The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 23 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 111 127 111
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 21 8 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.978% 0.353% 0.261%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.030% 0.371% 0.278%
Number of salaries quoted 17 8 5
Average salary £23,000 £42,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-45.88% +26.86%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,200 £21,500 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £62,000 £47,500 £37,400
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year
+11.25% +15.94%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2039 2156 1800
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.93% 95.10% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1654 1851 1452
Average salary £41,500 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.35% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Engineer
Berkshire

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading Linux Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (58.82%) Red Hat
3 19 (55.88%) Windows
4 17 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (38.24%) SUSE
6 11 (32.35%) Debian
6 11 (32.35%) Ubuntu
6 11 (32.35%) TCP/IP
6 11 (32.35%) CentOS
7 10 (29.41%) VMware
8 8 (23.53%) HP
9 7 (20.59%) SLA
10 6 (17.65%) Cisco
10 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
10 6 (17.65%) UNIX
11 5 (14.71%) F5
12 4 (11.76%) Apache
13 3 (8.824%) Solaris
13 3 (8.824%) Firewall
13 3 (8.824%) CheckPoint
13 3 (8.824%) HND
13 3 (8.824%) IIS
13 3 (8.824%) Cisco ASA
14 2 (5.882%) PowerShell
14 2 (5.882%) Hadoop
14 2 (5.882%) Social Media
14 2 (5.882%) Puppet
14 2 (5.882%) Enterprise Storage
14 2 (5.882%) Perl
14 2 (5.882%) PHP

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 (2.941%) LAMP
1 1 (2.941%) ASP
1 1 (2.941%) Web Services
1 1 (2.941%) Node.js
1 1 (2.941%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) Apache
2 3 (8.824%) IIS
3 1 (2.941%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (2.941%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.941%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.941%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.824%) Firewall
2 3 (8.824%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (5.882%) SAN
4 1 (2.941%) LAN
4 1 (2.941%) WAN
4 1 (2.941%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.882%) Hadoop
1 2 (5.882%) MySQL
2 1 (2.941%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.941%) Redis
2 1 (2.941%) Big Data
General
1 1 (2.941%) Finance
1 1 (2.941%) Marketing
1 1 (2.941%) French Language
1 1 (2.941%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) Social Media
1 2 (5.882%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (5.882%) Firmware
2 1 (2.941%) Clustering
2 1 (2.941%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (55.88%) Windows
3 17 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (38.24%) SUSE
5 11 (32.35%) Debian
5 11 (32.35%) Ubuntu
5 11 (32.35%) CentOS
6 6 (17.65%) UNIX
7 3 (8.824%) Solaris
8 2 (5.882%) HPUX
9 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (2.941%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (5.882%) Change Management
2 1 (2.941%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.882%) PowerShell
1 2 (5.882%) Perl
1 2 (5.882%) PHP
1 2 (5.882%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.941%) Ruby
2 1 (2.941%) Python
2 1 (2.941%) C++
2 1 (2.941%) Java
2 1 (2.941%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) HND
2 1 (2.941%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.941%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) Puppet
2 1 (2.941%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) Red Hat
2 10 (29.41%) VMware
3 8 (23.53%) HP
4 6 (17.65%) Cisco
4 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 5 (14.71%) F5
6 3 (8.824%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.882%) NetApp
7 2 (5.882%) Sun
8 1 (2.941%) Brocade
8 1 (2.941%) EMC
8 1 (2.941%) Oracle
8 1 (2.941%) Twitter
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