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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 343 323 430
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 709 806 523
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.701% 0.711% 0.444%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.742% 0.750% 0.471%
Number of salaries quoted 602 712 454
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
UK

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

England Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

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 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
London -15 337 £50,000 +17.64%
South East +14 188 £39,000 -2.50%
East of England +1 67 £47,500 +18.75%
Yorkshire +9 44 £28,000 -20.00%
North West -4 24 £40,000 +14.28%
South West -13 24 £39,750 +22.30%
North East +17 17 £40,000 +14.28%
West Midlands - 4 £37,500 -
East Midlands -3 3 £37,500 +50.00%
Midlands +16 1 £35,000 -50.00%
Linux Administrator
UK

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 1538 (100.00%) Linux
2 852 (55.40%) Red Hat
3 689 (44.80%) Apache
4 617 (40.12%) MySQL
5 507 (32.96%) Perl
6 490 (31.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 472 (30.69%) Bash shell
8 470 (30.56%) UNIX
9 440 (28.61%) PHP
10 437 (28.41%) CentOS
11 421 (27.37%) VMware
12 386 (25.10%) Windows
13 376 (24.45%) Puppet
14 373 (24.25%) DNS
15 312 (20.29%) Ubuntu
16 308 (20.03%) Python
17 288 (18.73%) Debian
18 256 (16.64%) TCP/IP
19 238 (15.47%) Cisco
20 236 (15.34%) VMware Infrastructure
21 225 (14.63%) Shell Script
22 213 (13.85%) SAN
23 206 (13.39%) Nagios
24 202 (13.13%) LAMP
24 202 (13.13%) Tomcat
25 195 (12.68%) Java
26 192 (12.48%) SQL
27 186 (12.09%) Open Source
28 183 (11.90%) Firewall
28 183 (11.90%) Clustering

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 202 (13.13%) LAMP
2 112 (7.282%) Web Services
3 73 (4.746%) WebSphere
4 33 (2.146%) HTML
5 26 (1.691%) Middleware
6 21 (1.365%) Memcached
7 18 (1.170%) J2EE
8 16 (1.040%) .NET
8 16 (1.040%) Ruby on Rails
9 13 (0.845%) SOAP
9 13 (0.845%) JDBC
10 9 (0.585%) XML
10 9 (0.585%) OLE
11 7 (0.455%) Ajax
11 7 (0.455%) Lucene
12 6 (0.390%) COM
12 6 (0.390%) HTML5
13 5 (0.325%) REST
13 5 (0.325%) WebKit
14 4 (0.260%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 689 (44.80%) Apache
2 202 (13.13%) Tomcat
3 117 (7.607%) Amazon AWS
4 109 (7.087%) nginx
5 92 (5.982%) IIS
6 76 (4.941%) Amazon EC2
7 43 (2.796%) WebSphere MQ
8 42 (2.731%) Amazon S3
8 42 (2.731%) MS Exchange
9 25 (1.625%) Rackspace Cloud
10 22 (1.430%) WebLogic
11 20 (1.300%) Apache Solr
12 14 (0.910%) Liferay
13 13 (0.845%) Exchange Server 2010
14 10 (0.650%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (0.585%) Amazon ELB
15 9 (0.585%) GlassFish
15 9 (0.585%) Jetty
15 9 (0.585%) Magento
15 9 (0.585%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 59 (3.836%) MS Excel
2 10 (0.650%) Google Apps
3 4 (0.260%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.195%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.520%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.130%) Summit
2 2 (0.130%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.065%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.065%) Documaker
3 1 (0.065%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 373 (24.25%) DNS
2 256 (16.64%) TCP/IP
3 213 (13.85%) SAN
4 183 (11.90%) Firewall
5 142 (9.233%) Internet
6 131 (8.518%) DHCP
7 118 (7.672%) LDAP
8 114 (7.412%) HTTP
9 84 (5.462%) SMTP
10 76 (4.941%) SSL
11 65 (4.226%) FTP
12 64 (4.161%) SSH
13 59 (3.836%) NAS
14 55 (3.576%) iSCSI
15 46 (2.991%) VPN
16 40 (2.601%) VLAN
16 40 (2.601%) LAN
17 39 (2.536%) VoIP
17 39 (2.536%) WAN
18 32 (2.081%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 617 (40.12%) MySQL
2 115 (7.477%) SQL Server
3 77 (5.007%) NoSQL
4 72 (4.681%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (4.161%) MongoDB
6 56 (3.641%) Redis
7 43 (2.796%) Hadoop
8 32 (2.081%) Big Data
9 31 (2.016%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (0.780%) RDBMS
10 12 (0.780%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.455%) Informix
12 6 (0.390%) Amazon DynamoDB
12 6 (0.390%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.325%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.260%) DB2
14 4 (0.260%) Oracle 8/8i
14 4 (0.260%) CouchDB
14 4 (0.260%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.260%) Voldemort
Development Applications
1 105 (6.827%) Subversion
2 61 (3.966%) Git (software)
3 41 (2.666%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.276%) Maven
5 26 (1.691%) Hudson
6 25 (1.625%) MSBuild
7 21 (1.365%) JIRA
8 18 (1.170%) Mercurial
9 17 (1.105%) JUnit
10 11 (0.715%) GitHub
11 6 (0.390%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.390%) GDB
12 5 (0.325%) Talend Open Studio
12 5 (0.325%) ProC
13 3 (0.195%) GCC
13 3 (0.195%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.130%) Ant
15 1 (0.065%) Bazaar
15 1 (0.065%) Capistrano
15 1 (0.065%) SVK
General
1 166 (10.79%) Finance
2 53 (3.446%) Telecoms
3 42 (2.731%) Banking
4 37 (2.406%) Games
5 27 (1.756%) Back Office
5 27 (1.756%) Marketing
6 21 (1.365%) Retail
7 19 (1.235%) Publishing
8 17 (1.105%) Law
9 12 (0.780%) Music
10 8 (0.520%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.390%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.390%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.260%) Advertising
12 4 (0.260%) German Language
13 2 (0.130%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.130%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.130%) French Language
14 1 (0.065%) Online Betting
14 1 (0.065%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 186 (12.09%) Open Source
2 183 (11.90%) Clustering
3 99 (6.437%) Replication
4 56 (3.641%) SaaS
5 26 (1.691%) Digital Media
6 24 (1.560%) Online Games
6 24 (1.560%) Computer Science
7 17 (1.105%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.105%) Social Media
8 16 (1.040%) Mathematics
9 14 (0.910%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (0.845%) Cryptography
11 12 (0.780%) iSeries
12 10 (0.650%) Derivative
12 10 (0.650%) Streaming Music
12 10 (0.650%) CMDB
12 10 (0.650%) Enterprise Storage
13 9 (0.585%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.585%) Physics
14 7 (0.455%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1538 (100.00%) Linux
2 490 (31.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 470 (30.56%) UNIX
4 437 (28.41%) CentOS
5 386 (25.10%) Windows
6 312 (20.29%) Ubuntu
7 288 (18.73%) Debian
8 124 (8.062%) Solaris
9 93 (6.047%) SUSE
10 87 (5.657%) Windows Server 2008
11 77 (5.007%) AIX
12 42 (2.731%) Windows Server 2003
13 38 (2.471%) Windows 7
14 32 (2.081%) Mac OS X
15 28 (1.821%) FreeBSD
16 26 (1.691%) HPUX
17 25 (1.625%) OpenBSD
18 19 (1.235%) Fedora
19 18 (1.170%) Mac OS X Server
20 16 (1.040%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (10.27%) ITIL
2 139 (9.038%) E-Commerce
3 132 (8.583%) Configuration Management
4 125 (8.127%) Load Balancing
5 65 (4.226%) High Availability
6 62 (4.031%) Problem Management
7 61 (3.966%) Change Management
7 61 (3.966%) Disaster Recovery
8 54 (3.511%) Agile Software Development
9 44 (2.861%) Service Delivery
10 41 (2.666%) Scrum
10 41 (2.666%) Time Management
11 37 (2.406%) Root Cause Analysis
12 36 (2.341%) Service Management
13 28 (1.821%) Security Management
13 28 (1.821%) MVC
14 26 (1.691%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (1.691%) Capacity Planning
15 24 (1.560%) Web Development
16 21 (1.365%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 507 (32.96%) Perl
2 472 (30.69%) Bash shell
3 440 (28.61%) PHP
4 308 (20.03%) Python
5 225 (14.63%) Shell Script
6 195 (12.68%) Java
7 192 (12.48%) SQL
8 152 (9.883%) Ruby
9 77 (5.007%) C
10 47 (3.056%) AWK
10 47 (3.056%) sed
11 31 (2.016%) Korn
12 30 (1.951%) C++
13 25 (1.625%) JavaScript
14 11 (0.715%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.455%) C-shell
16 6 (0.390%) VBScript
16 6 (0.390%) Scala
17 5 (0.325%) Bourne shell
18 4 (0.260%) C#
Qualifications
1 139 (9.038%) RHCE
2 99 (6.437%) Degree
3 65 (4.226%) Security Cleared
4 55 (3.576%) Cisco Certification
5 54 (3.511%) CCNA
6 29 (1.886%) SC Cleared
7 20 (1.300%) RHCT
7 20 (1.300%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.170%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (0.975%) MCSE
9 15 (0.975%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.520%) ISEB
10 8 (0.520%) Postgraduate
10 8 (0.520%) LPIC
11 7 (0.455%) RHCA
12 6 (0.390%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.325%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 5 (0.325%) SCSA
14 3 (0.195%) JNCIA
14 3 (0.195%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.186%) SLA
2 29 (1.886%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.170%) PCI DSS
4 7 (0.455%) QA
5 1 (0.065%) COBIT
System Software
1 236 (15.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 97 (6.307%) NFS
3 88 (5.722%) Samba
3 88 (5.722%) Sendmail
4 85 (5.527%) Postfix
5 76 (4.941%) Xen
6 74 (4.811%) vSphere
7 69 (4.486%) VMware ESX
8 51 (3.316%) VMware ESXi
9 47 (3.056%) Active Directory
10 43 (2.796%) Varnish
11 39 (2.536%) XenServer
12 34 (2.211%) Squid
13 29 (1.886%) qmail
14 18 (1.170%) VirtualBox
15 17 (1.105%) Hyper-V
16 16 (1.040%) ISA Server
17 14 (0.910%) Nmap
18 10 (0.650%) Dovecot
19 9 (0.585%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 376 (24.45%) Puppet
2 206 (13.39%) Nagios
3 51 (3.316%) ZABBIX
4 48 (3.121%) Cacti
5 28 (1.821%) Red Hat Satellite
6 27 (1.756%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 24 (1.560%) Munin
8 21 (1.365%) CFEngine
9 19 (1.235%) NetBackup
9 19 (1.235%) Splunk
10 14 (0.910%) Ganglia
10 14 (0.910%) YUM
11 12 (0.780%) Zenoss
12 11 (0.715%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (0.455%) BMC PATROL
14 6 (0.390%) OSSEC
14 6 (0.390%) Plesk
15 5 (0.325%) SCCM
15 5 (0.325%) Sysprep
15 5 (0.325%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 852 (55.40%) Red Hat
2 421 (27.37%) VMware
3 238 (15.47%) Cisco
4 136 (8.843%) HP
5 130 (8.453%) Oracle
6 98 (6.372%) Microsoft
7 74 (4.811%) IBM
8 68 (4.421%) JBoss
9 48 (3.121%) Citrix
10 47 (3.056%) NetApp
11 46 (2.991%) EMC
12 40 (2.601%) Juniper
13 33 (2.146%) Rackspace
14 30 (1.951%) Veritas
14 30 (1.951%) Dell
15 25 (1.625%) F5
16 21 (1.365%) SAP
17 19 (1.235%) Google
17 19 (1.235%) Sun
18 18 (1.170%) Vertica
Tyneside
You will need to be passionate about technology and have had solid exposure within a Linux Systems Admin role keeping all a companies live services updated... I am...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £28,000 to £37,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Innovative, rapidly expanding global leader in the provision of communication solutions to its target markets, delivering some of the most interesting and challenging systems projects around, requires a...
Catalyst
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Senior Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Cheshire
Linux Systems Administrator - Linux / Red Hat / UNIX / AIX / Infrastructure / Finance... As a Linux Systems Administrator you will be joining the client's technology centre. The role is predominantly...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 22 May 2013
York, North Yorkshire
Linux / UNIX Systems Administrator required to work for highly successful organisation in North Yorkshire. The successful Linux / UNIX Systems Administrator will come from an extensive Linux / UNIX administration...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 22 May 2013
West London
Core skills as a Linux Systems Administrator: An extensive background in Linux System Administration, ideally RedHat, CentOS. Experience in high availability environments web services environments. Experience with apache...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum 25 days holiday, bonus, pension.
Posted: 22 May 2013
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
Brentford, Middlesex
Technical Requirements: - Excellent Linux skills; Redhat, Centos, Apache, Mysql & PHP - Experience of building and managing website infrastructures. - Have in-depth knowledge of internet technologies and processes - routing, load...
Prism Digital
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits + Career Progression
Posted: 24 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Linux Systems Administrator to join an expanding team for a reputable organisation in Brighton. The Linux Systems Administrator shall be required...
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Linux Systems Administrator, Leeds This Award winning telecommunications company based in Leeds provide communications for many UK based ISPs... We are therefore looking for an additional Linux Systems...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25,000 - 30,000 + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Linux Systems Administrator to join an expanding team for a reputable organisation in London. Linux Systems Administrator shall be required to...
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Central London / West End
Exposure to CentOS / Red Hat or similar Linux distributions. Educated to degree level, minimum 2:1 in computer science or similar from a leading university... Advanced scripting skills...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £40,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Linux System Administrator - Redhat - Online RetailerFantastic opportunity for experienced Linux System Administrator with solid Redhat experience in a live 24/7 environment to join a leading Online Retailer...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
Linux, Systems Administrator, Linux Administrator, Monitoring tools, Nimsoft. iSeries, OpenPlan, RedHat, Managed Service... Are you an experienced Linux Administrator?... We are recruiting on behalf of THE biggest company...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £40000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Gloucestershire
Strong shell scripting experience coupled with experience/exposure to one of the following: Bash, Perl, Python or Expect * Understanding of routing and switching protocols and associated Cisco/Juniper...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
North London
Linux Systems Administrator - Red Hat, CentOS, Zabbix, Nagios, Scripting... Linux System's Engineer key skills:- * Linux System's Administration * Linux Red Hat OR CentOS * Knowledge of Zabbix * Previous...
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Key skills: Unix / Linux systems administration skills. Version Control Systems for Configuration Management - Puppet or Chef. Shell Scripting for task automation - Ruby, Perl, Bash, Python etc… Apache configuration.....
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
North London
Skills:Linux Systems Administration. Networks, Firewalls, Shell Scripting, Virtualisation, RAID Disk Management, Puppet, Zabbix, CentOS / RHEL Linux. The Client: We are currently representing an exciting organisation in the...
YourRecruit
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
North Yorkshire
Desirable: Load Balancing and patching experience... You should com from a background supporting either a Linux or Unix environment with some web experience ideally in Apache, Tomcat or...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £32000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a DevOps Linux Systems Administrator to join an expanding team for a market leading organisation in Central London. The DevOps Linux Systems...
ISL
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Linux Systems Administrator with web/media background... As a Systems Administrator working in this exciting digital media team, working on building and running end user facing websites for...
Informatiq Consulting
Salary: up to £42,000
Posted: 21 May 2013
East Sussex
Pure360 specialises in helping organisations get the best results from their digital marketing. Our client list includes many well-known brands, like the Financial Times, Amnesty International, Seatwave...
Pure 360
Salary: £35k to £45K depending on experience
Posted: 25 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Pure360 specialises in helping organisations get the best results from their digital marketing... We are looking for an additional Linux System Administrator to our growing team... As the...
Pure360
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Central London / West End
Dearest Dev Op's / Linux Sys Admins, Based in Central London this is working for a high end Ruby-on-Rails team... I place Ruby-on-Rails developers,...
Infinitium Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £60,000 per annum 25-30 days holiday etc + More - Ask.
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Our client, a market leading organisation based in Leeds, is looking for Senior Linux Systems Administrator to manage and maintain servers within the company’s data centres.You...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 21 May 2013