The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support role in IT jobs advertised for the England 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 21 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 730 730 711
Rank change year-on-year
0 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 117 126 151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.115% 0.111% 0.131%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.122% 0.117% 0.139%
Number of salaries quoted 96 109 128
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £49,100
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +9.37%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95965 107840 108961
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.44% 94.79% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 80782 93186 92537
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Support
UK

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Linux Support Salary Trend

Linux Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Support across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Linux Support Salary Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London +12 43 £48,000 +37.14%
South East +1 38 £35,000 -
North West -11 12 £45,000 +50.00%
South West +8 11 £42,000 +76.84%
East of England +5 7 £35,000 +2.94%
Yorkshire - 4 £40,000 -
East Midlands -3 1 £35,000 -15.66%
North East - 1 - -
Linux Support
UK

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 257 (100.00%) Linux
2 134 (52.14%) Windows
3 117 (45.53%) Red Hat
4 83 (32.30%) UNIX
5 79 (30.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (20.62%) Apache
6 53 (20.62%) Perl
7 52 (20.23%) DNS
8 50 (19.46%) Python
9 49 (19.07%) CentOS
10 46 (17.90%) Bash shell
10 46 (17.90%) TCP/IP
11 45 (17.51%) Ubuntu
12 44 (17.12%) VMware
12 44 (17.12%) MySQL
13 40 (15.56%) ITIL
14 38 (14.79%) Oracle
15 37 (14.40%) Cisco
16 36 (14.01%) Windows Server 2008
17 34 (13.23%) Shell Script
18 33 (12.84%) Firewall
19 32 (12.45%) Debian
20 31 (12.06%) Tomcat
21 30 (11.67%) Active Directory
22 29 (11.28%) Finance
23 28 (10.89%) Degree
23 28 (10.89%) SAN
24 26 (10.12%) HTTP
25 25 (9.728%) DHCP
25 25 (9.728%) Solaris

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 18 (7.004%) Middleware
2 16 (6.226%) LAMP
3 11 (4.280%) WebSphere
4 9 (3.502%) J2EE
5 8 (3.113%) .NET
5 8 (3.113%) Java EE
6 6 (2.335%) ASP.NET
6 6 (2.335%) Web Services
6 6 (2.335%) XML
7 4 (1.556%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.167%) JMX
8 3 (1.167%) JMS
9 1 (0.389%) JRules
9 1 (0.389%) X-Windows
9 1 (0.389%) JSP
9 1 (0.389%) ASP
9 1 (0.389%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.389%) WebCenter
9 1 (0.389%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 53 (20.62%) Apache
2 31 (12.06%) Tomcat
3 17 (6.615%) MS Exchange
4 13 (5.058%) IIS
5 8 (3.113%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (2.724%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.556%) Alfresco
8 3 (1.167%) CMS
8 3 (1.167%) nginx
8 3 (1.167%) GlassFish
8 3 (1.167%) Drupal
8 3 (1.167%) WordPress
9 2 (0.778%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.778%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.778%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.389%) Escenic
10 1 (0.389%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (3.113%) MS Office
2 3 (1.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.389%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 52 (20.23%) DNS
2 46 (17.90%) TCP/IP
3 33 (12.84%) Firewall
4 28 (10.89%) SAN
5 26 (10.12%) HTTP
6 25 (9.728%) DHCP
7 20 (7.782%) LDAP
8 19 (7.393%) SMTP
9 18 (7.004%) Internet
10 15 (5.837%) VPN
11 10 (3.891%) FTP
11 10 (3.891%) LAN
11 10 (3.891%) WAN
12 9 (3.502%) SNMP
13 8 (3.113%) VoIP
14 7 (2.724%) NAS
15 5 (1.946%) Wireless
15 5 (1.946%) TELNET
15 5 (1.946%) MPLS
15 5 (1.946%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (17.12%) MySQL
2 15 (5.837%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.335%) RDBMS
3 6 (2.335%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.946%) DB2
5 4 (1.556%) Big Data
5 4 (1.556%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (1.167%) Text Mining
6 3 (1.167%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (1.167%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.389%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.389%) Ingres
General
1 29 (11.28%) Finance
2 7 (2.724%) Telecoms
3 6 (2.335%) Banking
4 5 (1.946%) Games
5 2 (0.778%) Retail
6 1 (0.389%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.389%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.389%) French Language
6 1 (0.389%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.837%) Computer Science
2 9 (3.502%) Open Source
3 7 (2.724%) Clustering
3 7 (2.724%) SaaS
4 6 (2.335%) Client/Server
5 5 (1.946%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.946%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.946%) Online Games
6 4 (1.556%) Wiki
6 4 (1.556%) NHS
6 4 (1.556%) CLARiiON
6 4 (1.556%) EMC Centera
7 3 (1.167%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.167%) Handset
7 3 (1.167%) Social Media
7 3 (1.167%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.778%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.778%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.389%) E-Learning
9 1 (0.389%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 257 (100.00%) Linux
2 134 (52.14%) Windows
3 83 (32.30%) UNIX
4 79 (30.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (19.07%) CentOS
6 45 (17.51%) Ubuntu
7 36 (14.01%) Windows Server 2008
8 32 (12.45%) Debian
9 25 (9.728%) Solaris
10 22 (8.560%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (6.615%) SUSE
11 17 (6.615%) Windows 7
12 13 (5.058%) Mac OS X
13 12 (4.669%) AIX
14 8 (3.113%) Windows 8
15 7 (2.724%) Fedora
15 7 (2.724%) Mac OS
16 6 (2.335%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (1.946%) Windows XP
17 5 (1.946%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (15.56%) ITIL
2 24 (9.339%) Load Balancing
3 17 (6.615%) E-Commerce
4 13 (5.058%) Service Delivery
5 9 (3.502%) Problem Management
6 7 (2.724%) Content Management
7 6 (2.335%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (1.946%) Project Planning
8 5 (1.946%) Statistical Analysis
8 5 (1.946%) Information Security
8 5 (1.946%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (1.946%) High Availability
9 4 (1.556%) Budget Control
9 4 (1.556%) Asset Management
10 3 (1.167%) Web Development
10 3 (1.167%) Information Security Management
10 3 (1.167%) Security Management
10 3 (1.167%) Service Management
10 3 (1.167%) Configuration Management
10 3 (1.167%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.62%) Perl
2 50 (19.46%) Python
3 46 (17.90%) Bash shell
4 34 (13.23%) Shell Script
5 24 (9.339%) PHP
6 21 (8.171%) Java
7 16 (6.226%) SQL
8 8 (3.113%) Ruby
9 5 (1.946%) AWK
9 5 (1.946%) C
10 4 (1.556%) Fortran
11 3 (1.167%) VB
11 3 (1.167%) sed
12 2 (0.778%) Korn
13 1 (0.389%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (10.89%) Degree
2 17 (6.615%) RHCE
3 12 (4.669%) Linux+ Certification
4 4 (1.556%) Postgraduate
5 3 (1.167%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.167%) CCNP
5 3 (1.167%) HND
5 3 (1.167%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.389%) RHCT
6 1 (0.389%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.669%) SLA
2 3 (1.167%) COBIT
2 3 (1.167%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.167%) QA
System Software
1 30 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.782%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (7.782%) vSphere
3 19 (7.393%) NFS
4 17 (6.615%) Samba
5 13 (5.058%) VMware ESX
5 13 (5.058%) Postfix
6 11 (4.280%) Sendmail
6 11 (4.280%) qmail
7 10 (3.891%) ISA Server
7 10 (3.891%) Squid
8 4 (1.556%) Varnish
9 2 (0.778%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.778%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 2 (0.778%) Nmap
10 1 (0.389%) Xen
10 1 (0.389%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.389%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.389%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 11 (4.280%) Nagios
1 11 (4.280%) Tivoli
2 7 (2.724%) Puppet
3 6 (2.335%) Ganglia
4 5 (1.946%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (1.946%) Cacti
4 5 (1.946%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 4 (1.556%) Plesk
5 4 (1.556%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (0.778%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 2 (0.778%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.778%) WSUS
7 1 (0.389%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.389%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.389%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.389%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 117 (45.53%) Red Hat
2 44 (17.12%) VMware
3 38 (14.79%) Oracle
4 37 (14.40%) Cisco
5 22 (8.560%) Microsoft
6 18 (7.004%) IBM
7 17 (6.615%) Juniper
8 15 (5.837%) F5
9 12 (4.669%) CheckPoint
10 11 (4.280%) JBoss
11 9 (3.502%) EMC
12 7 (2.724%) Veritas
12 7 (2.724%) Apple
13 6 (2.335%) HP
14 5 (1.946%) Intel
14 5 (1.946%) NetApp
15 4 (1.556%) Citrix
15 4 (1.556%) Brocade
16 3 (1.167%) Remedy
16 3 (1.167%) Foundry
Surrey
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