The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Linux Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux System Administrator
Rank 515 578 581
Rank change year-on-year
+63 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Systems Administrator 14 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.030% 0.010% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.011% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 1
Average daily rate £393 £388 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.29% -26.19%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
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 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Linux Systems Administrator within the UK.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Linux Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Top 8 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 Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +54 14 £393 +1.29%
London +40 8 £430 +10.96%
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £300 -
Tyne and Wear - 6 £300 -
North East - 6 £300 -
City of London +16 2 £453 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (89.47%) Red Hat
3 12 (63.16%) Apache
4 8 (42.11%) DNS
4 8 (42.11%) CentOS
5 7 (36.84%) MySQL
5 7 (36.84%) HP
6 6 (31.58%) SAN
6 6 (31.58%) Tomcat
6 6 (31.58%) LDAP
6 6 (31.58%) DHCP
6 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (31.58%) Puppet
6 6 (31.58%) Finance
7 5 (26.32%) SSL
7 5 (26.32%) UNIX
7 5 (26.32%) Java
7 5 (26.32%) Nagios
7 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (26.32%) Firewall
8 4 (21.05%) NetApp
8 4 (21.05%) Citrix
8 4 (21.05%) SQL
8 4 (21.05%) Oracle
8 4 (21.05%) Cisco
8 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
8 4 (21.05%) VPN
8 4 (21.05%) VMware
8 4 (21.05%) Bash shell
9 3 (15.79%) XenServer

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.53%) JDBC
2 1 (5.263%) LAMP
2 1 (5.263%) HTML
2 1 (5.263%) EJB
2 1 (5.263%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 12 (63.16%) Apache
2 6 (31.58%) Tomcat
3 2 (10.53%) Confluence
4 1 (5.263%) Liferay
4 1 (5.263%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.263%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) SAN
2 6 (31.58%) LDAP
2 6 (31.58%) DHCP
3 5 (26.32%) SSL
3 5 (26.32%) Firewall
4 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 2 (10.53%) TELNET
5 2 (10.53%) Internet
5 2 (10.53%) HTTP
5 2 (10.53%) LAN
5 2 (10.53%) WAN
5 2 (10.53%) SMTP
5 2 (10.53%) tcpdump
5 2 (10.53%) NAS
6 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.263%) SSH
6 1 (5.263%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.263%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) MySQL
2 1 (5.263%) Big Data
2 1 (5.263%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.263%) Hudson
2 1 (5.263%) Redmine
2 1 (5.263%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.263%) Maven
2 1 (5.263%) JIRA
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Publishing
3 1 (5.263%) German Language
3 1 (5.263%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.263%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Cryptography
2 2 (10.53%) Open Source
3 1 (5.263%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.263%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) CentOS
3 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (26.32%) UNIX
5 3 (15.79%) Solaris
6 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (5.263%) SUSE
7 1 (5.263%) Debian
7 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
2 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
2 2 (10.53%) Memory Management
3 1 (5.263%) Analytics
3 1 (5.263%) Validation
3 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Bash shell
3 3 (15.79%) Perl
3 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.53%) PHP
4 2 (10.53%) AWK
4 2 (10.53%) sed
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) RHCE
2 1 (5.263%) RHCA
2 1 (5.263%) RHCT
2 1 (5.263%) CCNP
2 1 (5.263%) MCSE
2 1 (5.263%) CISSP
2 1 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) XenServer
2 2 (10.53%) NFS
2 2 (10.53%) Nmap
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.263%) vSphere
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.263%) Postfix
3 1 (5.263%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Puppet
2 5 (26.32%) Nagios
3 1 (5.263%) YUM
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Red Hat
2 7 (36.84%) HP
3 4 (21.05%) NetApp
3 4 (21.05%) Citrix
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco
3 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 3 (15.79%) JBoss
4 3 (15.79%) EMC
5 2 (10.53%) Murex
5 2 (10.53%) Veritas
5 2 (10.53%) Sun
6 1 (5.263%) Akamai
6 1 (5.263%) Zend
6 1 (5.263%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.263%) SAP
6 1 (5.263%) Dell