The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford 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 19 June 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 63 61 72
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 23 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 2.293% 0.888% 0.692%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.396% 0.919% 0.714%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 3
Average salary £60,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
960 653 840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 95.71% 96.60% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 836 597 743
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £24,400
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Linux Administrator
Oxfordshire

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (65.85%) Apache
3 17 (41.46%) Load Balancing
4 16 (39.02%) Games
4 16 (39.02%) Web Services
4 16 (39.02%) Online Games
4 16 (39.02%) Amazon AWS
5 13 (31.71%) Configuration Management
6 12 (29.27%) VMware
6 12 (29.27%) Puppet
7 11 (26.83%) Windows
8 10 (24.39%) MySQL
9 9 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (19.51%) Xen
10 8 (19.51%) Replication
11 7 (17.07%) Clustering
11 7 (17.07%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (17.07%) Red Hat
11 7 (17.07%) TeamCity
11 7 (17.07%) Apache Solr
11 7 (17.07%) Hadoop
11 7 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
11 7 (17.07%) High Availability
11 7 (17.07%) Neo4j
11 7 (17.07%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Management
12 5 (12.20%) SAN
12 5 (12.20%) Solaris

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 16 (39.02%) Web Services
2 7 (17.07%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.439%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 27 (65.85%) Apache
2 16 (39.02%) Amazon AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Apache Solr
3 7 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.878%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.878%) Lync
4 2 (4.878%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.439%) nginx
5 1 (2.439%) Mathematica
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) SAN
2 3 (7.317%) LDAP
2 3 (7.317%) LAN
2 3 (7.317%) WAN
2 3 (7.317%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.878%) Firewall
3 2 (4.878%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.439%) AMQP
4 1 (2.439%) DHCP
4 1 (2.439%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.439%) DNS
4 1 (2.439%) SSL
4 1 (2.439%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) MySQL
2 7 (17.07%) Hadoop
2 7 (17.07%) Neo4j
2 7 (17.07%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.439%) SQLite
3 1 (2.439%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) TeamCity
2 3 (7.317%) Subversion
3 1 (2.439%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.439%) GCC
3 1 (2.439%) GDB
General
1 16 (39.02%) Games
2 2 (4.878%) Publishing
3 1 (2.439%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) Online Games
2 8 (19.51%) Replication
3 7 (17.07%) Clustering
4 4 (9.756%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.439%) Open Source
5 1 (2.439%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (26.83%) Windows
3 5 (12.20%) Solaris
4 4 (9.756%) UNIX
5 3 (7.317%) Ubuntu
5 3 (7.317%) Debian
6 2 (4.878%) Windows 8
6 2 (4.878%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.439%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Load Balancing
2 13 (31.71%) Configuration Management
3 7 (17.07%) High Availability
3 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (9.756%) Computer Security
5 3 (7.317%) Project Management
6 2 (4.878%) Game Development
7 1 (2.439%) Investment Management
7 1 (2.439%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.756%) Bash shell
2 2 (4.878%) Python
2 2 (4.878%) C
3 1 (2.439%) tcsh
3 1 (2.439%) C++
3 1 (2.439%) Perl
3 1 (2.439%) PHP
3 1 (2.439%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.439%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.439%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (7.317%) RHCE
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (19.51%) Xen
3 3 (7.317%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.317%) VMware ESX
4 2 (4.878%) Samba
4 2 (4.878%) NFS
5 1 (2.439%) qmail
5 1 (2.439%) Postfix
5 1 (2.439%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Puppet
2 2 (4.878%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (4.878%) Cobbler
3 1 (2.439%) YUM
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) VMware
2 7 (17.07%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.317%) 3PAR
4 2 (4.878%) Cadence
4 2 (4.878%) Cisco
4 2 (4.878%) Citrix
4 2 (4.878%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.439%) IBM
5 1 (2.439%) HP
5 1 (2.439%) Dell
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