The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer 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 Engineer 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 342 363 381
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 90 82 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.403% 0.349% 0.201%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.425% 0.366% 0.212%
Number of salaries quoted 84 68 43
Average salary £43,500 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.75% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £29,000 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+11.25% +14.28%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21191 22381 22640
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.96% 95.36% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17614 19161 19575
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 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

South East Linux Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the South East 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
Berkshire +7 31 £50,000 +53.84% 4
Surrey +24 28 £42,750 +0.58% 4
Hampshire -10 12 £37,500 -21.05% 5
Buckinghamshire +7 6 £40,000 - 1
East Sussex -8 3 £42,500 +21.42%
Oxfordshire -25 3 £30,000 -14.28%
Middlesex - 3 £60,000 -
Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Linux
2 69 (41.07%) Red Hat
3 61 (36.31%) VMware
4 59 (35.12%) Windows
5 51 (30.36%) Apache
6 46 (27.38%) Python
6 46 (27.38%) CentOS
7 42 (25.00%) Debian
8 41 (24.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 40 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
10 39 (23.21%) Ubuntu
11 38 (22.62%) C
11 38 (22.62%) Perl
12 31 (18.45%) MySQL
12 31 (18.45%) Puppet
13 29 (17.26%) Bash shell
13 29 (17.26%) UNIX
13 29 (17.26%) Microsoft
14 27 (16.07%) DNS
15 25 (14.88%) TCP/IP
16 24 (14.29%) Nagios
16 24 (14.29%) Configuration Management
16 24 (14.29%) Java
17 22 (13.10%) Cisco
18 21 (12.50%) C++
19 20 (11.90%) Degree
19 20 (11.90%) VMware ESXi
20 19 (11.31%) SMTP
21 18 (10.71%) IIS
21 18 (10.71%) vSphere

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 14 (8.333%) LAMP
2 5 (2.976%) Middleware
3 3 (1.786%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.786%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (1.786%) XML
4 1 (0.595%) Memcached
4 1 (0.595%) REST
4 1 (0.595%) XMPP
4 1 (0.595%) POSIX
4 1 (0.595%) ASP
4 1 (0.595%) SOAP
4 1 (0.595%) Web Services
4 1 (0.595%) ZeroMQ
Application Platforms
1 51 (30.36%) Apache
2 18 (10.71%) IIS
3 10 (5.952%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.976%) Drupal
5 4 (2.381%) Alfresco
5 4 (2.381%) nginx
6 3 (1.786%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.786%) WordPress
6 3 (1.786%) GlassFish
6 3 (1.786%) Jetty
6 3 (1.786%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.786%) CMS
7 2 (1.190%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.595%) Escenic
8 1 (0.595%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.595%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.595%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.595%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.595%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.595%) Mathematica
Applications
1 13 (7.738%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.595%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.07%) DNS
2 25 (14.88%) TCP/IP
3 19 (11.31%) SMTP
4 15 (8.929%) Firewall
5 11 (6.548%) Internet
6 8 (4.762%) SAN
7 7 (4.167%) HTTP
7 7 (4.167%) VPN
8 6 (3.571%) SSH
9 5 (2.976%) FTP
9 5 (2.976%) TELNET
10 4 (2.381%) DHCP
10 4 (2.381%) Network Security
10 4 (2.381%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.381%) NAS
11 3 (1.786%) IMAP
11 3 (1.786%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.786%) SNMP
11 3 (1.786%) POP3
11 3 (1.786%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.45%) MySQL
2 14 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.381%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.786%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.786%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (1.786%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.786%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (1.786%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (1.786%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.786%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.595%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.595%) Redis
5 1 (0.595%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.595%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (2.381%) Subversion
1 4 (2.381%) Git (software)
2 3 (1.786%) Hudson
2 3 (1.786%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.786%) Maven
3 1 (0.595%) GCC
3 1 (0.595%) GDB
General
1 4 (2.381%) Telecoms
2 3 (1.786%) Automotive
3 2 (1.190%) Finance
3 2 (1.190%) Marketing
4 1 (0.595%) French Language
4 1 (0.595%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.524%) Device Driver
2 13 (7.738%) Open Source
3 11 (6.548%) Computer Science
4 10 (5.952%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (4.167%) Clustering
6 5 (2.976%) SaaS
7 4 (2.381%) Replication
8 3 (1.786%) VLE
9 2 (1.190%) Firmware
9 2 (1.190%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.190%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.595%) Social Media
10 1 (0.595%) SWIFT
10 1 (0.595%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.595%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.595%) PaaS
10 1 (0.595%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 168 (100.00%) Linux
2 59 (35.12%) Windows
3 46 (27.38%) CentOS
4 42 (25.00%) Debian
5 41 (24.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (23.21%) Ubuntu
7 29 (17.26%) UNIX
8 18 (10.71%) Embedded Linux
9 16 (9.524%) SUSE
10 8 (4.762%) Windows 7
11 7 (4.167%) Solaris
12 5 (2.976%) Windows 8
13 4 (2.381%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (1.786%) Windows XP
14 3 (1.786%) FreeBSD
14 3 (1.786%) Mac OS X
15 2 (1.190%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (1.190%) HPUX
16 1 (0.595%) Windows 2000 Server
16 1 (0.595%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 14 (8.333%) Migration
3 12 (7.143%) Infrastructure Management
4 11 (6.548%) Load Balancing
5 9 (5.357%) Stress Testing
6 8 (4.762%) Investment Management
6 8 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (4.762%) Validation
7 5 (2.976%) ITIL
8 4 (2.381%) Project Management
8 4 (2.381%) BCP
8 4 (2.381%) Business Continuity
8 4 (2.381%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (2.381%) Asset Management
8 4 (2.381%) Computer Security
9 3 (1.786%) Capacity Management
9 3 (1.786%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (1.786%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (1.786%) Release Management
9 3 (1.786%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.38%) Python
2 38 (22.62%) C
2 38 (22.62%) Perl
3 29 (17.26%) Bash shell
4 24 (14.29%) Java
5 21 (12.50%) C++
6 17 (10.12%) Shell Script
7 16 (9.524%) PHP
8 11 (6.548%) Ruby
9 7 (4.167%) SQL
10 5 (2.976%) Korn
11 3 (1.786%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.786%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.595%) tcsh
12 1 (0.595%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.595%) VBScript
12 1 (0.595%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.595%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) Degree
2 4 (2.381%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.786%) CCNA
3 3 (1.786%) HND
3 3 (1.786%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.190%) RHCE
5 1 (0.595%) MCSE
5 1 (0.595%) MCP
5 1 (0.595%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.762%) SLA
2 1 (0.595%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.595%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (11.90%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (10.71%) vSphere
4 14 (8.333%) Samba
5 7 (4.167%) VMware ESX
6 6 (3.571%) Xen
7 4 (2.381%) Varnish
8 3 (1.786%) Postfix
8 3 (1.786%) Sendmail
8 3 (1.786%) Nmap
8 3 (1.786%) NFS
8 3 (1.786%) Active Directory
9 1 (0.595%) qmail
9 1 (0.595%) XenServer
9 1 (0.595%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 31 (18.45%) Puppet
2 24 (14.29%) Nagios
3 13 (7.738%) YUM
4 4 (2.381%) Plesk
5 2 (1.190%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.190%) WSUS
6 1 (0.595%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.595%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 69 (41.07%) Red Hat
2 61 (36.31%) VMware
3 29 (17.26%) Microsoft
4 22 (13.10%) Cisco
5 14 (8.333%) Intel
6 11 (6.548%) HP
7 7 (4.167%) Oracle
8 6 (3.571%) NetApp
9 5 (2.976%) F5
10 3 (1.786%) Joyent
10 3 (1.786%) IBM
10 3 (1.786%) Dell
10 3 (1.786%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.786%) Juniper
10 3 (1.786%) Mercator
10 3 (1.786%) Rackspace
11 2 (1.190%) Sun
12 1 (0.595%) Twitter
12 1 (0.595%) Brocade
12 1 (0.595%) EMC
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Posted: 14 June 2013
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Posted: 17 June 2013
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
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