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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the East Sussex region.

 Linux
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank32618
Rank change year-on-year
Up+23Down-8
Matching permanent IT job ads632468
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex21.07 %6.723 %8.673 %
As % of the Operating Systems category70.00 %33.80 %33.33 %
Salaries quoted622258
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£22,400
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£44,750£45,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
East Sussex IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
East Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
9071204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex30.10 %19.89 %26.02 %
Salaries quoted8359171
Average salary£36,000£35,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.850 %+16.66 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£19,500£20,150
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£47,500£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-
Linux South EastLinux
South East

Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the East Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East Sussex Linux Demand Trend

Linux
Salary Trend

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

East Sussex Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BrightonUp+2459£35,000-12.50 %
HoveUp+31£19,000-33.91 %
LewesNo change01£40,000+23.07 %
Linux South EastLinux
South East

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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.

159 (38.06 %)TCP/IP
254 (34.84 %)C++
349 (31.61 %)MySQL
446 (29.68 %)HTTP
544 (28.39 %)Red Hat
544 (28.39 %)Red Hat Linux
642 (27.10 %)VoIP
740 (25.81 %)PHP
839 (25.16 %)Incident Management
936 (23.23 %)DHCP
1035 (22.58 %)SNMP
1035 (22.58 %)JBoss
1035 (22.58 %)Clustering
1133 (21.29 %)AJAX
1133 (21.29 %)JIRA
1232 (20.65 %)Agile Software Development
1331 (20.00 %)XML
1331 (20.00 %)CSS
1331 (20.00 %)Load Testing
1429 (18.71 %)C
1429 (18.71 %)Apache
1528 (18.06 %)SQL
1626 (16.77 %)C#
1626 (16.77 %)JavaScript
1725 (16.13 %)Scrum
1823 (14.84 %)Subversion
1823 (14.84 %)HTML
1922 (14.19 %)Web Development
1922 (14.19 %)Zend
2019 (12.26 %)Web Services

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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.

East Sussex IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
133 (21.29 %)AJAX
231 (20.00 %)XML
231 (20.00 %)CSS
323 (14.84 %)HTML
419 (12.26 %)Web Services
518 (11.61 %)STL
518 (11.61 %)XHTML
617 (10.97 %)Django
715 (9.677 %)LAMP
715 (9.677 %)jQuery
812 (7.742 %)Ext JS
812 (7.742 %)GWT
910 (6.452 %)Ruby on Rails
910 (6.452 %)Zend Framework
109 (5.806 %)XSLT
109 (5.806 %)DHTML
118 (5.161 %)J2EE
118 (5.161 %)SOAP
118 (5.161 %)Google Maps API
126 (3.871 %)Adobe Flex
East Sussex IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
129 (18.71 %)Apache
214 (9.032 %)CMS
37 (4.516 %)TYPO3
44 (2.581 %)Tomcat
East Sussex IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (0.645 %)MS Project
East Sussex IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
159 (38.06 %)TCP/IP
246 (29.68 %)HTTP
342 (27.10 %)VoIP
436 (23.23 %)DHCP
535 (22.58 %)SNMP
67 (4.516 %)Wireshark
67 (4.516 %)RTP
67 (4.516 %)Intranet
67 (4.516 %)LDAP
74 (2.581 %)FTP
74 (2.581 %)DNS
83 (1.935 %)Ethernet
83 (1.935 %)Internet
92 (1.290 %)Network Security
101 (0.645 %)IMAP
101 (0.645 %)WAN
101 (0.645 %)SMTP
101 (0.645 %)LAN
101 (0.645 %)VPN
101 (0.645 %)Firewall
East Sussex IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
149 (31.61 %)MySQL
East Sussex IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
133 (21.29 %)JIRA
223 (14.84 %)Subversion
East Sussex IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
111 (7.097 %)Music
25 (3.226 %)Telecoms
34 (2.581 %)Electronics
34 (2.581 %)Education
42 (1.290 %)Music Industry
42 (1.290 %)Marketing
51 (0.645 %)Advertising
51 (0.645 %)Finance
East Sussex IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
167 (43.23 %)Developer
229 (18.71 %)PHP Developer
229 (18.71 %)Senior Developer
325 (16.13 %)Software Developer
325 (16.13 %)Senior Software Developer
420 (12.90 %)Software Engineer
519 (12.26 %)C++ Developer
519 (12.26 %)Embedded Software Engineer
519 (12.26 %)C++ Software Developer
519 (12.26 %)Senior C++ Developer
519 (12.26 %)Linux Engineer
617 (10.97 %)Linux Systems Administrator
617 (10.97 %)Linux Administrator
617 (10.97 %)Administrator
617 (10.97 %)Web Developer
617 (10.97 %)Systems Administrator
715 (9.677 %)Support Engineer
814 (9.032 %)C++ Software Engineer
913 (8.387 %)Linux Support
1011 (7.097 %)Research Engineer
East Sussex IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
135 (22.58 %)Clustering
211 (7.097 %)Computer Science
39 (5.806 %)Blog
48 (5.161 %)Open Source
52 (1.290 %)Amazon AWS
52 (1.290 %)Cloud Computing
61 (0.645 %)Client/Server
East Sussex IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
144 (28.39 %)Red Hat Linux
219 (12.26 %)UNIX
318 (11.61 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
410 (6.452 %)Windows
56 (3.871 %)Windows CE
56 (3.871 %)Embedded Linux
65 (3.226 %)Debian
72 (1.290 %)Ubuntu
81 (0.645 %)CentOS
81 (0.645 %)Windows XP
East Sussex IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
139 (25.16 %)Incident Management
232 (20.65 %)Agile Software Development
331 (20.00 %)Load Testing
425 (16.13 %)Scrum
522 (14.19 %)Web Development
616 (10.32 %)OOP
713 (8.387 %)Automated Testing
812 (7.742 %)OO
911 (7.097 %)OOD
109 (5.806 %)Unit Testing
118 (5.161 %)MVC
118 (5.161 %)E-Commerce
127 (4.516 %)Continuous Integration
136 (3.871 %)Integration Testing
136 (3.871 %)Software Architecture
145 (3.226 %)Software Engineering
154 (2.581 %)Refactoring
162 (1.290 %)B2C
162 (1.290 %)Project Management
171 (0.645 %)3D Modelling
East Sussex IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
154 (34.84 %)C++
240 (25.81 %)PHP
329 (18.71 %)C
428 (18.06 %)SQL
526 (16.77 %)C#
526 (16.77 %)JavaScript
614 (9.032 %)Python
713 (8.387 %)Ruby
812 (7.742 %)Java
812 (7.742 %)Perl
911 (7.097 %)PHP5
109 (5.806 %)Bash shell
118 (5.161 %)VB
123 (1.935 %)Embedded C
132 (1.290 %)Embedded C++
132 (1.290 %)Shell Script
East Sussex IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
114 (9.032 %)Degree
21 (0.645 %)CCNA
21 (0.645 %)Cisco Certification
East Sussex IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (5.161 %)QA
23 (1.935 %)ISO9001
East Sussex IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (1.935 %)Active Directory
22 (1.290 %)Samba
East Sussex IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
111 (7.097 %)Nagios
28 (5.161 %)Munin
East Sussex IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
144 (28.39 %)Red Hat
235 (22.58 %)JBoss
322 (14.19 %)Zend
48 (5.161 %)Google
57 (4.516 %)NetScout
62 (1.290 %)Microsoft