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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 59 61 50
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 5 12 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 0.766% 1.818% 1.708%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.813% 1.970% 1.895%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 0
Average salary £36,250 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.68% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
615 609 475
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 94.18% 92.27% 90.13%
Number of salaries quoted 517 464 409
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £32,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Linux Administrator
Berkshire

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (91.30%) Apache
3 16 (69.57%) Red Hat
3 16 (69.57%) PHP
3 16 (69.57%) MySQL
4 13 (56.52%) UNIX
5 7 (30.43%) E-Commerce
5 7 (30.43%) MS Exchange
5 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
5 7 (30.43%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (30.43%) CentOS
6 6 (26.09%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (26.09%) SUSE
6 6 (26.09%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (26.09%) Cisco
6 6 (26.09%) OOD
7 5 (21.74%) Windows
8 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
8 4 (17.39%) Nagios
8 4 (17.39%) Scrum
8 4 (17.39%) LAMP
9 3 (13.04%) nginx
9 3 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
9 3 (13.04%) LDAP
9 3 (13.04%) OO
9 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
10 2 (8.696%) SQL
10 2 (8.696%) dBASE
11 1 (4.348%) C#

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 4 (17.39%) LAMP
2 1 (4.348%) .NET
2 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.348%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 21 (91.30%) Apache
2 7 (30.43%) MS Exchange
2 7 (30.43%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (26.09%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (13.04%) nginx
5 1 (4.348%) IIS
5 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2013
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.04%) LDAP
3 1 (4.348%) SAN
3 1 (4.348%) HTTP
3 1 (4.348%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (69.57%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.696%) dBASE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Clustering
1 1 (4.348%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (56.52%) UNIX
3 7 (30.43%) CentOS
4 6 (26.09%) SUSE
5 5 (21.74%) Windows
6 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) E-Commerce
2 6 (26.09%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (26.09%) OOD
3 4 (17.39%) Scrum
4 3 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (13.04%) OO
5 1 (4.348%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) PHP
2 2 (8.696%) SQL
3 1 (4.348%) C#
3 1 (4.348%) VB
3 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Nagios
2 1 (4.348%) Puppet
2 1 (4.348%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Red Hat
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.348%) Rackspace