The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Debian over the 3 months to 22 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 241 239 252
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +13
Permanent jobs citing Debian 24 35 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.289% 0.395% 0.139%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.942% 1.319% 0.493%
Number of salaries quoted 15 34 13
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £34,300 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Operating Systems
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2548 2654 2638
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 30.72% 29.94% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2189 2177 2214
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Debian
England

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Debian across the East of England region.

East of England Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Essex +24 6 - -
Cambridgeshire -5 6 £40,500 -10.00%
Suffolk -14 5 £40,000 +14.28%
Bedfordshire -7 4 £48,500 +86.53%
Hertfordshire +5 3 £45,000 +20.00%
Debian
England

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 98 (100.00%) Linux
2 68 (69.39%) Red Hat
3 54 (55.10%) Apache
4 44 (44.90%) Perl
5 40 (40.82%) TCP/IP
6 38 (38.78%) Python
6 38 (38.78%) Ubuntu
7 37 (37.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 35 (35.71%) CentOS
9 34 (34.69%) Bash shell
10 31 (31.63%) MySQL
11 27 (27.55%) VMware
12 26 (26.53%) UNIX
13 25 (25.51%) DNS
14 22 (22.45%) Cisco
15 20 (20.41%) Internet
16 19 (19.39%) Windows
16 19 (19.39%) Degree
17 17 (17.35%) vSphere
17 17 (17.35%) SaaS
17 17 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
18 16 (16.33%) PHP
18 16 (16.33%) Firewall
19 15 (15.31%) DHCP
20 14 (14.29%) ITIL
20 14 (14.29%) Problem Management
21 13 (13.27%) LAMP
21 13 (13.27%) Ethernet
21 13 (13.27%) SAN
21 13 (13.27%) RHCE

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (13.27%) LAMP
2 3 (3.061%) Middleware
3 1 (1.020%) OpenMP
Application Platforms
1 54 (55.10%) Apache
2 10 (10.20%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.061%) SAS
4 2 (2.041%) IIS
5 1 (1.020%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (5.102%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 40 (40.82%) TCP/IP
2 25 (25.51%) DNS
3 20 (20.41%) Internet
4 16 (16.33%) Firewall
5 15 (15.31%) DHCP
6 13 (13.27%) Ethernet
6 13 (13.27%) SAN
7 9 (9.184%) VLAN
8 8 (8.163%) SSH
9 7 (7.143%) LAN
10 6 (6.122%) SMTP
10 6 (6.122%) Broadband
10 6 (6.122%) Network Security
11 5 (5.102%) iSCSI
12 3 (3.061%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (3.061%) IPv6
13 2 (2.041%) WAN
13 2 (2.041%) SNMP
13 2 (2.041%) HTTP
13 2 (2.041%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.63%) MySQL
2 2 (2.041%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.020%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (6.122%) Subversion
General
1 4 (4.082%) Marketing
2 2 (2.041%) Games
3 1 (1.020%) Finance
Job Titles
1 59 (60.20%) Systems Administrator
1 59 (60.20%) Administrator
2 47 (47.96%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 47 (47.96%) Linux Administrator
3 17 (17.35%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (17.35%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 12 (12.24%) Linux Specialist
5 7 (7.143%) Support Analyst
5 7 (7.143%) Linux Support
5 7 (7.143%) Analyst
6 6 (6.122%) Storage Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.061%) C Developer
7 3 (3.061%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 3 (3.061%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.061%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.061%) Developer
8 2 (2.041%) Architect
8 2 (2.041%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (2.041%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) SaaS
2 9 (9.184%) Open Source
3 6 (6.122%) Statistics
4 5 (5.102%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.041%) Online Games
5 2 (2.041%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.020%) EqualLogic
6 1 (1.020%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 98 (100.00%) Linux
2 38 (38.78%) Ubuntu
3 37 (37.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 35 (35.71%) CentOS
5 26 (26.53%) UNIX
6 19 (19.39%) Windows
7 11 (11.22%) SUSE
8 4 (4.082%) FreeBSD
8 4 (4.082%) OpenBSD
9 1 (1.020%) Windows NT
9 1 (1.020%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (14.29%) ITIL
1 14 (14.29%) Problem Management
2 10 (10.20%) Change Management
3 8 (8.163%) Parallel Computing
4 7 (7.143%) Change Control
4 7 (7.143%) Load Balancing
5 4 (4.082%) Benchmarking
5 4 (4.082%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (2.041%) Information Security
6 2 (2.041%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.020%) Parallel Programming
7 1 (1.020%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (1.020%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.020%) Incident Management
7 1 (1.020%) Service Management
7 1 (1.020%) Process Management
7 1 (1.020%) CAD
7 1 (1.020%) Configuration Management
7 1 (1.020%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 44 (44.90%) Perl
2 38 (38.78%) Python
3 34 (34.69%) Bash shell
4 16 (16.33%) PHP
5 11 (11.22%) C
6 7 (7.143%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.122%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.122%) Korn
8 4 (4.082%) Ruby
9 3 (3.061%) PHP5
9 3 (3.061%) Objective-C
10 2 (2.041%) C++
10 2 (2.041%) SQL
11 1 (1.020%) C-shell
11 1 (1.020%) AWK
11 1 (1.020%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) Degree
2 13 (13.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.102%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (17.35%) vSphere
1 17 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.20%) Postfix
3 8 (8.163%) NFS
3 8 (8.163%) VMware ESX
4 7 (7.143%) Samba
5 3 (3.061%) Xen
6 2 (2.041%) Nmap
7 1 (1.020%) Sendmail
7 1 (1.020%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.020%) Squid
7 1 (1.020%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.184%) Puppet
1 9 (9.184%) Nagios
2 6 (6.122%) Munin
3 2 (2.041%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.020%) Cacti
4 1 (1.020%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 68 (69.39%) Red Hat
2 27 (27.55%) VMware
3 22 (22.45%) Cisco
4 10 (10.20%) Oracle
5 7 (7.143%) F5
5 7 (7.143%) Intel
5 7 (7.143%) CheckPoint
6 6 (6.122%) Sun
7 2 (2.041%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.041%) NetApp
7 2 (2.041%) Juniper
7 2 (2.041%) HP
7 2 (2.041%) Dell
8 1 (1.020%) Percona
8 1 (1.020%) Twitter
8 1 (1.020%) IBM
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