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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 186 202 206
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 25 21 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.473% 0.350% 0.190%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.495% 0.364% 0.201%
Number of salaries quoted 20 21 10
Average salary £38,000 £41,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.31% +1.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £25,900
10% offered a salary of more than £57,000 £52,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5046 5762 4985
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.44% 95.91% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4059 5051 4360
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,750 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 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
Staines +31 7 £57,000 +23.91%
Guildford -4 5 £30,000 -
Oxted 0 3 - -
Reigate - 3 £30,000 -
Woking - 3 £30,000 -
Linux Systems Administrator
South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (58.14%) TCP/IP
3 24 (55.81%) VMware
4 18 (41.86%) Red Hat
4 18 (41.86%) MySQL
5 16 (37.21%) DNS
5 16 (37.21%) Apache
5 16 (37.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (34.88%) Puppet
7 14 (32.56%) Bash shell
7 14 (32.56%) Clustering
7 14 (32.56%) Windows
8 13 (30.23%) ITIL
9 10 (23.26%) NetApp
9 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
10 9 (20.93%) RHCE
10 9 (20.93%) Nagios
10 9 (20.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (20.93%) Load Balancing
10 9 (20.93%) Varnish
11 8 (18.60%) Open Source
11 8 (18.60%) vSphere
11 8 (18.60%) SLA
11 8 (18.60%) Tomcat
12 7 (16.28%) DHCP
12 7 (16.28%) HTTP
12 7 (16.28%) Perl
12 7 (16.28%) SQL
12 7 (16.28%) Cisco
12 7 (16.28%) Finance

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (9.302%) JDBC
2 3 (6.977%) LAMP
3 2 (4.651%) .NET
4 1 (2.326%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 16 (37.21%) Apache
2 8 (18.60%) Tomcat
3 4 (9.302%) Liferay
4 3 (6.977%) nginx
4 3 (6.977%) GlassFish
5 2 (4.651%) Magento
6 1 (2.326%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (58.14%) TCP/IP
2 16 (37.21%) DNS
3 7 (16.28%) DHCP
3 7 (16.28%) HTTP
4 6 (13.95%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (13.95%) FWSM
4 6 (13.95%) Firewall
5 5 (11.63%) WAN
5 5 (11.63%) SAN
5 5 (11.63%) SSL
6 4 (9.302%) iSCSI
6 4 (9.302%) tcpdump
6 4 (9.302%) NAS
6 4 (9.302%) SMTP
6 4 (9.302%) LDAP
6 4 (9.302%) SNMP
7 3 (6.977%) VPN
7 3 (6.977%) VoIP
8 2 (4.651%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (41.86%) MySQL
2 4 (9.302%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.326%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.326%) Redis
4 1 (2.326%) Big Data
4 1 (2.326%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 4 (9.302%) Git (software)
1 4 (9.302%) Hudson
1 4 (9.302%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.326%) Subversion
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.63%) Banking
3 1 (2.326%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.326%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) Clustering
2 8 (18.60%) Open Source
3 4 (9.302%) Cryptography
4 1 (2.326%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Windows
3 9 (20.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (16.28%) CentOS
5 1 (2.326%) UNIX
5 1 (2.326%) AIX
5 1 (2.326%) Solaris
5 1 (2.326%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.326%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) ITIL
2 9 (20.93%) Load Balancing
3 4 (9.302%) Memory Management
3 4 (9.302%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (6.977%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (6.977%) Configuration Management
4 3 (6.977%) Information Security
5 2 (4.651%) Investment Management
5 2 (4.651%) Web Development
5 2 (4.651%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (4.651%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.326%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Bash shell
2 7 (16.28%) Perl
2 7 (16.28%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) PHP
4 5 (11.63%) Java
5 4 (9.302%) AWK
5 4 (9.302%) sed
5 4 (9.302%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) RHCE
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (13.95%) MCSE
3 2 (4.651%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (20.93%) Varnish
3 8 (18.60%) vSphere
4 6 (13.95%) VMware ESX
4 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
5 4 (9.302%) Nmap
5 4 (9.302%) Squid
5 4 (9.302%) Postfix
5 4 (9.302%) NFS
6 3 (6.977%) Samba
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Puppet
2 9 (20.93%) Nagios
3 7 (16.28%) NetBackup
4 2 (4.651%) YUM
5 1 (2.326%) Splunk
5 1 (2.326%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) VMware
2 18 (41.86%) Red Hat
3 10 (23.26%) NetApp
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
4 7 (16.28%) Cisco
5 6 (13.95%) Citrix
6 5 (11.63%) JBoss
6 5 (11.63%) Oracle
7 4 (9.302%) EMC
7 4 (9.302%) SAP
8 3 (6.977%) Novell
8 3 (6.977%) IBM
9 1 (2.326%) Percona
9 1 (2.326%) Brocade
Staines, Middlesex
Linux Engineer - Red Hat RHEL, VMware... Skills required: Excellent Red Hat Linux knowledge required - RHCE preferred or equivalent demonstrable knowledge. Excellent understanding of web site and enterprise infrastructure...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £57000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013