The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 21 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank - 40 -
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 0 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon - 3.254% -
As % of the Operating Systems category - 12.79% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 0
Average salary - £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +9.58%
All Operating Systems
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
110 86 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 38.06% 25.44% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 98 82 64
Average salary £41,500 £39,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.41% -8.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
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 Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Cacti
2 2 (66.67%) Zenoss
2 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) LAMP
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) CFEngine
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 2 (66.67%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cacti
1 2 (66.67%) Zenoss
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) VMware