The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CentOS 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 Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 30 - 24
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 7 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 3.977% - 3.361%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.56% - 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 4
Average salary £35,000 - £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
All Operating Systems
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
45 62 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 25.57% 26.50% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45 59 21
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £29,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,050 £51,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
Hampshire

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CentOS across the Farnborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Farnborough CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Salary Trend

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

Farnborough CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (85.71%) MySQL
3 11 (78.57%) Perl
3 11 (78.57%) PHP
4 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (50.00%) Apache
4 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (50.00%) Scrum
4 7 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
4 7 (50.00%) VMware
4 7 (50.00%) Information Security
4 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 7 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 7 (50.00%) QA
4 7 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 7 (50.00%) Degree
5 6 (42.86%) ISEB
5 6 (42.86%) UNIX
6 5 (35.71%) Java
6 5 (35.71%) Python
6 5 (35.71%) .NET
6 5 (35.71%) Oracle
6 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
6 5 (35.71%) Ruby
6 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (28.57%) Opalis
7 4 (28.57%) SCCM
7 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
7 4 (28.57%) Puppet
7 4 (28.57%) Nagios

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) IMAP
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) TELNET
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
1 2 (14.29%) SSH
1 2 (14.29%) POP3
1 2 (14.29%) SMTP
1 2 (14.29%) FTP
1 2 (14.29%) SNMP
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) MySQL
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Support
3 2 (14.29%) Graduate
4 1 (7.143%) Junior
4 1 (7.143%) Junior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (14.29%) IaaS
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
1 2 (14.29%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 6 (42.86%) UNIX
4 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Scrum
1 7 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
1 7 (50.00%) Information Security
1 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Perl
1 11 (78.57%) PHP
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
2 2 (14.29%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Opalis
1 4 (28.57%) SCCM
1 4 (28.57%) Puppet
1 4 (28.57%) Nagios
1 4 (28.57%) AppManager
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 4 (28.57%) NetIQ
4 2 (14.29%) Intel
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux Systems Administrator from a Redhat, RHEL, Ubuntu or CentOS background with some Ruby, Python or Perl experience required by a leading edge Technology Solutions Provider based in...
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013