The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Specialist
Rank 829 873 866
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 39 12 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.036% 0.010% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.010% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 36 11 14
Average salary £48,750 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.87% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £33,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £52,500 £59,750
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £33,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+26.86% -12.98%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Linux Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Linux Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Linux Specialist Salary Trend

Linux Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Specialist over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Linux Specialist Salary Histogram

Linux Specialist
Top 20 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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
England +46 32 £50,000 +21.21% 3
London +59 25 £50,000 +2.56% 2
City of London +18 20 £57,500 +21.05% 1
Scotland +12 5 £42,500 +6.25% 1
East of England - 5 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £45,000 -
Cambridge - 3 £45,000 -
Glasgow - 3 £42,500 -
South East +14 2 £46,750 -22.08%
Hertfordshire - 2 £46,250 -
Aberdeen - 2 - - 1
Surrey +18 1 £53,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
County Antrim - 1 - -
Belfast - 1 - -
Reading - 1 £40,000 -
Staines - 1 £53,500 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £50,000 -
Welwyn - 1 £42,500 -
Berkshire - 1 £40,000 -

Linux Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 67 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (55.22%) UNIX
3 34 (50.75%) Red Hat
4 31 (46.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (44.78%) VMware
6 28 (41.79%) Perl
7 20 (29.85%) ITIL
7 20 (29.85%) Internet
8 19 (28.36%) MySQL
9 17 (25.37%) Oracle
9 17 (25.37%) Solaris
10 15 (22.39%) Windows
10 15 (22.39%) Cisco
10 15 (22.39%) EMC
10 15 (22.39%) Banking
11 14 (20.90%) Python
12 13 (19.40%) Bash shell
12 13 (19.40%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (17.91%) RHCE
13 12 (17.91%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (17.91%) Veritas
14 11 (16.42%) Debian
14 11 (16.42%) DNS
14 11 (16.42%) BMC
14 11 (16.42%) Splunk
15 10 (14.93%) Puppet
15 10 (14.93%) BMC PATROL
15 10 (14.93%) IBM
15 10 (14.93%) Apache
15 10 (14.93%) Finance

Linux Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (8.955%) LAMP
2 2 (2.985%) CSS
2 2 (2.985%) SOAP
2 2 (2.985%) XML
2 2 (2.985%) HTML
3 1 (1.493%) Memcached
3 1 (1.493%) .NET
3 1 (1.493%) Middleware
3 1 (1.493%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.493%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (14.93%) Apache
2 1 (1.493%) Escenic
2 1 (1.493%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.985%) MS Excel
1 2 (2.985%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (29.85%) Internet
2 11 (16.42%) DNS
3 9 (13.43%) SAN
3 9 (13.43%) NAS
4 8 (11.94%) SMTP
5 6 (8.955%) LAN
5 6 (8.955%) WAN
6 3 (4.478%) HTTP
6 3 (4.478%) Firewall
7 2 (2.985%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.985%) IPv4
7 2 (2.985%) OSPF
7 2 (2.985%) BGP
7 2 (2.985%) VoIP
8 1 (1.493%) FWSM
8 1 (1.493%) DHCP
8 1 (1.493%) LDAP
8 1 (1.493%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.36%) MySQL
2 3 (4.478%) Redis
2 3 (4.478%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.478%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.985%) PostgreSQL
General
1 15 (22.39%) Banking
2 10 (14.93%) Finance
3 6 (8.955%) Retail
4 2 (2.985%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.985%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.493%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) CLARiiON
2 4 (5.970%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (5.970%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.478%) Replication
4 2 (2.985%) Data Extraction
4 2 (2.985%) Open Source
5 1 (1.493%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.493%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 67 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (55.22%) UNIX
3 31 (46.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (25.37%) Solaris
5 15 (22.39%) Windows
6 11 (16.42%) Debian
7 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (4.478%) HPUX
9 2 (2.985%) SUSE
10 1 (1.493%) AIX
10 1 (1.493%) NetWare
10 1 (1.493%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) ITIL
2 9 (13.43%) Security Management
3 4 (5.970%) Scrum
3 4 (5.970%) Waterfall
4 2 (2.985%) Migration
4 2 (2.985%) Service Delivery
4 2 (2.985%) Change Management
4 2 (2.985%) Network Management
4 2 (2.985%) Capacity Management
5 1 (1.493%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (1.493%) Business Continuity
5 1 (1.493%) Information Security
5 1 (1.493%) Service Management
5 1 (1.493%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.79%) Perl
2 14 (20.90%) Python
3 13 (19.40%) Bash shell
4 5 (7.463%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.970%) Java
5 4 (5.970%) SQL
6 3 (4.478%) Bourne shell
7 2 (2.985%) C
8 1 (1.493%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) RHCE
1 12 (17.91%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 4 (5.970%) RHCA
4 1 (1.493%) CCNA
4 1 (1.493%) CISSP
4 1 (1.493%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.493%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.493%) GCIA
4 1 (1.493%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.463%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.985%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.985%) SLA
3 1 (1.493%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.493%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
1 7 (10.45%) Samba
2 6 (8.955%) NFS
2 6 (8.955%) Postfix
3 3 (4.478%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.985%) VMware Server
4 2 (2.985%) XenServer
5 1 (1.493%) Varnish
5 1 (1.493%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (1.493%) vSphere
5 1 (1.493%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (1.493%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Red Hat Satellite
2 11 (16.42%) Splunk
3 10 (14.93%) Puppet
3 10 (14.93%) BMC PATROL
4 9 (13.43%) EMC NetWorker
4 9 (13.43%) Tivoli
5 8 (11.94%) Nagios
6 5 (7.463%) Munin
7 3 (4.478%) YUM
7 3 (4.478%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 3 (4.478%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (1.493%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.493%) Cobbler
8 1 (1.493%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (50.75%) Red Hat
2 30 (44.78%) VMware
3 17 (25.37%) Oracle
4 15 (22.39%) Cisco
4 15 (22.39%) EMC
5 12 (17.91%) Veritas
6 11 (16.42%) BMC
7 10 (14.93%) IBM
8 9 (13.43%) Sun
8 9 (13.43%) HP
9 8 (11.94%) Citrix
10 3 (4.478%) Microsoft
10 3 (4.478%) BT
11 1 (1.493%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.493%) SAP
11 1 (1.493%) JBoss
11 1 (1.493%) NetIQ
11 1 (1.493%) Dell
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Salary: £33000 - £36000 per annum + 41 holidays, final salary pension
Posted: 18 June 2013
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An ITIL qualification and Red Hat certification would be highly advantageous as would experience of:Directory Services, VMware, Veritas Foundation Suite, Cisco UCS hardware, Security Management, BMC Patrol,...
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + 10% bonus + bens
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
A bright mind (usually PhD but doesn’t have to be) Python, Bash. Linux administration, especially Redhat. Ideally Build/deployment technologies, such as Maven, CMake and Rake... The...
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Salary: From £100,000 to £100,000 per annum Bonus Medical Pension
Posted: 13 June 2013
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