The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton 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 21 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 78 79 64
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 8 10 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.947% 1.081% 1.466%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.967% 1.106% 1.515%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 4
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% +7.69%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
827 904 594
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 97.87% 97.73% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 753 845 538
Average salary £37,500 £39,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.45% +12.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
Hampshire

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (75.00%) PHP
3 13 (65.00%) UNIX
4 11 (55.00%) Windows
4 11 (55.00%) Degree
5 10 (50.00%) C++
6 9 (45.00%) Mathematics
7 8 (40.00%) Bash shell
7 8 (40.00%) Java
7 8 (40.00%) OOP
8 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
9 6 (30.00%) Apache
9 6 (30.00%) LAMP
10 5 (25.00%) VMware
10 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (25.00%) CentOS
10 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (25.00%) Sendmail
11 4 (20.00%) Finance
11 4 (20.00%) DNS
11 4 (20.00%) Perl
11 4 (20.00%) MySQL
12 3 (15.00%) Solaris
12 3 (15.00%) POP3
12 3 (15.00%) SMTP
12 3 (15.00%) FTP
12 3 (15.00%) VPN
12 3 (15.00%) NFS
12 3 (15.00%) Intel
12 3 (15.00%) SaaS

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 Development
1 6 (30.00%) LAMP
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) nginx
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.000%) lighttpd
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) POP3
2 3 (15.00%) SMTP
2 3 (15.00%) FTP
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) IMAP
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) SSH
3 2 (10.00%) TELNET
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
3 2 (10.00%) HTTP
4 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.000%) Internet
4 1 (5.000%) SAN
4 1 (5.000%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) Big Data
3 2 (10.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.000%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.000%) Redis
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (65.00%) UNIX
3 11 (55.00%) Windows
4 5 (25.00%) CentOS
4 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (15.00%) Solaris
6 2 (10.00%) SUSE
7 1 (5.000%) Ubuntu
7 1 (5.000%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) PHP
2 10 (50.00%) C++
3 8 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) Perl
5 2 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Postgraduate
2 2 (10.00%) MCSE
2 2 (10.00%) MCP
3 1 (5.000%) RHCE
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (25.00%) Sendmail
2 3 (15.00%) NFS
2 3 (15.00%) qmail
2 3 (15.00%) Samba
3 2 (10.00%) Varnish
3 2 (10.00%) XenServer
4 1 (5.000%) vSphere
4 1 (5.000%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.000%) Plesk
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Intel
Southampton, Hampshire
Linux, VMWare, Scripting, LAMP, Bash £30,000 to £45,000 dependent on experience An exciting new opportunity for an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to join a fast growing...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + excellent prospects
Posted: 15 May 2013