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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux Engineer
Rank 311 318 319
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 6 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.052% 0.038% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.041% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 3
Average salary £57,500 £55,000 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.54% -31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £53,750 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -2.91%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10798 12218 14109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.81% 93.08% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9316 11108 12688
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £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%
Senior Linux Engineer
London

Senior Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

City of London Senior Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) Bash shell
2 11 (91.67%) UNIX
2 11 (91.67%) Python
3 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 10 (83.33%) Perl
3 10 (83.33%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (75.00%) Load Balancing
4 9 (75.00%) NAS
4 9 (75.00%) Video on Demand
4 9 (75.00%) Java
4 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
4 9 (75.00%) Akamai
4 9 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 9 (75.00%) REST
4 9 (75.00%) New Media
4 9 (75.00%) Oracle
4 9 (75.00%) SOAP
4 9 (75.00%) XML
4 9 (75.00%) ITIL
4 9 (75.00%) Solaris
4 9 (75.00%) JBoss
4 9 (75.00%) Tomcat
4 9 (75.00%) Sun
4 9 (75.00%) LDAP
4 9 (75.00%) HTTP
4 9 (75.00%) Internet
4 9 (75.00%) SAN
4 9 (75.00%) Service Management
4 9 (75.00%) Workflow

Senior Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) SOAP
1 9 (75.00%) XML
1 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (75.00%) REST
2 1 (8.333%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (8.333%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 9 (75.00%) LDAP
2 9 (75.00%) HTTP
2 9 (75.00%) SAN
2 9 (75.00%) Internet
2 9 (75.00%) SSH
2 9 (75.00%) NAS
3 1 (8.333%) SNMP
3 1 (8.333%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.333%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (8.333%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.333%) Big Data
General
1 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Banking
2 1 (8.333%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (75.00%) Video on Demand
2 9 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (75.00%) New Media
3 2 (16.67%) Derivative
4 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.333%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) UNIX
3 9 (75.00%) Solaris
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.333%) OpenBSD
5 1 (8.333%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) ITIL
1 9 (75.00%) Service Management
1 9 (75.00%) Workflow
1 9 (75.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
1 11 (91.67%) Bash shell
2 10 (83.33%) Perl
3 9 (75.00%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (8.333%) Nagios
2 1 (8.333%) ZABBIX
2 1 (8.333%) YUM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle
1 9 (75.00%) JBoss
1 9 (75.00%) Sun
1 9 (75.00%) Akamai
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.333%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) HP
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco