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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 76 57 71
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 11 5 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.065% 0.789% 0.625%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.129% 0.813% 0.644%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 3
Average salary £60,000 £40,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% +26.98%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
974 615 777
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.29% 97.00% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 838 547 703
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 £26,000 £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 Systems Administrator
Oxfordshire

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (57.14%) VMware
3 13 (46.43%) Apache
3 13 (46.43%) Configuration Management
3 13 (46.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (46.43%) Puppet
4 12 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 12 (42.86%) Windows
5 9 (32.14%) MySQL
6 8 (28.57%) Ubuntu
7 7 (25.00%) Replication
7 7 (25.00%) Bash shell
7 7 (25.00%) Xen
8 6 (21.43%) TeamCity
8 6 (21.43%) Apache Solr
8 6 (21.43%) Hadoop
8 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
8 6 (21.43%) High Availability
8 6 (21.43%) Neo4j
8 6 (21.43%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (21.43%) Clustering
8 6 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (17.86%) UNIX
9 5 (17.86%) Solaris
9 5 (17.86%) SAN
10 4 (14.29%) RHCE
10 4 (14.29%) Cisco

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (3.571%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 13 (46.43%) Apache
2 6 (21.43%) Apache Solr
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
2 6 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (10.71%) Jetty
3 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
4 2 (7.143%) SharePoint
4 2 (7.143%) Lync
4 2 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (3.571%) nginx
5 1 (3.571%) Mathematica
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) SAN
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.71%) LDAP
2 3 (10.71%) LAN
2 3 (10.71%) WAN
3 2 (7.143%) DNS
3 2 (7.143%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.571%) AMQP
4 1 (3.571%) SSH
4 1 (3.571%) SSL
4 1 (3.571%) SNMP
4 1 (3.571%) SMTP
4 1 (3.571%) DHCP
4 1 (3.571%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) MySQL
2 6 (21.43%) Hadoop
2 6 (21.43%) Neo4j
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.571%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) TeamCity
2 3 (10.71%) Subversion
3 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.571%) GCC
3 1 (3.571%) GDB
General
1 1 (3.571%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Replication
2 6 (21.43%) Clustering
3 4 (14.29%) Hedge funds
4 2 (7.143%) Open Source
5 1 (3.571%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (42.86%) Windows
3 8 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 5 (17.86%) UNIX
4 5 (17.86%) Solaris
5 4 (14.29%) Debian
5 4 (14.29%) CentOS
6 2 (7.143%) Windows 8
6 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.143%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Configuration Management
2 6 (21.43%) High Availability
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (14.29%) Computer Security
4 3 (10.71%) Project Management
5 2 (7.143%) Investment Management
6 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 2 (7.143%) C
4 1 (3.571%) tcsh
4 1 (3.571%) Ruby
4 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.571%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.571%) C++
4 1 (3.571%) Perl
4 1 (3.571%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) RHCE
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (25.00%) Xen
3 3 (10.71%) VMware ESX
3 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.71%) NFS
4 2 (7.143%) Samba
5 1 (3.571%) qmail
5 1 (3.571%) Postfix
5 1 (3.571%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Puppet
2 2 (7.143%) Nagios
2 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (7.143%) Cobbler
3 1 (3.571%) YUM
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) VMware
2 12 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
4 3 (10.71%) 3PAR
5 2 (7.143%) Juniper
5 2 (7.143%) Citrix
5 2 (7.143%) CheckPoint
5 2 (7.143%) Cadence
6 1 (3.571%) HP
6 1 (3.571%) Dell
6 1 (3.571%) IBM
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Posted: 23 May 2013