The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 24 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 28 31 47
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 23 7 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 6.805% 4.487% 3.175%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.87% 14.89% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 5
Average salary £40,000 £31,250 £15,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.00% +108.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £29,000 £14,400
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £33,000 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
77 47 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 22.78% 30.13% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 35 43 34
Average salary £35,000 £31,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +18.86%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £28,005 £15,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £34,000 £37,702
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Cheshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Chester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Chester Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 26 (55.32%) UNIX
2 19 (40.43%) XML
3 18 (38.30%) Web Services
3 18 (38.30%) C#
3 18 (38.30%) .NET
4 16 (34.04%) Visual Studio
4 16 (34.04%) SOAP
5 14 (29.79%) Finance
6 12 (25.53%) ASP.NET
6 12 (25.53%) Windows
7 10 (21.28%) Middleware
7 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
7 10 (21.28%) Subversion
8 9 (19.15%) HTTP
8 9 (19.15%) IBM
9 7 (14.89%) C
9 7 (14.89%) CSS
9 7 (14.89%) HTML
9 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
9 7 (14.89%) PHP
10 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
10 6 (12.77%) OO
10 6 (12.77%) E-Commerce
10 6 (12.77%) SAS
10 6 (12.77%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (12.77%) SCADA
10 6 (12.77%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (10.64%) Capacity Management
11 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (10.64%) Git (software)

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 19 (40.43%) XML
2 18 (38.30%) Web Services
2 18 (38.30%) .NET
3 16 (34.04%) SOAP
4 12 (25.53%) ASP.NET
5 10 (21.28%) Middleware
6 7 (14.89%) CSS
6 7 (14.89%) HTML
7 5 (10.64%) Ajax
7 5 (10.64%) LAMP
8 4 (8.511%) COM
9 2 (4.255%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (4.255%) HTML5
9 2 (4.255%) WCF
9 2 (4.255%) CSS3
9 2 (4.255%) jQuery
9 2 (4.255%) .NET Framework
9 2 (4.255%) Spring
10 1 (2.128%) Hibernate
10 1 (2.128%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.77%) SAS
2 3 (6.383%) Apache
3 1 (2.128%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (4.255%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.128%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) HTTP
2 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.511%) Ethernet
4 3 (6.383%) SAN
4 3 (6.383%) NAS
5 1 (2.128%) IMAP
5 1 (2.128%) DNS
5 1 (2.128%) LDAP
5 1 (2.128%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) MySQL
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.255%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (4.255%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.128%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) Visual Studio
2 10 (21.28%) Subversion
3 5 (10.64%) Git (software)
3 5 (10.64%) Mercurial
3 5 (10.64%) JIRA
3 5 (10.64%) ClearCase
3 5 (10.64%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 14 (29.79%) Finance
2 4 (8.511%) Financial Institution
2 4 (8.511%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (51.06%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Administrator
3 10 (21.28%) C# Developer
4 7 (14.89%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (12.77%) SAS Administrator
6 5 (10.64%) .NET Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Build Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Software Configuration Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Software Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) PHP Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Release Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (8.511%) Web Developer
7 4 (8.511%) UNIX Administrator
7 4 (8.511%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.511%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 2 (4.255%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) SCADA
1 6 (12.77%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (10.64%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 3 (6.383%) Open Source
4 2 (4.255%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.128%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 26 (55.32%) UNIX
2 12 (25.53%) Windows
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.64%) AIX
4 4 (8.511%) Solaris
5 2 (4.255%) CentOS
5 2 (4.255%) Windows CE
5 2 (4.255%) Fedora
6 1 (2.128%) Debian
6 1 (2.128%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.128%) Tru64
6 1 (2.128%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
1 6 (12.77%) OO
1 6 (12.77%) E-Commerce
1 6 (12.77%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (10.64%) Capacity Management
2 5 (10.64%) Release Management
2 5 (10.64%) OOP
3 4 (8.511%) ITIL
3 4 (8.511%) MVC
4 3 (6.383%) Software Engineering
5 2 (4.255%) Product Management
5 2 (4.255%) MVVM
5 2 (4.255%) Network Management
5 2 (4.255%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (4.255%) TDD
5 2 (4.255%) Unit Testing
5 2 (4.255%) Risk Management
5 2 (4.255%) Migration
6 1 (2.128%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.128%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) C#
2 7 (14.89%) C
2 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (14.89%) PHP
3 5 (10.64%) Perl
4 3 (6.383%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.383%) Embedded C
4 3 (6.383%) SQL
5 2 (4.255%) Java
6 1 (2.128%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.128%) C++
6 1 (2.128%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) HND
2 4 (8.511%) Degree
3 3 (6.383%) MCITP
3 3 (6.383%) BC Cleared
3 3 (6.383%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.383%) MCTS
3 3 (6.383%) MCSA
3 3 (6.383%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.128%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.511%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.128%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.128%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.128%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) IBM
3 5 (10.64%) HP
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.511%) EMC
4 4 (8.511%) VMware
5 3 (6.383%) Sun
6 2 (4.255%) Adobe
7 1 (2.128%) TIBCO
Chester, North West
Job Title: SAS Systems Administrator, Near to Chester, competitive salary and benefitsMy client are looking for an experienced SAS Systems Administrator to join their team to successfully manage...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £1 per annum + benefits
Posted: 10 May 2013