Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

 Linux Administrator
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank411363443
Rank change year-on-year
Down-48Up+80
Matching permanent IT job ads478325621
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.441 %0.478 %0.349 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.473 %0.507 %0.372 %
Salaries quoted424289563
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£29,550£28,550
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£52,500£56,600
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,250£35,000
% change year-on-year
+0.670 %+6.420 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10116464040166804
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.44 %94.18 %93.84 %
Salaries quoted8350552739137869
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£65,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-

Linux Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Linux Administrator Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the UK.

Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 within the UK.

Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-60474£40,500+1.25 %
LondonDown-59266£45,000-
South EastUp+6122£35,000-9.67 %
City of LondonDown-4962£50,000-
SurreyDown-2551£39,000-13.33 %
East of EnglandDown-5342£47,500+18.75 %
BerkshireDown-1530£30,000-25.00 %
HertfordshireDown-4327£47,500+5.55 %
OxfordshireUp+723£35,000+7.69 %
OxfordNew entry-22£35,000-
East MidlandsDown-3615£32,500+1.56 %
WokingNew entry-14£40,000-
South WestUp+313£35,000-12.50 %
ReadingDown-1113£30,000-25.00 %
Hemel HempsteadUp+512£47,500+5.55 %
CambridgeshireDown-2512£38,750+3.33 %
CambridgeDown-2912£38,750+3.33 %
Home CountiesNew entry-11£50,000-
LeicestershireNew entry-10£32,500-
HammersmithNew entry-9£45,000-
BristolUp+197£29,000-17.14 %
West MidlandsDown-166£47,500+46.15 %
North WestDown-446£40,000+6.66 %
LoughboroughNew entry-6£32,500-
RomfordNew entry-5£47,500-
WarwickshireNew entry-5£47,500-
GloucestershireDown-14£37,500-16.66 %
HampshireDown-24£39,000+34.48 %
CardiffNew entry-4£32,500-
NottinghamNew entry-4£42,500-

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1818 (100.00 %)Linux
2458 (55.99 %)Red Hat Linux
3442 (54.03 %)Red Hat
4363 (44.38 %)Apache
5336 (41.08 %)MySQL
6310 (37.90 %)Perl
7254 (31.05 %)UNIX
8225 (27.51 %)PHP
9217 (26.53 %)Windows
10202 (24.69 %)Bash shell
11164 (20.05 %)Shell Script
12162 (19.80 %)Python
13147 (17.97 %)CentOS
14140 (17.11 %)DNS
15132 (16.14 %)Java
16120 (14.67 %)TCP/IP
17119 (14.55 %)Debian
18115 (14.06 %)Solaris
19110 (13.45 %)Oracle
20109 (13.33 %)Cisco
21107 (13.08 %)VMware
22104 (12.71 %)LAMP
23103 (12.59 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
24100 (12.22 %)SAN
2599 (12.10 %)Nagios
2694 (11.49 %)Finance
2793 (11.37 %)C
2890 (11.00 %)Open Source
2988 (10.76 %)Firewall
2988 (10.76 %)Tomcat

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1104 (12.71 %)LAMP
227 (3.301 %)Web Services
322 (2.689 %)HTML
414 (1.711 %)XML
513 (1.589 %)J2EE
612 (1.467 %)WebSphere
711 (1.345 %).NET
89 (1.100 %)ASP
96 (0.733 %)Symfony
96 (0.733 %)Java EE
104 (0.489 %)XBRL
104 (0.489 %)CGI
104 (0.489 %)Django
104 (0.489 %)Java SE
104 (0.489 %)Application Packaging
113 (0.367 %)Spring
113 (0.367 %)CSS
122 (0.244 %)Flash
122 (0.244 %)XHTML
122 (0.244 %)Hibernate
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1363 (44.38 %)Apache
288 (10.76 %)Tomcat
316 (1.956 %)nginx
411 (1.345 %)MS Exchange
510 (1.222 %)IIS
510 (1.222 %)CMS
68 (0.978 %)WordPress
76 (0.733 %)WebLogic
76 (0.733 %)SAS
76 (0.733 %)Exchange Server 2007
85 (0.611 %)lighttpd
94 (0.489 %)Drupal
103 (0.367 %)GlassFish
103 (0.367 %)Zimbra
103 (0.367 %)Documentum
112 (0.244 %)Lotus Notes
121 (0.122 %)Magento
121 (0.122 %)Confluence
121 (0.122 %)Zope
121 (0.122 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
124 (2.934 %)MS Excel
211 (1.345 %)MS Office
34 (0.489 %)MATLAB
34 (0.489 %)S-PLUS
43 (0.367 %)Houdini
43 (0.367 %)Maya
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (0.978 %)Line 50
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1140 (17.11 %)DNS
2120 (14.67 %)TCP/IP
3100 (12.22 %)SAN
488 (10.76 %)Firewall
587 (10.64 %)LDAP
663 (7.702 %)Internet
755 (6.724 %)HTTP
842 (5.134 %)SNMP
939 (4.768 %)SMTP
1030 (3.667 %)SSH
1129 (3.545 %)NAS
1129 (3.545 %)SSL
1129 (3.545 %)DHCP
1226 (3.178 %)Asterisk PBX
1325 (3.056 %)iSCSI
1424 (2.934 %)VPN
1522 (2.689 %)VoIP
1618 (2.200 %)WAN
1717 (2.078 %)LAN
1812 (1.467 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1336 (41.08 %)MySQL
265 (7.946 %)PostgreSQL
338 (4.645 %)SQL Server
48 (0.978 %)RDBMS
56 (0.733 %)Oracle 10g
56 (0.733 %)SQL Server 2008
56 (0.733 %)SQL Server 2005
64 (0.489 %)Oracle 8/8i
73 (0.367 %)Oracle 11g
73 (0.367 %)Informix
82 (0.244 %)SQL Server 2000
91 (0.122 %)Reference Data
91 (0.122 %)Text Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
165 (7.946 %)Subversion
210 (1.222 %)Git (software)
39 (1.100 %)Ant
46 (0.733 %)Maven
54 (0.489 %)TeamCity
62 (0.244 %)WebLOAD
62 (0.244 %)Zend Studio
71 (0.122 %)JIRA
71 (0.122 %)Capistrano
71 (0.122 %)Bugzilla
71 (0.122 %)Eclipse
71 (0.122 %)ClearCase
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
194 (11.49 %)Finance
253 (6.479 %)Banking
352 (6.357 %)Telecoms
439 (4.768 %)Games
439 (4.768 %)Health
536 (4.401 %)Pensions
623 (2.812 %)Investment Banking
623 (2.812 %)Insurance
712 (1.467 %)Education
712 (1.467 %)Online Games
88 (0.978 %)Government
96 (0.733 %)Back Office
96 (0.733 %)Construction
96 (0.733 %)Publishing
96 (0.733 %)Online Betting
96 (0.733 %)Music
105 (0.611 %)Marketing
114 (0.489 %)Social Gaming
123 (0.367 %)Local Government
123 (0.367 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
190 (11.00 %)Open Source
258 (7.090 %)Clustering
339 (4.768 %)Computer Science
438 (4.645 %)Replication
535 (4.279 %)SaaS
623 (2.812 %)Client/Server
721 (2.567 %)Hedge funds
816 (1.956 %)Management Information System
910 (1.222 %)Firmware
910 (1.222 %)CLARiiON
109 (1.100 %)Cloud Computing
109 (1.100 %)Data Protection Act
118 (0.978 %)EqualLogic
127 (0.856 %)Amazon EC2
136 (0.733 %)Web 2.0
145 (0.611 %)Enterprise Storage
154 (0.489 %)Amazon S3
154 (0.489 %)Mathematics
162 (0.244 %)HACMP
162 (0.244 %)Grid Computing
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1818 (100.00 %)Linux
2458 (55.99 %)Red Hat Linux
3254 (31.05 %)UNIX
4217 (26.53 %)Windows
5147 (17.97 %)CentOS
6119 (14.55 %)Debian
7115 (14.06 %)Solaris
8103 (12.59 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
981 (9.902 %)Ubuntu
1058 (7.090 %)AIX
1153 (6.479 %)Fedora
1252 (6.357 %)Windows Server 2003
1325 (3.056 %)FreeBSD
1422 (2.689 %)SUSE
1518 (2.200 %)Gentoo
1518 (2.200 %)Windows Server 2008
1617 (2.078 %)HPUX
1715 (1.834 %)Windows XP
186 (0.733 %)OpenBSD
195 (0.611 %)OpenSolaris
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
158 (7.090 %)Load Balancing
250 (6.112 %)E-Commerce
337 (4.523 %)ITIL
434 (4.156 %)Configuration Management
529 (3.545 %)Performance Management
619 (2.323 %)Project Management
716 (1.956 %)Change Management
815 (1.834 %)Disaster Recovery
914 (1.711 %)Investment Management
1012 (1.467 %)Problem Management
1012 (1.467 %)Capacity Planning
1110 (1.222 %)Scrum
1110 (1.222 %)Electronic Trading
1110 (1.222 %)Continuous Integration
129 (1.100 %)Data Protection
129 (1.100 %)Performance Testing
129 (1.100 %)Migration
129 (1.100 %)Information Security
138 (0.978 %)Agile Software Development
138 (0.978 %)Service Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1310 (37.90 %)Perl
2225 (27.51 %)PHP
3202 (24.69 %)Bash shell
4164 (20.05 %)Shell Script
5162 (19.80 %)Python
6132 (16.14 %)Java
793 (11.37 %)C
887 (10.64 %)SQL
951 (6.235 %)Ruby
1040 (4.890 %)C#
1137 (4.523 %)Korn
1235 (4.279 %)C++
1312 (1.467 %)JavaScript
1312 (1.467 %)Bourne shell
1411 (1.345 %)AWK
1510 (1.222 %)C-shell
166 (0.733 %)VBA
174 (0.489 %)PL/SQL
174 (0.489 %)PHP5
183 (0.367 %)tcsh
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
172 (8.802 %)RHCE
257 (6.968 %)Degree
333 (4.034 %)RHCT
425 (3.056 %)CCNA
425 (3.056 %)Cisco Certification
512 (1.467 %)CCNP
67 (0.856 %)Microsoft Certification
76 (0.733 %)Security Cleared
83 (0.367 %)MCSE
83 (0.367 %)MCSA
92 (0.244 %)ITIL Certification
92 (0.244 %)CCIE
92 (0.244 %)MCP
92 (0.244 %)DV Cleared
92 (0.244 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
101 (0.122 %)MCITP
101 (0.122 %)SC Cleared
101 (0.122 %)Postgraduate
101 (0.122 %)A+ Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
133 (4.034 %)QA
29 (1.100 %)SLA
32 (0.244 %)PCI DSS
32 (0.244 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
166 (8.068 %)VMware Infrastructure
255 (6.724 %)Xen
351 (6.235 %)Samba
445 (5.501 %)NFS
535 (4.279 %)Active Directory
630 (3.667 %)Postfix
728 (3.423 %)VMware ESX
728 (3.423 %)Sendmail
824 (2.934 %)OpenLDAP
915 (1.834 %)vSphere
1011 (1.345 %)Cronacle
1011 (1.345 %)Squid
119 (1.100 %)Veritas Cluster Server
127 (0.856 %)qmail
134 (0.489 %)Veritas Volume Manager
134 (0.489 %)VMware Server
143 (0.367 %)Hadoop
143 (0.367 %)Hyper-V
143 (0.367 %)XenApp
143 (0.367 %)XenServer
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
199 (12.10 %)Nagios
241 (5.012 %)Cacti
333 (4.034 %)Puppet
415 (1.834 %)Munin
510 (1.222 %)NetBackup
510 (1.222 %)HP SIM
69 (1.100 %)ZABBIX
77 (0.856 %)Zenoss
86 (0.733 %)OpenView
95 (0.611 %)Plesk
95 (0.611 %)Tivoli
104 (0.489 %)YUM
113 (0.367 %)OpenNMS
113 (0.367 %)Backup Exec
122 (0.244 %)Netcool
122 (0.244 %)HP Data Protector
131 (0.122 %)Netcool/Webtop
131 (0.122 %)HP NNM
131 (0.122 %)SCOM
131 (0.122 %)PureDisk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1442 (54.03 %)Red Hat
2110 (13.45 %)Oracle
3109 (13.33 %)Cisco
4107 (13.08 %)VMware
556 (6.846 %)HP
641 (5.012 %)IBM
737 (4.523 %)Veritas
832 (3.912 %)EMC
931 (3.790 %)Sun
1030 (3.667 %)JBoss
1129 (3.545 %)NetApp
1227 (3.301 %)Microsoft
1326 (3.178 %)Sybase
1421 (2.567 %)Dell
1512 (1.467 %)Citrix
168 (0.978 %)Sage
168 (0.978 %)Intel
168 (0.978 %)BT
168 (0.978 %)Symantec
177 (0.856 %)Mercator