The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. 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 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 213 216 229
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 28 29 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.394% 0.409% 0.103%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.413% 0.426% 0.108%
Number of salaries quoted 27 23 7
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +34.61%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +3.35%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6784 6801 6469
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.47% 95.94% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5749 6008 5720
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

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

North West Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

North West Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the North West 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
Manchester -10 14 £40,000 +26.98%
Cheshire +11 13 £40,000 +21.21%
Merseyside +15 1 £35,000 -10.25%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 115 (100.00%) Linux
2 75 (65.22%) PHP
3 70 (60.87%) Red Hat
4 68 (59.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (55.65%) Perl
6 59 (51.30%) UNIX
7 58 (50.43%) AIX
8 40 (34.78%) C
8 40 (34.78%) Finance
9 38 (33.04%) IBM
9 38 (33.04%) HP
9 38 (33.04%) WebSphere
10 37 (32.17%) Replication
10 37 (32.17%) Clustering
10 37 (32.17%) SAN
11 36 (31.30%) Configuration Management
11 36 (31.30%) High Availability
12 35 (30.43%) WebSphere MQ
13 34 (29.57%) Apache
14 29 (25.22%) IIS
14 29 (25.22%) Bash shell
15 17 (14.78%) Service Delivery
15 17 (14.78%) Web Services
16 16 (13.91%) Windows
16 16 (13.91%) Solaris
16 16 (13.91%) Problem Management
17 15 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
17 15 (13.04%) Load Balancing
17 15 (13.04%) E-Commerce
17 15 (13.04%) DHCP

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

Application Development
1 38 (33.04%) WebSphere
2 17 (14.78%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 35 (30.43%) WebSphere MQ
2 34 (29.57%) Apache
3 29 (25.22%) IIS
4 11 (9.565%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.609%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.609%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.739%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (32.17%) SAN
2 15 (13.04%) DHCP
2 15 (13.04%) DNS
3 8 (6.957%) Internet
4 6 (5.217%) LDAP
5 4 (3.478%) HTTP
6 3 (2.609%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.609%) SMTP
6 3 (2.609%) IMAP
7 2 (1.739%) VPN
7 2 (1.739%) SMS
7 2 (1.739%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.348%) MySQL
2 2 (1.739%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.739%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.870%) PostgreSQL
General
1 40 (34.78%) Finance
2 1 (0.870%) Banking
2 1 (0.870%) Retail
2 1 (0.870%) Retail Banking
2 1 (0.870%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (0.870%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 37 (32.17%) Replication
1 37 (32.17%) Clustering
2 10 (8.696%) iSeries
3 1 (0.870%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 115 (100.00%) Linux
2 68 (59.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 59 (51.30%) UNIX
4 58 (50.43%) AIX
5 16 (13.91%) Windows
5 16 (13.91%) Solaris
6 15 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (4.348%) Debian
7 5 (4.348%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.609%) HPUX
8 3 (2.609%) CentOS
9 2 (1.739%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.30%) Configuration Management
1 36 (31.30%) High Availability
2 17 (14.78%) Service Delivery
3 16 (13.91%) Problem Management
4 15 (13.04%) Load Balancing
4 15 (13.04%) Change Management
4 15 (13.04%) E-Commerce
5 13 (11.30%) ITIL
6 11 (9.565%) Incident Management
7 7 (6.087%) DNA
8 6 (5.217%) B2C
9 3 (2.609%) Product Management
10 2 (1.739%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (1.739%) Penetration Testing
11 1 (0.870%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (0.870%) Database Security
11 1 (0.870%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 75 (65.22%) PHP
2 64 (55.65%) Perl
3 40 (34.78%) C
4 29 (25.22%) Bash shell
5 15 (13.04%) Python
6 8 (6.957%) C++
7 3 (2.609%) Java
7 3 (2.609%) SQL
8 1 (0.870%) VBScript
8 1 (0.870%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) CCNA
1 12 (10.43%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (10.43%) RHCE
1 12 (10.43%) RHCT
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.739%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (1.739%) Plesk
Vendors
1 70 (60.87%) Red Hat
2 38 (33.04%) IBM
2 38 (33.04%) HP
3 15 (13.04%) VMware
4 10 (8.696%) Dell
4 10 (8.696%) Nimsoft
5 3 (2.609%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.739%) Mitel
7 1 (0.870%) Apple
7 1 (0.870%) EMC
7 1 (0.870%) Sun
Warrington, Cheshire
Linux, Systems Administrator, Linux Administrator, Monitoring tools, Nimsoft. iSeries, OpenPlan, RedHat, Managed Service... Are you an experienced Linux Administrator?... We are recruiting on behalf of THE biggest company...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £40000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Altrincham, North West
My client based in Cheshire is looking for a Linux consultant to join their existing team on some exciting projects... These systems run both Solaris (up to 10)...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
My client based in Greater Manchester is looking for a Linux consultant to join their existing team on some exciting projects... These systems run both Solaris (up to...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
Identify trouble queries and guide SQL optimisation 4... Help design future PostgreSQL architecture 6. Familiarity with PostgreSQL replication technologies (such as Slony-I or native ) 7. Familiarity with...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013