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This section looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs within the London 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 Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Linux Administrator
Location
3 months to
20 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank344449
Rank change on same period last yearUp+105
Matching permanent IT job ads344298
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.185 %0.124 %
As % of the category below0.501 %0.295 %
Salaries quoted310265
Average minimum salary£43,887£39,199
Average salary£46,260£41,652
% change on same period last year+11.06 %
Average maximum salary£48,633£44,105
UK excluding London average salary£35,859£32,760
% change on same period last year+9.45 %
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
London
Matching permanent IT job ads68605101098
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled36.93 %42.14 %
Salaries quoted5717877919
Average minimum salary£45,790£47,385
Average salary£49,962£51,863
% change on same period last year-3.66 %
Average maximum salary£54,133£56,340
UK excluding London average salary£38,055£39,430
% change on same period last year-3.48 %
Linux Administrator EnglandLinux Administrator
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Linux Administrator
Demand Trend

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

London Linux Administrator Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

London Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

London Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
City of LondonDown-2143£49,962+6.72 %
Canary WharfNew entry-26£50,769-
BromleyNew entry-6£30,667-
Docklands, LondonUp+425£51,667-7.46 %
HarrowDown-52£30,000-14.28 %
West DraytonNew entry-1--
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Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the London 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.

1680 (100.00 %)Linux
2407 (59.85 %)UNIX
3384 (56.47 %)Red Hat Linux
4370 (54.41 %)Red Hat
5299 (43.97 %)Apache
6274 (40.29 %)Perl
7222 (32.65 %)MySQL
8189 (27.79 %)Finance
9187 (27.50 %)Windows
10167 (24.56 %)TCP/IP
11160 (23.53 %)Solaris
12134 (19.71 %)DNS
13133 (19.56 %)Cisco
14116 (17.06 %)PHP
15114 (16.76 %)Tomcat
16107 (15.74 %)Oracle
17104 (15.29 %)Firewall
1884 (12.35 %)Python
1978 (11.47 %)Java
2077 (11.32 %)RHCE
2175 (11.03 %)HP
2175 (11.03 %)Banking
2273 (10.74 %)Debian
2273 (10.74 %)SAN
2372 (10.59 %)Internet
2464 (9.412 %)SQL
2552 (7.647 %)Shell Script
2651 (7.500 %)Microsoft
2747 (6.912 %)Degree
2846 (6.765 %)CentOS

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
129 (4.265 %)WebSphere
214 (2.059 %)HTML
313 (1.912 %)J2EE
313 (1.912 %)LAMP
49 (1.324 %)XML
57 (1.029 %)WAP
66 (0.882 %)Ruby on Rails
73 (0.441 %)JSP
73 (0.441 %)Servlets
82 (0.294 %)XHTML
82 (0.294 %).NET
82 (0.294 %)CSS
82 (0.294 %)X-Windows
91 (0.147 %)Middleware
91 (0.147 %)Hibernate
91 (0.147 %)Spring
91 (0.147 %)ASP.NET
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1299 (43.97 %)Apache
2114 (16.76 %)Tomcat
346 (6.765 %)JBoss
438 (5.588 %)WebLogic
514 (2.059 %)IIS
611 (1.618 %)MS Exchange
77 (1.029 %)Resin
86 (0.882 %)Exchange Server 2003
95 (0.735 %)OpenEdge
102 (0.294 %)Mathematica
111 (0.147 %)GroupWise
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (1.029 %)MS Excel
22 (0.294 %)MATLAB
22 (0.294 %)S-PLUS
31 (0.147 %)MS Visio
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1167 (24.56 %)TCP/IP
2134 (19.71 %)DNS
3104 (15.29 %)Firewall
473 (10.74 %)SAN
572 (10.59 %)Internet
628 (4.118 %)FTP
723 (3.382 %)DHCP
822 (3.235 %)LAN
822 (3.235 %)WAN
919 (2.794 %)Cisco PIX
1016 (2.353 %)SSH
1016 (2.353 %)VPN
1115 (2.206 %)LDAP
1115 (2.206 %)SNMP
1213 (1.912 %)SMTP
1312 (1.765 %)HTTP
1312 (1.765 %)iSCSI
1410 (1.471 %)VoIP
159 (1.324 %)IMAP
168 (1.176 %)SSL
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1222 (32.65 %)MySQL
235 (5.147 %)SQL Server
329 (4.265 %)PostgreSQL
413 (1.912 %)Oracle 10g
59 (1.324 %)RDBMS
64 (0.588 %)Datawarehouse
73 (0.441 %)DB2
73 (0.441 %)Informix
82 (0.294 %)SQL Server 2000
82 (0.294 %)SQL Server 2005
91 (0.147 %)Oracle Reports
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
19 (1.324 %)Eclipse
19 (1.324 %)CruiseControl
22 (0.294 %)Subversion
22 (0.294 %)Ant
22 (0.294 %)Flash
31 (0.147 %)VSS/SourceSafe
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1189 (27.79 %)Finance
275 (11.03 %)Banking
340 (5.882 %)Investment Banking
429 (4.265 %)Telecoms
528 (4.118 %)Back Office
626 (3.824 %)Games
725 (3.676 %)Health
816 (2.353 %)Pensions
915 (2.206 %)Front Office
915 (2.206 %)Online Games
109 (1.324 %)Financial Institution
118 (1.176 %)Advertising
118 (1.176 %)Marketing
123 (0.441 %)Education
123 (0.441 %)Publishing
123 (0.441 %)Mobile Games
132 (0.294 %)Retail
132 (0.294 %)Insurance
141 (0.147 %)Auditing
141 (0.147 %)Government
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
130 (4.412 %)Clustering
217 (2.500 %)Replication
312 (1.765 %)Computer Science
48 (1.176 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
55 (0.735 %)N-Tier
64 (0.588 %)Client/Server
64 (0.588 %)Derivative
72 (0.294 %)CLARiiON
72 (0.294 %)Social Network
81 (0.147 %)Grid Computing
81 (0.147 %)Spread Betting
81 (0.147 %)Mathematics
81 (0.147 %)Web 2.0
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1680 (100.00 %)Linux
2407 (59.85 %)UNIX
3384 (56.47 %)Red Hat Linux
4187 (27.50 %)Windows
5160 (23.53 %)Solaris
673 (10.74 %)Debian
746 (6.765 %)CentOS
841 (6.029 %)Windows Server 2003
937 (5.441 %)SUSE
1034 (5.000 %)Ubuntu
1132 (4.706 %)HPUX
1230 (4.412 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1329 (4.265 %)AIX
1426 (3.824 %)Windows XP
1426 (3.824 %)Fedora
1521 (3.088 %)Windows 2000
1620 (2.941 %)Windows 2000 Server
1718 (2.647 %)FreeBSD
1813 (1.912 %)Tru64
196 (0.882 %)OpenVMS
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
132 (4.706 %)E-Commerce
231 (4.559 %)Electronic Trading
327 (3.971 %)Load Balancing
422 (3.235 %)Change Management
520 (2.941 %)ITIL
618 (2.647 %)Disaster Recovery
713 (1.912 %)Business Development
88 (1.176 %)Release Management
97 (1.029 %)Project Management
105 (0.735 %)Investment Management
114 (0.588 %)Software Testing
114 (0.588 %)Service Delivery
114 (0.588 %)Migration
123 (0.441 %)Asset Management
123 (0.441 %)Load Testing
132 (0.294 %)Web Development
132 (0.294 %)Content Management
132 (0.294 %)MOF
132 (0.294 %)Validation
132 (0.294 %)PRINCE2
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1274 (40.29 %)Perl
2116 (17.06 %)PHP
384 (12.35 %)Python
478 (11.47 %)Java
564 (9.412 %)SQL
652 (7.647 %)Shell Script
731 (4.559 %)Ruby
823 (3.382 %)Korn
919 (2.794 %)JavaScript
1017 (2.500 %)C
1112 (1.765 %)AWK
124 (0.588 %)C++
133 (0.441 %)Transact-SQL
133 (0.441 %)VBScript
133 (0.441 %)PL/SQL
141 (0.147 %)JCL
141 (0.147 %)Lisp
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
177 (11.32 %)RHCE
247 (6.912 %)Degree
337 (5.441 %)Cisco Certification
436 (5.294 %)RHCT
531 (4.559 %)CCNA
613 (1.912 %)CCNP
76 (0.882 %)CCIE
85 (0.735 %)RHCA
94 (0.588 %)IBM AIX Certification
94 (0.588 %)MySQL Certification
102 (0.294 %)CCDP
111 (0.147 %)MCP
111 (0.147 %)Microsoft Certification
111 (0.147 %)Sun Certification
111 (0.147 %)CCVP
111 (0.147 %)SCSA
111 (0.147 %)LPIC
111 (0.147 %)SCNA
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (1.324 %)QA
28 (1.176 %)SLA
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
134 (5.000 %)Active Directory
227 (3.971 %)NFS
316 (2.353 %)Samba
410 (1.471 %)Squid
57 (1.029 %)Xen
66 (0.882 %)VMware ESX
66 (0.882 %)NetBackup
66 (0.882 %)VMware Infrastructure
74 (0.588 %)Cronacle
81 (0.147 %)Oracle RAC
81 (0.147 %)Nmap
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
137 (5.441 %)Nagios
27 (1.029 %)SCOM
32 (0.294 %)OpenView
32 (0.294 %)Legato
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1370 (54.41 %)Red Hat
2133 (19.56 %)Cisco
3107 (15.74 %)Oracle
475 (11.03 %)HP
551 (7.500 %)Microsoft
626 (3.824 %)ION Trading
724 (3.529 %)VMware
823 (3.382 %)Sun
914 (2.059 %)IBM
914 (2.059 %)Reuters
1013 (1.912 %)EMC
1111 (1.618 %)Remedy
129 (1.324 %)NetApp
129 (1.324 %)VERITAS
137 (1.029 %)Bloomberg
137 (1.029 %)Brocade
146 (0.882 %)BEA
146 (0.882 %)Dell
146 (0.882 %)Sybase
155 (0.735 %)CheckPoint