7 2 (0.995%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.995%) Smartcard
7 2 (0.995%) EFT
7 2 (0.995%) EFTPOS
7 2 (0.995%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.995%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.498%) iDTV
8 1 (0.498%) SaaS
8 1 (0.498%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 201 (100.00%) Linux
2 72 (35.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 70 (34.83%) UNIX
4 53 (26.37%) Solaris
5 43 (21.39%) CentOS
6 35 (17.41%) Windows
7 25 (12.44%) Ubuntu
8 17 (8.458%) AIX
8 17 (8.458%) SUSE
8 17 (8.458%) Debian
9 13 (6.468%) HPUX
10 6 (2.985%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (1.493%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (1.493%) Fedora
11 3 (1.493%) Gentoo
12 2 (0.995%) VMS
13 1 (0.498%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.498%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (12.44%) ITIL
2 13 (6.468%) Configuration Management
3 12 (5.970%) Change Management
3 12 (5.970%) E-Commerce
4 11 (5.473%) Migration
4 11 (5.473%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (4.478%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (2.985%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (2.488%) Capacity Management
7 5 (2.488%) Project Management
8 4 (1.990%) ERP
9 3 (1.493%) Memory Management
9 3 (1.493%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (1.493%) Data Security
9 3 (1.493%) E-business
9 3 (1.493%) Service Management
9 3 (1.493%) Load Balancing
9 3 (1.493%) Content Management
10 2 (0.995%) IT Governance
10 2 (0.995%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.37%) Perl
2 37 (18.41%) Bash shell
3 35 (17.41%) Shell Script
4 30 (14.93%) PHP
5 26 (12.94%) Java
6 19 (9.453%) Python
7 15 (7.463%) SQL
8 12 (5.970%) Ruby
9 5 (2.488%) sed
9 5 (2.488%) AWK
10 3 (1.493%) VBScript
10 3 (1.493%) C
11 2 (0.995%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.995%) VB
12 1 (0.498%) C#
12 1 (0.498%) C++
12 1 (0.498%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.498%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (9.453%) RHCE
2 9 (4.478%) Degree
3 7 (3.483%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.990%) CCNA
5 3 (1.493%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.493%) CISSP
5 3 (1.493%) RHCT
5 3 (1.493%) SCSA
6 2 (0.995%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.995%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.995%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.995%) CCNP
6 2 (0.995%) MCSE
7 1 (0.498%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.488%) SLA
2 2 (0.995%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.995%) COBIT
2 2 (0.995%) QA
3 1 (0.498%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (0.498%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (14.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (8.955%) NFS
3 17 (8.458%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 14 (6.965%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 8 (3.980%) XenServer
5 8 (3.980%) VMware ESX
5 8 (3.980%) Varnish
6 6 (2.985%) Squid
6 6 (2.985%) vSphere
6 6 (2.985%) Active Directory
7 5 (2.488%) Postfix
7 5 (2.488%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.990%) Samba
8 4 (1.990%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.493%) Xen
9 3 (1.493%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.493%) Nmap
10 1 (0.498%) qmail
10 1 (0.498%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.498%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 58 (28.86%) Puppet
2 33 (16.42%) Nagios
3 8 (3.980%) NetBackup
4 5 (2.488%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (2.488%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 5 (2.488%) Splunk
5 3 (1.493%) Cobbler
5 3 (1.493%) CFEngine
5 3 (1.493%) Ganglia
6 2 (0.995%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.995%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.995%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.995%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (0.995%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (0.995%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.498%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.498%) Control-M
7 1 (0.498%) Zenoss
7 1 (0.498%) YUM
7 1 (0.498%) SCCM
Vendors
1 132 (65.67%) Red Hat
2 54 (26.87%) VMware
3 29 (14.43%) Veritas
4 28 (13.93%) Oracle
5 27 (13.43%) Cisco
6 22 (10.95%) EMC
7 20 (9.950%) HP
8 19 (9.453%) JBoss
9 16 (7.960%) Citrix
10 13 (6.468%) Microsoft
11 12 (5.970%) NetApp
12 9 (4.478%) SAP
13 7 (3.483%) Sun
14 6 (2.985%) IBM
15 4 (1.990%) Murex
15 4 (1.990%) Akamai
16 3 (1.493%) F5
16 3 (1.493%) Juniper
16 3 (1.493%) Mercator
17 2 (0.995%) Calypso
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