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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 244 241 256
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 73 87 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.625% 0.662% 0.522%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.674% 0.711% 0.558%
Number of salaries quoted 65 79 77
Average salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £32,500 £34,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +3.35%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10833 12236 14328
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.81% 93.06% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9362 11128 12878
Average salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.94% -3.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
London

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 141 (100.00%) Linux
2 87 (61.70%) Red Hat
3 59 (41.84%) Bash shell
4 57 (40.43%) VMware
5 55 (39.01%) Apache
6 46 (32.62%) Perl
6 46 (32.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 45 (31.91%) Tomcat
8 43 (30.50%) Windows
9 40 (28.37%) UNIX
10 39 (27.66%) Finance
11 38 (26.95%) VMware Infrastructure
12 37 (26.24%) MySQL
13 34 (24.11%) PHP
13 34 (24.11%) Java
14 33 (23.40%) DNS
15 28 (19.86%) Puppet
16 26 (18.44%) CentOS
16 26 (18.44%) Ruby
16 26 (18.44%) Python
17 25 (17.73%) SQL
18 24 (17.02%) RHCE
18 24 (17.02%) SAN
18 24 (17.02%) Subversion
19 23 (16.31%) TCP/IP
20 22 (15.60%) Solaris
20 22 (15.60%) Shell Script
21 21 (14.89%) Ubuntu
22 20 (14.18%) Debian
23 19 (13.48%) Nagios

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 15 (10.64%) Web Services
2 13 (9.220%) WebSphere
3 11 (7.801%) HTML
4 9 (6.383%) LAMP
5 6 (4.255%) J2EE
5 6 (4.255%) Middleware
6 4 (2.837%) JMX
6 4 (2.837%) XML
7 3 (2.128%) YAML
7 3 (2.128%) HTML5
8 2 (1.418%) Memcached
9 1 (0.709%) WebKit
9 1 (0.709%) Gearman
9 1 (0.709%) Ajax
9 1 (0.709%) JMS
9 1 (0.709%) CSS
9 1 (0.709%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 55 (39.01%) Apache
2 45 (31.91%) Tomcat
3 8 (5.674%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (5.674%) Amazon AWS
4 7 (4.965%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (4.255%) nginx
5 6 (4.255%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.128%) Confluence
6 3 (2.128%) IIS
6 3 (2.128%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.418%) Liferay
7 2 (1.418%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.709%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 5 (3.546%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.418%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (1.418%) Summit
1 2 (1.418%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.709%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 33 (23.40%) DNS
2 24 (17.02%) SAN
3 23 (16.31%) TCP/IP
4 13 (9.220%) Firewall
5 11 (7.801%) SMTP
6 10 (7.092%) HTTP
6 10 (7.092%) LDAP
7 8 (5.674%) NAS
8 7 (4.965%) Internet
8 7 (4.965%) DHCP
9 6 (4.255%) SSL
9 6 (4.255%) iSCSI
10 5 (3.546%) Wireshark
10 5 (3.546%) FTP
10 5 (3.546%) tcpdump
11 4 (2.837%) VPN
12 3 (2.128%) IPsec
12 3 (2.128%) SSH
12 3 (2.128%) Ethernet
12 3 (2.128%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.24%) MySQL
2 9 (6.383%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.255%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.837%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.837%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.128%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.128%) Redis
5 3 (2.128%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.418%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.418%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (1.418%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.709%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.709%) Big Data
7 1 (0.709%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.709%) DB2
7 1 (0.709%) Informix
Development Applications
1 24 (17.02%) Subversion
2 7 (4.965%) Git (software)
2 7 (4.965%) JUnit
3 6 (4.255%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.546%) Mercurial
5 4 (2.837%) JIRA
6 2 (1.418%) Hudson
7 1 (0.709%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (0.709%) Maven
General
1 39 (27.66%) Finance
2 11 (7.801%) Law
3 4 (2.837%) Banking
4 3 (2.128%) Games
5 2 (1.418%) Music
5 2 (1.418%) Marketing
5 2 (1.418%) French Language
5 2 (1.418%) German Language
5 2 (1.418%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.418%) Back Office
5 2 (1.418%) Advertising
5 2 (1.418%) Publishing
6 1 (0.709%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.709%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.511%) Open Source
2 9 (6.383%) Computer Science
3 6 (4.255%) Digital Media
4 5 (3.546%) Streaming Media
4 5 (3.546%) Mathematics
4 5 (3.546%) Physics
5 3 (2.128%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.128%) N-Tier
5 3 (2.128%) Clustering
5 3 (2.128%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.128%) Social Gaming
6 2 (1.418%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.418%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.418%) Replication
6 2 (1.418%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.709%) Handset
7 1 (0.709%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.709%) CLARiiON
7 1 (0.709%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.709%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 141 (100.00%) Linux
2 46 (32.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 43 (30.50%) Windows
4 40 (28.37%) UNIX
5 26 (18.44%) CentOS
6 22 (15.60%) Solaris
7 21 (14.89%) Ubuntu
8 20 (14.18%) Debian
9 12 (8.511%) SUSE
10 9 (6.383%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (3.546%) FreeBSD
12 4 (2.837%) Windows 7
13 2 (1.418%) Apple iOS
13 2 (1.418%) Android
13 2 (1.418%) AIX
14 1 (0.709%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.709%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (12.77%) Configuration Management
2 16 (11.35%) E-Commerce
3 13 (9.220%) ITIL
3 13 (9.220%) Load Balancing
4 11 (7.801%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (5.674%) TDD
6 7 (4.965%) Scrum
6 7 (4.965%) MVC
7 6 (4.255%) Project Management
7 6 (4.255%) Service Delivery
7 6 (4.255%) Change Management
8 5 (3.546%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (3.546%) Website Architecture
8 5 (3.546%) Change Control
8 5 (3.546%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (3.546%) Release Management
9 4 (2.837%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (2.128%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (2.128%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (2.128%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.84%) Bash shell
2 46 (32.62%) Perl
3 34 (24.11%) PHP
3 34 (24.11%) Java
4 26 (18.44%) Python
4 26 (18.44%) Ruby
5 25 (17.73%) SQL
6 22 (15.60%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.383%) Korn
7 9 (6.383%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.965%) AWK
8 7 (4.965%) sed
9 4 (2.837%) VBScript
10 2 (1.418%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.709%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.709%) VB
11 1 (0.709%) C
11 1 (0.709%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (17.02%) RHCE
2 19 (13.48%) Degree
3 7 (4.965%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.965%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.837%) RHCT
4 4 (2.837%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (2.837%) JNCIA
5 3 (2.128%) MCSE
5 3 (2.128%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.418%) LPIC
7 1 (0.709%) CCNP
7 1 (0.709%) CCNA
7 1 (0.709%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.709%) SCSA
7 1 (0.709%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.965%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.709%) QA
2 1 (0.709%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (26.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.220%) NFS
3 9 (6.383%) Xen
3 9 (6.383%) vSphere
4 8 (5.674%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.965%) XenServer
5 7 (4.965%) VirtualBox
6 5 (3.546%) VMware ESX
7 4 (2.837%) Samba
7 4 (2.837%) Postfix
7 4 (2.837%) Sendmail
8 3 (2.128%) VMware Server
8 3 (2.128%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.418%) Squid
9 2 (1.418%) Active Directory
9 2 (1.418%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (1.418%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.709%) Gluster
10 1 (0.709%) Varnish
10 1 (0.709%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 28 (19.86%) Puppet
2 19 (13.48%) Nagios
3 8 (5.674%) Zenoss
3 8 (5.674%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (4.255%) Cacti
5 5 (3.546%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.128%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.418%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (1.418%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (1.418%) Plesk
7 2 (1.418%) Splunk
8 1 (0.709%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.709%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (0.709%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 87 (61.70%) Red Hat
2 57 (40.43%) VMware
3 13 (9.220%) Oracle
4 12 (8.511%) Cisco
5 9 (6.383%) IBM
5 9 (6.383%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.383%) JBoss
5 9 (6.383%) Veritas
6 7 (4.965%) Citrix
6 7 (4.965%) Sun
6 7 (4.965%) HP
7 6 (4.255%) Juniper
7 6 (4.255%) NetApp
7 6 (4.255%) EMC
8 3 (2.128%) Google
8 3 (2.128%) Rackspace
9 2 (1.418%) F5
9 2 (1.418%) Percona
9 2 (1.418%) Ensim
9 2 (1.418%) ION Trading
City of London
Senior Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so any...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013
City, London
The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so any experience with either of these two flavours would be seen as VERY...
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
45-60kLinux Systems Administrator (Redhat, Ubuntu) required by the Worlds most recognised .COM... The particular flavours of Linux currently deployed include Ubuntu and Redhat... What will be real...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
This is a development opportunity where you will be given training to progress to the next level within the infrastructure team for a Financial Services firm based in...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £18000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + BENEFITS + TRAINING
Posted: 26 April 2013
City, London
Opensource Virtualization, MySQLn and scripting such as Bash, Perl, Python etc.... Configuration Management Systems. Scripting or Programming a real plus in Bash, Python, Perl or PHP... Experience running...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics Ideally a Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics A Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar. For...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics Ideally a Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + share options + training + benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
City, London
A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics. Ideally a Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar. For example: RHCT, RHCSA, RHCE, CLA, Linux Professional Institute Certified (...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Any RDBMS knowledge around Sybase, Oracle, and MS SQL Server 2000 / 2005 will be very useful... You will be working in a mixed environment of various RDBMS and...
I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £550000000 - £650000000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
There is some windows involvement, however this role is mainly focussed on Linux. Experience with ongoing administration of Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake) and open-source (Apache etc.)...
Intergence Systems Ltd
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum including on-call and callout.
Posted: 9 May 2013