The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Amersham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Amersham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 3 14 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing Linux 3 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Amersham 15.79% 4.348% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 11.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Amersham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
6 18 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Amersham 31.58% 39.13% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 9
Average salary £55,000 £23,750 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+131.57% +1.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £20,000 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £35,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Buckinghamshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Amersham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Amersham Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Salary Trend

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

Amersham Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Amersham 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 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) HPUX
1 4 (57.14%) Solaris
1 4 (57.14%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Six Sigma
3 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
3 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Sun
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
3 2 (28.57%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (28.57%) Groovy
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 2 (28.57%) HP SIM

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Amersham 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 Development
1 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Grails
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (14.29%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) LDAP
4 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Administrator
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) HPUX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) HPUX
1 4 (57.14%) Solaris
1 4 (57.14%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Six Sigma
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
1 2 (28.57%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (28.57%) HP SIM
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 1 (14.29%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Sun
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) Symantec