The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 17 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 270 279 334
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 165 170 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.736% 0.713% 0.409%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.776% 0.748% 0.432%
Number of salaries quoted 137 165 73
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £34,700 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,250 £50,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21268 22739 22241
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.93% 95.39% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 17694 19475 19188
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Berkshire -12 36 £40,000 -11.11% 2
Surrey +11 29 £45,000 +28.57% 3
Hampshire +9 26 £35,000 - 4
Oxfordshire +7 26 £60,000 +50.00% 4
East Sussex -18 24 £35,000 -12.50% 2
Middlesex +6 15 £57,500 +9.52%
West Sussex - 9 £43,500 -
Buckinghamshire -8 4 £39,000 +16.41%
Kent -21 3 £30,000 -25.00%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 355 (100.00%) Linux
2 158 (44.51%) MySQL
3 157 (44.23%) Apache
4 154 (43.38%) Red Hat
5 134 (37.75%) VMware
6 123 (34.65%) Windows
7 107 (30.14%) UNIX
8 94 (26.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 92 (25.92%) CentOS
10 91 (25.63%) PHP
11 89 (25.07%) TCP/IP
11 89 (25.07%) VMware Infrastructure
12 85 (23.94%) Ubuntu
13 83 (23.38%) Puppet
14 75 (21.13%) Bash shell
15 72 (20.28%) Perl
16 67 (18.87%) Java
17 60 (16.90%) SQL Server
17 60 (16.90%) Shell Script
18 58 (16.34%) Python
19 55 (15.49%) Clustering
20 54 (15.21%) DNS
21 53 (14.93%) Cisco
22 52 (14.65%) ITIL
23 48 (13.52%) SQL
24 47 (13.24%) Nagios
25 44 (12.39%) Firewall
26 42 (11.83%) Debian
27 41 (11.55%) LAMP
28 40 (11.27%) VMware ESXi

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 41 (11.55%) LAMP
2 24 (6.761%) Web Services
3 12 (3.380%) .NET
4 8 (2.254%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (2.254%) Middleware
5 7 (1.972%) SOAP
6 6 (1.690%) JDBC
7 5 (1.408%) COM
7 5 (1.408%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (0.845%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (0.845%) Memcached
9 2 (0.563%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.563%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.282%) Grails
10 1 (0.282%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.282%) Spring
10 1 (0.282%) XMPP
10 1 (0.282%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.282%) XML
10 1 (0.282%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 157 (44.23%) Apache
2 33 (9.296%) Tomcat
3 21 (5.915%) Amazon AWS
4 13 (3.662%) IIS
5 11 (3.099%) nginx
5 11 (3.099%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (3.099%) Amazon S3
6 10 (2.817%) MS Exchange
7 9 (2.535%) Exchange Server 2007
8 8 (2.254%) Apache Solr
8 8 (2.254%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (1.690%) Liferay
9 6 (1.690%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (1.127%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.845%) Rackspace Cloud
11 3 (0.845%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.845%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (0.563%) SharePoint 2010
12 2 (0.563%) Lync
12 2 (0.563%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (9.014%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.254%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 89 (25.07%) TCP/IP
2 54 (15.21%) DNS
3 44 (12.39%) Firewall
4 38 (10.70%) HTTP
5 33 (9.296%) SAN
6 29 (8.169%) SSL
6 29 (8.169%) WAN
7 25 (7.042%) LDAP
8 22 (6.197%) LAN
9 18 (5.070%) VoIP
9 18 (5.070%) SMTP
10 17 (4.789%) VPN
11 15 (4.225%) SSH
12 13 (3.662%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (3.662%) DHCP
13 11 (3.099%) NAS
14 10 (2.817%) BGP
14 10 (2.817%) FWSM
15 9 (2.535%) FTP
16 8 (2.254%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (44.51%) MySQL
2 60 (16.90%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.915%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.817%) Hadoop
5 7 (1.972%) Neo4j
5 7 (1.972%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 7 (1.972%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.690%) Redis
7 5 (1.408%) Big Data
8 4 (1.127%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.563%) dBASE
10 1 (0.282%) DB2 UDB
10 1 (0.282%) SQLite
10 1 (0.282%) DB2
10 1 (0.282%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.282%) Ingres
10 1 (0.282%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.282%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.282%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 17 (4.789%) Subversion
2 14 (3.944%) Git (software)
3 8 (2.254%) Hudson
3 8 (2.254%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.972%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.408%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.563%) Maven
7 1 (0.282%) GCC
7 1 (0.282%) GDB
General
1 25 (7.042%) Finance
1 25 (7.042%) Games
2 17 (4.789%) Banking
3 9 (2.535%) Marketing
4 8 (2.254%) Retail
5 7 (1.972%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.127%) Back Office
7 3 (0.845%) Publishing
8 2 (0.563%) German Language
8 2 (0.563%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.563%) Law
9 1 (0.282%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.282%) Advertising
9 1 (0.282%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.49%) Clustering
2 26 (7.324%) Open Source
3 22 (6.197%) Replication
4 20 (5.634%) Online Games
5 14 (3.944%) Social Media
6 11 (3.099%) Mathematics
7 9 (2.535%) CMDB
8 8 (2.254%) Computer Science
8 8 (2.254%) SaaS
8 8 (2.254%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.690%) Cryptography
9 6 (1.690%) Derivative
10 5 (1.408%) EqualLogic
11 4 (1.127%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.127%) IaaS
11 4 (1.127%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.127%) PaaS
12 3 (0.845%) Digital Media
13 2 (0.563%) VLE
14 1 (0.282%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 355 (100.00%) Linux
2 123 (34.65%) Windows
3 107 (30.14%) UNIX
4 94 (26.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 92 (25.92%) CentOS
6 85 (23.94%) Ubuntu
7 42 (11.83%) Debian
8 39 (10.99%) SUSE
9 35 (9.859%) Windows Server 2008
10 25 (7.042%) Solaris
11 19 (5.352%) Windows 7
12 13 (3.662%) HPUX
13 9 (2.535%) Mac OS X
14 8 (2.254%) Windows Server 2003
14 8 (2.254%) Mac OS X Server
14 8 (2.254%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (2.254%) Mac OS
15 6 (1.690%) AIX
16 5 (1.408%) VMS
16 5 (1.408%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (14.65%) ITIL
2 37 (10.42%) Load Balancing
3 31 (8.732%) Configuration Management
4 20 (5.634%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (5.070%) E-Commerce
6 13 (3.662%) Scrum
7 12 (3.380%) Penetration Testing
7 12 (3.380%) Web Development
8 11 (3.099%) Service Delivery
8 11 (3.099%) Security Management
9 10 (2.817%) Business Continuity
10 9 (2.535%) Information Security
10 9 (2.535%) OOP
10 9 (2.535%) Change Control
10 9 (2.535%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (2.254%) High Availability
11 8 (2.254%) Performance Management
11 8 (2.254%) Change Management
11 8 (2.254%) ITSM
11 8 (2.254%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (25.63%) PHP
2 75 (21.13%) Bash shell
3 72 (20.28%) Perl
4 67 (18.87%) Java
5 60 (16.90%) Shell Script
6 58 (16.34%) Python
7 48 (13.52%) SQL
8 33 (9.296%) Ruby
9 15 (4.225%) C++
10 11 (3.099%) AWK
10 11 (3.099%) sed
11 7 (1.972%) Korn
12 4 (1.127%) C
12 4 (1.127%) C-shell
13 3 (0.845%) Scala
14 2 (0.563%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.282%) tcsh
15 1 (0.282%) Groovy
15 1 (0.282%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.282%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (9.577%) RHCE
2 23 (6.479%) Degree
3 8 (2.254%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (2.254%) ISEB
4 6 (1.690%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.690%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.408%) RHCA
5 5 (1.408%) LPIC
6 3 (0.845%) HND
7 1 (0.282%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.282%) MCSE
7 1 (0.282%) CCNA
7 1 (0.282%) CISSP
7 1 (0.282%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.282%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.789%) SLA
2 5 (1.408%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 89 (25.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (11.27%) VMware ESXi
3 29 (8.169%) vSphere
4 25 (7.042%) Samba
5 21 (5.915%) Postfix
5 21 (5.915%) Sendmail
6 20 (5.634%) Xen
6 20 (5.634%) VMware ESX
7 14 (3.944%) Varnish
8 13 (3.662%) NFS
9 9 (2.535%) Active Directory
9 9 (2.535%) qmail
10 8 (2.254%) XenServer
11 7 (1.972%) Nmap
12 6 (1.690%) Squid
13 1 (0.282%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.282%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 83 (23.38%) Puppet
2 47 (13.24%) Nagios
3 12 (3.380%) NetBackup
4 7 (1.972%) Opalis
4 7 (1.972%) AppManager
4 7 (1.972%) SCCM
5 6 (1.690%) ZABBIX
6 5 (1.408%) Vagrant
7 4 (1.127%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.563%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (0.563%) Cobbler
8 2 (0.563%) YUM
8 2 (0.563%) Cacti
9 1 (0.282%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.282%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.282%) WSUS
9 1 (0.282%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.282%) Splunk
Vendors
1 154 (43.38%) Red Hat
2 134 (37.75%) VMware
3 53 (14.93%) Cisco
4 38 (10.70%) Oracle
5 32 (9.014%) HP
6 25 (7.042%) Microsoft
7 20 (5.634%) JBoss
8 18 (5.070%) IBM
9 15 (4.225%) Rackspace
10 11 (3.099%) Novell
11 8 (2.254%) Remedy
12 7 (1.972%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.972%) NetIQ
12 7 (1.972%) NetApp
13 6 (1.690%) EMC
13 6 (1.690%) SAP
14 5 (1.408%) Dell
14 5 (1.408%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.408%) Google
15 4 (1.127%) Veeam
Brighton, East Sussex
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Linux Systems Administrator to join an expanding team for a reputable organisation in Brighton. The Linux Systems Administrator shall be required...
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Applicants must have strong exposure to: *Linux Systems Administration *Ubuntu Server *Apache *Scripting (such as Shell, Perl or Python) *Virtualisation (Such as VMware, Hyper V or Xen) My...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Winchester, Hampshire
The successful Systems Administrator / Linux Administrator / Linux Engineer will possess proven skills of administrating Linux & AIX systems, within an Enterprise environment, covering the following technologies: Redhat Enterprise Linux...
TEKsystems
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
A proven Linux Systems Administrator is required for a funky, award winning open source vendor based in Reading... Essential skills *Technical support experience (preference for product support) *First/...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Job description: This is an outstanding opportunity for a commercially experienced Windows / Linux Systems administrator with a strong understanding of network security and information security issues in a...
Tindall IT Resourcing
Salary: From £25,000 to £38,000 per annum +Many lucrative benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Tindall IT Resourcing
Salary: From £25,000 to £39,000 per annum +Many lucrative benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Surrey, South East
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
Computer Futures
Posted: 3 June 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Computer People
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £57000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + great prospects
Posted: 13 June 2013
Fareham, Hampshire
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Peopleworks
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Winchester, Hampshire
Arqiva
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
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