The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 60 - 54
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 5 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 0.785% - 0.210%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.814% - 0.212%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
Average salary £30,000 - £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
614 433 472
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 96.39% 98.19% 98.95%
Number of salaries quoted 553 418 441
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bath - 5 £30,000 -
Linux Systems Administrator
South West

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) RHCE
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JBoss
3 2 (33.33%) RDF
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 2 (33.33%) Gluster
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Talend

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (16.67%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) IPsec
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Talend Open Studio
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) RDF
1 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) RHCE
2 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Gluster
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 2 (33.33%) Talend
2 2 (33.33%) JBoss
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco