The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 22 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 123 148 144
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 22 3 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.896% 0.116% 0.725%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.954% 0.121% 0.775%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 9
Average salary £51,500 £25,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+106.00% -37.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,750 £25,000 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,750 £25,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +6.94%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2307 2488 3097
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.93% 96.28% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1880 2021 2521
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
East of England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Watford - 9 £51,500 -
Hemel Hempstead +9 4 £45,000 +80.00%
St Albans - 2 - -
Linux Administrator
East of England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 69 (100.00%) Linux
2 62 (89.86%) Red Hat
3 53 (76.81%) Perl
3 53 (76.81%) Bash shell
4 51 (73.91%) Apache
5 48 (69.57%) CentOS
6 45 (65.22%) MySQL
7 43 (62.32%) PHP
7 43 (62.32%) DNS
8 37 (53.62%) Clustering
9 33 (47.83%) Time Management
10 15 (21.74%) LAMP
11 14 (20.29%) SUSE
12 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
12 13 (18.84%) VMware
13 11 (15.94%) SAN
14 9 (13.04%) OLE
14 9 (13.04%) IMAP
14 9 (13.04%) UNIX
14 9 (13.04%) Windows
14 9 (13.04%) AIX
14 9 (13.04%) POP3
15 8 (11.59%) SMTP
15 8 (11.59%) FTP
15 8 (11.59%) SSL
15 8 (11.59%) Load Balancing
15 8 (11.59%) SSH
15 8 (11.59%) Replication
15 8 (11.59%) nginx
15 8 (11.59%) Varnish

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 15 (21.74%) LAMP
2 9 (13.04%) OLE
3 1 (1.449%) .NET
3 1 (1.449%) Servlets
3 1 (1.449%) SOAP
3 1 (1.449%) Django
Application Platforms
1 51 (73.91%) Apache
2 8 (11.59%) nginx
3 6 (8.696%) Joomla!
3 6 (8.696%) Moodle
3 6 (8.696%) Magento
3 6 (8.696%) WordPress
4 2 (2.899%) CMS
4 2 (2.899%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.449%) Jetty
5 1 (1.449%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.449%) Google App Engine
Business Applications
1 1 (1.449%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 43 (62.32%) DNS
2 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
3 11 (15.94%) SAN
4 9 (13.04%) IMAP
4 9 (13.04%) POP3
5 8 (11.59%) SMTP
5 8 (11.59%) FTP
5 8 (11.59%) SSL
5 8 (11.59%) SSH
6 7 (10.14%) Firewall
7 3 (4.348%) Internet
7 3 (4.348%) HTTP
7 3 (4.348%) NAS
8 2 (2.899%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.899%) Broadband
8 2 (2.899%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (65.22%) MySQL
2 3 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.449%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (4.348%) Finance
2 1 (1.449%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 37 (53.62%) Clustering
2 8 (11.59%) Replication
3 3 (4.348%) Open Source
4 2 (2.899%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 69 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (69.57%) CentOS
3 14 (20.29%) SUSE
4 9 (13.04%) UNIX
4 9 (13.04%) Windows
4 9 (13.04%) AIX
5 8 (11.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (10.14%) Debian
7 3 (4.348%) FreeBSD
7 3 (4.348%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.83%) Time Management
2 8 (11.59%) Load Balancing
3 2 (2.899%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (2.899%) Parallel Computing
3 2 (2.899%) Service Delivery
3 2 (2.899%) Strategic Management
4 1 (1.449%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (76.81%) Perl
1 53 (76.81%) Bash shell
2 43 (62.32%) PHP
3 7 (10.14%) Python
4 3 (4.348%) Java
4 3 (4.348%) SQL
4 3 (4.348%) Ruby
5 1 (1.449%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.449%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.797%) Degree
2 1 (1.449%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.696%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Varnish
1 8 (11.59%) Xen
1 8 (11.59%) Sendmail
2 3 (4.348%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.449%) Squid
3 1 (1.449%) Postfix
3 1 (1.449%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Nagios
2 6 (8.696%) Cacti
3 3 (4.348%) Puppet
4 1 (1.449%) Ganglia
4 1 (1.449%) Plesk
4 1 (1.449%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (89.86%) Red Hat
2 13 (18.84%) VMware
3 4 (5.797%) Cisco
4 1 (1.449%) Oracle
4 1 (1.449%) Intel
4 1 (1.449%) Juniper
4 1 (1.449%) Google
4 1 (1.449%) Percona
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
Watford, Hertfordshire
Linux Systems Administrator Hertfordshire (WD) to £40k... Requirements for Linux Systems Administrator: Degree educated, having achieved a 1... Good knowledge of UNIX / Linux. Scripting skills (any scripting language -...
Client Server
Salary: £25k to £40k + options + benefits
Posted: 16 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
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
St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Strategic management upgrade, monitoring and capacity planning of the core systems... Linux. hosted Java application servers. Linux routing. Administering Apache HTTP server. Administering PostgreSQL HA database servers... DHCP,...
Sky
Salary: Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
St. Albans, South East
DHCP, Radius, DNS, RIPE, CMS, PostgreSQL) Skills and Experience: Good working knowledge of UNIX/Linux including advanced routing Understanding of Java application servers and end-to-end administration...
SkyIQ
Salary: Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013