The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Derbyshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 36 26 42
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 18 36 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 4.265% 8.000% 3.364%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.35% 31.58% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16 33 18
Average salary £35,000 £28,500 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -21.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £27,100 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,750 £47,500 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Derbyshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
71 114 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 16.82% 25.33% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 64 103 88
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -12.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,500 £19,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Derby -8 11 £34,500 +25.45%
Alfreton - 1 £29,500 -
Chesterfield - 1 £24,000 -
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 21 (75.00%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) UNIX
3 9 (32.14%) ITIL
3 9 (32.14%) LAN
3 9 (32.14%) WAN
3 9 (32.14%) VPN
3 9 (32.14%) DNS
4 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 6 (21.43%) SAN
5 6 (21.43%) NetApp
5 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
5 6 (21.43%) VMware
6 5 (17.86%) Firewall
6 5 (17.86%) Solaris
6 5 (17.86%) MS Office
6 5 (17.86%) Internet
6 5 (17.86%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (14.29%) NAS
7 4 (14.29%) Degree
7 4 (14.29%) Terminal Services
7 4 (14.29%) HP
7 4 (14.29%) Citrix
7 4 (14.29%) SSL
7 4 (14.29%) Cisco
7 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
7 4 (14.29%) C++
7 4 (14.29%) SQL

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 4 (14.29%) Middleware
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) MFC
3 2 (7.143%) CSS
3 2 (7.143%) STL
3 2 (7.143%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (7.143%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (3.571%) HTML
4 1 (3.571%) LAMP
4 1 (3.571%) Ajax
4 1 (3.571%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) IIS
1 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
1 3 (10.71%) SAS
2 2 (7.143%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.571%) Lync
3 1 (3.571%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
2 5 (17.86%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) LAN
1 9 (32.14%) WAN
1 9 (32.14%) VPN
1 9 (32.14%) DNS
2 6 (21.43%) SAN
3 5 (17.86%) Firewall
3 5 (17.86%) Internet
3 5 (17.86%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (14.29%) SSL
4 4 (14.29%) NAS
5 3 (10.71%) VLAN
5 3 (10.71%) SNMP
5 3 (10.71%) DHCP
6 2 (7.143%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.571%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.571%) Unified Communications
7 1 (3.571%) IMAP
7 1 (3.571%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (3.571%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.71%) RDBMS
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (10.71%) Big Data
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.571%) Bugzilla
2 1 (3.571%) Subversion
2 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.571%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (7.143%) Publishing
2 1 (3.571%) Retail
2 1 (3.571%) Multimedia
2 1 (3.571%) Electronics
2 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.571%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server DBA
2 3 (10.71%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) SQL DBA
2 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) DBA
2 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) IT Support
2 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (7.143%) Data Manager
3 2 (7.143%) Data Centre Manager
3 2 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Administrator
4 1 (3.571%) Technical Support
4 1 (3.571%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Clustering
1 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.143%) Firmware
3 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.571%) SecurID
3 1 (3.571%) Photography
3 1 (3.571%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.571%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (75.00%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) UNIX
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (17.86%) Solaris
5 3 (10.71%) Windows 2000
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.143%) Mac OS
6 2 (7.143%) AIX
7 1 (3.571%) HPUX
7 1 (3.571%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.571%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) ITIL
2 4 (14.29%) Information Security
3 3 (10.71%) Performance Management
3 3 (10.71%) ITIL V3
3 3 (10.71%) ITIL V2
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (7.143%) Change Management
4 2 (7.143%) Performance Testing
5 1 (3.571%) Risk Management
5 1 (3.571%) Validation
5 1 (3.571%) Automation Testing
5 1 (3.571%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.571%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.571%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.571%) OO
5 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.571%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) C++
1 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) VC++
2 3 (10.71%) Embedded C
2 3 (10.71%) C
3 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.571%) Java
3 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.571%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) MCDST
3 2 (7.143%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.571%) CCVP
4 1 (3.571%) CCNP
4 1 (3.571%) CCNA
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) Terminal Services
3 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.143%) XenApp
4 1 (3.571%) vSphere
4 1 (3.571%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) DameWare
1 2 (7.143%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (3.571%) Puppet
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) NetApp
2 6 (21.43%) VMware
3 4 (14.29%) HP
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) Citrix
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 3 (10.71%) Intel
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.143%) Juniper
5 2 (7.143%) IBM
5 2 (7.143%) Remedy
5 2 (7.143%) Bomgar
6 1 (3.571%) Dell
6 1 (3.571%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.571%) Nokia
6 1 (3.571%) Teradata
6 1 (3.571%) ProCurve
6 1 (3.571%) Foundry
Derby, Derbyshire
Software Engineer, Software Developer, C/C++, C++, VC++, Visual C++, MFC, Visual Studio, Windows, Linux, Embedded C, RTOS, TCP/IP, UDP... Visual Studio and using MFC (Microsoft Foundation...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013