Linux Jobs in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 21 29 31
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 98 61 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 8.942% 6.237% 5.575%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.79% 25.74% 31.33%
Number of salaries quoted 87 61 43
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +16.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,250 £37,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £57,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 290 237 150
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 26.46% 24.23% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 262 209 144
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £27,550
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Luton +15 47 £45,000 +9.09%
Bedford +11 27 £30,000 -33.33%
Dunstable -11 10 £54,500 -4.80%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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.

1 113 (63.13%) Windows
2 96 (53.63%) TCP/IP
3 92 (51.40%) VMware
4 84 (46.93%) MySQL
5 74 (41.34%) Apache
6 73 (40.78%) VMware ESX
6 73 (40.78%) vSphere
7 67 (37.43%) Cisco
7 67 (37.43%) ITIL
8 64 (35.75%) Microsoft
9 60 (33.52%) IIS
10 59 (32.96%) SAN
11 58 (32.40%) SaaS
12 54 (30.17%) iSCSI
13 53 (29.61%) Oracle
14 51 (28.49%) Degree
15 45 (25.14%) SQL
16 44 (24.58%) Problem Management
17 40 (22.35%) Change Management
18 39 (21.79%) Service Management
19 34 (18.99%) UNIX
20 32 (17.88%) Fibre Channel
21 29 (16.20%) Red Hat
21 29 (16.20%) Computer Science
22 25 (13.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
23 24 (13.41%) Root Cause Analysis
24 23 (12.85%) DNS
25 22 (12.29%) Cisco Certification
26 21 (11.73%) Microsoft Certification
26 21 (11.73%) HP

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 8 (4.469%) Qt
1 8 (4.469%) XML
2 7 (3.911%) HTML
3 3 (1.676%) Web Services
3 3 (1.676%) ASP
3 3 (1.676%) LAMP
4 2 (1.117%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.117%) COM
5 1 (0.559%) XSL
5 1 (0.559%) CSS
5 1 (0.559%) JSP
5 1 (0.559%) Middleware
5 1 (0.559%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (0.559%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (0.559%) WAMP
Application Platforms
1 74 (41.34%) Apache
2 60 (33.52%) IIS
3 10 (5.587%) MS Exchange
3 10 (5.587%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (3.352%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (1.676%) SAS
6 1 (0.559%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.559%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.559%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.559%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.559%) Exstream Dialogue
6 1 (0.559%) Papyrus
6 1 (0.559%) StreamWeaver
6 1 (0.559%) CMS
6 1 (0.559%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (0.559%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.559%) Moodle
6 1 (0.559%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 20 (11.17%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.559%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 1 (0.559%) Exstream
1 1 (0.559%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 96 (53.63%) TCP/IP
2 59 (32.96%) SAN
3 54 (30.17%) iSCSI
4 32 (17.88%) Fibre Channel
5 23 (12.85%) DNS
6 15 (8.380%) DHCP
7 14 (7.821%) NAS
8 13 (7.263%) Firewall
9 10 (5.587%) VoIP
10 8 (4.469%) IP Telephony
10 8 (4.469%) MPLS
10 8 (4.469%) SS7
11 7 (3.911%) LAN
11 7 (3.911%) WAN
11 7 (3.911%) VLAN
12 6 (3.352%) SSL
13 5 (2.793%) IPv6
14 4 (2.235%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (2.235%) SSH
14 4 (2.235%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (46.93%) MySQL
2 15 (8.380%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.911%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.559%) OLTP
4 1 (0.559%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.559%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.559%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (3.911%) Finance
2 6 (3.352%) Electronics
3 2 (1.117%) Banking
4 1 (0.559%) Retail
4 1 (0.559%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (36.31%) Linux Engineer
2 52 (29.05%) Systems Engineer
3 49 (27.37%) Administrator
4 41 (22.91%) Linux Administrator
5 37 (20.67%) Systems Administrator
6 36 (20.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 16 (8.939%) Software Engineer
8 15 (8.380%) Analyst
9 14 (7.821%) Architect
10 13 (7.263%) VMware Specialist
10 13 (7.263%) Support Engineer
11 10 (5.587%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 9 (5.028%) Graduate
12 9 (5.028%) Consultant
13 8 (4.469%) C Software Engineer
13 8 (4.469%) VMware Architect
13 8 (4.469%) Software Support Engineer
13 8 (4.469%) Support Analyst
13 8 (4.469%) Developer
14 7 (3.911%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 58 (32.40%) SaaS
2 29 (16.20%) Computer Science
3 8 (4.469%) Mathematics
3 8 (4.469%) Physics
4 5 (2.793%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 5 (2.793%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.676%) Clustering
6 2 (1.117%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.117%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.559%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.559%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.559%) Firmware
7 1 (0.559%) SCORM
7 1 (0.559%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.559%) Handset
7 1 (0.559%) PKI
7 1 (0.559%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 113 (63.13%) Windows
2 34 (18.99%) UNIX
3 25 (13.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (10.06%) Solaris
5 17 (9.497%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (8.380%) Debian
7 9 (5.028%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.559%) AIX
8 1 (0.559%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.559%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.43%) ITIL
2 44 (24.58%) Problem Management
3 40 (22.35%) Change Management
4 39 (21.79%) Service Management
5 24 (13.41%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (8.939%) Supplier Management
7 13 (7.263%) Software Engineering
8 10 (5.587%) Agile Software Development
9 9 (5.028%) Change Control
9 9 (5.028%) OO
10 8 (4.469%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (4.469%) OOD
11 6 (3.352%) PRINCE2
12 5 (2.793%) Configuration Management
12 5 (2.793%) Test Scripting
12 5 (2.793%) System Testing
12 5 (2.793%) Incident Management
13 4 (2.235%) Stochastic Modelling
13 4 (2.235%) Service Delivery
14 3 (1.676%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.14%) SQL
2 21 (11.73%) C++
3 18 (10.06%) Shell Script
4 14 (7.821%) Java
5 13 (7.263%) C
6 12 (6.704%) Python
7 11 (6.145%) C-shell
8 10 (5.587%) Bash shell
9 8 (4.469%) C#
10 7 (3.911%) PHP
11 6 (3.352%) JavaScript
11 6 (3.352%) Perl
12 5 (2.793%) AWK
12 5 (2.793%) Korn
13 3 (1.676%) VB
14 1 (0.559%) Fortran
14 1 (0.559%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.559%) PHP5
14 1 (0.559%) Ruby
14 1 (0.559%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 51 (28.49%) Degree
2 22 (12.29%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (11.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (11.73%) MCSE
4 20 (11.17%) CCNA
5 18 (10.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (5.028%) MCITP
7 6 (3.352%) CCNP
8 5 (2.793%) CCDA
8 5 (2.793%) RHCE
9 3 (1.676%) VCP4
10 2 (1.117%) CCIE
10 2 (1.117%) MCP
11 1 (0.559%) MCSA
11 1 (0.559%) CCSP
11 1 (0.559%) CCDP
11 1 (0.559%) CCSA
11 1 (0.559%) LPIC
11 1 (0.559%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.469%) SLA
2 6 (3.352%) QA
3 5 (2.793%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.559%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.559%) ISO/IEC 14443
System Software
1 73 (40.78%) VMware ESX
1 73 (40.78%) vSphere
2 17 (9.497%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (9.497%) Active Directory
3 15 (8.380%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (5.587%) NFS
5 7 (3.911%) Oracle RMAN
5 7 (3.911%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (3.352%) Samba
7 4 (2.235%) VMFS
8 1 (0.559%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.559%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.559%) Xen
8 1 (0.559%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.559%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 8 (4.469%) HP SIM
2 7 (3.911%) Data Guard
3 5 (2.793%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.559%) OpenView
4 1 (0.559%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (0.559%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.559%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 92 (51.40%) VMware
2 67 (37.43%) Cisco
3 64 (35.75%) Microsoft
4 53 (29.61%) Oracle
5 29 (16.20%) Red Hat
6 21 (11.73%) HP
7 7 (3.911%) F5
8 5 (2.793%) Juniper
9 4 (2.235%) Symantec
9 4 (2.235%) Dell
9 4 (2.235%) EMC
9 4 (2.235%) Citrix
9 4 (2.235%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.235%) Sun
10 1 (0.559%) Sonus
10 1 (0.559%) BroadSoft
10 1 (0.559%) Acme Packet
10 1 (0.559%) IBM
10 1 (0.559%) Business Objects
10 1 (0.559%) Salesforce.com
Linux System Administrator-LAMP-Luton-£45-50K
Luton, South East
Essential: At least 5 years commercial Linux data centre experience Linux server (inc. Apache, mySQL) LAMP TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Linux System Administrator-LAMP-Luton-£45-50K
Luton, South East
TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC and iSCSI switching Desirable: Windows Server (up to 2008) including Microsoft Cluster Services, Microsoft IIS web...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Developer -Fortran,C or C++ - 12 month fixed term contract
Bedford, Bedfordshire
You'll have skills in the following areas: *Fortran 77 *C or C++ *Linux This is a great opportunity for some who is trully motivated by problem solving...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Red Hat Specialist / Linux Systems Engineer
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Red Hat Specialist / Linux Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP...
Gregory James
Salary: £50000 to £55000 per annum - excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Linux Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer - Bedfordshire
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Linux Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP networking.
Gregory James
Salary: £45000 to £52000 per annum - 10% annual bonus, pension, healthcare
Posted: 17 May 2013
Linux Systems Engineer - Luton
Luton, Bedfordshire
Ideally commercial data-centre experience working with Apache and MySQL. * Exposure to and knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Cisco networking elements... * Experience of working within ITIL...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £49000 per annum + bonus, pension, health
Posted: 19 May 2013
Embedded / Middleware Software Engineer - Linux, C++, Embedded, Mware
Bedford, Bedfordshire
A major Software Engineering Company based in the Home Counties is currently seeking an Embedded / Middleware developer with expertise in C and or C++. The responsibilities of the...
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 15 May 2013
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