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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 112 95 99
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 11 10 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.596% 0.693% 0.493%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.634% 0.712% 0.516%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 6
Average salary £60,000 £40,000 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% +30.08%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £42,000 £34,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1735 1405 1551
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 93.99% 97.43% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1502 1266 1398
Average salary £40,000 £39,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.26% -1.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -19 11 £60,000 +50.00%
Linux Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (51.52%) VMware
3 16 (48.48%) Windows
4 15 (45.45%) Apache
5 14 (42.42%) Red Hat
5 14 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (42.42%) Puppet
6 13 (39.39%) Configuration Management
7 11 (33.33%) Ubuntu
8 10 (30.30%) MySQL
9 8 (24.24%) Bash shell
10 7 (21.21%) Xen
10 7 (21.21%) Replication
11 6 (18.18%) Debian
11 6 (18.18%) Clustering
11 6 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (18.18%) SAN
11 6 (18.18%) Cisco
11 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (18.18%) Amazon S3
11 6 (18.18%) TeamCity
11 6 (18.18%) Apache Solr
11 6 (18.18%) Hadoop
11 6 (18.18%) High Availability
11 6 (18.18%) Neo4j
11 6 (18.18%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 6 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
12 5 (15.15%) RHCE
12 5 (15.15%) UNIX

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (3.030%) XMPP
1 1 (3.030%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 15 (45.45%) Apache
2 6 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 6 (18.18%) Apache Solr
3 4 (12.12%) Tomcat
3 4 (12.12%) Jetty
4 2 (6.061%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.061%) Lync
4 2 (6.061%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.030%) nginx
5 1 (3.030%) Mathematica
5 1 (3.030%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) SAN
2 4 (12.12%) Firewall
3 3 (9.091%) LDAP
3 3 (9.091%) LAN
3 3 (9.091%) WAN
3 3 (9.091%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.061%) DNS
4 2 (6.061%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.030%) Network Security
5 1 (3.030%) AMQP
5 1 (3.030%) SSH
5 1 (3.030%) SMTP
5 1 (3.030%) DHCP
5 1 (3.030%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.030%) SSL
5 1 (3.030%) VPN
5 1 (3.030%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) MySQL
2 6 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 6 (18.18%) Neo4j
2 6 (18.18%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 6 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.030%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) TeamCity
2 3 (9.091%) Subversion
3 1 (3.030%) GCC
3 1 (3.030%) GDB
3 1 (3.030%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (6.061%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Replication
2 6 (18.18%) Clustering
3 4 (12.12%) Hedge funds
4 2 (6.061%) Open Source
5 1 (3.030%) PKI
5 1 (3.030%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (48.48%) Windows
3 11 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 6 (18.18%) Debian
5 5 (15.15%) UNIX
5 5 (15.15%) Solaris
6 4 (12.12%) CentOS
6 4 (12.12%) Windows 8
6 4 (12.12%) Windows 7
7 3 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Configuration Management
2 6 (18.18%) High Availability
2 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Security
4 3 (9.091%) Project Management
5 2 (6.061%) Investment Management
6 1 (3.030%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.030%) Resource Management
6 1 (3.030%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.030%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Bash shell
2 3 (9.091%) Python
3 2 (6.061%) C
4 1 (3.030%) Ruby
4 1 (3.030%) tcsh
4 1 (3.030%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.030%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.030%) C++
4 1 (3.030%) Perl
4 1 (3.030%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) RHCE
2 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.030%) CCNA
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.21%) Xen
3 3 (9.091%) VMware ESX
3 3 (9.091%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.091%) NFS
4 2 (6.061%) Samba
5 1 (3.030%) qmail
5 1 (3.030%) Postfix
5 1 (3.030%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Puppet
2 3 (9.091%) Nagios
3 2 (6.061%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (6.061%) Cobbler
4 1 (3.030%) YUM
4 1 (3.030%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) VMware
2 14 (42.42%) Red Hat
3 6 (18.18%) Cisco
4 3 (9.091%) 3PAR
4 3 (9.091%) Juniper
5 2 (6.061%) Citrix
5 2 (6.061%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.061%) Cadence
6 1 (3.030%) HP
6 1 (3.030%) Dell
6 1 (3.030%) IBM
6 1 (3.030%) Microsoft
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Debian, Fedora, Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu - Linux Systems Administrator BIND - Apache - Tomcat - virtualisation - Web server - hosted environment - Databases (Oracle / MySQL / SQL Server) This progressive business who are heavily involved...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + great prospects
Posted: 23 May 2013