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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 23 21 33
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 13 27 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 6.047% 9.310% 3.264%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 38.03% 18.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11 27 11
Average salary £33,000 £27,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -12.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £26,200 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £39,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Derby
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
52 71 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 24.19% 24.48% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 49 64 51
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -17.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £20,000 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Derbyshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby 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 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (35.29%) UNIX
3 6 (35.29%) LAN
3 6 (35.29%) WAN
3 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
3 6 (35.29%) VPN
3 6 (35.29%) C++
4 5 (29.41%) MFC
4 5 (29.41%) C
4 5 (29.41%) SAS
4 5 (29.41%) SNMP
4 5 (29.41%) SSL
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 5 (29.41%) Embedded C
5 4 (23.53%) Middleware
5 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio
5 4 (23.53%) DNS
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) VC++
5 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
5 4 (23.53%) iSCSI
6 3 (17.65%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (17.65%) MCDST
6 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (17.65%) VLAN
6 3 (17.65%) Clustering

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby 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 5 (29.41%) MFC
2 4 (23.53%) Middleware
3 3 (17.65%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) STL
4 2 (11.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
5 1 (5.882%) Ajax
5 1 (5.882%) CSS
5 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) SAS
2 1 (5.882%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.882%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (35.29%) LAN
2 6 (35.29%) WAN
2 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (35.29%) VPN
3 5 (29.41%) SNMP
3 5 (29.41%) SSL
4 4 (23.53%) DNS
4 4 (23.53%) iSCSI
5 3 (17.65%) VLAN
5 3 (17.65%) NAS
5 3 (17.65%) DHCP
5 3 (17.65%) SAN
6 1 (5.882%) Internet
6 1 (5.882%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (17.65%) Big Data
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2012
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.882%) Bugzilla
General
1 1 (5.882%) Retail
1 1 (5.882%) Multimedia
1 1 (5.882%) Electronics
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.882%) Legal
1 1 (5.882%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server DBA
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) SQL DBA
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) DBA
2 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Firmware
3 1 (5.882%) Photography
3 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.882%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) UNIX
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (17.65%) Solaris
5 1 (5.882%) Android
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 3 (17.65%) Information Security
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL V3
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL V2
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.882%) Performance Management
3 1 (5.882%) Test Strategy
3 1 (5.882%) Automation Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.882%) OO
3 1 (5.882%) Service Management
3 1 (5.882%) Change Management
3 1 (5.882%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) C++
2 5 (29.41%) C
2 5 (29.41%) Embedded C
3 4 (23.53%) VC++
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 1 (5.882%) Java
5 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.882%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) MCDST
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.882%) XenApp
2 1 (5.882%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Intel
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
4 1 (5.882%) Teradata
4 1 (5.882%) NetApp
4 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.882%) Citrix
4 1 (5.882%) IBM
Derby, Derbyshire
Person Specification VMware / Virtualisation / Cisco / CCNA / CCNP / Microsoft Windows Server / Netapp / (OnTap 8.12) / NCIE / NCDA / Linux / Red Hat / Citrix / Unified Comms Technology / Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Derby / Derbyshire...
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Salary: £42000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013