The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 119 104 108
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 3 9 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.171% 0.515% 0.169%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.176% 0.544% 0.181%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 3
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% +1.56%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +5.47%
All Job Titles
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1703 1654 1659
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 97.31% 94.62% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1483 1461 1354
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
South West

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Bristol Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Linux 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat
3 6 (75.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) SUSE
4 4 (50.00%) Apache
4 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
4 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Bash shell
5 3 (37.50%) VLAN
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco
5 3 (37.50%) C#
5 3 (37.50%) Java
5 3 (37.50%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
6 2 (25.00%) UNIX
7 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (12.50%) Finance
7 1 (12.50%) CentOS

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Linux 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) SUSE
3 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (25.00%) UNIX
6 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash shell
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft