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 22 May 2012 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
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank337438463
Rank change year-on-year
Up+101Up+25
Matching permanent IT job ads830516318
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.688 %0.421 %0.333 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.727 %0.447 %0.357 %
Number of salaries quoted732450287
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£57,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£36,000£33,000
% change year-on-year
+6.94 %+9.09 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11420611553789084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.23 %93.30 %
Number of salaries quoted979339761273729
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

Linux Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+97805£40,000-
LondonUp+40451£42,500-3.40 %
South EastUp+58179£40,000+11.11 %
City of LondonUp+1884£42,500-10.52 %
East of EnglandUp+2468£40,000-
East SussexUp+3053£40,000+100.00 %
BrightonUp+2549£40,000+100.00 %
CambridgeshireUp+1847£42,500+6.25 %
BerkshireDown-447£47,500+23.37 %
CambridgeUp+2035£40,000-
South WestUp+1935£32,500+4.83 %
YorkshireUp+1635£35,000-4.10 %
North WestUp+1331£35,000+34.61 %
SurreyDown-723£42,500+10.38 %
HampshireDown-1121£35,000-
ScotlandUp+2417£35,000+55.55 %
West YorkshireUp+316£39,250+7.53 %
EdinburghNew entry-16£35,000-
South YorkshireNew entry-16£35,000-
SloughDown-815£47,500+13.09 %
SheffieldNew entry-15£35,000-
LiverpoolDown-414£39,000-35.00 %
MerseysideDown-714£39,000-35.00 %
SouthamptonDown-2413£35,000+7.69 %
SussexNew entry-13£45,000-
OxfordshireUp+412£38,750+23.01 %
WakefieldNew entry-12£40,000-
ManchesterUp+111£32,250+24.03 %
ExeterNew entry-11£30,212-
CroydonNew entry-11£40,000-

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

11573 (100.00 %)Linux
2916 (58.23 %)Apache
3841 (53.46 %)Red Hat
4613 (38.97 %)MySQL
5607 (38.59 %)Perl
6562 (35.73 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7543 (34.52 %)UNIX
8398 (25.30 %)PHP
9393 (24.98 %)Bash shell
10388 (24.67 %)Python
11376 (23.90 %)CentOS
12342 (21.74 %)Windows
13340 (21.61 %)DNS
14319 (20.28 %)Puppet
15311 (19.77 %)TCP/IP
15311 (19.77 %)VMware
16301 (19.14 %)Debian
17278 (17.67 %)Tomcat
18250 (15.89 %)Shell Script
19232 (14.75 %)LAMP
20218 (13.86 %)Nagios
21206 (13.10 %)Ruby
22205 (13.03 %)Java
23204 (12.97 %)Cisco
24203 (12.91 %)Ubuntu
25199 (12.65 %)Oracle
26196 (12.46 %)SAN
27195 (12.40 %)Finance
28191 (12.14 %)SQL
28191 (12.14 %)Solaris

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
1232 (14.75 %)LAMP
2109 (6.929 %)Web Services
334 (2.161 %)Ruby on Rails
428 (1.780 %)WebSphere
527 (1.716 %)HTML
620 (1.271 %)J2EE
620 (1.271 %)Middleware
717 (1.081 %)CSS
815 (0.954 %)JMS
815 (0.954 %)Memcached
914 (0.890 %)Django
914 (0.890 %)Application Packaging
914 (0.890 %)XHTML
914 (0.890 %).NET
1013 (0.826 %)Servlets
1112 (0.763 %)ASP
1112 (0.763 %)XML
1211 (0.699 %)JDBC
1310 (0.636 %)Software Packaging
1310 (0.636 %)Ajax
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1916 (58.23 %)Apache
2278 (17.67 %)Tomcat
393 (5.912 %)nginx
467 (4.259 %)Amazon EC2
561 (3.878 %)Amazon AWS
561 (3.878 %)IIS
659 (3.751 %)MS Exchange
724 (1.526 %)CMS
821 (1.335 %)WebLogic
821 (1.335 %)Jetty
916 (1.017 %)SugarCRM
1015 (0.954 %)ColdFusion
1015 (0.954 %)Amazon S3
1114 (0.890 %)Zimbra
1213 (0.826 %)Apache Solr
1213 (0.826 %)Exchange Server 2010
1312 (0.763 %)Mule
1312 (0.763 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1411 (0.699 %)Liferay
1411 (0.699 %)Drupal
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
168 (4.323 %)MS Excel
226 (1.653 %)Google Apps
37 (0.445 %)MS Office
44 (0.254 %)MS Visio
51 (0.064 %)MS PowerPoint
51 (0.064 %)Photoshop
51 (0.064 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.127 %)BASE24
12 (0.127 %)Summit
21 (0.064 %)Remedy ITSM
21 (0.064 %)ION MarketView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1340 (21.61 %)DNS
2311 (19.77 %)TCP/IP
3196 (12.46 %)SAN
4189 (12.02 %)Firewall
5144 (9.154 %)Internet
6136 (8.646 %)LDAP
7123 (7.819 %)HTTP
8120 (7.629 %)DHCP
9102 (6.484 %)SMTP
1088 (5.594 %)VPN
1169 (4.387 %)NAS
1267 (4.259 %)SSL
1357 (3.624 %)SNMP
1357 (3.624 %)VLAN
1454 (3.433 %)VoIP
1553 (3.369 %)FTP
1553 (3.369 %)SSH
1642 (2.670 %)WAN
1741 (2.606 %)LAN
1833 (2.098 %)iSCSI
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1613 (38.97 %)MySQL
2123 (7.819 %)SQL Server
3118 (7.502 %)PostgreSQL
453 (3.369 %)NoSQL
545 (2.861 %)MongoDB
629 (1.844 %)Redis
727 (1.716 %)RDBMS
826 (1.653 %)SQL Server 2005
925 (1.589 %)Apache Cassandra
1018 (1.144 %)Hadoop
1117 (1.081 %)Oracle 10g
1216 (1.017 %)Oracle 11g
1315 (0.954 %)SQL Server 2008
1410 (0.636 %)Oracle 8/8i
159 (0.572 %)Data Warehouse
166 (0.381 %)ETL
166 (0.381 %)Oracle BI EE
174 (0.254 %)DB2
183 (0.191 %)SQL Server Integration Services
192 (0.127 %)Oracle Discoverer
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1121 (7.692 %)Subversion
259 (3.751 %)Git (software)
327 (1.716 %)Hudson
416 (1.017 %)JIRA
513 (0.826 %)Cucumber
611 (0.699 %)TeamCity
79 (0.572 %)Selenium
87 (0.445 %)Ant
94 (0.254 %)Synon
94 (0.254 %)Maven
102 (0.127 %)Talend Open Studio
102 (0.127 %)CruiseControl
102 (0.127 %)Mercurial
102 (0.127 %)RSpec
102 (0.127 %)Capistrano
111 (0.064 %)MSBuild
111 (0.064 %)Bugzilla
111 (0.064 %)Eclipse
111 (0.064 %)IntelliJ
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1195 (12.40 %)Finance
282 (5.213 %)Games
369 (4.387 %)Retail
451 (3.242 %)Telecoms
547 (2.988 %)Back Office
630 (1.907 %)Marketing
720 (1.271 %)Banking
816 (1.017 %)Publishing
912 (0.763 %)Advertising
108 (0.509 %)Manufacturing
116 (0.381 %)Investment Banking
125 (0.318 %)French Language
134 (0.254 %)Law
134 (0.254 %)Financial Institution
143 (0.191 %)Front Office
143 (0.191 %)Music
143 (0.191 %)German Language
152 (0.127 %)Music Industry
152 (0.127 %)Electronics
161 (0.064 %)Legal
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1161 (10.24 %)Open Source
2116 (7.374 %)Clustering
3107 (6.802 %)Replication
464 (4.069 %)SaaS
557 (3.624 %)Cloud Computing
649 (3.115 %)Computer Science
741 (2.606 %)Social Network
838 (2.416 %)Online Games
932 (2.034 %)Management Information System
932 (2.034 %)Digital Media
1030 (1.907 %)Social Media
1123 (1.462 %)Hedge funds
1217 (1.081 %)Enterprise Storage
1217 (1.081 %)PaaS
1217 (1.081 %)Grid Computing
1315 (0.954 %)Mathematics
1315 (0.954 %)Client/Server
1414 (0.890 %)Blackberry
1512 (0.763 %)Wiki
1611 (0.699 %)Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11573 (100.00 %)Linux
2562 (35.73 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3543 (34.52 %)UNIX
4376 (23.90 %)CentOS
5342 (21.74 %)Windows
6301 (19.14 %)Debian
7203 (12.91 %)Ubuntu
8191 (12.14 %)Solaris
955 (3.497 %)SUSE
1052 (3.306 %)Windows Server 2008
1151 (3.242 %)AIX
1235 (2.225 %)HPUX
1334 (2.161 %)Windows Server 2003
1429 (1.844 %)FreeBSD
1528 (1.780 %)Mac OS X
1627 (1.716 %)Windows 7
1725 (1.589 %)Fedora
1824 (1.526 %)Oracle Linux
1923 (1.462 %)VMS
2019 (1.208 %)OpenBSD
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1136 (8.646 %)E-Commerce
2126 (8.010 %)Configuration Management
387 (5.531 %)Load Balancing
460 (3.814 %)Agile Software Development
554 (3.433 %)ITIL
653 (3.369 %)Migration
740 (2.543 %)Disaster Recovery
829 (1.844 %)MVC
928 (1.780 %)Capacity Planning
1027 (1.716 %)Service Delivery
1126 (1.653 %)Penetration Testing
1224 (1.526 %)Integration Testing
1322 (1.399 %)OpenUP
1322 (1.399 %)Network Management
1421 (1.335 %)Capacity Management
1520 (1.271 %)High Availability
1520 (1.271 %)Change Management
1520 (1.271 %)Project Management
1619 (1.208 %)Change Control
1717 (1.081 %)Continuous Integration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1607 (38.59 %)Perl
2398 (25.30 %)PHP
3393 (24.98 %)Bash shell
4388 (24.67 %)Python
5250 (15.89 %)Shell Script
6206 (13.10 %)Ruby
7205 (13.03 %)Java
8191 (12.14 %)SQL
955 (3.497 %)Korn
1050 (3.179 %)AWK
1141 (2.606 %)C
1225 (1.589 %)JavaScript
1321 (1.335 %)PowerShell
1420 (1.271 %)PL/SQL
1517 (1.081 %)C++
1612 (0.763 %)VBScript
1711 (0.699 %)Bourne shell
1810 (0.636 %)C#
196 (0.381 %)C-shell
205 (0.318 %)T-SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1175 (11.13 %)RHCE
2164 (10.43 %)Degree
350 (3.179 %)RHCT
435 (2.225 %)Security Cleared
530 (1.907 %)CCNA
530 (1.907 %)Cisco Certification
621 (1.335 %)SC Cleared
713 (0.826 %)HND
810 (0.636 %)SCSA
98 (0.509 %)Oracle Certification
98 (0.509 %)LPIC
106 (0.381 %)OCA
106 (0.381 %)RHCA
114 (0.254 %)Microsoft Certification
114 (0.254 %)Linux+ Certification
114 (0.254 %)DV Cleared
123 (0.191 %)BC Cleared
123 (0.191 %)SCNA
123 (0.191 %)CCNP
123 (0.191 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
131 (1.971 %)SLA
212 (0.763 %)QA
38 (0.509 %)ISO 9001
44 (0.254 %)ISO/IEC 27001
44 (0.254 %)PCI DSS
51 (0.064 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1181 (11.51 %)VMware Infrastructure
2140 (8.900 %)Active Directory
398 (6.230 %)NFS
494 (5.976 %)Xen
578 (4.959 %)Samba
652 (3.306 %)VMware ESX
751 (3.242 %)Postfix
850 (3.179 %)vSphere
940 (2.543 %)Varnish
1036 (2.289 %)Sendmail
1132 (2.034 %)VMware ESXi
1231 (1.971 %)Hyper-V
1319 (1.208 %)Squid
1415 (0.954 %)qmail
1512 (0.763 %)XenServer
169 (0.572 %)Veritas Cluster Server
169 (0.572 %)FreeRADIUS
177 (0.445 %)Dovecot
186 (0.381 %)Oracle RMAN
195 (0.318 %)Veritas Volume Manager
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1319 (20.28 %)Puppet
2218 (13.86 %)Nagios
374 (4.704 %)Cacti
436 (2.289 %)ZABBIX
436 (2.289 %)Tivoli
436 (2.289 %)Munin
531 (1.971 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
625 (1.589 %)CFEngine
721 (1.335 %)NetBackup
820 (1.271 %)Red Hat Satellite
919 (1.208 %)Splunk
919 (1.208 %)Ganglia
1016 (1.017 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
1114 (0.890 %)SCCM
1114 (0.890 %)WSUS
1114 (0.890 %)Nessus
1212 (0.763 %)Cobbler
1311 (0.699 %)OpenNMS
1410 (0.636 %)vCenter
158 (0.509 %)Zenoss
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1841 (53.46 %)Red Hat
2311 (19.77 %)VMware
3204 (12.97 %)Cisco
4199 (12.65 %)Oracle
5139 (8.837 %)JBoss
696 (6.103 %)Microsoft
776 (4.832 %)HP
849 (3.115 %)IBM
946 (2.924 %)Intel
1045 (2.861 %)F5
1143 (2.734 %)EMC
1236 (2.289 %)Citrix
1236 (2.289 %)NetApp
1335 (2.225 %)Dell
1434 (2.161 %)Juniper
1533 (2.098 %)Veritas
1629 (1.844 %)Google
1721 (1.335 %)Sun
1820 (1.271 %)Rackspace
1915 (0.954 %)Akamai