The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 123 148 153
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 20 2 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.814% 0.079% 0.455%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.866% 0.082% 0.486%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 6
Average salary £51,500 £25,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+106.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2309 2427 3085
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.94% 96.35% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1883 1979 2498
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 £59,550 £59,320
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
East of England

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 +4 4 £45,000 +80.00%
Linux Systems Administrator
East of England

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 63 (100.00%) Linux
2 58 (92.06%) Red Hat
3 51 (80.95%) Perl
3 51 (80.95%) Bash shell
4 45 (71.43%) Apache
5 44 (69.84%) CentOS
6 43 (68.25%) MySQL
7 39 (61.90%) PHP
7 39 (61.90%) DNS
8 35 (55.56%) Clustering
9 31 (49.21%) Time Management
10 15 (23.81%) LAMP
11 14 (22.22%) SUSE
12 13 (20.63%) VMware
12 13 (20.63%) TCP/IP
13 11 (17.46%) SAN
14 9 (14.29%) OLE
14 9 (14.29%) Windows
14 9 (14.29%) AIX
14 9 (14.29%) POP3
14 9 (14.29%) IMAP
15 8 (12.70%) Load Balancing
15 8 (12.70%) Xen
15 8 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (12.70%) Replication
15 8 (12.70%) SSH
15 8 (12.70%) SMTP
15 8 (12.70%) FTP
15 8 (12.70%) SSL
15 8 (12.70%) Varnish

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Application Development
1 15 (23.81%) LAMP
2 9 (14.29%) OLE
3 1 (1.587%) Django
3 1 (1.587%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 45 (71.43%) Apache
2 8 (12.70%) nginx
3 6 (9.524%) Magento
3 6 (9.524%) WordPress
3 6 (9.524%) Joomla!
3 6 (9.524%) Moodle
4 2 (3.175%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.587%) Jetty
5 1 (1.587%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.587%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 39 (61.90%) DNS
2 13 (20.63%) TCP/IP
3 11 (17.46%) SAN
4 9 (14.29%) POP3
4 9 (14.29%) IMAP
5 8 (12.70%) SSH
5 8 (12.70%) SMTP
5 8 (12.70%) FTP
5 8 (12.70%) SSL
6 7 (11.11%) Firewall
7 3 (4.762%) NAS
8 1 (1.587%) HTTP
8 1 (1.587%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (68.25%) MySQL
2 1 (1.587%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.587%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (1.587%) Finance
1 1 (1.587%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 35 (55.56%) Clustering
2 8 (12.70%) Replication
3 3 (4.762%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 63 (100.00%) Linux
2 44 (69.84%) CentOS
3 14 (22.22%) SUSE
4 9 (14.29%) Windows
4 9 (14.29%) AIX
5 8 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (11.11%) UNIX
6 7 (11.11%) Debian
7 3 (4.762%) OpenBSD
7 3 (4.762%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) Time Management
2 8 (12.70%) Load Balancing
3 2 (3.175%) Parallel Computing
4 1 (1.587%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (80.95%) Perl
1 51 (80.95%) Bash shell
2 39 (61.90%) PHP
3 7 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (4.762%) Ruby
5 1 (1.587%) Java
5 1 (1.587%) SQL
5 1 (1.587%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.587%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (6.349%) Degree
2 1 (1.587%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.524%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Xen
1 8 (12.70%) Varnish
1 8 (12.70%) Sendmail
2 3 (4.762%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.587%) Squid
3 1 (1.587%) Postfix
3 1 (1.587%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Nagios
2 6 (9.524%) Cacti
3 3 (4.762%) Puppet
4 1 (1.587%) Ganglia
4 1 (1.587%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.587%) Plesk
Vendors
1 58 (92.06%) Red Hat
2 13 (20.63%) VMware
3 4 (6.349%) Cisco
4 1 (1.587%) Google
4 1 (1.587%) Oracle
4 1 (1.587%) Intel
4 1 (1.587%) Juniper
4 1 (1.587%) 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