The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 77 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 5 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.490% 0.627% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.518% 0.647% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 0
Average salary £50,500 £43,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.42% -
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +14.28%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
965 618 764
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.52% 96.87% 97.20%
Number of salaries quoted 832 548 695
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Engineer
Oxfordshire

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Oxford Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford Linux Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Linux 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (57.14%) C
2 16 (57.14%) Python
3 12 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 12 (42.86%) Open Source
4 11 (39.29%) Stress Testing
5 9 (32.14%) Investment Management
5 9 (32.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (25.00%) C++
7 6 (21.43%) Ubuntu
7 6 (21.43%) Puppet
8 5 (17.86%) Ruby
8 5 (17.86%) Business Continuity
8 5 (17.86%) Computer Security
8 5 (17.86%) Perl
8 5 (17.86%) BCP
9 4 (14.29%) Debian
9 4 (14.29%) UNIX
9 4 (14.29%) Windows
9 4 (14.29%) SAN
9 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 4 (14.29%) NAS
9 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
9 4 (14.29%) Windows 7
9 4 (14.29%) Windows 8
9 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
11 2 (7.143%) VMware
11 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
11 2 (7.143%) CentOS

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (3.571%) POSIX
1 1 (3.571%) XMPP
1 1 (3.571%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Apache
1 1 (3.571%) Mathematica
1 1 (3.571%) nginx
1 1 (3.571%) Kafka
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SAN
1 4 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (3.571%) AMQP
2 1 (3.571%) SSH
2 1 (3.571%) LDAP
2 1 (3.571%) DHCP
2 1 (3.571%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.571%) DNS
2 1 (3.571%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) MySQL
1 1 (3.571%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.571%) SQLite
1 1 (3.571%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.571%) Redis
1 1 (3.571%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Subversion
1 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
1 1 (3.571%) GCC
1 1 (3.571%) GDB
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Open Source
2 1 (3.571%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.571%) Replication
2 1 (3.571%) PKI
2 1 (3.571%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Ubuntu
3 4 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 4 (14.29%) Windows 8
3 4 (14.29%) Debian
3 4 (14.29%) UNIX
3 4 (14.29%) Windows
4 2 (7.143%) CentOS
5 1 (3.571%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 11 (39.29%) Stress Testing
3 9 (32.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (32.14%) Investment Management
4 5 (17.86%) Computer Security
4 5 (17.86%) BCP
4 5 (17.86%) Business Continuity
5 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (3.571%) UML
6 1 (3.571%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.571%) Multithreading
6 1 (3.571%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) C
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) C++
3 5 (17.86%) Ruby
3 5 (17.86%) Perl
4 1 (3.571%) Scala
4 1 (3.571%) tcsh
4 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.571%) Java
4 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.571%) MATLAB
System Software
1 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.571%) qmail
2 1 (3.571%) Postfix
2 1 (3.571%) Sendmail
2 1 (3.571%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (3.571%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Puppet
2 1 (3.571%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (3.571%) Cobbler
2 1 (3.571%) YUM
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.143%) VMware