The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux Administrator
Rank 512 590 607
Rank change year-on-year
+78 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Administrator 72 46 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.165% 0.086% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.176% 0.091% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 67 39 43
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £39,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-13.68% +18.75%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40860 50394 54260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.96% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 34360 43737 45781
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%
Senior Linux Administrator
England

Senior Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Senior Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

London Senior Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Senior Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Linux Administrator across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Senior Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Senior Linux Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Linux Administrator within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +8 12 £50,000 +5.26%
Ruislip - 4 £60,000 -
Surbiton - 4 £57,500 -
Feltham - 2 £55,000 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £53,750 -
Ealing - 2 £50,000 -
Senior Linux Administrator
England

Senior Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Administrator in their job title.

1 116 (100.00%) Linux
2 71 (61.21%) Puppet
3 67 (57.76%) Red Hat
4 64 (55.17%) MySQL
5 52 (44.83%) Apache
6 48 (41.38%) Bash shell
7 42 (36.21%) Perl
8 40 (34.48%) DNS
9 39 (33.62%) CentOS
9 39 (33.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 35 (30.17%) UNIX
11 32 (27.59%) Nagios
12 31 (26.72%) Python
13 30 (25.86%) Tomcat
14 29 (25.00%) VMware
14 29 (25.00%) Ruby
15 27 (23.28%) Ubuntu
15 27 (23.28%) Open Source
16 26 (22.41%) Xen
16 26 (22.41%) SAN
17 25 (21.55%) PHP
18 24 (20.69%) Amazon AWS
19 23 (19.83%) Java
20 22 (18.97%) Clustering
20 22 (18.97%) Finance
20 22 (18.97%) Shell Script
20 22 (18.97%) NoSQL
21 21 (18.10%) SQL
22 20 (17.24%) Configuration Management
23 19 (16.38%) Debian

Senior Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (12.07%) Web Services
2 9 (7.759%) LAMP
3 6 (5.172%) JDBC
4 5 (4.310%) Memcached
4 5 (4.310%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (3.448%) HTML
5 4 (3.448%) Drools
6 3 (2.586%) Lucene
7 2 (1.724%) Middleware
7 2 (1.724%) J2EE
8 1 (0.862%) Ajax
8 1 (0.862%) .NET
8 1 (0.862%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 52 (44.83%) Apache
2 30 (25.86%) Tomcat
3 24 (20.69%) Amazon AWS
4 16 (13.79%) nginx
5 15 (12.93%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (10.34%) Rackspace Cloud
7 7 (6.034%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.034%) Liferay
8 5 (4.310%) Confluence
9 4 (3.448%) GlassFish
9 4 (3.448%) CloudFront
9 4 (3.448%) Route 53
10 3 (2.586%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.586%) Apache Solr
11 2 (1.724%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (1.724%) WebLogic
11 2 (1.724%) IIS
12 1 (0.862%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (0.862%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 40 (34.48%) DNS
2 26 (22.41%) SAN
3 19 (16.38%) TCP/IP
4 17 (14.66%) Internet
5 16 (13.79%) HTTP
6 15 (12.93%) iSCSI
7 14 (12.07%) SSH
8 13 (11.21%) DHCP
8 13 (11.21%) SNMP
9 11 (9.483%) LDAP
10 10 (8.621%) NAS
11 9 (7.759%) BIG-IP
11 9 (7.759%) SMTP
12 8 (6.897%) Firewall
12 8 (6.897%) SSL
13 7 (6.034%) tcpdump
13 7 (6.034%) TELNET
14 6 (5.172%) VLAN
15 5 (4.310%) OpenLDAP
16 4 (3.448%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (55.17%) MySQL
2 22 (18.97%) NoSQL
3 16 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (12.93%) Redis
5 14 (12.07%) MongoDB
6 10 (8.621%) SQL Server
7 8 (6.897%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.448%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.448%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.448%) Voldemort
9 2 (1.724%) Informix
10 1 (0.862%) Big Data
10 1 (0.862%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.862%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.862%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.862%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (13.79%) Git (software)
2 15 (12.93%) Subversion
3 12 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.897%) Hudson
5 5 (4.310%) JIRA
6 4 (3.448%) ProC
7 2 (1.724%) JUnit
8 1 (0.862%) GitHub
8 1 (0.862%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.862%) Maven
General
1 22 (18.97%) Finance
2 9 (7.759%) Back Office
3 4 (3.448%) Banking
3 4 (3.448%) Music
3 4 (3.448%) Music Industry
4 2 (1.724%) Games
4 2 (1.724%) Law
4 2 (1.724%) Publishing
5 1 (0.862%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.28%) Open Source
2 22 (18.97%) Clustering
3 13 (11.21%) Replication
4 7 (6.034%) Cryptography
5 5 (4.310%) Streaming Media
6 4 (3.448%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.448%) Streaming Music
7 3 (2.586%) SaaS
7 3 (2.586%) PaaS
7 3 (2.586%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.724%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.724%) HACMP
8 2 (1.724%) Online Games
8 2 (1.724%) Computer Science
8 2 (1.724%) IaaS
9 1 (0.862%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.862%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.862%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 116 (100.00%) Linux
2 39 (33.62%) CentOS
2 39 (33.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (30.17%) UNIX
4 27 (23.28%) Ubuntu
5 19 (16.38%) Debian
5 19 (16.38%) Windows
6 11 (9.483%) SUSE
7 6 (5.172%) Solaris
8 5 (4.310%) FreeBSD
9 4 (3.448%) Scientific Linux
10 2 (1.724%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.724%) AIX
10 2 (1.724%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.862%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.862%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.24%) Configuration Management
2 18 (15.52%) Load Balancing
3 15 (12.93%) E-Commerce
4 12 (10.34%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (8.621%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (7.759%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (7.759%) Service Management
7 8 (6.897%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (5.172%) Software Deployment
8 6 (5.172%) Memory Management
9 5 (4.310%) Change Control
9 5 (4.310%) Release Management
9 5 (4.310%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (3.448%) Mobile Application Development
10 4 (3.448%) Scrum
10 4 (3.448%) ITIL
10 4 (3.448%) Performance Management
10 4 (3.448%) High Availability
11 2 (1.724%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 48 (41.38%) Bash shell
2 42 (36.21%) Perl
3 31 (26.72%) Python
4 29 (25.00%) Ruby
5 25 (21.55%) PHP
6 23 (19.83%) Java
7 22 (18.97%) Shell Script
8 21 (18.10%) SQL
9 13 (11.21%) AWK
9 13 (11.21%) sed
10 6 (5.172%) C
11 2 (1.724%) C++
11 2 (1.724%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.724%) Korn
12 1 (0.862%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) RHCE
2 7 (6.034%) Degree
3 2 (1.724%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.724%) CCNA
3 2 (1.724%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.862%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.862%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.862%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.621%) SLA
2 5 (4.310%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.586%) QA
4 2 (1.724%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (22.41%) Xen
2 18 (15.52%) NFS
3 14 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.759%) Squid
4 9 (7.759%) Samba
5 8 (6.897%) Postfix
6 7 (6.034%) Sendmail
6 7 (6.034%) Nmap
7 4 (3.448%) vSphere
8 2 (1.724%) Active Directory
8 2 (1.724%) VMware Server
8 2 (1.724%) Varnish
8 2 (1.724%) Apache Flume
8 2 (1.724%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 71 (61.21%) Puppet
2 32 (27.59%) Nagios
3 10 (8.621%) ZABBIX
3 10 (8.621%) Zenoss
4 8 (6.897%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (5.172%) Cacti
6 4 (3.448%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 4 (3.448%) Splunk
7 2 (1.724%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (1.724%) Ganglia
7 2 (1.724%) Munin
8 1 (0.862%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.862%) Cobbler
8 1 (0.862%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 67 (57.76%) Red Hat
2 29 (25.00%) VMware
3 16 (13.79%) Oracle
4 14 (12.07%) JBoss
5 13 (11.21%) EMC
6 12 (10.34%) Cisco
7 10 (8.621%) HP
7 10 (8.621%) NetApp
8 8 (6.897%) F5
8 8 (6.897%) Rackspace
9 7 (6.034%) SAP
10 6 (5.172%) Veritas
11 5 (4.310%) Sun
12 4 (3.448%) Netezza
12 4 (3.448%) Percona
13 3 (2.586%) StorageTek
13 3 (2.586%) Dell
14 2 (1.724%) Nortel
14 2 (1.724%) Hitachi
14 2 (1.724%) Atlassian
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