The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank - 37 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 0 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon - 3.303% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 3.691% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 0
Average salary - £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
273 298 274
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 92.54% 89.49% 97.51%
Number of salaries quoted 243 273 259
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
London

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the Croydon region.

Croydon Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region that cited Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Cacti
2 2 (66.67%) Zenoss
2 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) LAMP
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) CFEngine
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region that cited Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cacti
1 2 (66.67%) Zenoss
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) VMware