The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 388 466 480
Rank change year-on-year
+78 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 219 175 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.503% 0.325% 0.243%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.539% 0.346% 0.260%
Number of salaries quoted 194 145 110
Average salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,250 £64,600 £73,500
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +14.28%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40625 50517 53034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.40% 93.86% 93.57%
Number of salaries quoted 34197 43879 44601
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 Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

London Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Linux Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +22 43 £60,000 +33.33%
Uxbridge +5 8 £45,000 +5.88%
Harrow +5 7 £57,500 +35.29%
Ruislip - 4 £60,000 -
Croydon - 1 £35,000 -
Ealing - 1 - -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 368 (100.00%) Linux
2 171 (46.47%) Red Hat
3 160 (43.48%) MySQL
4 141 (38.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 139 (37.77%) Puppet
6 130 (35.33%) Bash shell
7 128 (34.78%) CentOS
8 126 (34.24%) Perl
9 120 (32.61%) UNIX
10 119 (32.34%) Apache
11 107 (29.08%) PHP
12 103 (27.99%) Windows
13 85 (23.10%) Python
14 82 (22.28%) VMware
15 79 (21.47%) Ubuntu
16 77 (20.92%) Nagios
17 73 (19.84%) Java
17 73 (19.84%) Ruby
18 72 (19.57%) TCP/IP
19 63 (17.12%) Solaris
20 61 (16.58%) SAN
21 59 (16.03%) DNS
21 59 (16.03%) VMware Infrastructure
22 58 (15.76%) Debian
23 54 (14.67%) Finance
24 53 (14.40%) Internet
25 50 (13.59%) LAMP
26 49 (13.32%) E-Commerce
27 48 (13.04%) Clustering
27 48 (13.04%) Open Source

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 50 (13.59%) LAMP
2 29 (7.880%) Web Services
3 20 (5.435%) WebSphere
4 17 (4.620%) XML
5 12 (3.261%) REST
6 11 (2.989%) Node.js
6 11 (2.989%) SOAP
7 8 (2.174%) HTML5
7 8 (2.174%) Middleware
8 7 (1.902%) Django
8 7 (1.902%) .NET
9 4 (1.087%) J2EE
9 4 (1.087%) HTML
9 4 (1.087%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.087%) Java EE
10 3 (0.815%) JMX
10 3 (0.815%) YAML
10 3 (0.815%) Memcached
10 3 (0.815%) MapReduce
10 3 (0.815%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 119 (32.34%) Apache
2 41 (11.14%) Amazon AWS
3 39 (10.60%) Tomcat
4 29 (7.880%) nginx
5 19 (5.163%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (3.804%) OpenStack
6 14 (3.804%) IIS
7 11 (2.989%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (2.446%) Drupal
8 9 (2.446%) Mule
9 8 (2.174%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (1.359%) Jetty
11 4 (1.087%) Apache Solr
11 4 (1.087%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.815%) MS Exchange
13 2 (0.543%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.543%) LiveSite
13 2 (0.543%) Amazon ELB
14 1 (0.272%) Apache Pig
14 1 (0.272%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.272%) Google Apps
2 1 (0.272%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 72 (19.57%) TCP/IP
2 61 (16.58%) SAN
3 59 (16.03%) DNS
4 53 (14.40%) Internet
5 33 (8.967%) NAS
6 26 (7.065%) Firewall
7 25 (6.793%) LDAP
7 25 (6.793%) HTTP
8 17 (4.620%) SMTP
8 17 (4.620%) DHCP
9 14 (3.804%) SSL
10 13 (3.533%) iSCSI
11 12 (3.261%) FTP
11 12 (3.261%) SSH
12 10 (2.717%) OpenLDAP
13 9 (2.446%) VoIP
14 7 (1.902%) VPN
15 5 (1.359%) Wireshark
15 5 (1.359%) tcpdump
16 4 (1.087%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (43.48%) MySQL
2 31 (8.424%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.435%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.620%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.533%) Hadoop
6 12 (3.261%) Redis
7 10 (2.717%) Big Data
8 6 (1.630%) Couchbase
8 6 (1.630%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.359%) Informix
10 4 (1.087%) CouchDB
10 4 (1.087%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.815%) HBase
12 2 (0.543%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.543%) Oracle 8/8i
12 2 (0.543%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.543%) Amazon DynamoDB
13 1 (0.272%) SQL Server 2005
13 1 (0.272%) Oracle 11g
13 1 (0.272%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 38 (10.33%) Jenkins
2 20 (5.435%) Maven
3 17 (4.620%) Git (software)
4 16 (4.348%) GitHub
5 12 (3.261%) Hudson
6 10 (2.717%) Mercurial
6 10 (2.717%) Selenium
7 9 (2.446%) Talend Open Studio
7 9 (2.446%) JMeter
8 7 (1.902%) Subversion
9 5 (1.359%) Capistrano
10 4 (1.087%) JIRA
10 4 (1.087%) GDB
11 1 (0.272%) Ant
General
1 54 (14.67%) Finance
2 14 (3.804%) Telecoms
2 14 (3.804%) Banking
3 12 (3.261%) Games
4 10 (2.717%) Publishing
5 7 (1.902%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.630%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.359%) Back Office
7 5 (1.359%) Retail
7 5 (1.359%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.815%) Music
9 2 (0.543%) Marketing
9 2 (0.543%) Online Betting
9 2 (0.543%) Law
10 1 (0.272%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.04%) Clustering
1 48 (13.04%) Open Source
2 26 (7.065%) Cloud Computing
3 21 (5.707%) Replication
4 13 (3.533%) Digital Media
5 12 (3.261%) Video on Demand
5 12 (3.261%) Computer Science
6 10 (2.717%) New Media
6 10 (2.717%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (2.446%) SaaS
8 7 (1.902%) Firmware
9 5 (1.359%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.359%) Online Games
10 4 (1.087%) Derivative
10 4 (1.087%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.815%) Streaming Video
11 3 (0.815%) Streaming Music
11 3 (0.815%) Physics
12 2 (0.543%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.543%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 368 (100.00%) Linux
2 141 (38.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 128 (34.78%) CentOS
4 120 (32.61%) UNIX
5 103 (27.99%) Windows
6 79 (21.47%) Ubuntu
7 63 (17.12%) Solaris
8 58 (15.76%) Debian
9 44 (11.96%) Windows Server 2008
10 19 (5.163%) Windows Server 2003
11 11 (2.989%) Fedora
12 9 (2.446%) SUSE
12 9 (2.446%) AIX
13 7 (1.902%) Windows 7
14 6 (1.630%) FreeBSD
14 6 (1.630%) VMS
14 6 (1.630%) OpenBSD
15 4 (1.087%) OpenVMS
15 4 (1.087%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.815%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (13.32%) E-Commerce
2 36 (9.783%) ITIL
3 28 (7.609%) Load Balancing
4 27 (7.337%) Configuration Management
5 23 (6.250%) Scrum
6 18 (4.891%) Problem Management
7 17 (4.620%) Service Management
8 14 (3.804%) Release Management
9 12 (3.261%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (3.261%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (3.261%) Workflow
10 9 (2.446%) Load Testing
10 9 (2.446%) Waterfall
11 8 (2.174%) BCP
12 7 (1.902%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (1.902%) Infrastructure Management
13 6 (1.630%) Capacity Planning
13 6 (1.630%) Change Management
13 6 (1.630%) Penetration Testing
13 6 (1.630%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (35.33%) Bash shell
2 126 (34.24%) Perl
3 107 (29.08%) PHP
4 85 (23.10%) Python
5 73 (19.84%) Java
5 73 (19.84%) Ruby
6 33 (8.967%) Shell Script
7 20 (5.435%) SQL
8 15 (4.076%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.076%) C
9 10 (2.717%) OCaml
10 9 (2.446%) Erlang
11 8 (2.174%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.630%) AWK
12 6 (1.630%) sed
13 5 (1.359%) C++
14 2 (0.543%) C-shell
14 2 (0.543%) Korn
15 1 (0.272%) C#
15 1 (0.272%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 42 (11.41%) Degree
2 15 (4.076%) CCNA
2 15 (4.076%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (4.076%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (3.804%) RHCE
4 3 (0.815%) RHCT
5 2 (0.543%) LPIC
5 2 (0.543%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.272%) SCSA
6 1 (0.272%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.272%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.717%) QA
2 6 (1.630%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.359%) SLA
4 4 (1.087%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (16.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (8.696%) Xen
3 26 (7.065%) NFS
4 15 (4.076%) Varnish
5 14 (3.804%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.804%) Samba
6 11 (2.989%) Sendmail
6 11 (2.989%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 10 (2.717%) VMware ESX
8 9 (2.446%) Active Directory
9 6 (1.630%) XenServer
9 6 (1.630%) Postfix
10 5 (1.359%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.815%) Squid
11 3 (0.815%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.543%) vSphere
12 2 (0.543%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.543%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.543%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.272%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 139 (37.77%) Puppet
2 77 (20.92%) Nagios
3 32 (8.696%) ZABBIX
4 12 (3.261%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 9 (2.446%) Cacti
5 9 (2.446%) CFEngine
6 8 (2.174%) Splunk
6 8 (2.174%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (1.902%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (1.902%) Ganglia
8 6 (1.630%) Plesk
9 5 (1.359%) YUM
10 4 (1.087%) OpenView
11 2 (0.543%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 2 (0.543%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.272%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.272%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.272%) HP SIM
12 1 (0.272%) OSSEC
Vendors
1 171 (46.47%) Red Hat
2 82 (22.28%) VMware
3 41 (11.14%) Cisco
4 31 (8.424%) HP
5 29 (7.880%) Oracle
6 28 (7.609%) JBoss
7 19 (5.163%) Veritas
8 18 (4.891%) IBM
9 16 (4.348%) Percona
10 15 (4.076%) Sun
10 15 (4.076%) NetApp
11 13 (3.533%) Juniper
11 13 (3.533%) EMC
12 11 (2.989%) Akamai
13 9 (2.446%) Joyent
13 9 (2.446%) Talend
14 8 (2.174%) Microsoft
15 7 (1.902%) SolarWinds
16 6 (1.630%) CheckPoint
17 5 (1.359%) Rackspace
Uxbridge, Middlesex
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London
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Salary: COMPETITIVE AND NEGOTIABLE
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
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Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens + Shares
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London
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
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Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + benefits, bonus
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Salary: £50000 to £60000 per annum
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London
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London
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Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Bens
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Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00
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