The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 49 73 78
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 35 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.247% 0.566% 0.214%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.415% 0.590% 0.224%
Number of salaries quoted 35 5 0
Average salary £48,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.77% -
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+11.25% +14.28%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1025 847 894
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 95.08% 95.81% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 920 735 842
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Engineer
East of England

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Bedfordshire Linux Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Luton +17 17 £44,500 -1.11%
Bedford - 10 £49,250 -
Linux Engineer
East of England

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Linux Engineer 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 IT job ads sampled with Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 63 (100.00%) MySQL
1 63 (100.00%) Linux
1 63 (100.00%) Apache
2 55 (87.30%) VMware
3 51 (80.95%) vSphere
4 50 (79.37%) VMware ESX
4 50 (79.37%) TCP/IP
5 46 (73.02%) SaaS
6 44 (69.84%) Cisco
7 41 (65.08%) Windows
7 41 (65.08%) iSCSI
8 40 (63.49%) ITIL
8 40 (63.49%) IIS
9 34 (53.97%) Service Management
10 33 (52.38%) Problem Management
11 32 (50.79%) Change Management
12 31 (49.21%) SAN
13 24 (38.10%) Oracle
13 24 (38.10%) SQL
14 23 (36.51%) Microsoft
15 18 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
16 16 (25.40%) Supplier Management
17 13 (20.63%) Red Hat
17 13 (20.63%) Degree
17 13 (20.63%) Computer Science
17 13 (20.63%) Root Cause Analysis
18 10 (15.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 7 (11.11%) Debian
20 2 (3.175%) Incident Management
21 1 (1.587%) Change Control

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Linux Engineer 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 IT job ads sampled with Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.587%) COM
Application Platforms
1 63 (100.00%) Apache
2 40 (63.49%) IIS
3 1 (1.587%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 50 (79.37%) TCP/IP
2 41 (65.08%) iSCSI
3 31 (49.21%) SAN
4 18 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (100.00%) MySQL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (73.02%) SaaS
2 13 (20.63%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.587%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 63 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (65.08%) Windows
3 10 (15.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (11.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (63.49%) ITIL
2 34 (53.97%) Service Management
3 33 (52.38%) Problem Management
4 32 (50.79%) Change Management
5 16 (25.40%) Supplier Management
6 13 (20.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (3.175%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.587%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.587%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (80.95%) vSphere
2 50 (79.37%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 55 (87.30%) VMware
2 44 (69.84%) Cisco
3 24 (38.10%) Oracle
4 23 (36.51%) Microsoft
5 13 (20.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.587%) Salesforce.com