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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 123 103 130
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 23 48 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.901% 1.664% 0.755%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.947% 1.732% 0.791%
Number of salaries quoted 21 46 23
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £32,500 £24,000
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
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2429 2772 2906
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 95.18% 96.08% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2171 2342 2583
Average salary £38,500 £39,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.28% +11.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
East of England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

Cambridgeshire Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge -6 22 £37,500 -6.25%
Peterborough - 1 £45,000 -
Linux Administrator
East of England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 58 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (68.97%) Red Hat
3 37 (63.79%) Apache
4 26 (44.83%) UNIX
5 23 (39.66%) Perl
5 23 (39.66%) MySQL
6 22 (37.93%) Windows
6 22 (37.93%) Python
6 22 (37.93%) DNS
7 19 (32.76%) Ubuntu
7 19 (32.76%) CentOS
8 18 (31.03%) Bash shell
8 18 (31.03%) Debian
9 15 (25.86%) TCP/IP
9 15 (25.86%) Firewall
10 14 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (22.41%) DHCP
12 12 (20.69%) SAN
13 11 (18.97%) Shell Script
13 11 (18.97%) Oracle
13 11 (18.97%) Open Source
13 11 (18.97%) VMware
13 11 (18.97%) VLAN
14 10 (17.24%) Degree
14 10 (17.24%) VMware ESX
14 10 (17.24%) vSphere
14 10 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
14 10 (17.24%) Cisco
14 10 (17.24%) Nagios
14 10 (17.24%) NetApp

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 Development
1 8 (13.79%) Middleware
2 6 (10.34%) WebSphere
3 4 (6.897%) LAMP
4 1 (1.724%) Lucene
4 1 (1.724%) JRules
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.724%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 37 (63.79%) Apache
2 6 (10.34%) WebLogic
2 6 (10.34%) IIS
2 6 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.448%) nginx
4 1 (1.724%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.724%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.724%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (3.448%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.724%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 22 (37.93%) DNS
2 15 (25.86%) TCP/IP
2 15 (25.86%) Firewall
3 13 (22.41%) DHCP
4 12 (20.69%) SAN
5 11 (18.97%) VLAN
6 8 (13.79%) Ethernet
7 6 (10.34%) SSL
7 6 (10.34%) Internet
8 5 (8.621%) SSH
9 4 (6.897%) LAN
10 3 (5.172%) Network Security
11 2 (3.448%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (3.448%) VoIP
11 2 (3.448%) iSCSI
11 2 (3.448%) NAS
12 1 (1.724%) WAN
12 1 (1.724%) HTTP
12 1 (1.724%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (39.66%) MySQL
2 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.897%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.172%) Text Mining
4 3 (5.172%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.172%) Redis
4 3 (5.172%) Big Data
5 1 (1.724%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.724%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.724%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.724%) Maven
1 1 (1.724%) Subversion
1 1 (1.724%) GitHub
1 1 (1.724%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (3.448%) Finance
2 1 (1.724%) Law
2 1 (1.724%) Advertising
2 1 (1.724%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Open Source
2 6 (10.34%) Replication
3 3 (5.172%) Wiki
3 3 (5.172%) SaaS
4 1 (1.724%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 58 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (44.83%) UNIX
3 22 (37.93%) Windows
4 19 (32.76%) Ubuntu
4 19 (32.76%) CentOS
5 18 (31.03%) Debian
6 14 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (6.897%) HPUX
8 2 (3.448%) Mac OS X
8 2 (3.448%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (13.79%) Network Design
2 7 (12.07%) E-Commerce
3 6 (10.34%) ITIL
3 6 (10.34%) Load Balancing
4 4 (6.897%) E-business
4 4 (6.897%) ERP
5 3 (5.172%) Data Protection
5 3 (5.172%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.448%) Incident Management
6 2 (3.448%) Data Analysis
7 1 (1.724%) BPMN
7 1 (1.724%) Configuration Management
7 1 (1.724%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) Perl
2 22 (37.93%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) Bash shell
4 11 (18.97%) Shell Script
5 9 (15.52%) PHP
6 7 (12.07%) SQL
7 1 (1.724%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Degree
2 7 (12.07%) RHCE
3 4 (6.897%) Postgraduate
4 2 (3.448%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.724%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.897%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) VMware ESX
1 10 (17.24%) vSphere
1 10 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.34%) Postfix
2 6 (10.34%) Sendmail
3 4 (6.897%) NFS
3 4 (6.897%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (5.172%) Samba
5 2 (3.448%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.724%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Nagios
2 6 (10.34%) OSSEC
3 4 (6.897%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (6.897%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (6.897%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.724%) Puppet
4 1 (1.724%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (1.724%) Control-M
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (1.724%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 40 (68.97%) Red Hat
2 11 (18.97%) Oracle
2 11 (18.97%) VMware
3 10 (17.24%) Cisco
3 10 (17.24%) NetApp
4 7 (12.07%) HP
5 6 (10.34%) IBM
5 6 (10.34%) TippingPoint
5 6 (10.34%) SolarWinds
6 5 (8.621%) EMC
7 4 (6.897%) Citrix
7 4 (6.897%) SAP
8 3 (5.172%) Microsoft
8 3 (5.172%) Juniper
9 1 (1.724%) Perforce
9 1 (1.724%) Isilon
9 1 (1.724%) JBoss
9 1 (1.724%) BMC
9 1 (1.724%) Informatica
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
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
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
Leading Engineering Company is actively recruiting for an experience Linux Systems Administrator to provide Linux/Unix administration across Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu in a HPC (high performance computing/clustering...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 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
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
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
RDBMS: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Postgress - any of these... Infrastructure Engineer Linux, CentOS, Redhat, WIN, Cloud, Virtual, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, Ruby, Python, Perl, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, SQL, NoSQL,...
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Essential skills required for the position of Linux /Windows Desktop System Administrator /Sys Admin / Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer - Relevant degree or computing experience 5 years + in a service...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Must have excellent Linux Desktop administration skills... Client TCP/IP knowledge. Microsoft Office (especially Outlook). Desirable skills for the position of Linux Support Engineer / Windows Support Engineer / (1...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + bonus + shares + benefits + reloca
Posted: 17 May 2013