The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Consultant 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Consultant
Rank 592 645 609
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Consultant 9 4 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.020% 0.007% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.008% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 11
Average salary £47,500 £53,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.62% +26.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £47,250 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £58,500 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-1.17% -5.55%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41114 51159 53446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.93% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 34577 44402 45054
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Consultant
England

Linux Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Linux Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Consultant
Salary Trend

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

London Linux Consultant Salary Trend

Linux Consultant
Salary Histogram

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

London Linux Consultant Salary Histogram

Linux Consultant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Consultant within the London 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
City of London +19 2 £42,500 -19.04%
Twickenham - 1 £57,000 -
Linux Consultant
England

Linux Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Linux Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (73.33%) Firewall
3 10 (66.67%) TCP/IP
4 8 (53.33%) Cisco
4 8 (53.33%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (53.33%) Cisco PIX
4 8 (53.33%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
5 7 (46.67%) IPsec
5 7 (46.67%) VPN
6 6 (40.00%) UNIX
7 5 (33.33%) Solaris
8 4 (26.67%) Oracle
8 4 (26.67%) ITIL
8 4 (26.67%) Finance
9 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (20.00%) HP
9 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
9 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (20.00%) AIX
9 3 (20.00%) HPUX
9 3 (20.00%) ERP
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (20.00%) High Availability
9 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (20.00%) SAN
9 3 (20.00%) VMware
9 3 (20.00%) Clustering
10 2 (13.33%) Veritas

Linux Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Linux Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
1 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 10 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 8 (53.33%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (53.33%) Cisco PIX
3 8 (53.33%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (46.67%) IPsec
4 7 (46.67%) VPN
5 3 (20.00%) SAN
6 2 (13.33%) NAS
6 2 (13.33%) DNS
7 1 (6.667%) DHCP
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (40.00%) UNIX
4 5 (33.33%) Solaris
5 3 (20.00%) AIX
5 3 (20.00%) HPUX
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (6.667%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (20.00%) ERP
2 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.667%) Service Management
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.667%) Project Planning
3 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.667%) Java
2 1 (6.667%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) RHCE
1 1 (6.667%) SCSA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.667%) NFS
2 1 (6.667%) Samba
2 1 (6.667%) Sendmail
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
2 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Nagios
1 1 (6.667%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle
4 3 (20.00%) HP
4 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) Veritas
5 2 (13.33%) Sun
6 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.667%) Symantec
City of London
IQ has been retained by Europe's largest Oracle EBS Management Consultancy to recruit a Linux Infrastructure Consultant to be based in London.We are looking for an...
Salary: £competitive + structured career path
Posted: 3 May 2013
North London
Redhat Linux Consultant/Engineer RHCE - London and South East. My client has an urgent requirement for a Redhat certified Linux Consultant with RHCE (6.0 ideally but they...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 45,000 + bonus (up to 20%)
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Key requirements - Linux & Solaris administration (preferably RHEL or Oracle enterprise Linux) - Strong shell scripting skills - UNIX networking and security - Clustering experience (ideally Oracle RAC) Desirable experience - Experience of...
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
Posted: 2 May 2013
London
The successful candidate will have the following core technical skills:-Linux (RedHat / Oracle Enterprise Linux) and Solaris system administration.-Experience of building systems from the ground up-Experience...
Sovereign Business Resource
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Holidays, Pension
Posted: 3 May 2013