The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Specialist 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 Specialist 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Specialist
Rank 293 332 325
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 20 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.170% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.183% 0.008% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 18 1 2
Average salary £58,000 £47,500 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.10% +15.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £36,250
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £47,500 £46,250
UK excluding London average salary £43,750 £33,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+30.59% -12.98%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10905 12358 14219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.89% 93.12% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9400 11235 12819
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £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 Specialist
London

Linux Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Linux Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend

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

City of London Linux Specialist Salary Trend

Linux Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Specialist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Linux Specialist Salary Histogram

Linux Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (77.78%) UNIX
3 26 (72.22%) Red Hat
4 24 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (61.11%) ITIL
6 20 (55.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 16 (44.44%) Windows
8 15 (41.67%) Finance
8 15 (41.67%) VMware
9 13 (36.11%) Banking
10 12 (33.33%) Solaris
10 12 (33.33%) HP
10 12 (33.33%) SAN
11 10 (27.78%) Veritas
11 10 (27.78%) IBM
11 10 (27.78%) Oracle
11 10 (27.78%) Service Delivery
12 9 (25.00%) Tivoli
12 9 (25.00%) JBoss
12 9 (25.00%) SLA
12 9 (25.00%) EMC
12 9 (25.00%) RHCE
12 9 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (22.22%) Perl
14 7 (19.44%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (19.44%) Citrix
14 7 (19.44%) DNS
14 7 (19.44%) Sun
14 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
14 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2003

Linux Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.778%) Middleware
1 1 (2.778%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (2.778%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) SAN
2 7 (19.44%) DNS
3 5 (13.89%) LDAP
4 4 (11.11%) NAS
5 3 (8.333%) Internet
6 2 (5.556%) DHCP
7 1 (2.778%) LAN
7 1 (2.778%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Banking
3 1 (2.778%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.11%) CLARiiON
2 4 (11.11%) Clustering
3 3 (8.333%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (77.78%) UNIX
3 24 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (44.44%) Windows
5 12 (33.33%) Solaris
6 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (16.67%) HPUX
8 1 (2.778%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) ITIL
2 10 (27.78%) Service Delivery
3 6 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 4 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (11.11%) Change Control
4 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (11.11%) Security Management
5 3 (8.333%) Scrum
5 3 (8.333%) Waterfall
6 2 (5.556%) Change Management
7 1 (2.778%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Perl
2 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.778%) C
3 1 (2.778%) Java
3 1 (2.778%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) RHCE
2 7 (19.44%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (8.333%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) SLA
2 3 (8.333%) ISO 9001
3 2 (5.556%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) Samba
2 4 (11.11%) NFS
3 1 (2.778%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (2.778%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (55.56%) Red Hat Satellite
2 9 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 5 (13.89%) BMC PATROL
4 4 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (11.11%) Puppet
4 4 (11.11%) Splunk
4 4 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 4 (11.11%) OpenView
5 3 (8.333%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 3 (8.333%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 26 (72.22%) Red Hat
2 15 (41.67%) VMware
3 12 (33.33%) HP
4 10 (27.78%) Veritas
4 10 (27.78%) IBM
4 10 (27.78%) Oracle
5 9 (25.00%) JBoss
5 9 (25.00%) EMC
6 7 (19.44%) Citrix
6 7 (19.44%) Sun
7 6 (16.67%) BMC
8 5 (13.89%) Cisco
9 4 (11.11%) Brocade
9 4 (11.11%) Symantec
9 4 (11.11%) Hitachi
10 1 (2.778%) Dell
10 1 (2.778%) NetIQ
City, London
Other products include: VMWare, EMC San, Tivoli, Citrix, Active Directory, IBM kit... Key skills: Redhat Linux Linux systems administration / build out Windows 2003 / 2008 Server VMWare EMC storage...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Key skills: Linux support, Linux build-out, Linux administration (ideally redhat) ideally with some Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server support experience. Other products include: VMWare, EMC San,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013