Berkshire Linux Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Berkshire 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Atherstone Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Brixham Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlborough Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Morecambe Much Wenlock Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Ormskirk Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Ringwood Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tonbridge Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	17
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	692	942
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.446 %	0.422 %
As % of the category below	31.02 %	27.67 %
Salaries quoted	597	828
Average minimum salary	£36,378	£37,952
Average salary	£39,347	£41,758
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Average maximum salary	£42,315	£45,563
UK excluding London average salary	£36,466	£35,643
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Operating Systems Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2231	3404
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.439 %	1.524 %
Salaries quoted	1844	2805
Average minimum salary	£34,263	£35,062
Average salary	£37,017	£38,287
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Average maximum salary	£39,771	£41,511
UK excluding London average salary	£34,385	£34,225
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Linux South East

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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 Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	-1	189	£38,493	-7.46 %
Slough	+11	164	£36,601	-13.03 %
Newbury	+3	50	£42,601	-4.22 %
Maidenhead	-6	37	£32,279	-23.51 %
Bracknell	-4	34	£38,450	-2.12 %
Ascot	-3	20	£46,875	+25.83 %
Windsor	-9	7	£36,429	-0.36 %
Wokingham	-25	4	£38,125	-22.71 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 836 (58.46 %) UNIX 2 697 (48.74 %) Windows 3 376 (26.29 %) Java 4 298 (20.84 %) Perl 5 294 (20.56 %) C++ 6 280 (19.58 %) Oracle 7 265 (18.53 %) C 7 265 (18.53 %) SQL 8 257 (17.97 %) Solaris 9 213 (14.90 %) Apache 10 202 (14.13 %) TCP/IP 11 186 (13.01 %) Degree 12 177 (12.38 %) MySQL 13 172 (12.03 %) Python 14 156 (10.91 %) JavaScript

15 154 (10.77 %) Microsoft 15 154 (10.77 %) Red Hat Linux 16 153 (10.70 %) Internet 17 150 (10.49 %) Telecoms 17 150 (10.49 %) Red Hat 18 142 (9.930 %) Cisco 19 141 (9.860 %) J2EE 20 131 (9.161 %) DNS 20 131 (9.161 %) Windows Server 2003 21 128 (8.951 %) PHP 22 126 (8.811 %) Computer Science 23 124 (8.671 %) SQL Server 24 123 (8.601 %) Firewall 24 123 (8.601 %) Wireless 25 122 (8.531 %) RDBMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 1 141 (9.860 %) J2EE 2 120 (8.392 %) XML 3 99 (6.923 %) HTML 4 71 (4.965 %) .NET 5 60 (4.196 %) AJAX 6 57 (3.986 %) JSP 7 54 (3.776 %) Servlets 8 49 (3.427 %) Hibernate 9 47 (3.287 %) WebServices 10 45 (3.147 %) EJB 11 40 (2.797 %) CSS 11 40 (2.797 %) Middleware 12 37 (2.587 %) XHTML 13 36 (2.517 %) Struts 14 33 (2.308 %) Swing 15 32 (2.238 %) LAMP 16 27 (1.888 %) Spring 17 26 (1.818 %) OC4J 18 24 (1.678 %) MVC 18 24 (1.678 %) AWT	Application Platforms 1 213 (14.90 %) Apache 2 118 (8.252 %) Tomcat 3 74 (5.175 %) IIS 4 43 (3.007 %) JBoss 4 43 (3.007 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 35 (2.448 %) MS Exchange 6 22 (1.538 %) SharePoint 6 22 (1.538 %) WebLogic 7 17 (1.189 %) CMS 8 16 (1.119 %) Lotus Notes 9 14 (0.979 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 11 (0.769 %) SAS 11 10 (0.699 %) CICS 11 10 (0.699 %) Oracle Workflow 12 8 (0.559 %) Oracle Application Server 13 7 (0.490 %) Oracle 9iAS 13 7 (0.490 %) Lotus Domino 14 6 (0.420 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 6 (0.420 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 15 5 (0.350 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 90 (6.294 %) MS Excel 2 22 (1.538 %) MS Visio 3 8 (0.559 %) MS Office 4 3 (0.210 %) CATIA 5 2 (0.140 %) SPSS 6 1 (0.070 %) Acrobat 6 1 (0.070 %) RoboHelp 6 1 (0.070 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.070 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (0.070 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.070 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 66 (4.615 %) Oracle Applications 2 52 (3.636 %) Oracle 11i 3 47 (3.287 %) Oracle EBS 4 15 (1.049 %) Oracle EBS R12 5 4 (0.280 %) Oracle Financials 6 2 (0.140 %) Oracle Manufacturing 7 1 (0.070 %) Great Plains 7 1 (0.070 %) Summit 7 1 (0.070 %) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking 1 202 (14.13 %) TCP/IP 2 153 (10.70 %) Internet 3 131 (9.161 %) DNS 4 123 (8.601 %) Firewall 4 123 (8.601 %) Wireless 5 105 (7.343 %) VPN 6 66 (4.615 %) SAN 7 64 (4.476 %) DHCP 8 63 (4.406 %) SMTP 9 61 (4.266 %) WAN 10 59 (4.126 %) LAN 11 51 (3.566 %) HTTP 12 49 (3.427 %) LDAP 13 46 (3.217 %) VoIP 14 31 (2.168 %) Cisco PIX 15 30 (2.098 %) GSM 16 26 (1.818 %) Intrusion Detection 17 25 (1.748 %) Network Security 18 21 (1.469 %) SSL 19 19 (1.329 %) IPsec	Database & Business Intelligence 1 177 (12.38 %) MySQL 2 124 (8.671 %) SQL Server 3 122 (8.531 %) RDBMS 4 80 (5.594 %) Oracle 10g 5 27 (1.888 %) Oracle 9i 6 26 (1.818 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 22 (1.538 %) DB2 8 21 (1.469 %) Oracle 11g 9 12 (0.839 %) TOAD 10 8 (0.559 %) Datawarehouse 11 7 (0.490 %) Informix 11 7 (0.490 %) Oracle Reports 11 7 (0.490 %) SQLPlus 12 5 (0.350 %) SQL Server 2000 12 5 (0.350 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 5 (0.350 %) ETL 12 5 (0.350 %) SQL Server 2005 13 4 (0.280 %) EDMS 13 4 (0.280 %) PostgreSQL 14 3 (0.210 %) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications 1 55 (3.846 %) Eclipse 2 46 (3.217 %) Subversion 3 34 (2.378 %) Ant 4 15 (1.049 %) Oracle Forms 5 13 (0.909 %) Flash 6 12 (0.839 %) InstallShield 7 11 (0.769 %) MSI 8 4 (0.280 %) Visual Studio 9 2 (0.140 %) ProC 9 2 (0.140 %) TestPartner 9 2 (0.140 %) WinRunner 9 2 (0.140 %) TestDirector 9 2 (0.140 %) QuickTest Pro 9 2 (0.140 %) yacc 10 1 (0.070 %) Oracle Developer 2000 10 1 (0.070 %) JIRA 10 1 (0.070 %) PVCS 10 1 (0.070 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 1 (0.070 %) ClearCase 10 1 (0.070 %) OpenDeploy	General 1 150 (10.49 %) Telecoms 2 79 (5.524 %) Finance 3 68 (4.755 %) Pensions 4 58 (4.056 %) Health 5 47 (3.287 %) Retail 6 46 (3.217 %) Marketing 7 38 (2.657 %) Education 8 25 (1.748 %) Electronics 9 20 (1.399 %) Aerospace 9 20 (1.399 %) Automotive 9 20 (1.399 %) 3D Graphics 10 13 (0.909 %) Games 10 13 (0.909 %) Government 11 11 (0.769 %) Law 12 9 (0.629 %) Legal 13 7 (0.490 %) Advertising 14 6 (0.420 %) Insurance 14 6 (0.420 %) Manufacturing 15 5 (0.350 %) Back Office 15 5 (0.350 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 305 (21.33 %) Developer 2 163 (11.40 %) Software Engineer 3 151 (10.56 %) Administrator 4 116 (8.112 %) Support Engineer 5 106 (7.413 %) DBA 5 106 (7.413 %) Oracle DBA 6 91 (6.364 %) Java Developer 7 87 (6.084 %) Consultant 8 86 (6.014 %) Systems Administrator 9 83 (5.804 %) Technical Support 10 80 (5.594 %) Software Developer 11 69 (4.825 %) Analyst 12 56 (3.916 %) Linux Engineer 13 54 (3.776 %) Senior Developer 13 54 (3.776 %) Oracle Applications DBA 14 52 (3.636 %) Systems Engineer 15 50 (3.497 %) Architect 16 49 (3.427 %) Network Engineer 16 49 (3.427 %) Technical Engineer 17 44 (3.077 %) UNIX Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 126 (8.811 %) Computer Science 2 65 (4.545 %) German Language 3 58 (4.056 %) French Language 4 49 (3.427 %) Clustering 5 33 (2.308 %) IPTV 6 29 (2.028 %) Thin Client 6 29 (2.028 %) Fat Client 7 23 (1.608 %) Client/Server 8 22 (1.538 %) Device Driver 9 17 (1.189 %) Spanish Language 10 11 (0.769 %) Handset 10 11 (0.769 %) Web 2.0 11 10 (0.699 %) IVR 11 10 (0.699 %) Firmware 11 10 (0.699 %) Mathematics 12 9 (0.629 %) Blackberry 12 9 (0.629 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 13 8 (0.559 %) SecurID 13 8 (0.559 %) VHDL 13 8 (0.559 %) Italian Language
Operating Systems 1 836 (58.46 %) UNIX 2 697 (48.74 %) Windows 3 257 (17.97 %) Solaris 4 154 (10.77 %) Red Hat Linux 5 131 (9.161 %) Windows Server 2003 6 84 (5.874 %) Windows 2000 7 74 (5.175 %) HPUX 8 53 (3.706 %) SUSE 9 51 (3.566 %) Embedded Linux 9 51 (3.566 %) Windows XP 10 42 (2.937 %) Windows NT 11 40 (2.797 %) AIX 12 34 (2.378 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 28 (1.958 %) Windows Vista 13 28 (1.958 %) zOS 14 22 (1.538 %) Debian 15 13 (0.909 %) Windows Mobile 16 11 (0.769 %) Fedora 17 10 (0.699 %) Android 18 9 (0.629 %) CentOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 86 (6.014 %) OO 2 69 (4.825 %) Security Cleared 3 66 (4.615 %) Web Development 4 60 (4.196 %) Agile Software Development 5 57 (3.986 %) Validation 6 46 (3.217 %) Performance Management 7 38 (2.657 %) OOD 8 37 (2.587 %) ITIL 8 37 (2.587 %) Software Engineering 9 36 (2.517 %) Change Management 10 26 (1.818 %) Project Management 10 26 (1.818 %) Problem Management 11 22 (1.538 %) BPEL 11 22 (1.538 %) E-business 12 21 (1.469 %) ITSM 12 21 (1.469 %) Disaster Recovery 12 21 (1.469 %) Requirements Analysis 13 18 (1.259 %) UML 14 17 (1.189 %) OOP 15 16 (1.119 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 376 (26.29 %) Java 2 298 (20.84 %) Perl 3 294 (20.56 %) C++ 4 265 (18.53 %) C 4 265 (18.53 %) SQL 5 172 (12.03 %) Python 6 156 (10.91 %) JavaScript 7 128 (8.951 %) PHP 8 64 (4.476 %) Ruby 9 62 (4.336 %) VBScript 10 59 (4.126 %) COBOL 11 53 (3.706 %) AWK 12 50 (3.497 %) C# 13 43 (3.007 %) PL/SQL 13 43 (3.007 %) Shell Script 14 34 (2.378 %) Embedded C 15 26 (1.818 %) Korn 16 23 (1.608 %) Assembly Language 17 16 (1.119 %) VB 18 12 (0.839 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 186 (13.01 %) Degree 2 77 (5.385 %) Cisco Certification 3 48 (3.357 %) Microsoft Certification 4 47 (3.287 %) CCNA 4 47 (3.287 %) MCSE 5 41 (2.867 %) Oracle Certification 6 40 (2.797 %) OCP 7 25 (1.748 %) CISSP 8 23 (1.608 %) MCP 9 18 (1.259 %) CCSP 10 17 (1.189 %) CCNP 10 17 (1.189 %) CCSE 11 16 (1.119 %) CCSA 12 13 (0.909 %) CCIP 13 9 (0.629 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 8 (0.559 %) HP ASE 14 8 (0.559 %) HP MASE 14 8 (0.559 %) HNC 14 8 (0.559 %) PhD 15 7 (0.490 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 36 (2.517 %) SLA 2 33 (2.308 %) QA 3 11 (0.769 %) WAI 4 4 (0.280 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 2 (0.140 %) BS7799 6 1 (0.070 %) COBIT	System Software 1 85 (5.944 %) Oracle RAC 2 69 (4.825 %) NFS 3 41 (2.867 %) Active Directory 4 37 (2.587 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 36 (2.517 %) Oracle RMAN 6 20 (1.399 %) NetBackup 7 11 (0.769 %) Nmap 8 10 (0.699 %) Squid 8 10 (0.699 %) Backup Exec 9 7 (0.490 %) ProxySG 10 5 (0.350 %) NDS 11 4 (0.280 %) Snort 12 3 (0.210 %) ISA Server 13 1 (0.070 %) Samba 13 1 (0.070 %) VMware ESX 13 1 (0.070 %) Citrix Presentation Server 13 1 (0.070 %) Cronacle 13 1 (0.070 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 15 (1.049 %) Legato 2 11 (0.769 %) Nessus 2 11 (0.769 %) EMC NetWorker 3 7 (0.490 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 6 (0.420 %) CiscoWorks 5 5 (0.350 %) Tivoli 5 5 (0.350 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 4 (0.280 %) HP Data Protector 7 3 (0.210 %) MIMEsweeper 7 3 (0.210 %) Unicenter 8 2 (0.140 %) Netcool 8 2 (0.140 %) OpenView 8 2 (0.140 %) Nagios 9 1 (0.070 %) ARCserve 9 1 (0.070 %) Oracle Statspack 9 1 (0.070 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 280 (19.58 %) Oracle 2 154 (10.77 %) Microsoft 3 150 (10.49 %) Red Hat 4 142 (9.930 %) Cisco 5 105 (7.343 %) Sun 6 94 (6.573 %) HP 7 72 (5.035 %) CheckPoint 7 72 (5.035 %) VMware 8 46 (3.217 %) IBM 9 38 (2.657 %) VERITAS 10 36 (2.517 %) Sybase 11 34 (2.378 %) Citrix 12 33 (2.308 %) Nokia 13 25 (1.748 %) Novell 14 22 (1.538 %) Lotus 15 20 (1.399 %) EMC 16 19 (1.329 %) Intel 16 19 (1.329 %) NetApp 17 18 (1.259 %) Juniper 18 17 (1.189 %) Blue Coat