The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 106 89 113
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 17 36 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.937% 1.791% 0.513%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.984% 1.860% 0.542%
Number of salaries quoted 15 34 11
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £33,650 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1728 1936 2029
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 95.21% 96.32% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1538 1644 1847
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 £49,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
Cambridgeshire

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (72.00%) Red Hat
3 31 (62.00%) Apache
4 22 (44.00%) UNIX
5 21 (42.00%) MySQL
6 19 (38.00%) Perl
6 19 (38.00%) Python
7 17 (34.00%) Windows
7 17 (34.00%) DNS
8 16 (32.00%) Debian
8 16 (32.00%) Ubuntu
8 16 (32.00%) CentOS
9 15 (30.00%) Bash shell
9 15 (30.00%) Firewall
10 14 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (24.00%) SAN
12 11 (22.00%) DHCP
12 11 (22.00%) VMware
13 10 (20.00%) VMware ESX
13 10 (20.00%) Shell Script
13 10 (20.00%) Nagios
13 10 (20.00%) Oracle
13 10 (20.00%) Cisco
13 10 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
13 10 (20.00%) VLAN
13 10 (20.00%) Open Source
13 10 (20.00%) vSphere
14 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
14 9 (18.00%) PHP
15 8 (16.00%) Network Design

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (14.00%) Middleware
2 6 (12.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (8.000%) LAMP
4 1 (2.000%) Lucene
4 1 (2.000%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.000%) WebCenter
4 1 (2.000%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 31 (62.00%) Apache
2 6 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (12.00%) WebLogic
2 6 (12.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.000%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (2.000%) nginx
3 1 (2.000%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 1 (2.000%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) DNS
2 15 (30.00%) Firewall
3 12 (24.00%) SAN
4 11 (22.00%) DHCP
5 10 (20.00%) VLAN
6 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (14.00%) Ethernet
8 6 (12.00%) SSL
9 4 (8.000%) LAN
9 4 (8.000%) Internet
9 4 (8.000%) SSH
10 3 (6.000%) Network Security
11 2 (4.000%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (4.000%) iSCSI
11 2 (4.000%) NAS
12 1 (2.000%) VPN
12 1 (2.000%) HTTP
12 1 (2.000%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.00%) MySQL
2 4 (8.000%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.000%) Text Mining
3 3 (6.000%) Big Data
3 3 (6.000%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.000%) Redis
4 1 (2.000%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (4.000%) Finance
2 1 (2.000%) Law
2 1 (2.000%) Advertising
2 1 (2.000%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Open Source
2 6 (12.00%) Replication
3 3 (6.000%) Wiki
3 3 (6.000%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (44.00%) UNIX
3 17 (34.00%) Windows
4 16 (32.00%) Debian
4 16 (32.00%) Ubuntu
4 16 (32.00%) CentOS
5 14 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.000%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.00%) Network Design
2 6 (12.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (8.000%) ITIL
3 4 (8.000%) ERP
3 4 (8.000%) E-business
4 3 (6.000%) Data Protection
4 3 (6.000%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.000%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.000%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) Perl
1 19 (38.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) Bash shell
3 10 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 9 (18.00%) PHP
5 6 (12.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
1 7 (14.00%) RHCE
2 3 (6.000%) Postgraduate
3 1 (2.000%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.000%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) VMware ESX
1 10 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (20.00%) vSphere
2 6 (12.00%) Postfix
2 6 (12.00%) Sendmail
3 4 (8.000%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (6.000%) Samba
4 3 (6.000%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) Nagios
2 6 (12.00%) OSSEC
3 4 (8.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (8.000%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (6.000%) ZABBIX
5 1 (2.000%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 1 (2.000%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (2.000%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (72.00%) Red Hat
2 11 (22.00%) VMware
3 10 (20.00%) Oracle
3 10 (20.00%) Cisco
4 7 (14.00%) NetApp
4 7 (14.00%) HP
5 6 (12.00%) IBM
5 6 (12.00%) TippingPoint
5 6 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (10.00%) EMC
7 4 (8.000%) Citrix
7 4 (8.000%) SAP
8 3 (6.000%) Juniper
9 1 (2.000%) BMC
9 1 (2.000%) Informatica
9 1 (2.000%) Microsoft
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Are you an experienced Linux Systems Administrator looking for a hands-on role maintaining a high performance global network?... You will also need a good knowledge of Internet...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £25,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Experience with administration of Linux systems on modern HP server hardware and SAN disk systems... The main technical skills needed are Red Hat Linux and Net App Storage.
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have an in depth knowledge of networking protocols and security: firewalls, IDS, naming services, mail servers, webservers, and web-based services, solid programming or scripting is...
SYSTEM RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: £38000 - £40000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare etc
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Great new role for an experienced Linux Systems Administration Engineer to join a flourishing Cambridge enterprise... You'll be ideally degree educated and be comfortable installing, configuring and...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Great Base+Prospects
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
A leading software company based in Cambridge require a Systems Administrator with Linux experience and solid networking knowledge... Experience required The ideal candidate will have a broad experience...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent salary and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
To be considered you'll be degree educated and be happy working with Linux systems and probably an active contributor to the open source movement. Database skills with...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Fantastic + prospects
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Basic scripting using bash/shell/perl... Desired: Experience of CheckPoint Firewalls... RedHat RHCT/RHCE certification. Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification... Ability to produce simple web tools using Perl, Python,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 23 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
This is a hands on role where you will be taking responsibility at the early stages of a company working on some complex real world problems A well...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Good Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013