The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 125 108 129
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 18 44 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.691% 1.509% 0.610%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.725% 1.571% 0.639%
Number of salaries quoted 16 42 18
Average salary £38,750 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.82% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £37,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2483 2801 2815
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 95.28% 96.06% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2219 2367 2507
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 £48,900 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
East of England

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 -10 18 £38,750 -3.12%
Linux Systems Administrator
East of England

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 60 (100.00%) Linux
2 43 (71.67%) Red Hat
3 35 (58.33%) Apache
4 27 (45.00%) UNIX
5 25 (41.67%) Perl
5 25 (41.67%) Python
5 25 (41.67%) Debian
5 25 (41.67%) Ubuntu
5 25 (41.67%) CentOS
6 23 (38.33%) MySQL
7 20 (33.33%) DNS
7 20 (33.33%) Bash shell
8 19 (31.67%) Windows
8 19 (31.67%) Firewall
9 17 (28.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (23.33%) DHCP
10 14 (23.33%) TCP/IP
10 14 (23.33%) SAN
11 12 (20.00%) Open Source
12 11 (18.33%) VLAN
12 11 (18.33%) PHP
12 11 (18.33%) VMware
12 11 (18.33%) Shell Script
12 11 (18.33%) Nagios
13 10 (16.67%) VMware ESX
13 10 (16.67%) Oracle
13 10 (16.67%) Cisco
13 10 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
13 10 (16.67%) vSphere
14 9 (15.00%) Ethernet

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (11.67%) Middleware
2 6 (10.00%) LAMP
2 6 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.333%) Lucene
4 1 (1.667%) WebCenter
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.667%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 35 (58.33%) Apache
2 6 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 6 (10.00%) IIS
2 6 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.333%) nginx
4 1 (1.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.667%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.33%) DNS
2 19 (31.67%) Firewall
3 14 (23.33%) DHCP
3 14 (23.33%) TCP/IP
3 14 (23.33%) SAN
4 11 (18.33%) VLAN
5 9 (15.00%) Ethernet
6 7 (11.67%) Internet
7 6 (10.00%) SSL
8 5 (8.333%) SSH
8 5 (8.333%) LAN
9 3 (5.000%) Network Security
10 2 (3.333%) iSCSI
10 2 (3.333%) NAS
10 2 (3.333%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (1.667%) HTTP
11 1 (1.667%) VPN
11 1 (1.667%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (38.33%) MySQL
2 5 (8.333%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.000%) Big Data
3 3 (5.000%) Text Mining
3 3 (5.000%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.333%) Redis
4 2 (3.333%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (3.333%) Finance
1 2 (3.333%) Advertising
2 1 (1.667%) Law
2 1 (1.667%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Open Source
2 6 (10.00%) Replication
3 4 (6.667%) SaaS
4 3 (5.000%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 60 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (45.00%) UNIX
3 25 (41.67%) Debian
3 25 (41.67%) Ubuntu
3 25 (41.67%) CentOS
4 19 (31.67%) Windows
5 17 (28.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.667%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (13.33%) Network Design
2 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (6.667%) ERP
3 4 (6.667%) ITIL
3 4 (6.667%) E-business
4 3 (5.000%) Data Protection
4 3 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (3.333%) Data Analysis
6 1 (1.667%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Perl
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 20 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 11 (18.33%) PHP
3 11 (18.33%) Shell Script
4 6 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
2 7 (11.67%) RHCE
3 3 (5.000%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.667%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 10 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (16.67%) vSphere
2 6 (10.00%) Postfix
2 6 (10.00%) Sendmail
3 4 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (5.000%) Samba
4 3 (5.000%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Nagios
2 6 (10.00%) OSSEC
3 4 (6.667%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (6.667%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (5.000%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.667%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 1 (1.667%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (1.667%) Control-M
Vendors
1 43 (71.67%) Red Hat
2 11 (18.33%) VMware
3 10 (16.67%) Oracle
3 10 (16.67%) Cisco
4 7 (11.67%) NetApp
4 7 (11.67%) HP
5 6 (10.00%) IBM
5 6 (10.00%) TippingPoint
5 6 (10.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (8.333%) EMC
7 4 (6.667%) Citrix
7 4 (6.667%) SAP
8 3 (5.000%) Juniper
9 1 (1.667%) BMC
9 1 (1.667%) Informatica
9 1 (1.667%) 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
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
Experience in both Linux and Windows systems, the focus is on Linux but you will need to understand the Microsoft platforms too... - Scripting experience or decent programming in...
ComputerWorld Personnel Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + 25 days holiday
Posted: 16 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: 16 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