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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank - 101 91
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 0 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.068% 0.147%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.071% 0.154%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
Average salary - £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.75%
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year
+11.25% +15.94%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1597 1412 1298
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.78% 96.19% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1338 1263 1129
Average salary £41,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.21% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Engineer
West Midlands

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware