The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Linux Systems 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 Senior 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux System Administrator
Rank 748 802 813
Rank change year-on-year
+54 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Systems Administrator 93 64 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.092% 0.056% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.060% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 81 54 37
Average salary £54,500 £51,250 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.34% +7.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £40,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £60,200
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +42.85%
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%
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
UK

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

England Senior Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

England Senior Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Senior 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 Senior Linux Systems 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 +75 62 £55,000 -
South East +16 20 £58,750 +9.30%
North West +8 7 £40,000 -
North East - 3 £40,000 -
East of England - 1 £49,500 -
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
UK

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 154 (100.00%) Linux
2 87 (56.49%) MySQL
3 86 (55.84%) Red Hat
4 79 (51.30%) Puppet
5 76 (49.35%) Apache
6 66 (42.86%) Bash shell
7 60 (38.96%) Perl
8 59 (38.31%) CentOS
9 54 (35.06%) VMware
10 48 (31.17%) PHP
11 46 (29.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 42 (27.27%) Python
13 41 (26.62%) Clustering
14 39 (25.32%) Nagios
14 39 (25.32%) DNS
14 39 (25.32%) Ruby
15 38 (24.68%) Ubuntu
16 37 (24.03%) VMware Infrastructure
16 37 (24.03%) SAN
17 36 (23.38%) SQL
18 35 (22.73%) Tomcat
19 34 (22.08%) Windows
20 31 (20.13%) Open Source
21 30 (19.48%) Xen
22 29 (18.83%) Java
23 28 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
24 27 (17.53%) Debian
24 27 (17.53%) UNIX
25 26 (16.88%) Load Balancing
26 25 (16.23%) JBoss

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (7.792%) Web Services
2 10 (6.494%) LAMP
3 9 (5.844%) JDBC
4 5 (3.247%) COM
4 5 (3.247%) Memcached
4 5 (3.247%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (2.597%) Drools
6 3 (1.948%) HTML
6 3 (1.948%) Lucene
7 1 (0.649%) .NET
7 1 (0.649%) CSS
7 1 (0.649%) OLE
7 1 (0.649%) Ajax
7 1 (0.649%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 76 (49.35%) Apache
2 35 (22.73%) Tomcat
3 18 (11.69%) Amazon AWS
4 16 (10.39%) nginx
5 15 (9.740%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (7.143%) IIS
6 11 (7.143%) Liferay
7 10 (6.494%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.844%) Rackspace Cloud
8 9 (5.844%) Apache Solr
9 8 (5.195%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (2.597%) GlassFish
10 4 (2.597%) CloudFront
10 4 (2.597%) Route 53
11 2 (1.299%) Confluence
12 1 (0.649%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (0.649%) Jetty
Applications
1 5 (3.247%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.299%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 39 (25.32%) DNS
2 37 (24.03%) SAN
3 23 (14.94%) TCP/IP
4 22 (14.29%) Firewall
5 19 (12.34%) iSCSI
5 19 (12.34%) Internet
5 19 (12.34%) HTTP
5 19 (12.34%) DHCP
6 16 (10.39%) SNMP
7 15 (9.740%) LDAP
8 14 (9.091%) NAS
9 13 (8.442%) SMTP
10 11 (7.143%) SSH
11 10 (6.494%) tcpdump
11 10 (6.494%) SSL
12 9 (5.844%) BIG-IP
13 8 (5.195%) TELNET
14 7 (4.545%) VPN
15 6 (3.896%) VLAN
15 6 (3.896%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (56.49%) MySQL
2 28 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 22 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 15 (9.740%) Redis
5 14 (9.091%) MongoDB
6 10 (6.494%) Hadoop
6 10 (6.494%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (5.195%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (3.896%) Neo4j
8 6 (3.896%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 4 (2.597%) Voldemort
10 2 (1.299%) Informix
11 1 (0.649%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.649%) Big Data
11 1 (0.649%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.649%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.649%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (14.29%) Git (software)
2 16 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.442%) Subversion
4 12 (7.792%) Hudson
5 6 (3.896%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.597%) ProC
7 2 (1.299%) JIRA
8 1 (0.649%) GitHub
8 1 (0.649%) JUnit
8 1 (0.649%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.649%) Maven
General
1 24 (15.58%) Finance
2 9 (5.844%) Back Office
3 7 (4.545%) Banking
4 4 (2.597%) Music
4 4 (2.597%) Music Industry
5 3 (1.948%) Law
6 2 (1.299%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.299%) Publishing
6 2 (1.299%) Games
7 1 (0.649%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.62%) Clustering
2 31 (20.13%) Open Source
3 23 (14.94%) Replication
4 10 (6.494%) Cryptography
5 9 (5.844%) iSeries
6 6 (3.896%) SaaS
7 5 (3.247%) Streaming Media
8 4 (2.597%) Streaming Music
8 4 (2.597%) EqualLogic
8 4 (2.597%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.597%) IaaS
9 3 (1.948%) PaaS
9 3 (1.948%) Mathematics
10 2 (1.299%) Online Games
10 2 (1.299%) Computer Science
10 2 (1.299%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.649%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.649%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.649%) Derivative
11 1 (0.649%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 154 (100.00%) Linux
2 59 (38.31%) CentOS
3 46 (29.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (24.68%) Ubuntu
5 34 (22.08%) Windows
6 27 (17.53%) Debian
6 27 (17.53%) UNIX
7 8 (5.195%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (4.545%) SUSE
9 5 (3.247%) FreeBSD
10 4 (2.597%) Scientific Linux
11 2 (1.299%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.649%) AIX
12 1 (0.649%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.88%) Load Balancing
2 25 (16.23%) Configuration Management
3 18 (11.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (9.740%) E-Commerce
5 11 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (6.494%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (6.494%) High Availability
6 10 (6.494%) Change Management
7 9 (5.844%) Infrastructure Management
7 9 (5.844%) Memory Management
8 8 (5.195%) Service Delivery
8 8 (5.195%) ITIL
9 7 (4.545%) Change Control
10 6 (3.896%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (3.896%) Software Deployment
11 5 (3.247%) Service Management
11 5 (3.247%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (3.247%) Release Management
12 4 (2.597%) Mobile Application Development
13 3 (1.948%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.86%) Bash shell
2 60 (38.96%) Perl
3 48 (31.17%) PHP
4 42 (27.27%) Python
5 39 (25.32%) Ruby
6 36 (23.38%) SQL
7 29 (18.83%) Java
8 25 (16.23%) Shell Script
9 15 (9.740%) sed
9 15 (9.740%) AWK
10 6 (3.896%) C
11 4 (2.597%) C++
12 1 (0.649%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.649%) Scala
12 1 (0.649%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) RHCE
2 14 (9.091%) Degree
3 8 (5.195%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.299%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.299%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.299%) CCNA
5 1 (0.649%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.649%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.195%) SLA
2 5 (3.247%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.948%) QA
4 1 (0.649%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (24.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (19.48%) Xen
3 18 (11.69%) NFS
4 13 (8.442%) Squid
4 13 (8.442%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (7.792%) vSphere
6 11 (7.143%) Postfix
7 10 (6.494%) Nmap
8 8 (5.195%) VMware ESX
9 6 (3.896%) Samba
10 5 (3.247%) Sendmail
11 2 (1.299%) VMware Server
11 2 (1.299%) XenServer
11 2 (1.299%) Varnish
11 2 (1.299%) Active Directory
11 2 (1.299%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.649%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 79 (51.30%) Puppet
2 39 (25.32%) Nagios
3 10 (6.494%) ZABBIX
4 8 (5.195%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (4.545%) Zenoss
6 6 (3.896%) Cacti
7 4 (2.597%) Splunk
7 4 (2.597%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 4 (2.597%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.299%) Ganglia
8 2 (1.299%) Munin
8 2 (1.299%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.649%) Cobbler
9 1 (0.649%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.649%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 86 (55.84%) Red Hat
2 54 (35.06%) VMware
3 25 (16.23%) JBoss
4 16 (10.39%) Cisco
4 16 (10.39%) EMC
5 14 (9.091%) Oracle
6 13 (8.442%) Dell
6 13 (8.442%) NetApp
7 12 (7.792%) HP
8 11 (7.143%) SAP
9 9 (5.844%) Nimsoft
10 8 (5.195%) F5
10 8 (5.195%) Microsoft
11 5 (3.247%) Rackspace
12 4 (2.597%) Netezza
12 4 (2.597%) Veeam
12 4 (2.597%) FalconStor
12 4 (2.597%) Veritas
12 4 (2.597%) Percona
13 3 (1.948%) Citrix
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
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
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
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
Greater Manchester, North West
My client based in Greater Manchester is looking for a Linux consultant to join their existing team on some exciting projects... These systems run both Solaris (up to...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 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: 24 May 2013
London
As a minimum experience with S3, EC2. *Deployment automation *Server configuration management *Solr deployment and optimisation *Memcache *Apache web server *Apache traffic server *HA mysql (Master to Master...
J-Com
Salary: £65000 - 80000 Per Annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Central London / West End
RDBMS: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Postgress - any of these exp... Keywords: Senior Systems Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator - eCommerce, Linux, Apache, MySQL JBOSS, Virtualisation / Cloud DataCentre,...
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Installing, configuring and maintaining LINUX (Redhat) servers... CentOS/RHEL... or XEN... Open Source monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zenoss, Cacti and Munin... , samba, Apache, Samba, Sendmail, OpenLDAP, BIND/...
KV Recruitment
Salary: £1 - £2 per annum + Salary + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013