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The table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator role in IT jobs within the 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Linux System Administrator
Location
3 months to
7 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank494606
Rank change on same period last yearUp+112
Matching permanent IT job ads439408
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.256 %0.175 %
As % of the category below0.300 %0.200 %
Salaries quoted404360
Average minimum salary£39,306£33,748
Average salary£42,090£37,149
% change on same period last year+13.30 %
Average maximum salary£44,875£40,549
UK excluding London average salary£37,209£32,575
% change on same period last year+14.22 %
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads146529203659
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled85.52 %87.31 %
Salaries quoted123055164516
Average minimum salary£39,032£40,397
Average salary£42,687£44,180
% change on same period last year-3.38 %
Average maximum salary£46,342£47,963
UK excluding London average salary£38,201£39,267
% change on same period last year-2.71 %
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Linux Systems Administrator
Demand Trend

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

England Linux Systems Administrator Demand Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

England Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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 England region over the 3 months to 7 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
LondonUp+107256£46,045+8.31 %
South EastUp+8669£38,223+10.18 %
North WestUp+2140£33,944+19.45 %
YorkshireUp+4135£37,400+29.65 %
East of EnglandUp+1216£48,786+47.76 %
East MidlandsDown-313£31,875+3.74 %
West MidlandsUp+57£40,500+20.89 %
South WestUp+125£37,600+18.73 %
North EastNew entry-1£45,000-
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Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

1907 (100.00 %)Linux
2525 (57.88 %)UNIX
3491 (54.13 %)Red Hat Linux
4482 (53.14 %)Red Hat
5399 (43.99 %)Apache
6364 (40.13 %)Perl
7329 (36.27 %)MySQL
8246 (27.12 %)DNS
9232 (25.58 %)TCP/IP
10226 (24.92 %)Windows
11225 (24.81 %)Solaris
12191 (21.06 %)Oracle
13173 (19.07 %)Finance
14144 (15.88 %)PHP
15142 (15.66 %)Cisco
16139 (15.33 %)Shell Script
17135 (14.88 %)Firewall
18130 (14.33 %)Tomcat
19112 (12.35 %)Internet
20102 (11.25 %)SQL
2198 (10.80 %)Debian
2290 (9.923 %)SUSE
2389 (9.813 %)Nagios
2488 (9.702 %)SAN
2488 (9.702 %)Java
2587 (9.592 %)Banking
2680 (8.820 %)RHCE
2772 (7.938 %)HP
2870 (7.718 %)RDBMS
2968 (7.497 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
128 (3.087 %)LAMP
219 (2.095 %)HTML
317 (1.874 %)J2EE
414 (1.544 %)WebSphere
513 (1.433 %)XML
612 (1.323 %)WebServices
76 (0.662 %)WAP
85 (0.551 %)XHTML
85 (0.551 %)CSS
94 (0.441 %)Ruby on Rails
103 (0.331 %)ISAPI
112 (0.221 %)CGI
112 (0.221 %)JSP
112 (0.221 %)Servlets
121 (0.110 %).NET
121 (0.110 %)Middleware
121 (0.110 %)AJAX
121 (0.110 %)Zend Framework
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1399 (43.99 %)Apache
2130 (14.33 %)Tomcat
364 (7.056 %)JBoss
426 (2.867 %)WebLogic
523 (2.536 %)Oracle Application Server
616 (1.764 %)MS Exchange
715 (1.654 %)IIS
85 (0.551 %)OpenEdge
94 (0.441 %)Exchange Server 2003
102 (0.221 %)Site Server
111 (0.110 %)DotNetNuke
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
112 (1.323 %)MS Excel
23 (0.331 %)MS Visio
32 (0.221 %)MS Office
41 (0.110 %)MS Project
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
13 (0.331 %)RMDS
22 (0.221 %)Oracle EBS
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1246 (27.12 %)DNS
2232 (25.58 %)TCP/IP
3135 (14.88 %)Firewall
4112 (12.35 %)Internet
588 (9.702 %)SAN
666 (7.277 %)SMTP
743 (4.741 %)VPN
838 (4.190 %)DHCP
933 (3.638 %)LDAP
1031 (3.418 %)WAN
1130 (3.308 %)LAN
1130 (3.308 %)SSL
1221 (2.315 %)SNMP
1221 (2.315 %)SSH
1318 (1.985 %)HTTP
1417 (1.874 %)FTP
1516 (1.764 %)Cisco PIX
168 (0.882 %)VLAN
177 (0.772 %)VoIP
177 (0.772 %)iSCSI
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1329 (36.27 %)MySQL
270 (7.718 %)RDBMS
366 (7.277 %)SQL Server
454 (5.954 %)DB2
553 (5.843 %)Oracle 8/8i
639 (4.300 %)PostgreSQL
726 (2.867 %)Oracle Reports
814 (1.544 %)Oracle 10g
96 (0.662 %)Datawarehouse
103 (0.331 %)Informix
112 (0.221 %)BusinessObjects
112 (0.221 %)GIS
121 (0.110 %)Firebird
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
115 (1.654 %)Subversion
26 (0.662 %)Eclipse
26 (0.662 %)CruiseControl
31 (0.110 %)Ant
31 (0.110 %)Flash
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1173 (19.07 %)Finance
287 (9.592 %)Banking
348 (5.292 %)Games
431 (3.418 %)Pensions
526 (2.867 %)Investment Banking
622 (2.426 %)Health
718 (1.985 %)Telecoms
817 (1.874 %)Auditing
915 (1.654 %)Online Games
1011 (1.213 %)Marketing
1011 (1.213 %)Insurance
119 (0.992 %)Back Office
128 (0.882 %)Front Office
136 (0.662 %)Mobile Games
143 (0.331 %)Financial Institution
143 (0.331 %)Education
152 (0.221 %)Government
152 (0.221 %)Retail
161 (0.110 %)Music
161 (0.110 %)Legal
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
116 (1.764 %)Clustering
213 (1.433 %)Replication
312 (1.323 %)Computer Science
47 (0.772 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
54 (0.441 %)Client/Server
54 (0.441 %)N-Tier
54 (0.441 %)Mathematics
63 (0.331 %)Device Driver
63 (0.331 %)French Language
63 (0.331 %)CLARiiON
72 (0.221 %)Firmware
72 (0.221 %)Derivative
81 (0.110 %)Data Protection Act
81 (0.110 %)Spanish Language
81 (0.110 %)Social Network
81 (0.110 %)Blackberry
81 (0.110 %)Equities
81 (0.110 %)Web 2.0
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1907 (100.00 %)Linux
2525 (57.88 %)UNIX
3491 (54.13 %)Red Hat Linux
4226 (24.92 %)Windows
5225 (24.81 %)Solaris
698 (10.80 %)Debian
790 (9.923 %)SUSE
868 (7.497 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
948 (5.292 %)Ubuntu
1042 (4.631 %)AIX
1139 (4.300 %)HPUX
1238 (4.190 %)Windows Server 2003
1333 (3.638 %)Fedora
1428 (3.087 %)Windows 2000
1521 (2.315 %)Windows XP
1521 (2.315 %)CentOS
1614 (1.544 %)FreeBSD
1712 (1.323 %)Mac OS X
1810 (1.103 %)Windows 2000 Server
197 (0.772 %)OpenBSD
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
126 (2.867 %)E-Commerce
126 (2.867 %)Load Balancing
223 (2.536 %)ITIL
322 (2.426 %)Electronic Trading
418 (1.985 %)Disaster Recovery
517 (1.874 %)Change Management
616 (1.764 %)Process Management
711 (1.213 %)Service Delivery
711 (1.213 %)Release Management
88 (0.882 %)Web Development
88 (0.882 %)Business Development
97 (0.772 %)Performance Testing
106 (0.662 %)Logistics
106 (0.662 %)Project Management
115 (0.551 %)OO
124 (0.441 %)Migration
124 (0.441 %)SC Cleared
124 (0.441 %)Security Cleared
133 (0.331 %)Load Testing
142 (0.221 %)Data Protection
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1364 (40.13 %)Perl
2144 (15.88 %)PHP
3139 (15.33 %)Shell Script
4102 (11.25 %)SQL
588 (9.702 %)Java
659 (6.505 %)Python
728 (3.087 %)C
820 (2.205 %)JavaScript
916 (1.764 %)Korn
1015 (1.654 %)C++
1111 (1.213 %)Ruby
128 (0.882 %)AWK
128 (0.882 %)Transact-SQL
136 (0.662 %)C#
145 (0.551 %)PHP5
154 (0.441 %)PHP4
163 (0.331 %)PL/SQL
171 (0.110 %)VBScript
171 (0.110 %)Lisp
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
180 (8.820 %)RHCE
247 (5.182 %)RHCT
346 (5.072 %)Degree
426 (2.867 %)Cisco Certification
517 (1.874 %)CCNA
614 (1.544 %)CCNP
74 (0.441 %)MySQL Certification
83 (0.331 %)ITIL Certification
83 (0.331 %)RHCA
92 (0.221 %)CCDP
92 (0.221 %)HNC
92 (0.221 %)HND
101 (0.110 %)Sun Certification
101 (0.110 %)CCVP
101 (0.110 %)SCSA
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (0.992 %)SLA
25 (0.551 %)QA
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
136 (3.969 %)Samba
229 (3.197 %)VMware Infrastructure
326 (2.867 %)Active Directory
425 (2.756 %)NFS
515 (1.654 %)Xen
611 (1.213 %)NetBackup
75 (0.551 %)Squid
82 (0.221 %)VMware ESX
82 (0.221 %)VMware Server
91 (0.110 %)Terminal Services
91 (0.110 %)Oracle RAC
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
189 (9.813 %)Nagios
27 (0.772 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
34 (0.441 %)Norton AntiVirus
34 (0.441 %)SCOM
41 (0.110 %)HP Data Protector
41 (0.110 %)OpenView
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1482 (53.14 %)Red Hat
2191 (21.06 %)Oracle
3142 (15.66 %)Cisco
472 (7.938 %)HP
556 (6.174 %)VMware
653 (5.843 %)Sun
749 (5.402 %)IBM
834 (3.749 %)Microsoft
919 (2.095 %)EMC
919 (2.095 %)ION Trading
1014 (1.544 %)Reuters
1113 (1.433 %)Sybase
1211 (1.213 %)Intel
1211 (1.213 %)VERITAS
1310 (1.103 %)NetApp
1310 (1.103 %)Remedy
149 (0.992 %)Juniper
158 (0.882 %)Bloomberg
158 (0.882 %)Brocade
167 (0.772 %)Citrix