The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 13 5 23
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 131 214 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 17.24% 28.23% 11.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.16% 65.05% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 125 205 54
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
198 329 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 26.05% 43.40% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 188 318 156
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +10.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £28,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
East Sussex

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Brighton Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 155 (54.39%) MySQL
2 139 (48.77%) Windows
3 97 (34.04%) JavaScript
4 92 (32.28%) CSS
5 91 (31.93%) PHP
6 86 (30.18%) HTML
7 72 (25.26%) Ubuntu
8 69 (24.21%) Web Development
9 67 (23.51%) jQuery
9 67 (23.51%) SQL
10 65 (22.81%) Java
10 65 (22.81%) Degree
11 64 (22.46%) Python
12 60 (21.05%) SQL Server
13 59 (20.70%) Windows Server 2008
14 52 (18.25%) CentOS
15 51 (17.89%) VMware
16 45 (15.79%) Social Media
16 45 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
17 43 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
17 43 (15.09%) Apache
18 42 (14.74%) Git (software)
19 40 (14.04%) Computer Science
20 39 (13.68%) LAMP
21 38 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
22 36 (12.63%) Red Hat
22 36 (12.63%) Mac OS X
23 32 (11.23%) Zend
24 31 (10.88%) MVC
24 31 (10.88%) MS Excel

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 92 (32.28%) CSS
2 86 (30.18%) HTML
3 67 (23.51%) jQuery
4 39 (13.68%) LAMP
5 31 (10.88%) HTML5
6 24 (8.421%) Node.js
7 22 (7.719%) .NET
8 21 (7.368%) Django
9 18 (6.316%) Spring
10 16 (5.614%) XML
11 13 (4.561%) Backbone.js
12 11 (3.860%) Zend Framework
13 10 (3.509%) Symfony
14 8 (2.807%) CSS3
14 8 (2.807%) Hibernate
14 8 (2.807%) SOAP
14 8 (2.807%) WAMP
15 7 (2.456%) Web Services
15 7 (2.456%) J2EE
15 7 (2.456%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 43 (15.09%) Apache
2 13 (4.561%) CMS
3 10 (3.509%) WordPress
3 10 (3.509%) Magento
4 9 (3.158%) Apache Solr
5 8 (2.807%) IIS
6 6 (2.105%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.754%) Drupal
8 3 (1.053%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.351%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.351%) Moodle
Applications
1 31 (10.88%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.404%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.351%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.88%) VoIP
2 24 (8.421%) LDAP
3 23 (8.070%) Asterisk PBX
4 22 (7.719%) DNS
5 13 (4.561%) SSH
5 13 (4.561%) HTTP
6 12 (4.211%) Firewall
7 11 (3.860%) TCP/IP
7 11 (3.860%) VPN
8 8 (2.807%) Internet
9 7 (2.456%) FTP
10 5 (1.754%) Network Security
11 4 (1.404%) LAN
11 4 (1.404%) DHCP
11 4 (1.404%) Ethernet
11 4 (1.404%) WAN
11 4 (1.404%) Gigabit Ethernet
12 1 (0.351%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.351%) SMTP
12 1 (0.351%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (54.39%) MySQL
2 60 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 43 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.912%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.807%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.105%) Redis
7 5 (1.754%) HBase
7 5 (1.754%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.404%) SQLite
9 1 (0.351%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.351%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.351%) SQL Server 2005
9 1 (0.351%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.351%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 42 (14.74%) Git (software)
2 17 (5.965%) Subversion
3 10 (3.509%) Eclipse
4 9 (3.158%) Selenium
4 9 (3.158%) WebDriver
4 9 (3.158%) Mocha
4 9 (3.158%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.158%) Jasmine
5 8 (2.807%) NetBeans
6 5 (1.754%) JIRA
7 4 (1.404%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.053%) Maven
9 2 (0.702%) JUnit
9 2 (0.702%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.351%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.351%) LabVIEW
General
1 26 (9.123%) Marketing
2 7 (2.456%) Games
3 6 (2.105%) Electronics
3 6 (2.105%) Finance
4 4 (1.404%) Telecoms
5 2 (0.702%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.702%) Retail
5 2 (0.702%) German Language
6 1 (0.351%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 139 (48.77%) Developer
2 80 (28.07%) Administrator
3 77 (27.02%) Systems Administrator
4 70 (24.56%) Linux Administrator
5 64 (22.46%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 44 (15.44%) PHP Developer
7 30 (10.53%) Junior
8 28 (9.825%) Java Developer
9 24 (8.421%) Junior Developer
10 23 (8.070%) Desktop Administrator
10 23 (8.070%) Windows Systems Administrator
10 23 (8.070%) Windows Administrator
11 21 (7.368%) Python Developer
12 20 (7.018%) Graduate Developer
12 20 (7.018%) Graduate
13 17 (5.965%) Web Developer
13 17 (5.965%) Senior Developer
14 16 (5.614%) PHP MySQL Developer
15 15 (5.263%) Development Manager
16 12 (4.211%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.79%) Social Media
2 40 (14.04%) Computer Science
3 28 (9.825%) Digital Media
4 20 (7.018%) Mathematics
5 14 (4.912%) Clustering
6 11 (3.860%) Replication
6 11 (3.860%) EqualLogic
6 11 (3.860%) Open Source
7 8 (2.807%) NHS
8 3 (1.053%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.053%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.053%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.702%) BBC
10 1 (0.351%) iPhone
10 1 (0.351%) E-Learning
10 1 (0.351%) iDTV
10 1 (0.351%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.351%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 139 (48.77%) Windows
2 72 (25.26%) Ubuntu
3 59 (20.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 52 (18.25%) CentOS
5 36 (12.63%) Mac OS X
6 22 (7.719%) Mac OS X Server
7 18 (6.316%) Windows 7
8 16 (5.614%) Mac OS
9 14 (4.912%) UNIX
10 8 (2.807%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (2.456%) Debian
11 7 (2.456%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (2.105%) SUSE
12 6 (2.105%) Solaris
12 6 (2.105%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (1.754%) Android
14 4 (1.404%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.351%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (24.21%) Web Development
2 38 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
3 31 (10.88%) MVC
4 29 (10.18%) ITIL
5 27 (9.474%) OO
6 23 (8.070%) Project Management
7 21 (7.368%) OOP
8 20 (7.018%) Project Planning
9 19 (6.667%) Scrum
10 17 (5.965%) Information Security
10 17 (5.965%) Information Security Management
10 17 (5.965%) Security Management
11 15 (5.263%) TDD
12 13 (4.561%) BDD
12 13 (4.561%) Product Marketing
13 12 (4.211%) Digital Marketing
14 11 (3.860%) Operations Management
14 11 (3.860%) Configuration Management
14 11 (3.860%) E-Commerce
15 9 (3.158%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 97 (34.04%) JavaScript
2 91 (31.93%) PHP
3 67 (23.51%) SQL
4 65 (22.81%) Java
5 64 (22.46%) Python
6 30 (10.53%) C++
6 30 (10.53%) PHP5
7 22 (7.719%) C#
8 17 (5.965%) Perl
9 11 (3.860%) Ruby
10 8 (2.807%) Bash shell
10 8 (2.807%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.807%) C
11 4 (1.404%) XQuery
11 4 (1.404%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.404%) XPath
12 2 (0.702%) C-shell
13 1 (0.351%) PHP4
13 1 (0.351%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.351%) ECMAScript
Qualifications
1 65 (22.81%) Degree
2 9 (3.158%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (2.105%) ISEB
4 5 (1.754%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.351%) HNC
5 1 (0.351%) HND
5 1 (0.351%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.772%) QA
2 17 (5.965%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.509%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.351%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 45 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
2 28 (9.825%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (9.474%) Samba
4 11 (3.860%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.404%) vSphere
6 3 (1.053%) VMware ESX
7 2 (0.702%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.702%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.351%) Xen
8 1 (0.351%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (4.912%) Puppet
2 11 (3.860%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.754%) Ganglia
4 2 (0.702%) Nagios
Vendors
1 51 (17.89%) VMware
2 36 (12.63%) Red Hat
3 32 (11.23%) Zend
4 11 (3.860%) FalconStor
4 11 (3.860%) Veeam
5 7 (2.456%) Google
6 6 (2.105%) Apple
6 6 (2.105%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.404%) HP
7 4 (1.404%) Dell
7 4 (1.404%) Adobe
7 4 (1.404%) Oracle
7 4 (1.404%) LANDesk
8 1 (0.351%) IBM
8 1 (0.351%) Facebook
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