The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems 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 Systems 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 222 224 227
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 21 23 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.292% 0.324% 0.102%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.306% 0.338% 0.107%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 7
Average salary £40,000 £34,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.78% +14.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £37,500 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6864 6805 6559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.53% 95.87% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5816 6001 5810
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,807 £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 Systems Administrator
England

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

North West Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

North West Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the North West 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
Manchester -16 11 £38,750 +20.15%
Cheshire +12 10 £40,000 +21.21%
Linux Systems Administrator
England

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 105 (100.00%) Linux
2 73 (69.52%) PHP
3 65 (61.90%) Red Hat
4 63 (60.00%) Perl
4 63 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (52.38%) UNIX
5 55 (52.38%) AIX
6 39 (37.14%) C
7 37 (35.24%) IBM
7 37 (35.24%) HP
7 37 (35.24%) SAN
8 36 (34.29%) Configuration Management
8 36 (34.29%) Finance
8 36 (34.29%) Replication
8 36 (34.29%) Clustering
8 36 (34.29%) High Availability
9 35 (33.33%) WebSphere
9 35 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
10 29 (27.62%) Apache
11 28 (26.67%) IIS
11 28 (26.67%) Bash shell
12 17 (16.19%) Service Delivery
13 16 (15.24%) Web Services
13 16 (15.24%) Problem Management
14 15 (14.29%) Solaris
14 15 (14.29%) Change Management
15 14 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
15 14 (13.33%) DHCP
15 14 (13.33%) DNS
15 14 (13.33%) Python

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 35 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 16 (15.24%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 35 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 29 (27.62%) Apache
3 28 (26.67%) IIS
4 10 (9.524%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.905%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (1.905%) RabbitMQ
Communications & Networking
1 37 (35.24%) SAN
2 14 (13.33%) DHCP
2 14 (13.33%) DNS
3 8 (7.619%) Internet
4 3 (2.857%) HTTP
5 2 (1.905%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.905%) VPN
5 2 (1.905%) SMS
5 2 (1.905%) SMTP
5 2 (1.905%) LDAP
5 2 (1.905%) IMAP
6 1 (0.952%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.905%) Hadoop
1 2 (1.905%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.952%) MySQL
General
1 36 (34.29%) Finance
2 1 (0.952%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 36 (34.29%) Replication
1 36 (34.29%) Clustering
2 11 (10.48%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 105 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 55 (52.38%) UNIX
3 55 (52.38%) AIX
4 15 (14.29%) Solaris
5 14 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (13.33%) Windows
5 14 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (3.810%) Debian
7 3 (2.857%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.905%) HPUX
8 2 (1.905%) CentOS
9 1 (0.952%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.29%) Configuration Management
1 36 (34.29%) High Availability
2 17 (16.19%) Service Delivery
3 16 (15.24%) Problem Management
4 15 (14.29%) Change Management
5 14 (13.33%) Load Balancing
6 12 (11.43%) E-Commerce
7 11 (10.48%) ITIL
8 10 (9.524%) Incident Management
9 7 (6.667%) DNA
10 6 (5.714%) B2C
11 2 (1.905%) Penetration Testing
11 2 (1.905%) Product Management
11 2 (1.905%) Continuous Improvement
12 1 (0.952%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 73 (69.52%) PHP
2 63 (60.00%) Perl
3 39 (37.14%) C
4 28 (26.67%) Bash shell
5 14 (13.33%) Python
6 8 (7.619%) C++
7 2 (1.905%) Java
7 2 (1.905%) SQL
8 1 (0.952%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.952%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.48%) CCNA
1 11 (10.48%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (10.48%) RHCE
1 11 (10.48%) RHCT
System Software
1 10 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.952%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (0.952%) Plesk
Vendors
1 65 (61.90%) Red Hat
2 37 (35.24%) IBM
2 37 (35.24%) HP
3 11 (10.48%) Dell
3 11 (10.48%) Nimsoft
4 10 (9.524%) VMware
5 2 (1.905%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.952%) EMC
6 1 (0.952%) Sun
Cheshire
Linux Systems Administrator - Linux / Red Hat / UNIX / AIX / Infrastructure / Finance... As a Linux Systems Administrator you will be joining the client's technology centre. The role is predominantly...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 22 May 2013
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