The first table below looks at the demand for SpamAssassin skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SpamAssassin over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache SpamAssassin
Rank 826 860 848
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -12
Permanent jobs citing SpamAssassin 4 3 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.004% 0.003% 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.041% 0.031% 0.123%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 11
Average salary £48,750 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+39.28% -22.22%
UK excluding London average salary - £33,500 £20,000
% change year-on-year
- +67.50%
All System Software
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
9679 9754 8922
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 9.597% 8.587% 7.632%
Number of salaries quoted 8227 8508 7360
Average salary £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.57% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
SpamAssassin
UK

SpamAssassin
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SpamAssassin across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

England SpamAssassin Jobs Demand Trend

SpamAssassin
Salary Trend

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

England SpamAssassin Salary Trend

SpamAssassin
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SpamAssassin within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +31 2 £48,750 +39.28%
North West +3 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
SpamAssassin
UK

SpamAssassin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing SpamAssassin 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 SpamAssassin.

1 14 (87.50%) Linux
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 13 (81.25%) MySQL
3 12 (75.00%) Cisco
4 11 (68.75%) Subversion
5 10 (62.50%) Perl
6 9 (56.25%) PHP
7 8 (50.00%) C
7 8 (50.00%) C++
7 8 (50.00%) NFS
7 8 (50.00%) Nagios
8 7 (43.75%) HP
8 7 (43.75%) Apache
8 7 (43.75%) Windows
8 7 (43.75%) Cacti
8 7 (43.75%) Sendmail
9 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds
9 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds Orion
9 6 (37.50%) MRTG
9 6 (37.50%) FreeRADIUS
9 6 (37.50%) Time Management
9 6 (37.50%) assyst
9 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (37.50%) Billing
9 6 (37.50%) SSH
9 6 (37.50%) IIS
9 6 (37.50%) SQL
9 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
9 6 (37.50%) SSL
9 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange

SpamAssassin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing SpamAssassin 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 SpamAssassin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
1 2 (12.50%) Regular Expression
2 1 (6.250%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) Apache
2 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 6 (37.50%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) lighttpd
3 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) SSL
2 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (37.50%) VoIP
2 6 (37.50%) TACACS
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) SSH
2 6 (37.50%) MRTG
3 5 (31.25%) VPN
4 4 (25.00%) IPsec
5 2 (12.50%) IMAP
5 2 (12.50%) POP3
5 2 (12.50%) SMTP
5 2 (12.50%) DHCP
6 1 (6.250%) FTP
6 1 (6.250%) HTTP
6 1 (6.250%) SAN
6 1 (6.250%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (6.250%) NAS
6 1 (6.250%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) MySQL
2 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Subversion
2 1 (6.250%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.250%) Bazaar
2 1 (6.250%) SVK
2 1 (6.250%) Trac
2 1 (6.250%) Dreamweaver
General
1 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
1 6 (37.50%) Billing
2 4 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (6.250%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Service Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Security Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) IT Security Manager
4 1 (6.250%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Operations Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Operations Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Marketing Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (18.75%) Online Games
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (37.50%) UNIX
4 4 (25.00%) AIX
5 1 (6.250%) Mac OS X
5 1 (6.250%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Project Management
1 6 (37.50%) Time Management
2 5 (31.25%) Asset Management
3 4 (25.00%) QMS
3 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) Network Design
4 1 (6.250%) Email Marketing
4 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.250%) Information Security
4 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Perl
2 9 (56.25%) PHP
3 8 (50.00%) C
3 8 (50.00%) C++
4 6 (37.50%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (25.00%) BS7799
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) NFS
2 7 (43.75%) Sendmail
3 6 (37.50%) FreeRADIUS
3 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.250%) Samba
4 1 (6.250%) Postfix
4 1 (6.250%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Nagios
2 7 (43.75%) Cacti
3 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds Orion
3 6 (37.50%) OpenView
4 2 (12.50%) MIMEsweeper
5 1 (6.250%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) HP
3 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds
4 2 (12.50%) Websense
4 2 (12.50%) Clearswift
4 2 (12.50%) Webroot
4 2 (12.50%) Postini
5 1 (6.250%) Perforce
5 1 (6.250%) Juniper
5 1 (6.250%) Apple
5 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.250%) Adobe