The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support role in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Support in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 161 156 156
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 2 4 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.065% 0.121% 0.252%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.127% 0.262%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
Average salary £35,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.66% +3.75%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +9.37%
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2920 3149 3435
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 94.99% 94.91% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2504 2810 2954
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Support
England

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Support across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East Midlands Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Support across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Linux Support Salary Trend

Linux Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Nottinghamshire -5 2 £35,000 -7.89%
Leicestershire - 1 £35,000 -
Linux Support
England

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) AIX
4 1 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) SUSE
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (25.00%) Derivative
4 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) AIX
4 1 (25.00%) SUSE
4 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
East Midlands
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