The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 309 306 310
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 14 17 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.117% 0.129% 0.165%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.125% 0.138% 0.177%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 21
Average salary £50,000 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.84% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £43,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +9.37%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11163 12316 14730
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.96% 93.51% 93.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9631 11241 13261
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 £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Linux Support
London

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support
Salary Trend

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

City of London Linux Support Salary Trend

Linux Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Support across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Linux Support Salary Histogram

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (64.29%) Windows
3 15 (53.57%) DNS
3 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
4 13 (46.43%) Red Hat
4 13 (46.43%) IBM
4 13 (46.43%) DHCP
5 12 (42.86%) TCP/IP
5 12 (42.86%) RHCE
5 12 (42.86%) Linux+ Certification
5 12 (42.86%) Degree
5 12 (42.86%) Computer Science
6 10 (35.71%) Finance
7 8 (28.57%) WebSphere
7 8 (28.57%) WebSphere MQ
8 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (17.86%) Tivoli
9 5 (17.86%) UNIX
10 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (14.29%) VMware
10 4 (14.29%) Banking
10 4 (14.29%) Puppet
11 3 (10.71%) Bash shell
11 3 (10.71%) Problem Management
11 3 (10.71%) Ruby
11 3 (10.71%) Citrix
11 3 (10.71%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (10.71%) SAN
11 3 (10.71%) Perl

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (28.57%) WebSphere
1 8 (28.57%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (3.571%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) DNS
2 13 (46.43%) DHCP
3 12 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.71%) SAN
5 1 (3.571%) LDAP
5 1 (3.571%) LAN
5 1 (3.571%) WAN
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (64.29%) Windows
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (17.86%) UNIX
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.571%) CentOS
6 1 (3.571%) AIX
6 1 (3.571%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.71%) Problem Management
2 2 (7.143%) Capacity Management
3 1 (3.571%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (3.571%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.571%) Change Management
3 1 (3.571%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Bash shell
1 3 (10.71%) Ruby
1 3 (10.71%) Perl
1 3 (10.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) RHCE
1 12 (42.86%) Linux+ Certification
1 12 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) COBIT
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.571%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Tivoli
2 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Puppet
3 3 (10.71%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 1 (3.571%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Red Hat
1 13 (46.43%) IBM
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Citrix
4 2 (7.143%) Oracle
4 2 (7.143%) EMC
5 1 (3.571%) Brocade
5 1 (3.571%) HP
5 1 (3.571%) BMC
5 1 (3.571%) Veritas
5 1 (3.571%) NetIQ
5 1 (3.571%) Sun
5 1 (3.571%) Cisco
City of London
Ideal Skill Set: * Good Linux Skills - Red Hat * Scripting/Automation Skills, ideally Python * Systems Monitoring - SNMP-based tools, Splunk, Optier, Zenoss. * University Degree in IT/Computing arena * Ideally...
Huxley Associates
Salary: Mid Level Financial Salary + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 19 June 2013