The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset 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 20 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 60 61 60
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 5 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 0.781% 0.422% 0.947%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.813% 0.426% 0.963%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 5
Average salary £30,000 £50,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +81.81%
UK excluding London average salary £39,250 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
615 470 519
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 96.09% 99.16% 98.30%
Number of salaries quoted 538 440 486
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Linux Administrator
South West

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Somerset Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bath +2 5 £30,000 -33.33%
Linux Administrator
South West

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Six Sigma
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) RDF
3 2 (40.00%) RHCE
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 2 (40.00%) JBoss
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Talend Open Studio
3 2 (40.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (40.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 2 (40.00%) Gluster
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Talend Open Studio
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Six Sigma
1 2 (40.00%) RDF
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) RHCE
1 2 (40.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 2 (40.00%) Riverbed
2 2 (40.00%) Talend
2 2 (40.00%) Atlassian