The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CentOS 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 173 203 185
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -18
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 46 19 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.883% 0.308% 0.481%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.868% 1.034% 1.696%
Number of salaries quoted 34 12 25
Average salary £40,750 £35,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.42% -15.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £30,000 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1604 1837 1474
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 30.79% 29.82% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1312 1524 1236
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £24,750
10% offered a salary of more than £60,200 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CentOS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire CentOS Salary Histogram

CentOS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading +23 28 £23,000 -45.88%
Slough +3 8 £48,750 +21.87%
Maidenhead - 4 £40,750 -
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 95 (98.96%) Linux
2 83 (86.46%) Red Hat
3 52 (54.17%) MySQL
4 49 (51.04%) Windows
5 44 (45.83%) TCP/IP
5 44 (45.83%) Debian
6 40 (41.67%) Ubuntu
7 37 (38.54%) PHP
8 36 (37.50%) Apache
9 35 (36.46%) Perl
10 34 (35.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (29.17%) SQL
11 28 (29.17%) Microsoft
12 27 (28.13%) SUSE
12 27 (28.13%) Bash shell
13 26 (27.08%) Cisco
14 22 (22.92%) VMware
15 19 (19.79%) Python
15 19 (19.79%) VMware Infrastructure
16 18 (18.75%) LAMP
17 16 (16.67%) UNIX
17 16 (16.67%) E-Commerce
17 16 (16.67%) Nagios
18 15 (15.63%) SQL Server
19 14 (14.58%) Migration
19 14 (14.58%) Open Source
20 13 (13.54%) VMware ESX
20 13 (13.54%) Clustering
20 13 (13.54%) BGP
20 13 (13.54%) Tomcat

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (18.75%) LAMP
2 11 (11.46%) Web Services
3 6 (6.250%) COM
4 3 (3.125%) Memcached
5 2 (2.083%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.083%) Ajax
5 2 (2.083%) CPAN
5 2 (2.083%) X-Windows
5 2 (2.083%) HTML
5 2 (2.083%) CSS
6 1 (1.042%) XHTML
6 1 (1.042%) J2EE
6 1 (1.042%) JSON
6 1 (1.042%) Spring
6 1 (1.042%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.042%) HTML5
6 1 (1.042%) Smarty
6 1 (1.042%) RESTful
6 1 (1.042%) CakePHP
6 1 (1.042%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 36 (37.50%) Apache
2 13 (13.54%) Tomcat
3 12 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 12 (12.50%) nginx
4 11 (11.46%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (11.46%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (8.333%) Amazon AWS
6 6 (6.250%) Drupal
7 5 (5.208%) Alfresco
8 4 (4.167%) CMS
8 4 (4.167%) IIS
9 3 (3.125%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.125%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.125%) WordPress
9 3 (3.125%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (2.083%) Confluence
10 2 (2.083%) WebLogic
11 1 (1.042%) Joomla!
Applications
1 5 (5.208%) Google Apps
2 4 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 44 (45.83%) TCP/IP
2 13 (13.54%) BGP
2 13 (13.54%) OSPF
2 13 (13.54%) DNS
3 11 (11.46%) Firewall
3 11 (11.46%) LDAP
3 11 (11.46%) SAN
4 4 (4.167%) HTTP
5 3 (3.125%) Internet
5 3 (3.125%) IPv4
5 3 (3.125%) IPv6
5 3 (3.125%) IPsec
5 3 (3.125%) iSCSI
5 3 (3.125%) NAS
6 2 (2.083%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.083%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (2.083%) SSH
7 1 (1.042%) DWDM
7 1 (1.042%) VRRP
7 1 (1.042%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (54.17%) MySQL
2 15 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.333%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.250%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.125%) Redis
5 3 (3.125%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (2.083%) dBASE
6 2 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.042%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.042%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.042%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (3.125%) Subversion
1 3 (3.125%) JIRA
2 2 (2.083%) Gradle
2 2 (2.083%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.083%) Selenium
2 2 (2.083%) Hudson
2 2 (2.083%) IntelliJ
2 2 (2.083%) Ant
General
1 6 (6.250%) Retail
2 3 (3.125%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.125%) Finance
Job Titles
1 50 (52.08%) Administrator
2 37 (38.54%) Systems Administrator
3 29 (30.21%) Linux Administrator
4 26 (27.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 20 (20.83%) Support Engineer
6 16 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
7 13 (13.54%) Linux Support Engineer
7 13 (13.54%) MySQL DBA
7 13 (13.54%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (13.54%) DBA
7 13 (13.54%) Linux Support
8 12 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 9 (9.375%) Senior Linux Administrator
9 9 (9.375%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
10 5 (5.208%) Technical Support
10 5 (5.208%) IT Support
11 4 (4.167%) IT Support Engineer
12 3 (3.125%) Technical Engineer
12 3 (3.125%) Technical Support Engineer
12 3 (3.125%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Open Source
2 13 (13.54%) Clustering
3 4 (4.167%) Social Media
4 3 (3.125%) Replication
5 2 (2.083%) Wiki
5 2 (2.083%) SaaS
6 1 (1.042%) SWIFT
6 1 (1.042%) Social Network
6 1 (1.042%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 95 (98.96%) Linux
2 49 (51.04%) Windows
3 44 (45.83%) Debian
4 40 (41.67%) Ubuntu
5 34 (35.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (28.13%) SUSE
7 16 (16.67%) UNIX
8 5 (5.208%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (4.167%) OpenBSD
10 3 (3.125%) Solaris
10 3 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (2.083%) AIX
12 1 (1.042%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 14 (14.58%) Migration
3 10 (10.42%) OOD
3 10 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (9.375%) Scrum
4 9 (9.375%) OO
5 8 (8.333%) ITIL
5 8 (8.333%) Service Delivery
5 8 (8.333%) Performance Management
6 6 (6.250%) Data Protection
7 4 (4.167%) Load Balancing
7 4 (4.167%) MVC
8 3 (3.125%) Web Development
9 2 (2.083%) Kanban
9 2 (2.083%) Project Management
10 1 (1.042%) ERP
10 1 (1.042%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (1.042%) Configuration Management
10 1 (1.042%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.54%) PHP
2 35 (36.46%) Perl
3 28 (29.17%) SQL
4 27 (28.13%) Bash shell
5 19 (19.79%) Python
6 12 (12.50%) Java
6 12 (12.50%) Ruby
7 3 (3.125%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.083%) Korn
8 2 (2.083%) C-shell
8 2 (2.083%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (3.125%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (3.125%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (19.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (13.54%) VMware ESX
3 11 (11.46%) vSphere
4 8 (8.333%) Active Directory
4 8 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.208%) NFS
6 2 (2.083%) Sendmail
6 2 (2.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Nagios
2 12 (12.50%) Puppet
3 5 (5.208%) Plesk
4 3 (3.125%) Ganglia
5 2 (2.083%) YUM
6 1 (1.042%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 83 (86.46%) Red Hat
2 28 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 26 (27.08%) Cisco
4 22 (22.92%) VMware
5 9 (9.375%) JBoss
6 7 (7.292%) Google
7 5 (5.208%) NetApp
7 5 (5.208%) HP
7 5 (5.208%) Dell
8 3 (3.125%) Oracle
8 3 (3.125%) Juniper
8 3 (3.125%) Percona
8 3 (3.125%) Twitter
9 2 (2.083%) BEA
9 2 (2.083%) Sun
9 2 (2.083%) Vignette
10 1 (1.042%) Cognos
10 1 (1.042%) Websense
10 1 (1.042%) F5
10 1 (1.042%) Foundry
Reading, Berkshire
Hands on skills with Perl / MySQL / bash... RHCE, RHCSA) or Cisco (e.g... Keywords / SEO: Linux Systems Engineer, Linux Engineer, Linux Systems Administrator, Red Hat, CentOS, Cloud, SaaS,...
Deanslist Limited
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + on-call + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Linux Systems Administrator... Are you a talented and passionate Linux Systems Administrator who loves open source technology... We need a Linux Systems Administrator with the following skills: *Experience...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
We need a NOC Engineer with the following skills: *Experience managing and troubleshooting internet facing web applications *Linux Systems Administration experience with multiple distros (RedHat, CentOS, Debian) *NOC...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The candidate will be helping to maintain and enhance a multi-vendor ISP networking environment covering BGP, OSPF, routing, switching, DWDM fibre, load balancing, firewalls etc, across multiple...
Recruitment Genius Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
You'll need Systems Administration experience of infrastructure services, based on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS) and OpenBSD. ISP networking knowledge of BGP, OSPF, DWDM, VRRP,HSRP, IPsec, all...
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Berkshire
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F5 IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + car allowance
Posted: 20 May 2013