The first table below looks at the demand for Debian 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 Debian 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 299 301 306
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Debian 21 27 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.181% 0.207% 0.134%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.699% 0.819% 0.551%
Number of salaries quoted 21 20 20
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £70,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3004 3295 3812
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 25.90% 25.22% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2671 3063 3383
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 £29,000 £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%
Debian
London

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

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

City of London Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Debian across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Debian Salary Histogram

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (60.61%) Red Hat
3 37 (56.06%) Windows
4 31 (46.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (43.94%) DNS
5 29 (43.94%) VMware
6 27 (40.91%) Ubuntu
6 27 (40.91%) Puppet
7 26 (39.39%) Active Directory
8 25 (37.88%) TCP/IP
9 24 (36.36%) Solaris
9 24 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
10 22 (33.33%) vSphere
11 21 (31.82%) Configuration Management
12 20 (30.30%) PCI DSS
13 19 (28.79%) JIRA
14 17 (25.76%) Bash shell
15 16 (24.24%) Confluence
15 16 (24.24%) Python
15 16 (24.24%) Perl
16 15 (22.73%) CentOS
17 14 (21.21%) UNIX
18 13 (19.70%) Atlassian
18 13 (19.70%) OpenLDAP
19 12 (18.18%) Web Services
19 12 (18.18%) MySQL
20 9 (13.64%) SQL
20 9 (13.64%) Apache
20 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
20 9 (13.64%) Firewall

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (18.18%) Web Services
2 3 (4.545%) Django
3 2 (3.030%) LAMP
3 2 (3.030%) HTML
3 2 (3.030%) Memcached
3 2 (3.030%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.515%) Node.js
4 1 (1.515%) MapReduce
4 1 (1.515%) ASP
4 1 (1.515%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 16 (24.24%) Confluence
2 9 (13.64%) Apache
3 8 (12.12%) Amazon AWS
4 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (10.61%) nginx
5 6 (9.091%) Tomcat
6 5 (7.576%) IIS
7 4 (6.061%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.545%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (4.545%) Apache Solr
9 1 (1.515%) Pressflow
9 1 (1.515%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.030%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.515%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (43.94%) DNS
2 25 (37.88%) TCP/IP
3 13 (19.70%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (13.64%) Firewall
5 8 (12.12%) DHCP
6 7 (10.61%) SAN
7 6 (9.091%) LDAP
8 4 (6.061%) VLAN
8 4 (6.061%) iSCSI
8 4 (6.061%) HTTP
8 4 (6.061%) VPN
8 4 (6.061%) Internet
9 3 (4.545%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (4.545%) SMTP
9 3 (4.545%) Ethernet
10 2 (3.030%) Wireless
10 2 (3.030%) IPsec
10 2 (3.030%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (3.030%) Wireshark
10 2 (3.030%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) MySQL
2 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.061%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.061%) Redis
4 2 (3.030%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.030%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.515%) Big Data
5 1 (1.515%) HBase
5 1 (1.515%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.515%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.515%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 19 (28.79%) JIRA
2 7 (10.61%) Git (software)
3 6 (9.091%) Subversion
3 6 (9.091%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.061%) GitHub
5 1 (1.515%) Maven
General
1 7 (10.61%) Telecoms
2 5 (7.576%) Law
3 4 (6.061%) Music
4 3 (4.545%) Finance
5 2 (3.030%) Music Industry
6 1 (1.515%) Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (65.15%) Systems Administrator
2 40 (60.61%) Administrator
3 17 (25.76%) Linux Administrator
4 13 (19.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 7 (10.61%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.576%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (7.576%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.061%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 4 (6.061%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.030%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.030%) Development Engineer
9 2 (3.030%) Operations Engineer
10 1 (1.515%) Junior
10 1 (1.515%) Graduate
10 1 (1.515%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
10 1 (1.515%) Senior UNIX Administrator
10 1 (1.515%) 2nd Line Support
10 1 (1.515%) UNIX Engineer
10 1 (1.515%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.576%) Open Source
1 5 (7.576%) Replication
2 4 (6.061%) Clustering
2 4 (6.061%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.061%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.545%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.545%) IaaS
3 3 (4.545%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.515%) New Media
4 1 (1.515%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.515%) SaaS
4 1 (1.515%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.515%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (56.06%) Windows
3 31 (46.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (40.91%) Ubuntu
5 24 (36.36%) Solaris
6 15 (22.73%) CentOS
7 14 (21.21%) UNIX
8 4 (6.061%) SUSE
9 3 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (3.030%) OpenBSD
10 2 (3.030%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.030%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.515%) AIX
11 1 (1.515%) FreeBSD
11 1 (1.515%) Windows XP
11 1 (1.515%) Fedora
11 1 (1.515%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) Configuration Management
2 6 (9.091%) Load Balancing
3 5 (7.576%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (7.576%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (4.545%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (4.545%) TDD
4 3 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (3.030%) E-Commerce
5 2 (3.030%) Network Management
6 1 (1.515%) Video Analytics
6 1 (1.515%) Analytics
6 1 (1.515%) Project Management
6 1 (1.515%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (1.515%) Network Design
6 1 (1.515%) Data Analysis
6 1 (1.515%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.76%) Bash shell
2 16 (24.24%) Python
2 16 (24.24%) Perl
3 9 (13.64%) SQL
3 9 (13.64%) Ruby
4 8 (12.12%) PHP
4 8 (12.12%) Java
5 4 (6.061%) AWK
6 3 (4.545%) sed
6 3 (4.545%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.030%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.515%) C-shell
8 1 (1.515%) C
8 1 (1.515%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.515%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.515%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 4 (6.061%) RHCE
3 2 (3.030%) MCITP
3 2 (3.030%) LPIC
3 2 (3.030%) MCSE
3 2 (3.030%) MCP
3 2 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.515%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 24 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (33.33%) vSphere
4 7 (10.61%) Xen
5 5 (7.576%) NFS
6 4 (6.061%) Samba
7 3 (4.545%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.030%) XenServer
9 1 (1.515%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 27 (40.91%) Puppet
2 8 (12.12%) Nagios
3 3 (4.545%) Zenoss
4 2 (3.030%) Plesk
4 2 (3.030%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (1.515%) CFEngine
5 1 (1.515%) Cacti
5 1 (1.515%) Ganglia
5 1 (1.515%) SCOM
Vendors
1 40 (60.61%) Red Hat
2 29 (43.94%) VMware
3 13 (19.70%) Atlassian
4 5 (7.576%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.545%) Percona
5 3 (4.545%) Cisco
6 2 (3.030%) Oracle
6 2 (3.030%) Sun
7 1 (1.515%) Joyent
7 1 (1.515%) Vertica
7 1 (1.515%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.515%) NetApp
7 1 (1.515%) Reuters
7 1 (1.515%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.515%) NYFIX
7 1 (1.515%) EasyScreen
7 1 (1.515%) EccoWare
7 1 (1.515%) CQG
7 1 (1.515%) Fidessa
7 1 (1.515%) HP
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