The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. 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 24 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 200 - 171
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 4 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.080% - 0.120%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% - 0.125%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 5
Average salary £37,500 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4823 4368 3992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.92% 95.83% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3997 3832 3397
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Linux Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Administrator across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Linux Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Administrator
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham - 2 £37,000 -
Coventry - 1 £35,000 -
West Bromwich - 1 £40,000 -
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (93.75%) VMware
3 13 (81.25%) SQL
4 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
5 8 (50.00%) SUSE
5 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (50.00%) ITIL
6 7 (43.75%) Perl
6 7 (43.75%) PHP
6 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
7 6 (37.50%) SLA
7 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (37.50%) Nagios
7 6 (37.50%) MCSE
7 6 (37.50%) Python
7 6 (37.50%) Problem Management
7 6 (37.50%) CentOS
8 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (31.25%) Apache
8 5 (31.25%) Tomcat
8 5 (31.25%) UNIX
8 5 (31.25%) Java
9 4 (25.00%) SAN
9 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (25.00%) NetApp
9 4 (25.00%) MySQL
9 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
9 4 (25.00%) DNS
9 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (25.00%) LAMP

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

Application Development
1 4 (25.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Apache
1 5 (31.25%) Tomcat
2 4 (25.00%) nginx
2 4 (25.00%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SAN
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
1 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Open Source
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) SUSE
3 6 (37.50%) CentOS
4 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (31.25%) UNIX
5 4 (25.00%) Debian
6 2 (12.50%) Windows
7 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (37.50%) Problem Management
3 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Perl
2 7 (43.75%) PHP
3 6 (37.50%) Python
4 5 (31.25%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (37.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) Postfix
2 4 (25.00%) Sendmail
2 4 (25.00%) Varnish
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
4 1 (6.250%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Veritas File System
4 1 (6.250%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Nagios
2 2 (12.50%) Backup Exec
2 2 (12.50%) OpenNMS
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) VMware
2 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) NetApp
5 3 (18.75%) Veritas
6 2 (12.50%) Symantec
6 2 (12.50%) BMC
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate should have experience of supporting Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating systems within large scale production environments. They should also have strong experience of Veritas (VxVM,...
TEKsystems
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013