The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brentwood region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 22 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 Brentwood region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 6 7 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing Linux 20 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 20.62% 12.00% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.48% 50.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
Average salary £46,250 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.62% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Brentwood
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
46 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 47.42% 24.00% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 24 6 4
Average salary £42,500 £27,500 £26,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+54.54% +2.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £22,700 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £30,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Essex

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brentwood 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 Brentwood region.

Brentwood Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 24 (77.42%) C
2 22 (70.97%) Degree
3 20 (64.52%) Broadband
4 17 (54.84%) DTV
4 17 (54.84%) DVB
5 16 (51.61%) Finance
6 15 (48.39%) POSIX
6 15 (48.39%) Software Architecture
7 10 (32.26%) STB
8 9 (29.03%) Middleware
8 9 (29.03%) C++
8 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
9 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
10 7 (22.58%) SQL
10 7 (22.58%) Oracle
10 7 (22.58%) Java
11 6 (19.35%) Perl
11 6 (19.35%) PHP
11 6 (19.35%) Subversion
11 6 (19.35%) Debian
11 6 (19.35%) VMware
11 6 (19.35%) VMware ESX
11 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
11 6 (19.35%) Change Control
11 6 (19.35%) vSphere
11 6 (19.35%) Bash shell
11 6 (19.35%) Korn
11 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (16.13%) .NET
12 5 (16.13%) Windows

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 15 (48.39%) POSIX
2 9 (29.03%) Middleware
3 5 (16.13%) .NET
4 3 (9.677%) HTML
4 3 (9.677%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle Application Server
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (6.452%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) Quicktime
Communications & Networking
1 20 (64.52%) Broadband
2 17 (54.84%) DVB
3 3 (9.677%) 4G
3 3 (9.677%) DLNA
3 3 (9.677%) WAN
3 3 (9.677%) DHCP
3 3 (9.677%) FTP
3 3 (9.677%) HTTP
3 3 (9.677%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.677%) DNS
3 3 (9.677%) UPnP
3 3 (9.677%) Firewall
3 3 (9.677%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (9.677%) Wireless
3 3 (9.677%) TELNET
3 3 (9.677%) 802.11
3 3 (9.677%) DSL
4 2 (6.452%) SAN
5 1 (3.226%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) SQLPlus
1 2 (6.452%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.452%) MySQL
1 2 (6.452%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Subversion
2 3 (9.677%) JIRA
2 3 (9.677%) Trac
2 3 (9.677%) ClearCase
3 2 (6.452%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Software Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Systems Administrator
2 6 (19.35%) Administrator
2 6 (19.35%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Support Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Applications Support
3 5 (16.13%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Graduate
5 3 (9.677%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (9.677%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 3 (9.677%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) DBA
6 2 (6.452%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) DTV
2 10 (32.26%) STB
3 3 (9.677%) MPEG
3 3 (9.677%) Streaming Video
4 2 (6.452%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Debian
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
3 4 (12.90%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (9.677%) Android
5 2 (6.452%) UNIX
5 2 (6.452%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Software Architecture
2 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
3 6 (19.35%) Change Control
4 3 (9.677%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.452%) Workflow
5 2 (6.452%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (77.42%) C
2 9 (29.03%) C++
2 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) Java
4 6 (19.35%) Perl
4 6 (19.35%) PHP
4 6 (19.35%) Bash shell
4 6 (19.35%) Korn
5 2 (6.452%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.452%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) VMware ESX
1 6 (19.35%) vSphere
1 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (6.452%) Tivoli
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (6.452%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) VMware
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
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