The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer
Rank - 181 170
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 0 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.088% 0.144%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.092% 0.150%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 6
Average salary - £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year
+11.25% +15.94%
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 Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Linux Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Samba
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Postfix
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) OpenVPN
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMware

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) OpenVPN
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Samba
1 2 (66.67%) Postfix
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Apple