The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 20 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.567% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.606% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +3.35%
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
330 163 217
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 93.48% 100.00% 92.74%
Number of salaries quoted 178 135 209
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% +3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £46,000 £41,800
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
Cheshire

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) IMAP
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) IMAP
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Sun