The first 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 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 of the Operating Systems category for the East Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 15 7 24
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 151 227 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 16.54% 23.57% 9.897%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.66% 58.21% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 145 219 63
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £27,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
East Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
241 390 194
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 26.40% 40.50% 28.66%
Number of salaries quoted 231 371 189
Average salary £34,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.33% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £27,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
South East

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 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
Brighton -8 135 £35,000 -6.66%
Eastbourne - 13 £35,000 -
Lewes - 1 £32,500 -
Linux
South East

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 160 (52.81%) Windows
2 155 (51.16%) MySQL
3 110 (36.30%) JavaScript
4 102 (33.66%) CSS
5 99 (32.67%) HTML
6 92 (30.36%) PHP
7 81 (26.73%) SQL
8 80 (26.40%) Web Development
9 76 (25.08%) Degree
10 71 (23.43%) Ubuntu
11 70 (23.10%) jQuery
12 66 (21.78%) Python
13 60 (19.80%) Java
13 60 (19.80%) Windows Server 2008
14 59 (19.47%) SQL Server
15 51 (16.83%) VMware
16 47 (15.51%) Computer Science
16 47 (15.51%) CentOS
17 45 (14.85%) VMware ESXi
18 43 (14.19%) Apache
19 42 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
20 40 (13.20%) Agile Software Development
20 40 (13.20%) Social Media
20 40 (13.20%) Git (software)
21 39 (12.87%) C++
22 37 (12.21%) LAMP
23 34 (11.22%) C#
23 34 (11.22%) .NET
24 32 (10.56%) VoIP
24 32 (10.56%) Zend

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 102 (33.66%) CSS
2 99 (32.67%) HTML
3 70 (23.10%) jQuery
4 37 (12.21%) LAMP
5 34 (11.22%) .NET
6 29 (9.571%) HTML5
7 22 (7.261%) Django
8 20 (6.601%) Node.js
9 17 (5.611%) XML
10 16 (5.281%) Spring
11 12 (3.960%) ASP.NET
12 10 (3.300%) Zend Framework
12 10 (3.300%) Symfony
12 10 (3.300%) Backbone.js
13 9 (2.970%) SOAP
13 9 (2.970%) J2EE
13 9 (2.970%) Hibernate
14 8 (2.640%) WAMP
14 8 (2.640%) CSS3
15 7 (2.310%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 43 (14.19%) Apache
2 13 (4.290%) CMS
3 10 (3.300%) Magento
4 8 (2.640%) WordPress
4 8 (2.640%) IIS
5 7 (2.310%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.980%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.320%) Drupal
8 3 (0.990%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.330%) MS Exchange
9 1 (0.330%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.330%) Moodle
9 1 (0.330%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 31 (10.23%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.320%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.330%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.56%) VoIP
2 22 (7.261%) LDAP
3 20 (6.601%) Asterisk PBX
4 19 (6.271%) DNS
5 14 (4.620%) HTTP
6 12 (3.960%) Firewall
6 12 (3.960%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.960%) VPN
7 11 (3.630%) Internet
8 9 (2.970%) SSH
9 7 (2.310%) FTP
10 6 (1.980%) Network Security
11 4 (1.320%) DHCP
11 4 (1.320%) LAN
11 4 (1.320%) WAN
12 2 (0.660%) Gigabit Ethernet
12 2 (0.660%) SMTP
12 2 (0.660%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.660%) BGP
13 1 (0.330%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (51.16%) MySQL
2 59 (19.47%) SQL Server
3 42 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.970%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.980%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.650%) Redis
7 4 (1.320%) SQLite
8 3 (0.990%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.990%) HBase
9 2 (0.660%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (0.660%) SQL Server 2005
10 1 (0.330%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 40 (13.20%) Git (software)
2 17 (5.611%) Subversion
3 10 (3.300%) WebDriver
3 10 (3.300%) Selenium
3 10 (3.300%) Cucumber
3 10 (3.300%) Eclipse
4 8 (2.640%) NetBeans
5 6 (1.980%) Jasmine
5 6 (1.980%) Mocha
6 5 (1.650%) JIRA
7 4 (1.320%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.320%) Maven
8 2 (0.660%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.660%) JUnit
9 1 (0.330%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.330%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.330%) PHPUnit
General
1 29 (9.571%) Marketing
2 9 (2.970%) Telecoms
3 7 (2.310%) Games
4 6 (1.980%) Manufacturing
4 6 (1.980%) Finance
4 6 (1.980%) Electronics
5 4 (1.320%) Retail
5 4 (1.320%) Back Office
6 2 (0.660%) German Language
7 1 (0.330%) Advertising
7 1 (0.330%) Legal
Job Titles
1 148 (48.84%) Developer
2 75 (24.75%) Administrator
3 69 (22.77%) Systems Administrator
4 66 (21.78%) Linux Administrator
5 58 (19.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 44 (14.52%) PHP Developer
7 31 (10.23%) Junior
8 25 (8.251%) Windows Administrator
8 25 (8.251%) Junior Developer
9 24 (7.921%) Java Developer
10 23 (7.591%) Windows Systems Administrator
11 22 (7.261%) Python Developer
11 22 (7.261%) Desktop Administrator
12 21 (6.931%) Graduate
12 21 (6.931%) Graduate Developer
13 16 (5.281%) PHP MySQL Developer
13 16 (5.281%) Senior Developer
13 16 (5.281%) Web Developer
14 15 (4.950%) Development Manager
15 14 (4.620%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.51%) Computer Science
2 40 (13.20%) Social Media
3 29 (9.571%) Digital Media
4 22 (7.261%) Mathematics
5 14 (4.620%) Clustering
6 11 (3.630%) Replication
6 11 (3.630%) EqualLogic
7 9 (2.970%) Open Source
8 7 (2.310%) NHS
9 4 (1.320%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.320%) Physics
10 3 (0.990%) BBC
10 3 (0.990%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.990%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.660%) iDTV
12 1 (0.330%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.330%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.330%) N-Tier
12 1 (0.330%) CCTV
12 1 (0.330%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 160 (52.81%) Windows
2 71 (23.43%) Ubuntu
3 60 (19.80%) Windows Server 2008
4 47 (15.51%) CentOS
5 31 (10.23%) Mac OS X
6 17 (5.611%) Windows 7
6 17 (5.611%) Mac OS X Server
7 15 (4.950%) UNIX
8 14 (4.620%) Mac OS
9 9 (2.970%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (2.310%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (1.650%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.650%) Android
12 4 (1.320%) Apple iOS
12 4 (1.320%) Debian
13 2 (0.660%) SUSE
13 2 (0.660%) Solaris
14 1 (0.330%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.330%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.330%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (26.40%) Web Development
2 40 (13.20%) Agile Software Development
3 31 (10.23%) MVC
4 30 (9.901%) OO
5 29 (9.571%) ITIL
6 27 (8.911%) Project Management
7 20 (6.601%) Scrum
7 20 (6.601%) OOP
8 16 (5.281%) Project Planning
9 14 (4.620%) Information Security Management
9 14 (4.620%) Security Management
9 14 (4.620%) Information Security
10 13 (4.290%) Digital Marketing
10 13 (4.290%) Product Marketing
11 12 (3.960%) TDD
11 12 (3.960%) E-Commerce
12 11 (3.630%) Operations Management
13 10 (3.300%) Test Scripting
13 10 (3.300%) Capacity Planning
13 10 (3.300%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 110 (36.30%) JavaScript
2 92 (30.36%) PHP
3 81 (26.73%) SQL
4 66 (21.78%) Python
5 60 (19.80%) Java
6 39 (12.87%) C++
7 34 (11.22%) C#
8 27 (8.911%) PHP5
9 20 (6.601%) C
10 15 (4.950%) Perl
11 13 (4.290%) Ruby
12 11 (3.630%) VB
13 8 (2.640%) Shell Script
14 7 (2.310%) Bash shell
15 4 (1.320%) Objective-C
15 4 (1.320%) XPath
15 4 (1.320%) XQuery
16 2 (0.660%) PowerHouse
17 1 (0.330%) ECMAScript
17 1 (0.330%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (25.08%) Degree
2 9 (2.970%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (1.980%) ISEB
4 5 (1.650%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.650%) MCSE
4 5 (1.650%) HNC
4 5 (1.650%) HND
4 5 (1.650%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.320%) MCDST
6 1 (0.330%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.330%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.330%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.571%) QA
2 14 (4.620%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.300%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.330%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 45 (14.85%) VMware ESXi
2 28 (9.241%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.921%) Samba
4 12 (3.960%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.320%) vSphere
6 3 (0.990%) VMware ESX
7 2 (0.660%) Varnish
7 2 (0.660%) Xen
8 1 (0.330%) NFS
8 1 (0.330%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.330%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 13 (4.290%) Puppet
2 11 (3.630%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.990%) Ganglia
4 2 (0.660%) Nagios
Vendors
1 51 (16.83%) VMware
2 32 (10.56%) Zend
3 31 (10.23%) Red Hat
4 11 (3.630%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.630%) FalconStor
4 11 (3.630%) Veeam
5 7 (2.310%) Google
6 5 (1.650%) Apple
7 4 (1.320%) LANDesk
7 4 (1.320%) Oracle
7 4 (1.320%) Adobe
7 4 (1.320%) Cisco
7 4 (1.320%) HP
7 4 (1.320%) Dell
8 1 (0.330%) IBM
8 1 (0.330%) EMC
8 1 (0.330%) Open Text
8 1 (0.330%) RedDot
8 1 (0.330%) Mitel
8 1 (0.330%) Facebook
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