The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CentOS 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 274 267 293
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +26
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 47 56 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.403% 0.429% 0.246%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.558% 1.711% 1.012%
Number of salaries quoted 34 53 37
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,750 £31,300 £33,400
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £52,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3017 3272 3754
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 25.86% 25.04% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2684 3038 3328
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,100 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
London

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CentOS across the City of London region.

City of London CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CentOS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London CentOS Salary Histogram

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 77 (81.91%) Linux
2 66 (70.21%) Red Hat
3 46 (48.94%) Bash shell
4 43 (45.74%) Puppet
5 39 (41.49%) Apache
6 37 (39.36%) MySQL
6 37 (39.36%) Perl
7 33 (35.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 29 (30.85%) Nagios
9 27 (28.72%) Python
10 26 (27.66%) UNIX
10 26 (27.66%) VMware
11 25 (26.60%) Windows
11 25 (26.60%) DNS
12 22 (23.40%) Ubuntu
12 22 (23.40%) NFS
12 22 (23.40%) TCP/IP
12 22 (23.40%) RHCE
13 20 (21.28%) Degree
13 20 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
14 19 (20.21%) Web Services
14 19 (20.21%) Cobbler
15 17 (18.09%) DHCP
15 17 (18.09%) nginx
16 16 (17.02%) iSCSI
16 16 (17.02%) Active Directory
16 16 (17.02%) PHP
16 16 (17.02%) Solaris
16 16 (17.02%) Finance
16 16 (17.02%) Red Hat Spacewalk

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (20.21%) Web Services
2 15 (15.96%) Memcached
3 6 (6.383%) LAMP
4 4 (4.255%) Java EE
5 2 (2.128%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.128%) MapReduce
6 1 (1.064%) Sinatra
6 1 (1.064%) Laravel
6 1 (1.064%) Node.js
6 1 (1.064%) Gearman
6 1 (1.064%) ASP
6 1 (1.064%) CSS
6 1 (1.064%) HTML
6 1 (1.064%) J2EE
6 1 (1.064%) Middleware
6 1 (1.064%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.064%) XMPP
6 1 (1.064%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.064%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 39 (41.49%) Apache
2 17 (18.09%) nginx
3 12 (12.77%) Tomcat
4 9 (9.574%) SharePoint
4 9 (9.574%) MS Exchange
5 7 (7.447%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (7.447%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (7.447%) Amazon AWS
6 5 (5.319%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.255%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.255%) GlassFish
7 4 (4.255%) iPlanet
8 3 (3.191%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (3.191%) ESB
8 3 (3.191%) Confluence
9 2 (2.128%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (1.064%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (1.064%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (1.064%) Drupal
10 1 (1.064%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (1.064%) Google Apps
1 1 (1.064%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.60%) DNS
2 22 (23.40%) TCP/IP
3 17 (18.09%) DHCP
4 16 (17.02%) iSCSI
5 12 (12.77%) SAN
6 8 (8.511%) LDAP
6 8 (8.511%) Firewall
7 6 (6.383%) VPN
8 5 (5.319%) SSL
8 5 (5.319%) Wireshark
8 5 (5.319%) tcpdump
9 3 (3.191%) HTTP
9 3 (3.191%) Ethernet
9 3 (3.191%) LAN
9 3 (3.191%) VoIP
9 3 (3.191%) WAN
9 3 (3.191%) SMTP
9 3 (3.191%) NAS
10 2 (2.128%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (2.128%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (39.36%) MySQL
2 13 (13.83%) MongoDB
3 12 (12.77%) Sybase ASE
4 9 (9.574%) RDBMS
5 8 (8.511%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.511%) Riak
6 4 (4.255%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (4.255%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.191%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.191%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.128%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.128%) Redis
9 1 (1.064%) HBase
9 1 (1.064%) Big Data
9 1 (1.064%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Git (software)
2 6 (6.383%) Subversion
3 5 (5.319%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.191%) JIRA
5 2 (2.128%) Capistrano
5 2 (2.128%) Hudson
6 1 (1.064%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.064%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.064%) RSpec
General
1 16 (17.02%) Finance
2 13 (13.83%) Banking
3 6 (6.383%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.191%) Games
5 2 (2.128%) Publishing
6 1 (1.064%) Law
6 1 (1.064%) Legal
6 1 (1.064%) Back Office
6 1 (1.064%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.064%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (44.68%) Administrator
2 35 (37.23%) Systems Administrator
3 24 (25.53%) Linux Administrator
4 19 (20.21%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 16 (17.02%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (7.447%) Operations Manager
7 7 (7.447%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 7 (7.447%) Systems Manager
8 6 (6.383%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.319%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 4 (4.255%) UNIX Administrator
10 4 (4.255%) Senior UNIX Engineer
10 4 (4.255%) UNIX Engineer
10 4 (4.255%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
10 4 (4.255%) Architect
11 3 (3.191%) Storage Systems Administrator
11 3 (3.191%) Junior Systems Administrator
11 3 (3.191%) Junior
11 3 (3.191%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.574%) Clustering
2 6 (6.383%) Derivative
2 6 (6.383%) Computer Science
3 5 (5.319%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (5.319%) Open Source
4 4 (4.255%) Replication
4 4 (4.255%) Digital Media
5 3 (3.191%) N-Tier
5 3 (3.191%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.191%) Social Gaming
6 2 (2.128%) SaaS
7 1 (1.064%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.064%) CMDB
7 1 (1.064%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 77 (81.91%) Linux
2 33 (35.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (27.66%) UNIX
4 25 (26.60%) Windows
5 22 (23.40%) Ubuntu
6 16 (17.02%) Solaris
7 15 (15.96%) Debian
8 12 (12.77%) FreeBSD
9 9 (9.574%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (9.574%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (5.319%) OpenBSD
10 5 (5.319%) SUSE
11 4 (4.255%) HPUX
12 2 (2.128%) Gentoo
12 2 (2.128%) AIX
13 1 (1.064%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (1.064%) Windows XP
13 1 (1.064%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (11.70%) Configuration Management
2 9 (9.574%) Scrum
2 9 (9.574%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (9.574%) Problem Management
3 8 (8.511%) Load Balancing
3 8 (8.511%) Project Management
4 7 (7.447%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (7.447%) Risk Analysis
4 7 (7.447%) Kanban
5 4 (4.255%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (4.255%) E-Commerce
6 3 (3.191%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (3.191%) ITIL
6 3 (3.191%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (3.191%) Network Design
7 2 (2.128%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (2.128%) Validation
7 2 (2.128%) Change Management
7 2 (2.128%) High Availability
7 2 (2.128%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) Bash shell
2 37 (39.36%) Perl
3 27 (28.72%) Python
4 16 (17.02%) PHP
5 13 (13.83%) Shell Script
6 12 (12.77%) SQL
6 12 (12.77%) Java
7 11 (11.70%) Ruby
8 3 (3.191%) C-shell
9 1 (1.064%) sed
9 1 (1.064%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.064%) C
9 1 (1.064%) AWK
9 1 (1.064%) Korn
9 1 (1.064%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.064%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) RHCE
2 20 (21.28%) Degree
3 9 (9.574%) MCSE
3 9 (9.574%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.255%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.191%) CCNA
6 2 (2.128%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.128%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.128%) RHCT
7 1 (1.064%) MCSA
7 1 (1.064%) CISSP
7 1 (1.064%) CCDA
7 1 (1.064%) CCNP
7 1 (1.064%) Security+ Certification
7 1 (1.064%) MCITP
7 1 (1.064%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.064%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.191%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.128%) QA
3 1 (1.064%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (1.064%) SLA
3 1 (1.064%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (23.40%) NFS
2 20 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (17.02%) Active Directory
4 15 (15.96%) Varnish
5 12 (12.77%) vSphere
6 11 (11.70%) Xen
7 10 (10.64%) Hyper-V
8 9 (9.574%) VirtualBox
9 4 (4.255%) VMware ESX
10 2 (2.128%) Postfix
11 1 (1.064%) XenApp
11 1 (1.064%) OpenSIPS
11 1 (1.064%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (45.74%) Puppet
2 29 (30.85%) Nagios
3 19 (20.21%) Cobbler
4 16 (17.02%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 12 (12.77%) YUM
6 8 (8.511%) Cacti
7 7 (7.447%) Splunk
7 7 (7.447%) SCCM
7 7 (7.447%) SCOM
8 4 (4.255%) NetBackup
9 3 (3.191%) Zenoss
10 2 (2.128%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.128%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.064%) OpenView
11 1 (1.064%) Tivoli
11 1 (1.064%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (1.064%) Unicenter
11 1 (1.064%) Ganglia
11 1 (1.064%) Munin
Vendors
1 66 (70.21%) Red Hat
2 26 (27.66%) VMware
3 14 (14.89%) HP
4 12 (12.77%) Sybase
5 11 (11.70%) Oracle
6 8 (8.511%) EMC
6 8 (8.511%) Cisco
6 8 (8.511%) NetApp
7 7 (7.447%) Veritas
8 5 (5.319%) IBM
9 4 (4.255%) LANDesk
9 4 (4.255%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.255%) SAP
10 2 (2.128%) Citrix
10 2 (2.128%) Percona
11 1 (1.064%) F5
11 1 (1.064%) Vertica
11 1 (1.064%) EccoWare
11 1 (1.064%) CQG
11 1 (1.064%) CheckPoint
City, London
Configuration Management Systems. Scripting or Programming a real plus in Bash, Python, Perl or PHP... Experience running Databases on Linux, MySQL or Postgres. Opensource Monitoring Systems... Windows experience...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Opensource Virtualization, MySQLn and scripting such as Bash, Perl, Python etc.... Configuration Management Systems. Scripting or Programming a real plus in Bash, Python, Perl or PHP... Experience running...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Formal qualifications in Unix/Linux systems administration expected... * Recent CentOS/Red Hat derivatives experience essential. OpenBSD experience also strongly desirable. * Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking including routing,...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits + bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Leading international media company in West London are looking to hire for a talented Application Support Lead with strong experience of supporting Linux/Redhat software products... * Formal qualifications...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits + bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Experience in the following would be essential: - Linux - preferably CentOS. - DNS - bind. - LAMP -configuration and performance tuning. - Storage technologies - SAN,NAS etc. - MySQL DB - HA, scaling high traffic...
BrightTALK
Salary: Competative
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Essential Networking (routing, switching, firewalls etc Windows Server 2003/2008 Active Directory/ Group Policy VMWare/ Vsphere SAN Desirable Exchange 2003/2007/2010 Citrix Xenapp Basic/ Medium Linux knowledge (...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Job Title: Cisco Networks Consultant - Cisco Switches, Routers, VPN, Firewalls with strong Linux systems Administrative skills.Skills: Network Consultant, Cisco switches, Cisco Routers, trunking and interconnections, IPSEC VPNs,...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
The successful Senior Systems Engineer (Java, Puppet, Chef, TDD, Unix) will have: - Great Systems Engineer/ Application Support experience - Good Java (J2EE, JSEE) skills and experience with open source...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus and Great Package
Posted: 24 May 2013