The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 275 297 313
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 43 27 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.365% 0.206% 0.139%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.394% 0.221% 0.148%
Number of salaries quoted 29 23 19
Average salary £60,000 £45,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -35.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £35,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £53,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £44,250 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+10.62% +14.28%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10921 12230 14187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.83% 93.10% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9422 11124 12765
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £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 Engineer
London

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Linux Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Linux
2 39 (54.17%) Red Hat
3 38 (52.78%) Perl
4 37 (51.39%) Bash shell
5 30 (41.67%) Puppet
6 26 (36.11%) UNIX
7 25 (34.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (33.33%) Python
8 24 (33.33%) Finance
9 21 (29.17%) PHP
10 19 (26.39%) Ruby
10 19 (26.39%) WebSphere
11 17 (23.61%) CentOS
11 17 (23.61%) TCP/IP
11 17 (23.61%) SAN
12 16 (22.22%) Windows
13 15 (20.83%) Java
14 14 (19.44%) LDAP
14 14 (19.44%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (18.06%) Windows Server 2008
15 13 (18.06%) Problem Management
15 13 (18.06%) VMware
15 13 (18.06%) Solaris
16 12 (16.67%) MySQL
16 12 (16.67%) IBM
17 11 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
17 11 (15.28%) Internet
17 11 (15.28%) Sun
17 11 (15.28%) Oracle
17 11 (15.28%) JBoss

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (26.39%) WebSphere
2 9 (12.50%) XML
2 9 (12.50%) SOAP
2 9 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (4.167%) HTML5
3 3 (4.167%) JMX
3 3 (4.167%) Web Services
3 3 (4.167%) YAML
4 2 (2.778%) Java EE
4 2 (2.778%) HTML
4 2 (2.778%) Node.js
4 2 (2.778%) MapReduce
5 1 (1.389%) Memcached
5 1 (1.389%) Middleware
5 1 (1.389%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 8 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
3 6 (8.333%) nginx
3 6 (8.333%) Apache
4 4 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (2.778%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.389%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.389%) Drupal
6 1 (1.389%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (1.389%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.61%) TCP/IP
1 17 (23.61%) SAN
2 14 (19.44%) LDAP
3 11 (15.28%) Internet
4 9 (12.50%) HTTP
4 9 (12.50%) NAS
4 9 (12.50%) SSH
5 6 (8.333%) DNS
6 5 (6.944%) Firewall
7 4 (5.556%) Wireshark
7 4 (5.556%) iSCSI
7 4 (5.556%) tcpdump
8 3 (4.167%) VPN
9 2 (2.778%) Network Security
9 2 (2.778%) Intranet
10 1 (1.389%) OpenVPN
10 1 (1.389%) IPsec
10 1 (1.389%) SNMP
10 1 (1.389%) VoIP
10 1 (1.389%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) MySQL
2 5 (6.944%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.167%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.778%) CouchDB
4 2 (2.778%) HBase
5 1 (1.389%) Riak
5 1 (1.389%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.389%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.389%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (6.944%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.778%) Git (software)
2 2 (2.778%) Maven
3 1 (1.389%) Hudson
3 1 (1.389%) Capistrano
3 1 (1.389%) GitHub
3 1 (1.389%) Mercurial
General
1 24 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (6.944%) Banking
3 4 (5.556%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.778%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.778%) Law
5 1 (1.389%) Advertising
5 1 (1.389%) Back Office
5 1 (1.389%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (12.50%) Video on Demand
2 9 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (12.50%) New Media
3 6 (8.333%) Open Source
4 5 (6.944%) Clustering
4 5 (6.944%) Computer Science
5 4 (5.556%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.167%) Replication
6 3 (4.167%) Derivative
7 2 (2.778%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.389%) SaaS
8 1 (1.389%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 72 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (36.11%) UNIX
3 25 (34.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (23.61%) CentOS
5 16 (22.22%) Windows
6 13 (18.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (18.06%) Solaris
7 7 (9.722%) Ubuntu
8 6 (8.333%) Debian
9 2 (2.778%) SUSE
10 1 (1.389%) OpenBSD
10 1 (1.389%) Gentoo
10 1 (1.389%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.06%) Problem Management
2 10 (13.89%) ITIL
3 9 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 9 (12.50%) Service Management
3 9 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 9 (12.50%) Workflow
4 5 (6.944%) E-Commerce
5 3 (4.167%) Software Engineering
6 2 (2.778%) Information Security
6 2 (2.778%) Data Analysis
6 2 (2.778%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (2.778%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (2.778%) Change Control
7 1 (1.389%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.389%) Validation
7 1 (1.389%) Scrum
7 1 (1.389%) Release Management
7 1 (1.389%) Load Testing
7 1 (1.389%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.78%) Perl
2 37 (51.39%) Bash shell
3 24 (33.33%) Python
4 21 (29.17%) PHP
5 19 (26.39%) Ruby
6 15 (20.83%) Java
7 4 (5.556%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.167%) SQL
9 2 (2.778%) C-shell
10 1 (1.389%) sed
10 1 (1.389%) AWK
10 1 (1.389%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (9.722%) Degree
2 5 (6.944%) RHCE
3 2 (2.778%) LPIC
4 1 (1.389%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.389%) CCNA
4 1 (1.389%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.389%) RHCT
4 1 (1.389%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.167%) SLA
2 2 (2.778%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.389%) QA
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.333%) NFS
3 5 (6.944%) Xen
4 4 (5.556%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (1.389%) VirtualBox
5 1 (1.389%) OpenSIPS
5 1 (1.389%) Varnish
5 1 (1.389%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (41.67%) Puppet
2 6 (8.333%) ZABBIX
2 6 (8.333%) Nagios
3 5 (6.944%) Plesk
4 4 (5.556%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 2 (2.778%) YUM
6 1 (1.389%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 39 (54.17%) Red Hat
2 13 (18.06%) VMware
3 12 (16.67%) IBM
4 11 (15.28%) Sun
4 11 (15.28%) Oracle
4 11 (15.28%) JBoss
5 9 (12.50%) Akamai
6 8 (11.11%) HP
7 5 (6.944%) Cisco
8 3 (4.167%) Rackspace
8 3 (4.167%) Ensim
9 2 (2.778%) Juniper
10 1 (1.389%) 3PAR
10 1 (1.389%) Avaya
10 1 (1.389%) Dell
10 1 (1.389%) Microsoft
City, London
To develop and maintain operational guidelines for the maintenance and support of the infrastructure - To assist with incident and problem management to resolve issues related to Linux, Network,...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Good benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013