The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Systems Administrator 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 advertised for the West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux System Administrator
Rank 149 154 150
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 23 15 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.630% 0.463% 0.137%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.661% 0.475% 0.142%
Number of salaries quoted 23 8 1
Average salary £27,500 £39,250 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.93% +0.64%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3479 3157 2826
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 95.24% 97.38% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2784 2642 2365
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Systems Administrator
Yorkshire

Linux Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Linux Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

West Yorkshire Linux Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Linux Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds - 23 £27,500 -
Linux Systems Administrator
Yorkshire

Linux Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (70.59%) Debian
2 24 (70.59%) DNS
3 21 (61.76%) Red Hat
3 21 (61.76%) LAMP
4 20 (58.82%) Telecoms
4 20 (58.82%) FTP
5 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 8 (23.53%) Java
7 7 (20.59%) WebLogic
7 7 (20.59%) UNIX
7 7 (20.59%) Maven
7 7 (20.59%) WebSphere
7 7 (20.59%) MSBuild
8 5 (14.71%) Apache
8 5 (14.71%) MySQL
9 4 (11.76%) DHCP
9 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
9 4 (11.76%) Firewall
10 3 (8.824%) Shell Script
10 3 (8.824%) Network Security
11 2 (5.882%) Ubuntu
11 2 (5.882%) Asset Management
11 2 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (5.882%) Configuration Management
11 2 (5.882%) PHP
11 2 (5.882%) Windows
11 2 (5.882%) Oracle
11 2 (5.882%) vSphere

Linux Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 21 (61.76%) LAMP
2 7 (20.59%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.941%) HTML
3 1 (2.941%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) WebLogic
2 5 (14.71%) Apache
3 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.941%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (70.59%) DNS
2 20 (58.82%) FTP
3 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.76%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) DHCP
4 3 (8.824%) Network Security
5 1 (2.941%) NAS
5 1 (2.941%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (2.941%) OpenVPN
5 1 (2.941%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.941%) SAN
5 1 (2.941%) Internet
5 1 (2.941%) VPN
5 1 (2.941%) LDAP
5 1 (2.941%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Maven
1 7 (20.59%) MSBuild
2 1 (2.941%) Git (software)
General
1 20 (58.82%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.941%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (70.59%) Debian
3 7 (20.59%) UNIX
4 2 (5.882%) Windows
4 2 (5.882%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.941%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.941%) CentOS
5 1 (2.941%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (5.882%) Configuration Management
1 2 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (5.882%) Asset Management
2 1 (2.941%) Network Design
2 1 (2.941%) Network Architecture
2 1 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (2.941%) E-business
2 1 (2.941%) Business Continuity
2 1 (2.941%) Service Delivery
2 1 (2.941%) Change Management
2 1 (2.941%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Java
2 3 (8.824%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.882%) Bash shell
3 2 (5.882%) PHP
4 1 (2.941%) Python
4 1 (2.941%) Perl
4 1 (2.941%) C
4 1 (2.941%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.941%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (5.882%) vSphere
2 1 (2.941%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.941%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.941%) SpamAssassin
2 1 (2.941%) NFS
2 1 (2.941%) Samba
2 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.941%) Nagios
1 1 (2.941%) Backup Exec
1 1 (2.941%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (61.76%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (2.941%) Cisco
3 1 (2.941%) Juniper
3 1 (2.941%) Apple
3 1 (2.941%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.941%) Perforce
3 1 (2.941%) VMware
3 1 (2.941%) ArcSight
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Advanced PHP and Perl scripting ability... Good virtualisation and storage background; knowledge of Xen or Citrix XenServer, RAID, iSCSI and SAN/NAS solutions... Excellent knowledge of networking, protocols (...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £32000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013