The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cornwall 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 Cornwall region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 2 6 2
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 10 11 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cornwall 24.39% 26.83% 30.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 90.91% 68.75% 84.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 6
Average salary £27,500 £31,250 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% +38.88%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Cornwall
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
11 16 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cornwall 26.83% 39.02% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 9
Average salary £22,500 £30,000 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +39.53%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
South West

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cornwall 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 Cornwall region.

Cornwall Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Cornwall 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 Cornwall region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bodmin - 2 £21,000 -
Linux
South West

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cornwall 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 20 (74.07%) Windows
2 11 (40.74%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) Java
3 9 (33.33%) MS Office
3 9 (33.33%) UNIX
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (29.63%) IBM
4 8 (29.63%) Middleware
4 8 (29.63%) Finance
4 8 (29.63%) Games
4 8 (29.63%) IBM HTTP Server
4 8 (29.63%) FTP
4 8 (29.63%) HTTP
4 8 (29.63%) AIX
4 8 (29.63%) Solaris
4 8 (29.63%) Tomcat
4 8 (29.63%) MQSeries
4 8 (29.63%) JDBC
4 8 (29.63%) Oracle
4 8 (29.63%) DB2
4 8 (29.63%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (29.63%) IIS
4 8 (29.63%) J2EE
4 8 (29.63%) Perl
4 8 (29.63%) Retail
4 8 (29.63%) WebSphere
4 8 (29.63%) Degree
4 8 (29.63%) Bash shell
5 7 (25.93%) C++
5 7 (25.93%) Apache

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cornwall 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 8 (29.63%) Middleware
1 8 (29.63%) JDBC
1 8 (29.63%) J2EE
1 8 (29.63%) WebSphere
2 6 (22.22%) HTML
2 6 (22.22%) XML
3 4 (14.81%) CSS
3 4 (14.81%) Qt
4 3 (11.11%) Zend Framework
4 3 (11.11%) Ajax
4 3 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (3.704%) jQuery
5 1 (3.704%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 8 (29.63%) IBM HTTP Server
1 8 (29.63%) Tomcat
1 8 (29.63%) MQSeries
1 8 (29.63%) WebSphere Application Server
1 8 (29.63%) IIS
2 7 (25.93%) Apache
2 7 (25.93%) MS Exchange
3 3 (11.11%) Magento
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) FTP
1 8 (29.63%) HTTP
2 6 (22.22%) SAN
3 3 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) DB2
2 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (14.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
1 8 (29.63%) Games
1 8 (29.63%) Retail
2 4 (14.81%) Electronics
3 3 (11.11%) Music
4 1 (3.704%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
1 8 (29.63%) Support Analyst
1 8 (29.63%) Operations Analyst
1 8 (29.63%) Operations Support Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Junior C++ Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Junior
5 3 (11.11%) Senior C++ Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Junior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) C++ Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) C++ Software Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) IT Support
7 1 (3.704%) Embedded C Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) C Software Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Website Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Clustering
2 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.704%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.704%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) Windows
2 9 (33.33%) UNIX
3 8 (29.63%) AIX
3 8 (29.63%) Solaris
4 2 (7.407%) Windows XP
4 2 (7.407%) Windows Vista
5 1 (3.704%) Android
5 1 (3.704%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.704%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) OO
1 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
2 3 (11.11%) Time Management
2 3 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
2 3 (11.11%) MVC
2 3 (11.11%) Project Management
2 3 (11.11%) SEO
2 3 (11.11%) Web Design
2 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (3.704%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) Perl
3 8 (29.63%) Bash shell
4 7 (25.93%) C++
5 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.81%) PHP
5 4 (14.81%) C
5 4 (14.81%) Embedded C
5 4 (14.81%) Embedded C++
6 3 (11.11%) PHP5
7 1 (3.704%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) Kamailio
1 1 (3.704%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) IBM
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) Zend
3 3 (11.11%) Freescale
3 3 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (3.704%) Citrix
4 1 (3.704%) Cisco