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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 205 206 239
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 59 61 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.714% 0.701% 0.409%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.749% 0.725% 0.432%
Number of salaries quoted 53 59 28
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,600 £32,400 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7877 8413 9032
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 95.31% 96.70% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6859 7048 7738
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

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 of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hertfordshire +28 20 £51,500 +106.00%
Bedfordshire - 19 £48,500 -
Cambridgeshire -14 18 £42,500 -
Essex +12 2 £34,500 +6.15%
Linux Systems Administrator
England

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 150 (100.00%) Linux
2 104 (69.33%) Red Hat
3 99 (66.00%) Apache
4 89 (59.33%) MySQL
5 69 (46.00%) Perl
5 69 (46.00%) Bash shell
6 58 (38.67%) CentOS
6 58 (38.67%) DNS
7 50 (33.33%) TCP/IP
8 48 (32.00%) Windows
9 47 (31.33%) PHP
10 42 (28.00%) VMware
11 37 (24.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 36 (24.00%) UNIX
13 34 (22.67%) Debian
13 34 (22.67%) Clustering
14 31 (20.67%) Cisco
14 31 (20.67%) SAN
15 30 (20.00%) Time Management
16 29 (19.33%) SaaS
17 26 (17.33%) Python
18 25 (16.67%) VMware ESX
18 25 (16.67%) vSphere
19 22 (14.67%) Firewall
20 21 (14.00%) IIS
21 20 (13.33%) Shell Script
21 20 (13.33%) LAMP
22 19 (12.67%) Oracle
22 19 (12.67%) Problem Management
23 17 (11.33%) iSCSI

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 20 (13.33%) LAMP
2 9 (6.000%) OLE
3 7 (4.667%) Middleware
4 6 (4.000%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.667%) Lucene
5 1 (0.667%) JRules
5 1 (0.667%) SOAP
5 1 (0.667%) WebCenter
5 1 (0.667%) Django
5 1 (0.667%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 99 (66.00%) Apache
2 21 (14.00%) IIS
3 10 (6.667%) nginx
4 6 (4.000%) WordPress
4 6 (4.000%) Moodle
4 6 (4.000%) Magento
4 6 (4.000%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.000%) WebLogic
4 6 (4.000%) Joomla!
5 2 (1.333%) Documentum
5 2 (1.333%) SAS
5 2 (1.333%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.667%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (0.667%) Jetty
6 1 (0.667%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.667%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (0.667%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 58 (38.67%) DNS
2 50 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 31 (20.67%) SAN
4 22 (14.67%) Firewall
5 17 (11.33%) iSCSI
6 14 (9.333%) SSL
7 12 (8.000%) SSH
8 11 (7.333%) DHCP
9 10 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (6.667%) VLAN
10 9 (6.000%) POP3
10 9 (6.000%) NAS
10 9 (6.000%) IMAP
11 8 (5.333%) SMTP
11 8 (5.333%) Ethernet
11 8 (5.333%) FTP
12 6 (4.000%) Internet
13 5 (3.333%) LAN
14 3 (2.000%) Network Security
15 2 (1.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (59.33%) MySQL
2 6 (4.000%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.333%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.000%) Text Mining
4 3 (2.000%) Big Data
5 2 (1.333%) Redis
5 2 (1.333%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.667%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.667%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.667%) Maven
1 1 (0.667%) Subversion
1 1 (0.667%) GitHub
1 1 (0.667%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (3.333%) Finance
2 3 (2.000%) Law
3 2 (1.333%) Banking
4 1 (0.667%) Advertising
4 1 (0.667%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.67%) Clustering
2 29 (19.33%) SaaS
3 15 (10.00%) Open Source
4 14 (9.333%) Replication
5 4 (2.667%) Computer Science
6 3 (2.000%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 150 (100.00%) Linux
2 58 (38.67%) CentOS
3 48 (32.00%) Windows
4 37 (24.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (24.00%) UNIX
6 34 (22.67%) Debian
7 17 (11.33%) Ubuntu
8 12 (8.000%) SUSE
9 9 (6.000%) AIX
10 6 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (2.667%) HPUX
12 1 (0.667%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.667%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.00%) Time Management
2 19 (12.67%) Problem Management
3 17 (11.33%) Change Management
4 14 (9.333%) Load Balancing
5 11 (7.333%) ITIL
6 9 (6.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (5.333%) Supplier Management
7 8 (5.333%) Network Design
8 7 (4.667%) Service Management
8 7 (4.667%) E-Commerce
9 4 (2.667%) ERP
9 4 (2.667%) E-business
10 3 (2.000%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (2.000%) Data Protection
11 2 (1.333%) Parallel Computing
11 2 (1.333%) Configuration Management
11 2 (1.333%) Document Management
11 2 (1.333%) Data Analysis
12 1 (0.667%) Incident Management
12 1 (0.667%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.00%) Perl
1 69 (46.00%) Bash shell
2 47 (31.33%) PHP
3 26 (17.33%) Python
4 20 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 15 (10.00%) SQL
6 4 (2.667%) C-shell
7 2 (1.333%) Ruby
8 1 (0.667%) Java
8 1 (0.667%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (10.67%) Degree
2 12 (8.000%) RHCE
3 4 (2.667%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.667%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.000%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 25 (16.67%) vSphere
2 14 (9.333%) Sendmail
3 11 (7.333%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.333%) Xen
4 8 (5.333%) Varnish
5 7 (4.667%) Samba
5 7 (4.667%) NFS
5 7 (4.667%) Postfix
6 4 (2.667%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.000%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.667%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (11.33%) Nagios
2 6 (4.000%) OSSEC
2 6 (4.000%) Cacti
3 5 (3.333%) ZABBIX
4 4 (2.667%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (2.667%) Puppet
4 4 (2.667%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.667%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.667%) Control-M
5 1 (0.667%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 1 (0.667%) Plesk
5 1 (0.667%) CFEngine
5 1 (0.667%) SCCM
5 1 (0.667%) SCOM
5 1 (0.667%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 104 (69.33%) Red Hat
2 42 (28.00%) VMware
3 31 (20.67%) Cisco
4 19 (12.67%) Oracle
5 8 (5.333%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.667%) NetApp
6 7 (4.667%) HP
7 6 (4.000%) TippingPoint
7 6 (4.000%) SolarWinds
7 6 (4.000%) IBM
8 5 (3.333%) Citrix
8 5 (3.333%) EMC
9 4 (2.667%) Juniper
9 4 (2.667%) SAP
10 1 (0.667%) Google
10 1 (0.667%) JBoss
10 1 (0.667%) BMC
10 1 (0.667%) Informatica
10 1 (0.667%) Intel
10 1 (0.667%) Percona
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Are you an experienced Linux Systems Administrator looking for a hands-on role maintaining a high performance global network?... You will also need a good knowledge of Internet...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £25,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Watford, South East
Job Role: Linux Systems Administrator (Graduate / Junior)Location: nr. Watford, HertfordshireSalary: £25k to £40k + options + benefitsLinux Systems Administrator UNIX / Linux (Graduate / Junior, MSc PhD)... As a Graduate Linux...
Client Server
Salary: £25k to £40k + options + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Experience with administration of Linux systems on modern HP server hardware and SAN disk systems... The main technical skills needed are Red Hat Linux and Net App Storage.
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have an in depth knowledge of networking protocols and security: firewalls, IDS, naming services, mail servers, webservers, and web-based services, solid programming or scripting is...
SYSTEM RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: £38000 - £40000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare etc
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Great new role for an experienced Linux Systems Administration Engineer to join a flourishing Cambridge enterprise... You'll be ideally degree educated and be comfortable installing, configuring and...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Great Base+Prospects
Posted: 22 May 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
For this position Unix / Linux Systems Administrators will need to have a strong experience of Solaris, Linux administration and scripting. A proven experience of Unix System administration, Enterprise.....
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum canteen, shares, good benefits packa
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Leading Engineering Company is actively recruiting for an experience Linux Systems Administrator to provide Linux/Unix administration across Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu in a HPC (high performance computing/clustering...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
A leading software company based in Cambridge require a Systems Administrator with Linux experience and solid networking knowledge... Experience required The ideal candidate will have a broad experience...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent salary and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
The Essential Skills CentOS / Redhat - Linux / UNIX Systems Administrator for at least 5 years... LAMP. Shell - Perl / Bash... UNIX / Linux Systems Administrator - Team Leader - CentOS / Redhat / LAMP / Web...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £45000 - £52000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Linux Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP networking.
Gregory James
Salary: £45000 to £52000 per annum - 10% annual bonus, pension, healthcare
Posted: 17 May 2013
Harlow, Essex
3+ years experience directly related to Linux system administration. Well versed in: Cisco Hardware/Software. Networking (BGP, IPv4. IPv6) DNS, Apache, Bind, MyDNS, nginx reverse proxy, LiteSpeed, Plesk...
Nimbus Hosting Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
To be considered you'll be degree educated and be happy working with Linux systems and probably an active contributor to the open source movement. Database skills with...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Fantastic + prospects
Posted: 22 May 2013
Luton, South East
Essential: At least 5 years commercial Linux data centre experience Linux server (inc. Apache, mySQL) LAMP TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Basic scripting using bash/shell/perl... Desired: Experience of CheckPoint Firewalls... RedHat RHCT/RHCE certification. Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification... Ability to produce simple web tools using Perl, Python,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 23 May 2013
Luton, South East
TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC and iSCSI switching Desirable: Windows Server (up to 2008) including Microsoft Cluster Services, Microsoft IIS web...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
This is a hands on role where you will be taking responsibility at the early stages of a company working on some complex real world problems A well...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Good Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
RDBMS: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Postgress - any of these... Infrastructure Engineer Linux, CentOS, Redhat, WIN, Cloud, Virtual, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, Ruby, Python, Perl, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, SQL, NoSQL,...
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Essential skills required for the position of Linux /Windows Desktop System Administrator /Sys Admin / Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer - Relevant degree or computing experience 5 years + in a service...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013