Aberdeenshire Linux Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Aberdeenshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Faversham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Grantham Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witham Woking Wokingham Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	3	0
Average minimum salary	£44,000	-
Average salary	£44,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£44,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£36,371	£36,383
% change on same period last year	-0.03 %
Operating Systems Aberdeenshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
Salaries quoted	7	4
Average minimum salary	£34,923	£27,000
Average salary	£36,115	£31,000
% change on same period last year	+16.50 %
Average maximum salary	£37,308	£35,000
UK excluding London average salary	£34,472	£35,006
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Aberdeenshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Aberdeenshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Aberdeenshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeenshire region citing Linux also 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 that cited Linux.

1 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 11 (68.75 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (68.75 %) C++ 2 11 (68.75 %) SCADA 3 3 (18.75 %) Information Management 3 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 4 2 (12.50 %) IP Telephony 4 2 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (12.50 %) VPN 4 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 4 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (12.50 %) Novell 4 2 (12.50 %) Lotus 4 2 (12.50 %) Internet

4 2 (12.50 %) Firewall 4 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 4 2 (12.50 %) Health 4 2 (12.50 %) VMware 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 4 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint 4 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeenshire region citing Linux also 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 that cited Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 1 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 11 (68.75 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (12.50 %) VPN 2 2 (12.50 %) Internet 2 2 (12.50 %) Firewall 2 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 2 2 (12.50 %) IP Telephony
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Health	Job Titles 1 11 (68.75 %) Software Engineer 1 11 (68.75 %) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (68.75 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Information Management	Programming Languages 1 11 (68.75 %) C++
Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 1 2 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 1 2 (12.50 %) Novell 1 2 (12.50 %) Lotus 1 2 (12.50 %) VMware