The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 10 7 17
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 54 66 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 18.75% 19.19% 8.718%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.67% 56.90% 53.13%
Number of salaries quoted 42 48 4
Average salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £31,750 £54,500
10% offered a salary of more than £84,500 £100,000 £68,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
89 116 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.90% 33.72% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 73 93 15
Average salary £52,500 £72,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.58% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £50,500
10% offered a salary of more than £78,250 £70,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 61 (65.59%) Windows
2 56 (60.22%) UNIX
3 48 (51.61%) Finance
4 47 (50.54%) SQL
5 35 (37.63%) Java
6 34 (36.56%) SQL Server
7 32 (34.41%) Middleware
8 30 (32.26%) JavaScript
9 27 (29.03%) Sybase
10 26 (27.96%) ITIL
11 25 (26.88%) Oracle
11 25 (26.88%) Shell Script
11 25 (26.88%) WebSphere
12 23 (24.73%) Degree
12 23 (24.73%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (23.66%) Problem Management
13 22 (23.66%) Perl
14 21 (22.58%) Business Continuity
15 20 (21.51%) C++
15 20 (21.51%) TIBCO
15 20 (21.51%) TIBCO EMS
16 18 (19.35%) Service Delivery
17 17 (18.28%) Rendezvous
17 17 (18.28%) WebSphere MQ
17 17 (18.28%) IBM
17 17 (18.28%) Sun
17 17 (18.28%) Solaris
17 17 (18.28%) MQSeries
17 17 (18.28%) QA
18 16 (17.20%) Multithreading

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 32 (34.41%) Middleware
2 25 (26.88%) WebSphere
3 16 (17.20%) XML
4 8 (8.602%) XSLT
4 8 (8.602%) HTML
5 7 (7.527%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 7 (7.527%) STL
6 5 (5.376%) Web Services
7 4 (4.301%) J2EE
8 3 (3.226%) JMS
8 3 (3.226%) Swing
9 2 (2.151%) Java SE
9 2 (2.151%) XMPP
10 1 (1.075%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 20 (21.51%) TIBCO EMS
2 17 (18.28%) Rendezvous
2 17 (18.28%) WebSphere MQ
2 17 (18.28%) MQSeries
3 12 (12.90%) IIS
3 12 (12.90%) Apache
4 8 (8.602%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.151%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (2.151%) Lync
6 1 (1.075%) MindAlign
6 1 (1.075%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (3.226%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (10.75%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.13%) SAN
2 10 (10.75%) Internet
3 9 (9.677%) FTP
4 8 (8.602%) NAS
5 6 (6.452%) HTTP
6 5 (5.376%) Firewall
7 4 (4.301%) LDAP
7 4 (4.301%) BSS
7 4 (4.301%) Network Security
7 4 (4.301%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (3.226%) Junos
8 3 (3.226%) VLAN
8 3 (3.226%) NetScreen
8 3 (3.226%) VPN
8 3 (3.226%) SSL
9 2 (2.151%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.075%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (36.56%) SQL Server
2 15 (16.13%) Informix
2 15 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (13.98%) MySQL
4 1 (1.075%) Big Data
4 1 (1.075%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (1.075%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.226%) Eclipse RCP
1 3 (3.226%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.075%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.075%) Hudson
2 1 (1.075%) Maven
2 1 (1.075%) Ant
General
1 48 (51.61%) Finance
2 15 (16.13%) Banking
3 8 (8.602%) Publishing
4 4 (4.301%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.226%) Front Office
6 2 (2.151%) Legal
7 1 (1.075%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 18 (19.35%) Developer
2 17 (18.28%) Analyst
2 17 (18.28%) Middleware Engineer
3 13 (13.98%) Support Analyst
3 13 (13.98%) Applications Support
4 12 (12.90%) C++ Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Support Engineer
6 9 (9.677%) Applications Support Analyst
7 8 (8.602%) Architect
8 6 (6.452%) Service Desk Engineer
9 5 (5.376%) Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (5.376%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.301%) Network Security Engineer
10 4 (4.301%) Team Leader
10 4 (4.301%) Support Team Leader
10 4 (4.301%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.301%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.301%) OSS Engineer
10 4 (4.301%) UNIX Team Leader
10 4 (4.301%) C Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.677%) Equities
2 4 (4.301%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.301%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.226%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.226%) Derivative
3 3 (3.226%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (3.226%) Tandem
3 3 (3.226%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 61 (65.59%) Windows
2 56 (60.22%) UNIX
3 17 (18.28%) Solaris
4 9 (9.677%) Apple iOS
4 9 (9.677%) Android
4 9 (9.677%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (9.677%) Windows 7
4 9 (9.677%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (7.527%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.075%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.96%) ITIL
2 23 (24.73%) User Acceptance Testing
3 22 (23.66%) Problem Management
4 21 (22.58%) Business Continuity
5 18 (19.35%) Service Delivery
6 16 (17.20%) Multithreading
7 10 (10.75%) Benchmarking
7 10 (10.75%) Incident Management
7 10 (10.75%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (9.677%) Performance Management
8 9 (9.677%) ITSM
9 8 (8.602%) Change Management
9 8 (8.602%) Complex Event Processing
10 7 (7.527%) E-Commerce
11 6 (6.452%) Performance Testing
12 4 (4.301%) Capacity Planning
13 3 (3.226%) Load Balancing
13 3 (3.226%) Business Analysis
13 3 (3.226%) Electronic Trading
13 3 (3.226%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.54%) SQL
2 35 (37.63%) Java
3 30 (32.26%) JavaScript
4 25 (26.88%) Shell Script
5 22 (23.66%) Perl
6 20 (21.51%) C++
7 16 (17.20%) C
8 15 (16.13%) Python
9 10 (10.75%) PHP
10 4 (4.301%) C#
10 4 (4.301%) Korn
10 4 (4.301%) Ruby
11 2 (2.151%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.151%) C-shell
12 1 (1.075%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (24.73%) Degree
2 2 (2.151%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.075%) CCIE
3 1 (1.075%) CCNP
3 1 (1.075%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.28%) QA
2 7 (7.527%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.452%) SLA
4 3 (3.226%) COBIT
4 3 (3.226%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.376%) vSphere
1 5 (5.376%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.301%) Snort
3 1 (1.075%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.075%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.677%) Nagios
2 6 (6.452%) Puppet
3 4 (4.301%) Splunk
4 2 (2.151%) YUM
5 1 (1.075%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.075%) Zenoss
5 1 (1.075%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (1.075%) Dollar Universe
Vendors
1 27 (29.03%) Sybase
2 25 (26.88%) Oracle
3 20 (21.51%) TIBCO
4 17 (18.28%) IBM
4 17 (18.28%) Sun
5 13 (13.98%) Red Hat
5 13 (13.98%) Cisco
6 9 (9.677%) DataSynapse
6 9 (9.677%) SolarWinds
6 9 (9.677%) Microsoft
7 8 (8.602%) EMC
7 8 (8.602%) NetApp
7 8 (8.602%) 29West
8 6 (6.452%) Bloomberg
8 6 (6.452%) VMware
9 4 (4.301%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.301%) Brocade
9 4 (4.301%) F5
10 3 (3.226%) HP
10 3 (3.226%) Juniper