The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Linux Support 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux Support
Rank 853 911 863
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Linux Support 6 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.001% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.001% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 1
Average salary £40,000 £60,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +39.53%
UK excluding London average salary £39,250 - £43,000
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101379 114752 114698
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 84338 98449 96828
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 Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Support
Salary Trend

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

Senior Linux Support Salary Trend

Senior Linux Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Linux Support over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior Linux Support Salary Histogram

Senior Linux Support
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Linux Support within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +31 6 £40,000 -33.33%
London +46 3 £57,500 -4.16%
North West - 2 £38,500 -
South East - 1 £40,000 -
City of London - 1 £57,500 -
Surrey - 1 £40,000 -
Middlesex - 1 £40,000 -
Cheshire - 1 £38,500 -
Manchester - 1 £38,500 -

Senior Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Linux Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (86.67%) UNIX
3 11 (73.33%) Solaris
4 10 (66.67%) Red Hat
5 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (40.00%) ITIL
6 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (40.00%) Service Delivery
7 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
7 5 (33.33%) EMC
7 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
8 4 (26.67%) SLA
8 4 (26.67%) Windows
8 4 (26.67%) AIX
8 4 (26.67%) Oracle
8 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
8 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (26.67%) CLARiiON
8 4 (26.67%) EMC Centera
8 4 (26.67%) Veritas
8 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
8 4 (26.67%) High Availability
8 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
8 4 (26.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 4 (26.67%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (20.00%) QA
9 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
9 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (20.00%) CentOS
9 3 (20.00%) Bash shell

Senior Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (26.67%) FIX Protocol
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (13.33%) SNMP
3 2 (13.33%) Broadband
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) OSPF
3 2 (13.33%) TELNET
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 1 (6.667%) SAN
4 1 (6.667%) Internet
General
1 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (26.67%) CLARiiON
1 4 (26.67%) EMC Centera
2 3 (20.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (86.67%) UNIX
3 11 (73.33%) Solaris
4 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 4 (26.67%) AIX
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (20.00%) Fedora
6 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (20.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ITIL
1 6 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
2 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Network Management
3 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNP
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
2 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (33.33%) EMC
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) Veritas
4 3 (20.00%) Remedy
4 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) Brocade
5 2 (13.33%) Foundry
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper
6 1 (6.667%) IBM
6 1 (6.667%) Citrix