The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Linux Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Linux Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux Engineer
Rank 807 821 841
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 57 79 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.052% 0.064% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.068% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 46 72 26
Average salary £56,250 £52,500 £51,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +1.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,750 £45,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £73,500
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -2.91%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
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 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Senior Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior Linux Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Linux Engineer
Top 23 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +10 57 £56,250 +7.14%
London +56 37 £55,000 -
South East -7 9 £65,000 +36.84%
City of London +22 6 £57,500 +4.54%
Harrow - 6 £57,500 -
York +4 5 - -
North Yorkshire 0 5 - -
Yorkshire -5 5 - -
North West - 5 £37,500 -
Cheshire - 5 £37,500 -
Berkshire +2 4 £65,000 +36.84%
Ruislip - 4 £60,000 -
Uxbridge - 4 £45,000 -
Northwich - 4 £37,500 -
Surrey - 2 £65,000 -
Middlesex - 2 £53,750 -
Staines - 2 £65,000 -
Reading -3 1 £75,000 +57.89%
Hampshire -5 1 £45,000 -18.18%
East of England -7 1 £77,500 +55.00%
Cambridgeshire -7 1 £77,500 +55.00%
Cambridge -8 1 £77,500 +55.00%
Basingstoke - 1 £45,000 -

Senior Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Linux Engineer 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 Senior Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 98 (100.00%) Linux
2 57 (58.16%) UNIX
3 44 (44.90%) TCP/IP
3 44 (44.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (43.88%) SAN
5 39 (39.80%) Perl
5 39 (39.80%) Bash shell
6 35 (35.71%) Puppet
6 35 (35.71%) Oracle
6 35 (35.71%) Python
7 32 (32.65%) Java
7 32 (32.65%) Service Management
8 31 (31.63%) MySQL
8 31 (31.63%) ITIL
8 31 (31.63%) Tomcat
8 31 (31.63%) Red Hat
8 31 (31.63%) HTTP
8 31 (31.63%) CentOS
9 30 (30.61%) JBoss
9 30 (30.61%) Solaris
10 29 (29.59%) Internet
10 29 (29.59%) NAS
10 29 (29.59%) Load Balancing
11 28 (28.57%) WebSphere
11 28 (28.57%) XML
12 27 (27.55%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (26.53%) LDAP
13 26 (26.53%) Sun
13 26 (26.53%) Workflow
14 25 (25.51%) SSH

Senior Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Linux Engineer 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 Senior Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (28.57%) WebSphere
1 28 (28.57%) XML
2 25 (25.51%) SOAP
2 25 (25.51%) REST
3 10 (10.20%) LAMP
4 2 (2.041%) Memcached
4 2 (2.041%) Lucene
4 2 (2.041%) Middleware
5 1 (1.020%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 31 (31.63%) Tomcat
2 25 (25.51%) Apache
3 5 (5.102%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.041%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (2.041%) nginx
4 2 (2.041%) Drupal
4 2 (2.041%) IIS
4 2 (2.041%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.020%) Jetty
5 1 (1.020%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.020%) Escenic
5 1 (1.020%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 44 (44.90%) TCP/IP
2 43 (43.88%) SAN
3 31 (31.63%) HTTP
4 29 (29.59%) Internet
4 29 (29.59%) NAS
5 26 (26.53%) LDAP
6 25 (25.51%) SSH
7 12 (12.24%) DNS
8 10 (10.20%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (6.122%) iSCSI
10 4 (4.082%) Firewall
11 2 (2.041%) SMTP
11 2 (2.041%) HTTPS
11 2 (2.041%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (1.020%) BGP
12 1 (1.020%) SSL
12 1 (1.020%) SNMP
12 1 (1.020%) VPN
12 1 (1.020%) DHCP
12 1 (1.020%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.63%) MySQL
2 15 (15.31%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.102%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.082%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.082%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.061%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.061%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (3.061%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (2.041%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.020%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.020%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (3.061%) Subversion
1 3 (3.061%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (5.102%) Finance
2 4 (4.082%) Music
3 3 (3.061%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.041%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.041%) Banking
5 1 (1.020%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.55%) Cloud Computing
2 25 (25.51%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (10.20%) Open Source
3 10 (10.20%) Clustering
4 9 (9.184%) Video on Demand
4 9 (9.184%) New Media
5 5 (5.102%) STB
6 4 (4.082%) SaaS
6 4 (4.082%) Streaming Music
6 4 (4.082%) Replication
7 3 (3.061%) Handset
8 2 (2.041%) Derivative
8 2 (2.041%) Firmware
8 2 (2.041%) HACMP
9 1 (1.020%) Computer Science
9 1 (1.020%) PaaS
9 1 (1.020%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 98 (100.00%) Linux
2 57 (58.16%) UNIX
3 44 (44.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (31.63%) CentOS
5 30 (30.61%) Solaris
6 23 (23.47%) Windows
7 20 (20.41%) Ubuntu
8 9 (9.184%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (8.163%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (8.163%) Debian
10 5 (5.102%) pSOS
10 5 (5.102%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (4.082%) SUSE
12 3 (3.061%) Fedora
12 3 (3.061%) AIX
13 2 (2.041%) FreeBSD
14 1 (1.020%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.65%) Service Management
2 31 (31.63%) ITIL
3 29 (29.59%) Load Balancing
4 26 (26.53%) Workflow
5 6 (6.122%) Configuration Management
6 5 (5.102%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (4.082%) E-Commerce
8 3 (3.061%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (3.061%) Problem Management
8 3 (3.061%) Infrastructure Management
9 2 (2.041%) Capacity Management
9 2 (2.041%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (2.041%) Network Management
9 2 (2.041%) Strategic Planning
9 2 (2.041%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.041%) Release Management
9 2 (2.041%) Performance Management
9 2 (2.041%) Data Modelling
9 2 (2.041%) Benchmarking
9 2 (2.041%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.80%) Perl
1 39 (39.80%) Bash shell
2 35 (35.71%) Python
3 32 (32.65%) Java
4 9 (9.184%) C
5 8 (8.163%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.143%) C++
6 7 (7.143%) PHP
7 5 (5.102%) Embedded C
7 5 (5.102%) Embedded C++
7 5 (5.102%) SQL
7 5 (5.102%) Ruby
8 3 (3.061%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.020%) AWK
9 1 (1.020%) VBScript
9 1 (1.020%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.020%) sed
Qualifications
1 3 (3.061%) RHCE
1 3 (3.061%) Degree
2 1 (1.020%) SCSA
2 1 (1.020%) RHCA
2 1 (1.020%) CCNA
2 1 (1.020%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.020%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.020%) MCSE
2 1 (1.020%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.082%) QA
2 3 (3.061%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.061%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) Xen
2 12 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.20%) Sendmail
3 10 (10.20%) Samba
4 7 (7.143%) XenServer
5 4 (4.082%) NFS
5 4 (4.082%) VMware ESX
6 3 (3.061%) Varnish
7 2 (2.041%) Apache Flume
7 2 (2.041%) vSphere
7 2 (2.041%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.020%) Active Directory
8 1 (1.020%) Squid
8 1 (1.020%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (35.71%) Puppet
2 24 (24.49%) Nagios
3 9 (9.184%) ZABBIX
4 5 (5.102%) Cacti
5 3 (3.061%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.041%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 1 (1.020%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.020%) Plesk
7 1 (1.020%) YUM
Vendors
1 35 (35.71%) Oracle
2 31 (31.63%) Red Hat
3 30 (30.61%) JBoss
4 26 (26.53%) Sun
5 21 (21.43%) VMware
6 10 (10.20%) HP
7 9 (9.184%) Cisco
7 9 (9.184%) Akamai
8 7 (7.143%) Veritas
9 6 (6.122%) EMC
10 5 (5.102%) NetApp
11 3 (3.061%) Remedy
11 3 (3.061%) IBM
12 2 (2.041%) Nortel
13 1 (1.020%) Microsoft
13 1 (1.020%) Dell
13 1 (1.020%) Citrix
13 1 (1.020%) Juniper
13 1 (1.020%) Percona
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