The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 164 185 198
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 52 34 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.006% 0.554% 0.133%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.070% 0.587% 0.141%
Number of salaries quoted 39 33 4
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £36,250
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +6.20%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4862 5796 4977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.10% 94.44% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3861 4940 4138
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 Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 +34 37 £37,500 -11.76%
Slough -11 8 £47,500 -
Maidenhead +16 3 £41,500 -12.63%
Bracknell -19 1 £42,500 -
Linux Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region 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 IT job ads sampled with Linux Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (47.13%) UNIX
3 40 (45.98%) Apache
4 39 (44.83%) Red Hat
5 35 (40.23%) PHP
6 33 (37.93%) MySQL
7 29 (33.33%) Cisco
8 28 (32.18%) SUSE
9 27 (31.03%) Windows
10 26 (29.89%) CentOS
11 22 (25.29%) VMware
11 22 (25.29%) Ubuntu
12 20 (22.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (21.84%) LAN
13 19 (21.84%) WAN
14 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
15 16 (18.39%) Python
15 16 (18.39%) Perl
15 16 (18.39%) Puppet
16 15 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
16 15 (17.24%) SLA
17 14 (16.09%) HP
17 14 (16.09%) Debian
17 14 (16.09%) Firewall
18 13 (14.94%) Ruby
18 13 (14.94%) ITIL
18 13 (14.94%) Bash shell
19 12 (13.79%) Java
19 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
20 11 (12.64%) SQL

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region 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 IT job ads sampled with Linux Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (12.64%) LAMP
2 8 (9.195%) Web Services
3 6 (6.897%) COM
4 3 (3.448%) Memcached
5 2 (2.299%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.299%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.149%) .NET
6 1 (1.149%) ASP
6 1 (1.149%) Servlets
6 1 (1.149%) SOAP
6 1 (1.149%) XML
Application Platforms
1 40 (45.98%) Apache
2 10 (11.49%) Tomcat
3 8 (9.195%) MS Exchange
4 7 (8.046%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (8.046%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (5.747%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (4.598%) IIS
7 3 (3.448%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.448%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.448%) nginx
7 3 (3.448%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.149%) IBM Connections
8 1 (1.149%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (1.149%) WebLogic
8 1 (1.149%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (2.299%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.84%) LAN
1 19 (21.84%) WAN
2 14 (16.09%) Firewall
3 11 (12.64%) SAN
3 11 (12.64%) TCP/IP
4 9 (10.34%) LDAP
5 4 (4.598%) VoIP
5 4 (4.598%) DNS
5 4 (4.598%) Internet
5 4 (4.598%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (3.448%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.448%) OSPF
6 3 (3.448%) BGP
6 3 (3.448%) HTTP
7 2 (2.299%) IPsec
7 2 (2.299%) IPv4
7 2 (2.299%) IPv6
8 1 (1.149%) NAS
8 1 (1.149%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.149%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.93%) MySQL
2 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 8 (9.195%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.448%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.448%) Redis
4 3 (3.448%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.299%) dBASE
6 1 (1.149%) DB2
6 1 (1.149%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.149%) DB2 UDB
Development Applications
1 7 (8.046%) Subversion
2 5 (5.747%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.149%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (5.747%) Marketing
2 4 (4.598%) Finance
3 1 (1.149%) Financial Institution
3 1 (1.149%) Advertising
3 1 (1.149%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Clustering
2 4 (4.598%) Computer Science
2 4 (4.598%) Digital Media
3 3 (3.448%) Social Media
4 2 (2.299%) Open Source
5 1 (1.149%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.149%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.149%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.149%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.149%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 87 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (47.13%) UNIX
3 28 (32.18%) SUSE
4 27 (31.03%) Windows
5 26 (29.89%) CentOS
6 22 (25.29%) Ubuntu
7 20 (22.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (16.09%) Debian
9 8 (9.195%) HPUX
10 5 (5.747%) VMS
10 5 (5.747%) Fedora
11 4 (4.598%) Mac OS X Server
11 4 (4.598%) Mac OS X
11 4 (4.598%) Windows 7
11 4 (4.598%) Mac OS
12 3 (3.448%) OpenBSD
13 1 (1.149%) FreeBSD
13 1 (1.149%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.94%) ITIL
2 9 (10.34%) E-Commerce
2 9 (10.34%) Scrum
3 8 (9.195%) Service Delivery
4 6 (6.897%) Penetration Testing
4 6 (6.897%) OOD
5 5 (5.747%) Configuration Management
5 5 (5.747%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (5.747%) Load Testing
6 4 (4.598%) Project Planning
6 4 (4.598%) Migration
7 3 (3.448%) OO
7 3 (3.448%) Software Engineering
8 1 (1.149%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) PHP
2 16 (18.39%) Python
2 16 (18.39%) Perl
3 13 (14.94%) Ruby
3 13 (14.94%) Bash shell
4 12 (13.79%) Java
5 11 (12.64%) SQL
6 3 (3.448%) Scala
6 3 (3.448%) C++
6 3 (3.448%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.149%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.149%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.195%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (3.448%) HND
3 2 (2.299%) Degree
3 2 (2.299%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (9.195%) VMware ESX
3 8 (9.195%) vSphere
4 4 (4.598%) Samba
4 4 (4.598%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (18.39%) Puppet
2 11 (12.64%) Nagios
3 6 (6.897%) ZABBIX
4 2 (2.299%) Cacti
5 1 (1.149%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.149%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (44.83%) Red Hat
2 29 (33.33%) Cisco
3 22 (25.29%) VMware
4 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
5 14 (16.09%) HP
6 8 (9.195%) JBoss
7 6 (6.897%) Rackspace
8 4 (4.598%) Dell
9 3 (3.448%) F5
9 3 (3.448%) Twitter
9 3 (3.448%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.299%) Google
10 2 (2.299%) Juniper
10 2 (2.299%) Oracle
11 1 (1.149%) BEA
11 1 (1.149%) Lotus
11 1 (1.149%) IBM