The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 9 11 9
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 435 486 519
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.70% 16.88% 17.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.72% 51.48% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 391 405 469
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £31,700 £27,250
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
795 944 960
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 32.34% 32.78% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 715 783 857
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,950 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +3 386 £42,500 - 73
Peterborough +11 18 £37,500 +85.18% 1
Huntingdon - 3 £35,000 -
St Neots +3 2 £31,250 +20.19%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

1 366 (39.27%) Windows
2 345 (37.02%) Python
3 291 (31.22%) C
4 263 (28.22%) Degree
5 259 (27.79%) C++
6 251 (26.93%) Perl
7 238 (25.54%) UNIX
8 188 (20.17%) Apache
9 178 (19.10%) MySQL
9 178 (19.10%) Oracle
10 146 (15.67%) Java
11 131 (14.06%) SQL
12 118 (12.66%) Microsoft
13 113 (12.12%) Computer Science
14 110 (11.80%) Red Hat
15 107 (11.48%) PHP
16 106 (11.37%) JavaScript
17 104 (11.16%) HTML
18 102 (10.94%) TCP/IP
19 101 (10.84%) CSS
19 101 (10.84%) Agile Software Development
20 96 (10.30%) Middleware
21 86 (9.227%) SAN
22 85 (9.120%) Software Testing
23 84 (9.013%) Bash shell
24 82 (8.798%) VMware
25 77 (8.262%) Automated Testing
26 76 (8.155%) IBM
27 75 (8.047%) Test Scripting
28 73 (7.833%) DNS

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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
1 104 (11.16%) HTML
2 101 (10.84%) CSS
3 96 (10.30%) Middleware
4 67 (7.189%) jQuery
5 62 (6.652%) WebSphere
6 54 (5.794%) XML
7 52 (5.579%) Web Services
8 51 (5.472%) Ajax
9 49 (5.258%) Oracle Fusion
10 47 (5.043%) WebCenter
11 42 (4.506%) .NET
12 35 (3.755%) LAMP
12 35 (3.755%) WebSphere MQ
13 31 (3.326%) JRules
14 30 (3.219%) Qt
15 24 (2.575%) Symfony
16 19 (2.039%) JMS
16 19 (2.039%) RESTful
17 18 (1.931%) JSON
18 16 (1.717%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 188 (20.17%) Apache
2 64 (6.867%) SharePoint
3 62 (6.652%) Tomcat
3 62 (6.652%) WebLogic
3 62 (6.652%) IIS
4 28 (3.004%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 19 (2.039%) CMS
6 16 (1.717%) nginx
7 10 (1.073%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (0.966%) MS Exchange
8 9 (0.966%) Amazon AWS
9 6 (0.644%) MediaWiki
9 6 (0.644%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.536%) Confluence
10 5 (0.536%) Drupal
11 3 (0.322%) Zope
11 3 (0.322%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.322%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.322%) WordPress
12 2 (0.215%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 42 (4.506%) MS Excel
2 23 (2.468%) MS Office
3 6 (0.644%) Google Apps
4 4 (0.429%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.107%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.107%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (3.433%) Documaker
2 9 (0.966%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.429%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (0.429%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.429%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (0.429%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.215%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.107%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 102 (10.94%) TCP/IP
2 86 (9.227%) SAN
3 73 (7.833%) DNS
4 66 (7.082%) Firewall
5 40 (4.292%) Wireless
6 35 (3.755%) Ethernet
6 35 (3.755%) Internet
7 24 (2.575%) HTTP
8 20 (2.146%) DHCP
8 20 (2.146%) VoIP
9 18 (1.931%) Fibre Channel
9 18 (1.931%) iSCSI
10 16 (1.717%) Network Security
11 13 (1.395%) SNMP
11 13 (1.395%) Broadband
12 12 (1.288%) VPN
12 12 (1.288%) VLAN
13 11 (1.180%) SSL
14 10 (1.073%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.751%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.10%) MySQL
2 36 (3.863%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.004%) MongoDB
4 25 (2.682%) Redis
5 24 (2.575%) Firebird
6 22 (2.361%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (2.253%) Big Data
8 14 (1.502%) Neo4j
8 14 (1.502%) MS Access
9 13 (1.395%) Text Mining
9 13 (1.395%) Oracle 8/8i
10 10 (1.073%) Oracle 11g
11 8 (0.858%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.751%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.536%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.429%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.429%) Oracle Exadata
14 4 (0.429%) Oracle 10g
14 4 (0.429%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.429%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 69 (7.403%) Selenium
2 62 (6.652%) Subversion
3 49 (5.258%) Git (software)
4 24 (2.575%) JIRA
5 21 (2.253%) LabVIEW
6 20 (2.146%) Visual Studio
7 17 (1.824%) Eclipse
7 17 (1.824%) QuickTest Pro
7 17 (1.824%) FitNesse
8 15 (1.609%) JUnit
9 9 (0.966%) Mercurial
10 8 (0.858%) Bugzilla
11 7 (0.751%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 7 (0.751%) GCC
11 7 (0.751%) SCons
12 6 (0.644%) GoogleTest
13 5 (0.536%) Maven
13 5 (0.536%) FishEye
13 5 (0.536%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.536%) WATIR
General
1 70 (7.511%) Finance
2 53 (5.687%) Electronics
3 33 (3.541%) Telecoms
4 28 (3.004%) Multimedia
5 10 (1.073%) Military
6 9 (0.966%) Automotive
6 9 (0.966%) Financial Institution
7 7 (0.751%) Manufacturing
8 6 (0.644%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (0.644%) Games
9 5 (0.536%) Marketing
9 5 (0.536%) Advertising
9 5 (0.536%) Publishing
9 5 (0.536%) German Language
10 4 (0.429%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.429%) Back Office
11 3 (0.322%) French Language
11 3 (0.322%) Law
12 2 (0.215%) Italian Language
12 2 (0.215%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 260 (27.90%) Software Engineer
2 247 (26.50%) Developer
3 126 (13.52%) Administrator
4 108 (11.59%) Systems Administrator
5 76 (8.155%) Software Developer
6 64 (6.867%) Senior Developer
7 56 (6.009%) Support Engineer
8 54 (5.794%) Test Engineer
9 52 (5.579%) Linux Administrator
10 47 (5.043%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 45 (4.828%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 43 (4.614%) PHP Developer
13 40 (4.292%) Consultant
14 38 (4.077%) Analyst
14 38 (4.077%) Applications Support
15 36 (3.863%) Senior Software Developer
16 34 (3.648%) Linux Engineer
17 33 (3.541%) Software Test Engineer
18 29 (3.112%) Web Developer
19 28 (3.004%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 113 (12.12%) Computer Science
2 65 (6.974%) Device Driver
3 52 (5.579%) Embedded Systems
4 43 (4.614%) Cloud Computing
5 39 (4.185%) Open Source
6 38 (4.077%) Mathematics
7 24 (2.575%) Mobile App
8 21 (2.253%) SaaS
9 16 (1.717%) Wiki
10 15 (1.609%) Physics
11 14 (1.502%) Verilog
12 13 (1.395%) VHDL
13 12 (1.288%) iPhone
14 11 (1.180%) PKI
14 11 (1.180%) Replication
15 9 (0.966%) Cryptography
16 8 (0.858%) Enterprise Storage
17 7 (0.751%) Smartphone
17 7 (0.751%) Blackberry
17 7 (0.751%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 366 (39.27%) Windows
2 238 (25.54%) UNIX
3 68 (7.296%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (4.936%) Android
5 41 (4.399%) Solaris
6 35 (3.755%) CentOS
7 31 (3.326%) Embedded Linux
8 29 (3.112%) Debian
9 23 (2.468%) Apple iOS
10 22 (2.361%) Ubuntu
11 20 (2.146%) Mac OS
12 19 (2.039%) Windows XP
13 17 (1.824%) Mac OS X
14 16 (1.717%) Windows 7
15 10 (1.073%) openSUSE
15 10 (1.073%) Oracle Linux
16 8 (0.858%) AIX
17 7 (0.751%) Windows Server 2003
17 7 (0.751%) Windows Server 2008
18 6 (0.644%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (10.84%) Agile Software Development
2 85 (9.120%) Software Testing
3 77 (8.262%) Automated Testing
4 75 (8.047%) Test Scripting
5 73 (7.833%) ITIL
6 65 (6.974%) Multithreading
7 53 (5.687%) OO
8 50 (5.365%) TDD
9 44 (4.721%) Manual Testing
10 43 (4.614%) Software Engineering
11 35 (3.755%) E-Commerce
12 34 (3.648%) Unit Testing
13 32 (3.433%) Web Development
14 30 (3.219%) Test Automation
15 29 (3.112%) OOP
16 26 (2.790%) Service Delivery
17 24 (2.575%) Scrum
18 22 (2.361%) BPMN
18 22 (2.361%) Information Security
19 21 (2.253%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 345 (37.02%) Python
2 291 (31.22%) C
3 259 (27.79%) C++
4 251 (26.93%) Perl
5 146 (15.67%) Java
6 131 (14.06%) SQL
7 107 (11.48%) PHP
8 106 (11.37%) JavaScript
9 84 (9.013%) Bash shell
10 62 (6.652%) Embedded C
10 62 (6.652%) Ruby
11 43 (4.614%) C#
12 36 (3.863%) Shell Script
13 29 (3.112%) Embedded C++
14 24 (2.575%) Tcl
15 18 (1.931%) Objective-C
16 17 (1.824%) Bourne shell
17 14 (1.502%) PL/SQL
18 13 (1.395%) Assembly Language
19 6 (0.644%) F#
Qualifications
1 263 (28.22%) Degree
2 54 (5.794%) ISEB
3 43 (4.614%) ISTQB
4 25 (2.682%) Postgraduate
5 12 (1.288%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (1.180%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.180%) Security Cleared
7 9 (0.966%) PhD
8 8 (0.858%) RHCE
8 8 (0.858%) HND
9 7 (0.751%) MCSE
9 7 (0.751%) CCNP
9 7 (0.751%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.751%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.644%) CCNA
11 5 (0.536%) MCITP
12 4 (0.429%) MCTS
13 3 (0.322%) MCDST
13 3 (0.322%) MCSA
13 3 (0.322%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.403%) QA
2 12 (1.288%) JTAG
3 9 (0.966%) SLA
4 5 (0.536%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.215%) GxP
6 1 (0.107%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.107%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.107%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.107%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (5.472%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (4.614%) Active Directory
3 28 (3.004%) NFS
4 21 (2.253%) Xen
5 19 (2.039%) Samba
6 18 (1.931%) VMware ESX
7 17 (1.824%) vSphere
8 8 (0.858%) Postfix
8 8 (0.858%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (0.751%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.644%) Sendmail
10 6 (0.644%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.536%) XenApp
12 3 (0.322%) OpenSSO
12 3 (0.322%) PowerHA
12 3 (0.322%) Cygwin
12 3 (0.322%) XenServer
13 1 (0.107%) Nmap
13 1 (0.107%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.107%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 25 (2.682%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 22 (2.361%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 19 (2.039%) Nagios
3 19 (2.039%) Puppet
4 16 (1.717%) Control-M
5 9 (0.966%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 8 (0.858%) Tivoli
7 6 (0.644%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.644%) ZABBIX
7 6 (0.644%) OSSEC
8 5 (0.536%) Oracle Identity Management
9 4 (0.429%) CFEngine
9 4 (0.429%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.322%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.322%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.322%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.215%) OpenView
12 1 (0.107%) Windows Storage Server
12 1 (0.107%) WSUS
12 1 (0.107%) Plesk
Vendors
1 178 (19.10%) Oracle
2 118 (12.66%) Microsoft
3 110 (11.80%) Red Hat
4 82 (8.798%) VMware
5 76 (8.155%) IBM
6 56 (6.009%) Cisco
7 36 (3.863%) HP
8 25 (2.682%) Sybase
9 24 (2.575%) Informatica
10 22 (2.361%) NetApp
10 22 (2.361%) Citrix
11 15 (1.609%) CheckPoint
12 12 (1.288%) Juniper
13 10 (1.073%) Zend
13 10 (1.073%) F5
14 9 (0.966%) EMC
14 9 (0.966%) Twitter
14 9 (0.966%) SolarWinds
15 8 (0.858%) JBoss
15 8 (0.858%) Brocade
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greywood
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
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Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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EMBL
Salary: Competitive
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Cambridge
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ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£33,000 + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
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Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
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Salary: to c£50k + top package + benefits
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £45000 per annum + Good Benefits
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Palm IT Services
Salary: From £45,000 to £65,000 per annum + 8% bonus + benefits eg pension, fa
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 55k + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Quant Capital
Salary: From £45,000 to £45,000 per annum Bonus Medical Pension
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (CB1), East Anglia
Guru Careers
Salary: £Highly Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Computer Futures
Posted: 28 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridgeshire
Quant Capital
Salary: From £45,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Anderson Lamb
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum plus package to include options
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Computer Futures
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Good benefits package
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Good benefits package
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Generous Base + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Salary: From £26,450 to £29,710 per annum
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Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
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Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus,Private Medical,Shares
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