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The table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Linux Administrator
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank248264
Rank change on same period last yearUp+16
Matching permanent IT job ads2630
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.015 %0.013 %
As % of the category below0.237 %0.231 %
Salaries quoted2430
Average minimum salary£42,080£31,265
Average salary£43,520£33,059
% change on same period last year+31.64 %
Average maximum salary£44,960£34,853
UK excluding London average salary£36,707£32,464
% change on same period last year+13.07 %
East of England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads1096512973
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled6.347 %5.583 %
Salaries quoted930811049
Average minimum salary£35,183£35,075
Average salary£38,135£38,211
% change on same period last year-0.19 %
Average maximum salary£41,087£41,348
UK excluding London average salary£38,208£39,261
% change on same period last year-2.68 %
Linux Administrator EnglandLinux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East of England Linux Administrator Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the East of England region.

East of England Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

East of England Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EssexUp+1010£52,250+27.43 %
CambridgeshireUp+59£34,875-2.21 %
SuffolkUp+173£39,167+6.81 %
HertfordshireUp+182£42,500+70.62 %
BedfordshireNew entry-2£42,000-
Linux Administrator EnglandLinux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited Linux 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 Administrator in their job title.

161 (100.00 %)Linux
241 (67.21 %)Red Hat Linux
241 (67.21 %)Red Hat
330 (49.18 %)UNIX
428 (45.90 %)Apache
525 (40.98 %)Perl
624 (39.34 %)SAN
723 (37.70 %)Shell Script
723 (37.70 %)Solaris
819 (31.15 %)Debian
915 (24.59 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1014 (22.95 %)VMware
1014 (22.95 %)AIX
1014 (22.95 %)MySQL
1113 (21.31 %)Finance
1212 (19.67 %)IBM
1310 (16.39 %)Sun
1310 (16.39 %)TCP/IP
1310 (16.39 %)PHP
1310 (16.39 %)SSH
149 (14.75 %)Ubuntu
158 (13.11 %)Banking
158 (13.11 %)SSL
158 (13.11 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
167 (11.48 %)OpenBSD
167 (11.48 %)Cisco
167 (11.48 %)HP
167 (11.48 %)RHCE
167 (11.48 %)Windows
176 (9.836 %)Java

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited Linux 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

East of England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (9.836 %)LAMP
23 (4.918 %)HTML
23 (4.918 %)CSS
23 (4.918 %)CGI
East of England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
128 (45.90 %)Apache
21 (1.639 %)Tomcat
21 (1.639 %)MS Exchange
21 (1.639 %)Oracle Application Server
21 (1.639 %)Exchange Server 2000
21 (1.639 %)Exchange Server 2003
21 (1.639 %)JBoss
East of England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12 (3.279 %)MS Excel
East of England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
124 (39.34 %)SAN
210 (16.39 %)TCP/IP
210 (16.39 %)SSH
38 (13.11 %)SSL
46 (9.836 %)LDAP
55 (8.197 %)DNS
64 (6.557 %)VoIP
64 (6.557 %)SNMP
64 (6.557 %)3G
64 (6.557 %)Cisco IOS
73 (4.918 %)Internet
81 (1.639 %)Firewall
81 (1.639 %)Wireless
East of England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
114 (22.95 %)MySQL
22 (3.279 %)PostgreSQL
31 (1.639 %)SQL Server
31 (1.639 %)Oracle 8/8i
East of England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (1.639 %)Subversion
East of England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
113 (21.31 %)Finance
28 (13.11 %)Banking
32 (3.279 %)Insurance
41 (1.639 %)Pensions
41 (1.639 %)Marketing
41 (1.639 %)Health
East of England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
14 (6.557 %)CCTV
14 (6.557 %)Mathematics
14 (6.557 %)Computer Science
21 (1.639 %)French Language
21 (1.639 %)Spanish Language
21 (1.639 %)Data Protection Act
21 (1.639 %)Device Driver
21 (1.639 %)Clustering
East of England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
161 (100.00 %)Linux
241 (67.21 %)Red Hat Linux
330 (49.18 %)UNIX
423 (37.70 %)Solaris
519 (31.15 %)Debian
615 (24.59 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
714 (22.95 %)AIX
89 (14.75 %)Ubuntu
97 (11.48 %)OpenBSD
97 (11.48 %)Windows
103 (4.918 %)HPUX
112 (3.279 %)SUSE
121 (1.639 %)Fedora
121 (1.639 %)Windows 2000
121 (1.639 %)Windows Server 2003
121 (1.639 %)IRIX
East of England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (8.197 %)Disaster Recovery
21 (1.639 %)Technical Architecture
21 (1.639 %)User Acceptance Testing
21 (1.639 %)Data Protection
East of England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
125 (40.98 %)Perl
223 (37.70 %)Shell Script
310 (16.39 %)PHP
46 (9.836 %)Java
54 (6.557 %)Python
East of England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
17 (11.48 %)RHCE
25 (8.197 %)Degree
32 (3.279 %)Cisco Certification
East of England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
15 (8.197 %)Active Directory
15 (8.197 %)VMware Infrastructure
24 (6.557 %)VMware ESX
24 (6.557 %)Xen
31 (1.639 %)ISA Server
East of England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
18 (13.11 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
21 (1.639 %)Nagios
East of England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
141 (67.21 %)Red Hat
214 (22.95 %)VMware
312 (19.67 %)IBM
410 (16.39 %)Sun
57 (11.48 %)HP
57 (11.48 %)Cisco
63 (4.918 %)Oracle
72 (3.279 %)Microsoft
81 (1.639 %)NetApp
81 (1.639 %)Novell