The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands 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 17 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 161 165 164
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 3 1 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.098% 0.029% 0.221%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.103% 0.031% 0.230%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 5
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +40.38%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2905 3239 3482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 94.97% 95.01% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2480 2893 2979
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
England

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +2 3 £37,500 +2.73%
Linux Systems Administrator
England

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) Apache
2 5 (55.56%) UNIX
3 4 (44.44%) Perl
3 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 4 (44.44%) MySQL
3 4 (44.44%) RHCE
3 4 (44.44%) NFS
3 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (44.44%) C-shell
3 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Samba
3 4 (44.44%) NAS
4 3 (33.33%) HTML
5 2 (22.22%) Debian
5 2 (22.22%) CentOS
5 2 (22.22%) Open Source
6 1 (11.11%) Postfix
6 1 (11.11%) Dovecot
6 1 (11.11%) sed
6 1 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (11.11%) AWK
6 1 (11.11%) Fedora
6 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) UNIX
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (22.22%) CentOS
4 2 (22.22%) Debian
5 1 (11.11%) Fedora
5 1 (11.11%) FreeBSD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
2 4 (44.44%) Perl
2 4 (44.44%) PHP
2 4 (44.44%) C-shell
2 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
3 1 (11.11%) sed
3 1 (11.11%) AWK
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) RHCE
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) NFS
1 4 (44.44%) Samba
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Postfix
2 1 (11.11%) Dovecot
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
Nottingham, East Midlands
Linux Systems Engineer - Infrastructure - Linux - RHEL/CentOS - NottinghamHighly Successful, established yet growing organisation requires an experienced Linux Systems Administrator with advanced Linux experience to join their expanding team...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
Nottinghamshire
Redhat - Centos - Fedora - Debian - Unix - MySQL / Apache2 Desirable / Chance to learn - Networking - Infrastructure - Vmware - Java JBoss - SAN A leading IT services company in Nottingham are looking to grow...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £25000 per annum + flexi time
Posted: 16 May 2013