The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Specialist 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 Specialist 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 Specialist
Rank 811 855 834
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 30 11 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.030% 0.010% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.010% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 29 9 13
Average salary £50,000 £35,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £33,300 £35,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £53,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £33,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+26.86% -12.98%
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 Specialist
UK

Linux Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Linux Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend

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

England Linux Specialist Salary Trend

Linux Specialist
Salary Histogram

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

England Linux Specialist Salary Histogram

Linux Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Specialist 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 +74 24 £50,000 -
East of England - 5 £45,000 -
South East +4 1 £40,000 -20.79%
Linux Specialist
UK

Linux Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (56.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (53.03%) UNIX
3 35 (53.03%) Red Hat
4 28 (42.42%) ITIL
5 27 (40.91%) VMware
6 25 (37.88%) Perl
7 22 (33.33%) Internet
8 20 (30.30%) Red Hat Satellite
9 19 (28.79%) Solaris
9 19 (28.79%) MySQL
10 17 (25.76%) DNS
11 16 (24.24%) Python
11 16 (24.24%) Apache
11 16 (24.24%) Finance
12 15 (22.73%) Debian
12 15 (22.73%) Bash shell
12 15 (22.73%) Puppet
12 15 (22.73%) Windows
13 14 (21.21%) Oracle
13 14 (21.21%) Veritas
13 14 (21.21%) RHCE
13 14 (21.21%) Samba
14 13 (19.70%) Cisco
15 12 (18.18%) NFS
15 12 (18.18%) HP
15 12 (18.18%) EMC
15 12 (18.18%) Banking
16 11 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (16.67%) SAN

Linux Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (12.12%) LAMP
2 1 (1.515%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.515%) .NET
2 1 (1.515%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 16 (24.24%) Apache
2 1 (1.515%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.515%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 22 (33.33%) Internet
2 17 (25.76%) DNS
3 11 (16.67%) SAN
4 10 (15.15%) SMTP
5 8 (12.12%) NAS
6 6 (9.091%) LDAP
7 3 (4.545%) OSPF
7 3 (4.545%) BGP
7 3 (4.545%) LAN
7 3 (4.545%) VoIP
7 3 (4.545%) WAN
8 2 (3.030%) DHCP
8 2 (3.030%) HTTP
8 2 (3.030%) IPv4
8 2 (3.030%) Firewall
9 1 (1.515%) VLAN
9 1 (1.515%) IPsec
9 1 (1.515%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.79%) MySQL
2 3 (4.545%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.545%) Redis
2 3 (4.545%) Neo4j
General
1 16 (24.24%) Finance
2 12 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (3.030%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.030%) Financial Institution
3 2 (3.030%) Retail
3 2 (3.030%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) CLARiiON
2 5 (7.576%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.061%) Clustering
3 4 (6.061%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (4.545%) Replication
4 3 (4.545%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.030%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (56.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (53.03%) UNIX
4 19 (28.79%) Solaris
5 15 (22.73%) Debian
5 15 (22.73%) Windows
6 6 (9.091%) HPUX
6 6 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (4.545%) SUSE
8 2 (3.030%) CentOS
9 1 (1.515%) Mac OS X Server
9 1 (1.515%) AIX
9 1 (1.515%) NetWare
9 1 (1.515%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) ITIL
2 8 (12.12%) Security Management
3 6 (9.091%) Service Delivery
4 5 (7.576%) Business Continuity
5 4 (6.061%) Change Control
5 4 (6.061%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (6.061%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (4.545%) Waterfall
6 3 (4.545%) Scrum
7 2 (3.030%) Change Management
8 1 (1.515%) Load Balancing
8 1 (1.515%) Investment Management
8 1 (1.515%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.515%) BCP
8 1 (1.515%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) Perl
2 16 (24.24%) Python
3 15 (22.73%) Bash shell
4 9 (13.64%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.545%) Bourne shell
6 2 (3.030%) SQL
6 2 (3.030%) C
6 2 (3.030%) Java
7 1 (1.515%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) RHCE
2 11 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (12.12%) Degree
4 2 (3.030%) RHCA
4 2 (3.030%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.515%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.515%) CCNA
5 1 (1.515%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) SLA
2 3 (4.545%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.030%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.030%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) Samba
2 12 (18.18%) NFS
3 8 (12.12%) Postfix
4 6 (9.091%) Active Directory
5 5 (7.576%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (6.061%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (4.545%) VMware Server
8 2 (3.030%) XenServer
9 1 (1.515%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 20 (30.30%) Red Hat Satellite
2 15 (22.73%) Puppet
3 10 (15.15%) Splunk
4 9 (13.64%) BMC PATROL
4 9 (13.64%) Nagios
5 8 (12.12%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (12.12%) Tivoli
6 6 (9.091%) Munin
7 4 (6.061%) OpenView
7 4 (6.061%) NetBackup
8 3 (4.545%) YUM
8 3 (4.545%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 3 (4.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.515%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 35 (53.03%) Red Hat
2 27 (40.91%) VMware
3 14 (21.21%) Oracle
3 14 (21.21%) Veritas
4 13 (19.70%) Cisco
5 12 (18.18%) HP
5 12 (18.18%) EMC
6 10 (15.15%) BMC
7 9 (13.64%) IBM
8 7 (10.61%) Citrix
8 7 (10.61%) Sun
9 5 (7.576%) JBoss
10 4 (6.061%) Hitachi
10 4 (6.061%) Symantec
10 4 (6.061%) Brocade
11 3 (4.545%) BT
12 1 (1.515%) NetIQ
12 1 (1.515%) Dell
12 1 (1.515%) Apple
Hertfordshire
Key skills: Expertise in Solaris version 10 and Red Hat Linux Stong business applications experience around Oracle, J2EE applications containers Demonstrable experience of working within a ITIL environment.
Robert Walters
Salary: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Key skills: Linux support, Linux build-out, Linux administration (ideally redhat) ideally with some Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server support experience. Other products include: VMWare, EMC San,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013