The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support Engineer
Rank 594 631 625
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 15 9 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.034% 0.017% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.018% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 11
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £48,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,600 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £42,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +9.37%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40744 50505 53832
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.86% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34331 43869 45250
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 Support Engineer
England

Linux Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Linux Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

London Linux Support Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Support Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Linux Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +18 10 £60,000 +50.00%
Ealing - 1 - -
Linux Support Engineer
England

Linux Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (77.27%) Red Hat
3 12 (54.55%) Windows
4 9 (40.91%) UNIX
4 9 (40.91%) Finance
4 9 (40.91%) WebSphere
4 9 (40.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (36.36%) Bash shell
6 7 (31.82%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (31.82%) IBM
6 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (27.27%) Perl
7 6 (27.27%) SQL
8 5 (22.73%) Apache
9 4 (18.18%) Java
9 4 (18.18%) PHP
9 4 (18.18%) MySQL
9 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
10 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
10 3 (13.64%) JBoss
10 3 (13.64%) SUSE
10 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
10 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (13.64%) Change Control
10 3 (13.64%) Puppet
10 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
10 3 (13.64%) Ruby
11 2 (9.091%) Ubuntu
11 2 (9.091%) Operations Management
11 2 (9.091%) Java EE

Linux Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (40.91%) WebSphere
2 2 (9.091%) Java EE
3 1 (4.545%) HTML5
3 1 (4.545%) J2EE
3 1 (4.545%) JSP
3 1 (4.545%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) WebSphere MQ
2 5 (22.73%) Apache
3 2 (9.091%) IIS
4 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.091%) DNS
2 2 (9.091%) HTTP
2 2 (9.091%) Intranet
2 2 (9.091%) Internet
3 1 (4.545%) Wireless
3 1 (4.545%) IMAP
3 1 (4.545%) Wireless Security
3 1 (4.545%) LAN
3 1 (4.545%) WAN
3 1 (4.545%) SMTP
3 1 (4.545%) DHCP
3 1 (4.545%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.545%) FTP
3 1 (4.545%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Digital Media
2 1 (4.545%) Replication
2 1 (4.545%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (54.55%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (40.91%) UNIX
4 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (13.64%) SUSE
6 2 (9.091%) Debian
6 2 (9.091%) Ubuntu
6 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
7 1 (4.545%) Windows 8
7 1 (4.545%) CentOS
7 1 (4.545%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
1 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
1 3 (13.64%) Change Control
2 2 (9.091%) Operations Management
2 2 (9.091%) System Testing
2 2 (9.091%) Information Security
3 1 (4.545%) Content Management
3 1 (4.545%) Load Testing
3 1 (4.545%) B2B
3 1 (4.545%) B2C
3 1 (4.545%) Benchmarking
3 1 (4.545%) Scrum
3 1 (4.545%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Bash shell
2 6 (27.27%) Perl
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) PHP
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 3 (13.64%) Ruby
5 2 (9.091%) Python
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) NFS
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.545%) Samba
1 1 (4.545%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (4.545%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Red Hat
2 7 (31.82%) IBM
3 3 (13.64%) JBoss
4 2 (9.091%) Oracle
5 1 (4.545%) Intel
5 1 (4.545%) Veritas
City, London
Highly technical support role looking for a candidate with extensive Linux / Unix experience as well as in depth scripting skills using Perl and Shell... The ideal candidate will...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013