The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 19 23 35
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 206 163 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 11.51% 8.459% 6.216%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.01% 27.67% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 170 151 80
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,300 £30,000 £22,950
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £46,375
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
542 589 477
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.30% 30.57% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 431 527 396
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
North West

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Knutsford +11 34 £40,000 +2.56%
Chester +7 30 £40,000 +25.00%
Macclesfield +13 29 £34,000 -32.00%
Warrington -7 25 £43,000 +7.50%
Crewe -1 20 £47,500 +35.71%
Northwich +14 13 £38,500 +40.00%
Nantwich +1 2 - -
Congleton - 2 £22,250 -
Lymm - 1 £30,000 -
Wilmslow - 1 £47,500 -
Linux
North West

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 264 (53.66%) UNIX
2 145 (29.47%) Finance
3 144 (29.27%) AIX
4 126 (25.61%) Java
5 118 (23.98%) Windows
6 115 (23.37%) PHP
7 109 (22.15%) Red Hat
8 100 (20.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 92 (18.70%) C
10 90 (18.29%) SQL
11 89 (18.09%) SAN
12 80 (16.26%) IBM
13 71 (14.43%) Oracle
14 70 (14.23%) HTML
14 70 (14.23%) JavaScript
15 65 (13.21%) TCP/IP
16 64 (13.01%) CSS
16 64 (13.01%) XML
17 63 (12.80%) Solaris
18 54 (10.98%) C++
19 53 (10.77%) Middleware
20 51 (10.37%) ITIL
21 49 (9.959%) Degree
21 49 (9.959%) Tivoli
21 49 (9.959%) MVC
22 48 (9.756%) OO
22 48 (9.756%) Perl
22 48 (9.756%) SQL Server
22 48 (9.756%) .NET
22 48 (9.756%) WebSphere

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 70 (14.23%) HTML
2 64 (13.01%) CSS
2 64 (13.01%) XML
3 53 (10.77%) Middleware
4 48 (9.756%) .NET
4 48 (9.756%) WebSphere
5 39 (7.927%) jQuery
6 37 (7.520%) Web Services
7 35 (7.114%) ASP.NET
8 27 (5.488%) SOAP
8 27 (5.488%) HTML5
9 26 (5.285%) Spring
10 23 (4.675%) Ajax
11 18 (3.659%) JDBC
12 16 (3.252%) Struts
12 16 (3.252%) LAMP
13 14 (2.846%) Zend Framework
14 13 (2.642%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.642%) JSP
14 13 (2.642%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 46 (9.350%) Apache
2 22 (4.472%) MS Exchange
2 22 (4.472%) WebSphere MQ
3 20 (4.065%) Tomcat
4 18 (3.659%) Magento
5 17 (3.455%) SharePoint
6 16 (3.252%) Exchange Server 2010
7 11 (2.236%) SharePoint 2010
7 11 (2.236%) Lync
7 11 (2.236%) CMS
7 11 (2.236%) WordPress
8 8 (1.626%) SAS
9 6 (1.220%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (1.220%) WebLogic
9 6 (1.220%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (1.220%) Exchange Server 2007
10 5 (1.016%) Jetty
11 4 (0.813%) Drupal
11 4 (0.813%) IIS
11 4 (0.813%) Gentran
Applications
1 10 (2.033%) MS Excel
2 4 (0.813%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.813%) MS Office
3 3 (0.610%) MS Project
4 1 (0.203%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.203%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.203%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.203%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 89 (18.09%) SAN
2 65 (13.21%) TCP/IP
3 42 (8.537%) HTTP
4 23 (4.675%) NAS
5 22 (4.472%) Internet
6 21 (4.268%) WAN
7 19 (3.862%) LDAP
8 13 (2.642%) LAN
8 13 (2.642%) VoIP
8 13 (2.642%) Firewall
9 11 (2.236%) Wireshark
10 10 (2.033%) IMAP
10 10 (2.033%) DNS
10 10 (2.033%) WLAN
11 9 (1.829%) SMS
11 9 (1.829%) SSL
12 8 (1.626%) FTP
12 8 (1.626%) SMTP
12 8 (1.626%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (1.220%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.756%) SQL Server
2 38 (7.724%) MySQL
3 12 (2.439%) DB2
4 10 (2.033%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.033%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (1.423%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (1.220%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.220%) Oracle 10g
6 6 (1.220%) SQL Server 2000
7 5 (1.016%) OLTP
7 5 (1.016%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.407%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.407%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (0.407%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (0.203%) Base SAS
9 1 (0.203%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.203%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.203%) MS Access
9 1 (0.203%) Informix
Development Applications
1 48 (9.756%) Subversion
2 28 (5.691%) Git (software)
3 18 (3.659%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 17 (3.455%) Visual Studio
5 15 (3.049%) JUnit
6 14 (2.846%) JIRA
7 10 (2.033%) Maven
7 10 (2.033%) Ant
8 5 (1.016%) Log4j
8 5 (1.016%) ClearCase
8 5 (1.016%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.407%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.203%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.203%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.203%) QUnit
10 1 (0.203%) Oracle APEX
General
1 145 (29.47%) Finance
2 31 (6.301%) Banking
3 26 (5.285%) Telecoms
4 10 (2.033%) Financial Institution
5 5 (1.016%) Electronics
5 5 (1.016%) Retail
5 5 (1.016%) Multimedia
6 4 (0.813%) Military
6 4 (0.813%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (0.610%) Retail Banking
7 3 (0.610%) Billing
8 2 (0.407%) Games
9 1 (0.203%) Marketing
9 1 (0.203%) Music
9 1 (0.203%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 141 (28.66%) Developer
2 69 (14.02%) Administrator
3 60 (12.20%) Systems Administrator
4 56 (11.38%) Analyst
5 51 (10.37%) Linux Administrator
6 48 (9.756%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 39 (7.927%) PHP Developer
8 32 (6.504%) Java Developer
9 31 (6.301%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 31 (6.301%) Team Leader
10 29 (5.894%) Applications Support
10 29 (5.894%) Support Engineer
11 28 (5.691%) Consultant
12 23 (4.675%) Software Engineer
13 21 (4.268%) Support Analyst
14 18 (3.659%) Technical Support
14 18 (3.659%) UNIX Administrator
14 18 (3.659%) Storage Consultant
15 17 (3.455%) Progress Developer
15 17 (3.455%) UNIX Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.878%) Replication
2 23 (4.675%) Fixed Income
2 23 (4.675%) Clustering
3 20 (4.065%) Computer Science
4 19 (3.862%) Open Source
5 18 (3.659%) iSeries
6 9 (1.829%) Handset
7 8 (1.626%) STB
8 7 (1.423%) Device Driver
9 6 (1.220%) SCADA
9 6 (1.220%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.220%) iPhone
10 5 (1.016%) Speech Recognition
10 5 (1.016%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 5 (1.016%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.016%) MPEG
10 5 (1.016%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.813%) Social Media
11 4 (0.813%) Online Banking
11 4 (0.813%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 264 (53.66%) UNIX
2 144 (29.27%) AIX
3 118 (23.98%) Windows
4 100 (20.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (12.80%) Solaris
6 30 (6.098%) Windows Server 2008
7 25 (5.081%) HPUX
8 24 (4.878%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (2.439%) Embedded Linux
10 11 (2.236%) pSOS
11 10 (2.033%) Windows 7
12 9 (1.829%) Mac OS
13 8 (1.626%) Windows XP
14 7 (1.423%) Ubuntu
14 7 (1.423%) CentOS
15 6 (1.220%) Fedora
15 6 (1.220%) Android
15 6 (1.220%) Windows NT
16 5 (1.016%) Windows Mobile
16 5 (1.016%) Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (10.37%) ITIL
2 49 (9.959%) MVC
3 48 (9.756%) OO
4 37 (7.520%) Disaster Recovery
5 36 (7.317%) Problem Management
6 35 (7.114%) Web Development
6 35 (7.114%) High Availability
6 35 (7.114%) E-Commerce
6 35 (7.114%) OOP
7 34 (6.911%) Project Management
7 34 (6.911%) Agile Software Development
8 32 (6.504%) Configuration Management
9 31 (6.301%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (5.894%) Multithreading
11 27 (5.488%) TDD
12 25 (5.081%) Scrum
12 25 (5.081%) Service Delivery
13 23 (4.675%) Parallel Processing
14 22 (4.472%) Performance Management
15 21 (4.268%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (25.61%) Java
2 115 (23.37%) PHP
3 92 (18.70%) C
4 90 (18.29%) SQL
5 70 (14.23%) JavaScript
6 54 (10.98%) C++
7 48 (9.756%) Perl
8 37 (7.520%) Shell Script
9 24 (4.878%) Python
10 23 (4.675%) C#
11 14 (2.846%) PHP5
12 9 (1.829%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.829%) Embedded C
12 9 (1.829%) Ruby
13 7 (1.423%) Embedded C++
14 6 (1.220%) Bash shell
15 5 (1.016%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.813%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.407%) Objective-C
18 1 (0.203%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (9.959%) Degree
2 13 (2.642%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.439%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (2.236%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.423%) MCP
5 7 (1.423%) MCTS
5 7 (1.423%) MCITP
5 7 (1.423%) CCNA
5 7 (1.423%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.220%) MCSE
7 5 (1.016%) HND
8 4 (0.813%) HP APS
9 3 (0.610%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.407%) OCP
10 2 (0.407%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.407%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.407%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.407%) MCSA
10 2 (0.407%) PhD
10 2 (0.407%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.659%) SLA
2 12 (2.439%) QA
3 9 (1.829%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.813%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 23 (4.675%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (4.472%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.033%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 8 (1.626%) Xen
5 7 (1.423%) VMware ESX
6 4 (0.813%) XenApp
6 4 (0.813%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.610%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.407%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.407%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.407%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.203%) PowerHA
9 1 (0.203%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.203%) NFS
9 1 (0.203%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 49 (9.959%) Tivoli
2 47 (9.553%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 22 (4.472%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (1.423%) Nagios
5 6 (1.220%) MOM
6 3 (0.610%) CA Wily
7 2 (0.407%) Backup Exec
7 2 (0.407%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.203%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.203%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.203%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.203%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (22.15%) Red Hat
2 80 (16.26%) IBM
3 71 (14.43%) Oracle
4 46 (9.350%) HP
5 45 (9.146%) Microsoft
6 37 (7.520%) EMC
7 36 (7.317%) VMware
8 33 (6.707%) Zend
9 23 (4.675%) Google
10 22 (4.472%) Cisco
11 20 (4.065%) Citrix
11 20 (4.065%) Brocade
12 16 (3.252%) Sun
13 11 (2.236%) Cognos
14 10 (2.033%) Intel
14 10 (2.033%) Veritas
15 9 (1.829%) Dell
15 9 (1.829%) Avaya
15 9 (1.829%) Juniper
15 9 (1.829%) Nimsoft
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