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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 194 221 183
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -38
Permanent jobs citing Debian 23 6 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.441% 0.098% 0.274%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.416% 0.324% 0.957%
Number of salaries quoted 19 3 14
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -15.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £26,500 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £32,500 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1624 1852 1463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.13% 30.18% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1320 1545 1221
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 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Debian
South East

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Salary Histogram

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

Berkshire Debian Salary Histogram

Debian
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the Berkshire 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
Reading - 19 £23,000 -
Maidenhead +14 2 £44,500 +36.92%
Debian
South East

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (87.27%) Red Hat
3 46 (83.64%) CentOS
4 33 (60.00%) Ubuntu
5 29 (52.73%) Windows
6 26 (47.27%) MySQL
7 25 (45.45%) SQL
8 23 (41.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (38.18%) TCP/IP
10 18 (32.73%) Perl
11 17 (30.91%) Firewall
12 15 (27.27%) PHP
13 14 (25.45%) Apache
13 14 (25.45%) Bash shell
14 13 (23.64%) Python
14 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
15 12 (21.82%) DNS
15 12 (21.82%) SUSE
16 11 (20.00%) Ruby
16 11 (20.00%) Tomcat
16 11 (20.00%) Java
16 11 (20.00%) ITIL
17 10 (18.18%) Migration
18 9 (16.36%) JBoss
18 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
19 8 (14.55%) SLA
19 8 (14.55%) SAN
19 8 (14.55%) ITIL Certification
19 8 (14.55%) Service Delivery
19 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (9.091%) COM
1 5 (9.091%) Web Services
2 3 (5.455%) CGI
2 3 (5.455%) LAMP
2 3 (5.455%) Memcached
3 2 (3.636%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.636%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 14 (25.45%) Apache
2 11 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.455%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (5.455%) Lync
3 3 (5.455%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.455%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.455%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (3.636%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.18%) TCP/IP
2 17 (30.91%) Firewall
3 12 (21.82%) DNS
4 8 (14.55%) SAN
5 7 (12.73%) Network Security
6 6 (10.91%) IPsec
6 6 (10.91%) IPv4
6 6 (10.91%) IPv6
6 6 (10.91%) OSPF
6 6 (10.91%) BGP
7 4 (7.273%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (7.273%) DHCP
7 4 (7.273%) HSRP
8 3 (5.455%) Unified Communications
8 3 (5.455%) Internet
8 3 (5.455%) MPLS
8 3 (5.455%) 3G
8 3 (5.455%) DSL
8 3 (5.455%) L2TP
8 3 (5.455%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (47.27%) MySQL
2 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
3 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.273%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (7.273%) SQL Server 2000
4 4 (7.273%) Redis
5 3 (5.455%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.455%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Subversion
2 1 (1.818%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (5.455%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (50.91%) Administrator
2 17 (30.91%) Linux Administrator
3 15 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
4 14 (25.45%) DBA
4 14 (25.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 14 (25.45%) Support Engineer
4 14 (25.45%) MySQL DBA
5 12 (21.82%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (18.18%) Linux Support
6 10 (18.18%) Linux Support Engineer
7 9 (16.36%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 9 (16.36%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 9 (16.36%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 5 (9.091%) IT Support
9 4 (7.273%) Sales Engineer
9 4 (7.273%) IT Support Engineer
10 2 (3.636%) Principal Consultant
10 2 (3.636%) Consultant
10 2 (3.636%) Technical Support
11 1 (1.818%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Clustering
2 5 (9.091%) Open Source
3 4 (7.273%) Social Media
4 2 (3.636%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.818%) SWIFT
5 1 (1.818%) BBC
5 1 (1.818%) Social Network
5 1 (1.818%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 46 (83.64%) CentOS
3 33 (60.00%) Ubuntu
4 29 (52.73%) Windows
5 23 (41.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (21.82%) SUSE
7 6 (10.91%) Solaris
8 5 (9.091%) UNIX
8 5 (9.091%) OpenBSD
9 4 (7.273%) AIX
10 2 (3.636%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.636%) Windows XP
10 2 (3.636%) Mac OS X
11 1 (1.818%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.00%) ITIL
2 10 (18.18%) Migration
3 8 (14.55%) Service Delivery
4 7 (12.73%) Network Management
5 4 (7.273%) Information Security
5 4 (7.273%) SIEM
6 3 (5.455%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.455%) Supplier Management
6 3 (5.455%) Network Design
6 3 (5.455%) Network Architecture
7 2 (3.636%) Load Balancing
8 1 (1.818%) High Availability
8 1 (1.818%) Project Management
8 1 (1.818%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 25 (45.45%) SQL
2 18 (32.73%) Perl
3 15 (27.27%) PHP
4 14 (25.45%) Bash shell
5 13 (23.64%) Python
6 11 (20.00%) Ruby
6 11 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (3.636%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (7.273%) CISSP
3 3 (5.455%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.455%) CCIE
3 3 (5.455%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) SLA
2 7 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.273%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (5.455%) ISO 9001
4 3 (5.455%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) VMware ESX
1 8 (14.55%) vSphere
1 8 (14.55%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.273%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.455%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Puppet
2 3 (5.455%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.818%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (1.818%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (87.27%) Red Hat
2 9 (16.36%) JBoss
2 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.55%) VMware
4 6 (10.91%) Cisco
5 3 (5.455%) Twitter
5 3 (5.455%) Juniper
5 3 (5.455%) Dell
5 3 (5.455%) BT
5 3 (5.455%) Huawei
5 3 (5.455%) ZyXEL
5 3 (5.455%) Draytek
6 2 (3.636%) Rackspace
6 2 (3.636%) Joyent
7 1 (1.818%) Oracle
7 1 (1.818%) Akamai
7 1 (1.818%) Foundry
Reading, Berkshire
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