England Linux Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Linux skills within the England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Faversham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Grantham Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kings Langley Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witham Woking Wokingham Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	21
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	11829	14901
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	6.230 %	6.112 %
As % of the category below	26.50 %	25.72 %
Salaries quoted	10044	11903
Average minimum salary	£38,410	£39,666
Average salary	£41,771	£43,488
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Average maximum salary	£45,132	£47,310
UK excluding London average salary	£36,382	£36,366
% change on same period last year	+0.04 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	44636	57925
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.51 %	23.76 %
Salaries quoted	37709	45916
Average minimum salary	£36,451	£37,911
Average salary	£39,447	£41,079
% change on same period last year	-3.97 %
Average maximum salary	£42,442	£44,247
UK excluding London average salary	£34,479	£34,989
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+3	5272	£49,000	-4.09 %
South East	-1	2586	£38,658	-1.94 %
East of England	+1	1141	£37,783	+8.60 %
Yorkshire	+8	750	£34,036	+5.38 %
South West	-10	623	£35,533	+1.05 %
North West	+2	563	£30,994	+0.43 %
West Midlands	-6	531	£33,344	+5.18 %
East Midlands	+45	235	£33,852	+3.58 %
Midlands	+10	76	£44,417	+16.44 %
North East	-10	61	£28,436	-14.95 %
South Coast	+8	7	£35,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 12158 (48.90 %) UNIX 2 9311 (37.45 %) Windows 3 6264 (25.19 %) Java 4 6083 (24.47 %) SQL 5 5528 (22.23 %) Oracle 6 4992 (20.08 %) Solaris 7 4463 (17.95 %) Finance 8 4406 (17.72 %) Perl 9 4338 (17.45 %) C++ 10 4268 (17.17 %) Apache 11 4266 (17.16 %) MySQL 12 3268 (13.14 %) PHP 13 3206 (12.89 %) Red Hat 14 3197 (12.86 %) SQL Server 15 3044 (12.24 %) C

16 2877 (11.57 %) Degree 17 2831 (11.39 %) XML 18 2820 (11.34 %) TCP/IP 19 2581 (10.38 %) Microsoft 20 2456 (9.878 %) JavaScript 21 2288 (9.202 %) HTML 22 2250 (9.050 %) Cisco 23 2225 (8.949 %) OO 24 2196 (8.832 %) J2EE 25 2171 (8.732 %) Internet 26 2163 (8.700 %) Firewall 27 1903 (7.654 %) Banking 28 1873 (7.533 %) Shell Script 29 1780 (7.159 %) DNS 30 1699 (6.833 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 2831 (11.39 %) XML 2 2288 (9.202 %) HTML 3 2196 (8.832 %) J2EE 4 1699 (6.833 %) CSS 5 1598 (6.427 %) .NET 6 1052 (4.231 %) AJAX 7 1049 (4.219 %) JSP 8 1026 (4.127 %) Spring 9 967 (3.889 %) LAMP 10 948 (3.813 %) WebServices 11 860 (3.459 %) XHTML 12 814 (3.274 %) WebSphere 13 708 (2.848 %) Hibernate 14 660 (2.655 %) JDBC 15 560 (2.252 %) Servlets 16 548 (2.204 %) JMS 17 545 (2.192 %) Middleware 18 501 (2.015 %) SOAP 19 456 (1.834 %) ASP 19 456 (1.834 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 4268 (17.17 %) Apache 2 1481 (5.957 %) Tomcat 3 1120 (4.505 %) MS Exchange 4 1072 (4.312 %) IIS 5 871 (3.503 %) WebLogic 6 844 (3.395 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 839 (3.374 %) JBoss 8 403 (1.621 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 295 (1.187 %) SharePoint 10 265 (1.066 %) CMS 11 203 (0.816 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 199 (0.800 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 194 (0.780 %) ColdFusion 14 157 (0.631 %) MQSeries 15 156 (0.627 %) Oracle Application Server 16 112 (0.450 %) Lotus Notes 17 92 (0.370 %) Lotus Domino 17 92 (0.370 %) Oracle 10gAS 18 88 (0.354 %) WebSphere MQ 19 63 (0.253 %) Rendezvous
Applications 1 1437 (5.780 %) MS Excel 2 577 (2.321 %) MS Office 3 211 (0.849 %) Photoshop 4 208 (0.837 %) MS Visio 5 100 (0.402 %) MATLAB 6 59 (0.237 %) MS Project 7 44 (0.177 %) ImageReady 8 23 (0.093 %) MS PowerPoint 9 19 (0.076 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 16 (0.064 %) SPSS 10 16 (0.064 %) Fireworks 11 13 (0.052 %) Spreadsheet 12 12 (0.048 %) Maya 13 9 (0.036 %) 3ds Max 14 8 (0.032 %) FrameMaker 15 7 (0.028 %) QuarkXPress 15 7 (0.028 %) Quicktime 16 5 (0.020 %) InfoPath 17 4 (0.016 %) S-PLUS 18 3 (0.012 %) Simulink	Business Applications 1 190 (0.764 %) Oracle Applications 2 145 (0.583 %) Oracle EBS 3 143 (0.575 %) Oracle 11i 4 87 (0.350 %) RMDS 5 26 (0.105 %) Dynamics CRM 6 24 (0.097 %) Summit 7 21 (0.084 %) Oracle Financials 8 18 (0.072 %) WebTrends 9 13 (0.052 %) Axapta 10 11 (0.044 %) SAP Business One 11 8 (0.032 %) SalesLogix 12 7 (0.028 %) Oracle CRM 12 7 (0.028 %) SoftGrid 12 7 (0.028 %) Google Analytics 13 6 (0.024 %) Remedy AR System 13 6 (0.024 %) Tesseract 14 5 (0.020 %) Bond Adapt 14 5 (0.020 %) Oracle ERP 14 5 (0.020 %) Microsoft CRM 14 5 (0.020 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 2820 (11.34 %) TCP/IP 2 2171 (8.732 %) Internet 3 2163 (8.700 %) Firewall 4 1780 (7.159 %) DNS 5 1631 (6.560 %) SAN 6 1098 (4.416 %) WAN 7 1092 (4.392 %) LAN 8 853 (3.431 %) VPN 9 494 (1.987 %) DHCP 10 483 (1.943 %) LDAP 11 469 (1.886 %) HTTP 12 414 (1.665 %) VoIP 13 406 (1.633 %) SMTP 14 369 (1.484 %) Wireless 15 350 (1.408 %) FTP 16 283 (1.138 %) SNMP 17 271 (1.090 %) Network Security 18 227 (0.913 %) Intranet 19 221 (0.889 %) OSPF 19 221 (0.889 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4266 (17.16 %) MySQL 2 3197 (12.86 %) SQL Server 3 1353 (5.442 %) Oracle 10g 4 1017 (4.090 %) RDBMS 5 830 (3.338 %) Oracle 9i 6 714 (2.872 %) DB2 7 561 (2.256 %) SQL Server 2000 8 380 (1.528 %) SQL Server 2005 9 365 (1.468 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 280 (1.126 %) PostgreSQL 11 195 (0.784 %) Informix 12 191 (0.768 %) Oracle Reports 12 191 (0.768 %) Datawarehouse 13 170 (0.684 %) SQL Server 7 14 134 (0.539 %) TOAD 15 114 (0.459 %) Oracle 11g 16 79 (0.318 %) Oracle Discoverer 17 64 (0.257 %) ETL 18 62 (0.249 %) Crystal Reports 18 62 (0.249 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 591 (2.377 %) Subversion 2 543 (2.184 %) Eclipse 3 528 (2.124 %) Ant 4 352 (1.416 %) JUnit 5 299 (1.203 %) Flash 6 242 (0.973 %) Visual Studio 7 143 (0.575 %) Oracle Forms 8 140 (0.563 %) ClearCase 9 98 (0.394 %) Dreamweaver 10 92 (0.370 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 85 (0.342 %) CruiseControl 12 74 (0.298 %) JIRA 13 73 (0.294 %) TestDirector 14 58 (0.233 %) ProC 15 50 (0.201 %) ClearQuest 16 46 (0.185 %) NUnit 17 40 (0.161 %) PVCS 18 39 (0.157 %) Rational Rose 19 38 (0.153 %) QuickTest Pro 20 37 (0.149 %) Bugzilla	General 1 4463 (17.95 %) Finance 2 1903 (7.654 %) Banking 3 1329 (5.345 %) Telecoms 4 1005 (4.042 %) Pensions 5 897 (3.608 %) Investment Banking 6 810 (3.258 %) Health 7 695 (2.795 %) Front Office 8 563 (2.264 %) Education 9 539 (2.168 %) Marketing 10 524 (2.108 %) Retail 11 448 (1.802 %) Insurance 12 426 (1.713 %) Games 13 372 (1.496 %) Electronics 14 328 (1.319 %) Financial Institution 15 313 (1.259 %) Government 16 268 (1.078 %) Back Office 17 194 (0.780 %) Publishing 18 160 (0.644 %) Multimedia 19 154 (0.619 %) Advertising 20 116 (0.467 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 6843 (27.52 %) Developer 2 3627 (14.59 %) Administrator 3 2535 (10.20 %) Systems Administrator 4 2028 (8.157 %) Analyst 5 1926 (7.746 %) Java Developer 6 1720 (6.918 %) Software Engineer 7 1508 (6.065 %) DBA 8 1191 (4.790 %) Linux Administrator 9 1144 (4.601 %) Support Engineer 10 1038 (4.175 %) Oracle DBA 11 1008 (4.054 %) UNIX Administrator 12 996 (4.006 %) Senior Developer 13 976 (3.926 %) Web Developer 14 962 (3.869 %) C++ Developer 15 953 (3.833 %) PHP Developer 16 931 (3.745 %) Linux Systems Administrator 17 899 (3.616 %) Support Analyst 18 841 (3.383 %) Consultant 19 833 (3.350 %) Systems Engineer 20 817 (3.286 %) UNIX Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 955 (3.841 %) Computer Science 2 710 (2.856 %) Clustering 3 626 (2.518 %) Derivative 4 510 (2.051 %) Equities 5 421 (1.693 %) Mathematics 6 396 (1.593 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 340 (1.367 %) Client/Server 8 329 (1.323 %) Device Driver 9 264 (1.062 %) Multithreading 10 247 (0.993 %) Fixed Income 11 216 (0.869 %) Replication 12 206 (0.829 %) MPEG 13 199 (0.800 %) DTV 14 189 (0.760 %) Web 2.0 15 171 (0.688 %) IPTV 16 144 (0.579 %) Physics 17 127 (0.511 %) STB 18 126 (0.507 %) Blackberry 19 119 (0.479 %) Firmware 20 118 (0.475 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 12158 (48.90 %) UNIX 2 9311 (37.45 %) Windows 3 4992 (20.08 %) Solaris 4 1397 (5.619 %) AIX 5 1098 (4.416 %) Windows 2000 6 1010 (4.062 %) Windows Server 2003 7 891 (3.584 %) HPUX 8 709 (2.852 %) Windows XP 9 645 (2.594 %) Windows NT 10 583 (2.345 %) SUSE 11 443 (1.782 %) Debian 12 387 (1.557 %) Embedded Linux 13 254 (1.022 %) VxWorks 14 227 (0.913 %) FreeBSD 15 179 (0.720 %) Fedora 16 145 (0.583 %) Mac OS X 17 137 (0.551 %) Ubuntu 18 103 (0.414 %) NetWare 19 102 (0.410 %) VMS 20 99 (0.398 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 2225 (8.949 %) OO 2 1135 (4.565 %) E-Commerce 3 898 (3.612 %) ITIL 4 836 (3.362 %) UML 5 806 (3.242 %) Project Management 6 801 (3.222 %) Web Development 7 618 (2.486 %) Disaster Recovery 8 532 (2.140 %) OOD 8 532 (2.140 %) Software Engineering 9 522 (2.100 %) Agile Software Development 10 474 (1.906 %) Security Cleared 11 387 (1.557 %) OOP 12 367 (1.476 %) Load Balancing 13 331 (1.331 %) Migration 14 330 (1.327 %) Algorithmic Trading 15 329 (1.323 %) Content Management 16 300 (1.207 %) Configuration Management 17 283 (1.138 %) OOA/OOD 18 274 (1.102 %) Unit Testing 19 270 (1.086 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 6264 (25.19 %) Java 2 6083 (24.47 %) SQL 3 4406 (17.72 %) Perl 4 4338 (17.45 %) C++ 5 3268 (13.14 %) PHP 6 3044 (12.24 %) C 7 2456 (9.878 %) JavaScript 8 1873 (7.533 %) Shell Script 9 1471 (5.916 %) C# 10 1370 (5.510 %) Python 11 907 (3.648 %) PL/SQL 12 581 (2.337 %) Ruby 13 565 (2.272 %) VB 14 534 (2.148 %) PHP5 15 456 (1.834 %) Embedded C 16 286 (1.150 %) DHTML 17 258 (1.038 %) VC++ 18 241 (0.969 %) Embedded C++ 19 220 (0.885 %) VBA 20 218 (0.877 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 2877 (11.57 %) Degree 2 1053 (4.235 %) Microsoft Certification 3 888 (3.572 %) MCSE 4 761 (3.061 %) Cisco Certification 5 498 (2.003 %) CCNA 6 355 (1.428 %) CCNP 7 305 (1.227 %) MCP 8 239 (0.961 %) RHCE 9 209 (0.841 %) MCSA 10 177 (0.712 %) ISEB 11 167 (0.672 %) Oracle Certification 12 162 (0.652 %) PhD 13 107 (0.430 %) HND 14 105 (0.422 %) ITIL Certification 15 94 (0.378 %) OCP 16 79 (0.318 %) RHCT 17 77 (0.310 %) CISSP 18 71 (0.286 %) CCIE 19 54 (0.217 %) Sun Certification 20 50 (0.201 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 668 (2.687 %) QA 2 347 (1.396 %) SLA 3 66 (0.265 %) ISO27001 4 41 (0.165 %) ISO9001 5 35 (0.141 %) WAI 6 27 (0.109 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 14 (0.056 %) COBIT 7 14 (0.056 %) PCI DSS 8 9 (0.036 %) BS7799 9 7 (0.028 %) ISO17799 10 5 (0.020 %) WCAG 11 4 (0.016 %) TickIT 11 4 (0.016 %) ISO9000 11 4 (0.016 %) JTAG 12 3 (0.012 %) JSP 440 12 3 (0.012 %) GCP 13 2 (0.008 %) HL7 13 2 (0.008 %) DICOM 14 1 (0.004 %) ISO8583 14 1 (0.004 %) GAMP	System Software 1 1568 (6.307 %) Active Directory 2 721 (2.900 %) Oracle RAC 3 472 (1.898 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 427 (1.717 %) Oracle RMAN 5 366 (1.472 %) NetBackup 6 244 (0.981 %) NFS 7 192 (0.772 %) VMware ESX 8 137 (0.551 %) Backup Exec 9 125 (0.503 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 121 (0.487 %) Terminal Services 11 116 (0.467 %) ISA Server 12 101 (0.406 %) Squid 13 86 (0.346 %) MetaFrame 14 83 (0.334 %) Samba 15 59 (0.237 %) Terminal Server 16 46 (0.185 %) VMware Server 17 38 (0.153 %) Xen 18 36 (0.145 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 19 23 (0.093 %) Nmap 20 22 (0.088 %) Cronacle
Systems Management 1 247 (0.993 %) Nagios 2 226 (0.909 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 215 (0.865 %) Tivoli 4 139 (0.559 %) OpenView 5 117 (0.471 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 111 (0.446 %) Legato 7 106 (0.426 %) MOM 8 104 (0.418 %) SCOM 9 79 (0.318 %) EMC NetWorker 10 49 (0.197 %) CiscoWorks 11 48 (0.193 %) BMC PATROL 12 46 (0.185 %) Netcool 13 42 (0.169 %) Norton AntiVirus 14 39 (0.157 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 15 36 (0.145 %) Oracle Statspack 16 34 (0.137 %) Nessus 17 31 (0.125 %) Unicenter 18 24 (0.097 %) CONTROL-M 18 24 (0.097 %) ZENworks 19 20 (0.080 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 5528 (22.23 %) Oracle 2 3206 (12.89 %) Red Hat 3 2581 (10.38 %) Microsoft 4 2250 (9.050 %) Cisco 5 1339 (5.386 %) Sun 6 1195 (4.806 %) HP 7 1194 (4.802 %) VMware 8 1052 (4.231 %) IBM 9 750 (3.017 %) Sybase 10 705 (2.836 %) Citrix 11 654 (2.630 %) VERITAS 12 476 (1.914 %) EMC 13 340 (1.367 %) CheckPoint 14 283 (1.138 %) TIBCO 15 237 (0.953 %) Remedy 16 229 (0.921 %) Intel 17 226 (0.909 %) BEA 18 207 (0.833 %) Reuters 19 204 (0.820 %) Juniper 20 182 (0.732 %) Novell