The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support Engineer
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.266% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.278% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £33,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +9.37%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1796 1905 2058
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 95.43% 96.26% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1589 1612 1879
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Support Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Linux Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Linux Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Linux Support Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
4 4 (50.00%) Wiki
4 4 (50.00%) Network Security
4 4 (50.00%) SAN
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) Samba
4 4 (50.00%) Mac OS X
4 4 (50.00%) NFS
4 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (50.00%) Postgraduate
4 4 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) MySQL
4 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (50.00%) Bash shell
4 4 (50.00%) Big Data
5 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
5 3 (37.50%) Text Mining
5 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
5 3 (37.50%) CentOS
5 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (12.50%) PHP
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
6 1 (12.50%) NetApp
6 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification

Linux Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) Text Mining
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Mac OS X
3 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
3 3 (37.50%) CentOS
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) NFS
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Samba
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp