The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire 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 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 advertised for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 184 195 199
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 35 27 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.672% 0.438% 0.211%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.714% 0.464% 0.224%
Number of salaries quoted 31 22 11
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% +26.86%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,250 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £47,500 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year
+11.25% +15.94%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4901 5818 4903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.07% 94.43% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 4958 4077
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +12 21 £23,000 -45.88%
Slough -3 6 £47,500 +11.76%
Maidenhead +14 1 £70,000 +64.70%
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 52 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (67.31%) Red Hat
3 27 (51.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (40.38%) Windows
5 19 (36.54%) VMware
6 16 (30.77%) Ubuntu
6 16 (30.77%) CentOS
7 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 13 (25.00%) Perl
7 13 (25.00%) SUSE
8 12 (23.08%) Debian
8 12 (23.08%) TCP/IP
9 11 (21.15%) HP
10 9 (17.31%) UNIX
11 8 (15.38%) PHP
11 8 (15.38%) MySQL
11 8 (15.38%) Python
11 8 (15.38%) Cisco
12 7 (13.46%) SLA
12 7 (13.46%) NetApp
13 6 (11.54%) SQL
13 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
14 5 (9.615%) Alfresco
14 5 (9.615%) Drupal
14 5 (9.615%) VMware ESX
14 5 (9.615%) Apache
14 5 (9.615%) MS Excel
14 5 (9.615%) Middleware
14 5 (9.615%) Bash shell
14 5 (9.615%) F5

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 5 (9.615%) Middleware
2 3 (5.769%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.769%) XML
3 2 (3.846%) LAMP
4 1 (1.923%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (1.923%) ASP
4 1 (1.923%) Web Services
4 1 (1.923%) Memcached
4 1 (1.923%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.615%) Alfresco
1 5 (9.615%) Drupal
1 5 (9.615%) Apache
2 3 (5.769%) WordPress
2 3 (5.769%) CMS
2 3 (5.769%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.769%) IIS
3 1 (1.923%) Jetty
3 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.923%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.923%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.923%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (1.923%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.923%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.923%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 5 (9.615%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.769%) iSCSI
2 3 (5.769%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (5.769%) Firewall
3 2 (3.846%) SAN
4 1 (1.923%) LDAP
4 1 (1.923%) LAN
4 1 (1.923%) WAN
4 1 (1.923%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) MySQL
2 3 (5.769%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (5.769%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (5.769%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.769%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.769%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (3.846%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.923%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.923%) Redis
4 1 (1.923%) Big Data
General
1 3 (5.769%) Automotive
2 1 (1.923%) Marketing
2 1 (1.923%) French Language
2 1 (1.923%) German Language
2 1 (1.923%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.769%) Device Driver
1 3 (5.769%) Clustering
2 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (3.846%) Social Media
2 2 (3.846%) Firmware
3 1 (1.923%) SWIFT
3 1 (1.923%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (51.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (40.38%) Windows
4 16 (30.77%) Ubuntu
4 16 (30.77%) CentOS
5 13 (25.00%) SUSE
6 12 (23.08%) Debian
7 9 (17.31%) UNIX
8 4 (7.692%) Solaris
9 2 (3.846%) HPUX
9 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.923%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (1.923%) Windows XP
10 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.923%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (7.692%) ITIL
1 4 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (5.769%) Configuration Management
2 3 (5.769%) Project Management
3 2 (3.846%) Change Management
4 1 (1.923%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (1.923%) Migration
4 1 (1.923%) Scrum
4 1 (1.923%) E-Commerce
4 1 (1.923%) OOD
4 1 (1.923%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Perl
2 8 (15.38%) PHP
2 8 (15.38%) Python
3 6 (11.54%) SQL
4 5 (9.615%) Bash shell
5 4 (7.692%) C
5 4 (7.692%) C++
5 4 (7.692%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.769%) Korn
6 3 (5.769%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.846%) Java
7 2 (3.846%) Ruby
7 2 (3.846%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.923%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (5.769%) HND
2 1 (1.923%) MCP
2 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.923%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.615%) VMware ESX
3 3 (5.769%) vSphere
3 3 (5.769%) NFS
4 2 (3.846%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.923%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (9.615%) Plesk
2 3 (5.769%) Puppet
3 1 (1.923%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 35 (67.31%) Red Hat
2 19 (36.54%) VMware
3 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (21.15%) HP
5 8 (15.38%) Cisco
6 7 (13.46%) NetApp
7 5 (9.615%) F5
8 4 (7.692%) Oracle
9 3 (5.769%) CheckPoint
9 3 (5.769%) IBM
9 3 (5.769%) Dell
10 2 (3.846%) Sun
11 1 (1.923%) Brocade
11 1 (1.923%) EMC
11 1 (1.923%) Joyent
11 1 (1.923%) Twitter
11 1 (1.923%) Rackspace
Reading, Berkshire
Want to work for an open source vendor of Linux products?... We need the following experience *Linux systems administration ability *Knowledge of a mainstream flavour, RedHat, Debian, Suse...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Hands on skills with Perl / MySQL / bash... RHCE, RHCSA) or Cisco (e.g... Keywords / SEO: Linux Systems Engineer, Linux Engineer, Linux Systems Administrator, Red Hat, CentOS, Cloud, SaaS,...
Deanslist Limited
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + on-call + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Technical-Mandatory *Working knowledge of internet based messaging *Competent with Linux and Windows technology. *Scripting *Understanding of the fundamentals of IP networking, including DNS and IP addressing Desirable *...
Davanti Solutions
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013