The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 13 8 15
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 28 33 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 15.47% 14.35% 11.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.12% 55.00% 58.33%
Number of salaries quoted 28 30 14
Average salary £35,000 £45,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £29,000 £32,950
10% offered a salary of more than £40,750 £65,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,683 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-0.47% +7.45%
All Operating Systems
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
43 60 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 23.76% 26.09% 20.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43 57 24
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £29,000 £39,750
10% offered a salary of more than £40,100 £51,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Hampshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Farnborough region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Farnborough Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 81 (84.38%) MySQL
2 54 (56.25%) VMware
3 52 (54.17%) Perl
3 52 (54.17%) PHP
4 47 (48.96%) Python
4 47 (48.96%) Ruby
5 43 (44.79%) PowerShell
6 40 (41.67%) SQL
7 37 (38.54%) Windows
8 36 (37.50%) Oracle
9 32 (33.33%) Java
9 32 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
10 30 (31.25%) vSphere
11 29 (30.21%) SQL Server
12 28 (29.17%) Nagios
12 28 (29.17%) NetIQ
12 28 (29.17%) AppManager
12 28 (29.17%) Puppet
12 28 (29.17%) SolarWinds
12 28 (29.17%) SCCM
12 28 (29.17%) Opalis
13 26 (27.08%) MVC
13 26 (27.08%) Apache
14 25 (26.04%) .NET
15 23 (23.96%) Agile Software Development
16 21 (21.88%) Scrum
17 20 (20.83%) JavaScript
17 20 (20.83%) Degree
17 20 (20.83%) jQuery
18 19 (19.79%) HTML

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 25 (26.04%) .NET
2 20 (20.83%) jQuery
3 19 (19.79%) HTML
4 18 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails
5 17 (17.71%) Ajax
5 17 (17.71%) CSS
6 16 (16.67%) Web Services
7 11 (11.46%) RESTful
8 9 (9.375%) HTML5
8 9 (9.375%) CSS3
9 6 (6.250%) XML
10 5 (5.208%) J2EE
10 5 (5.208%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.208%) Spring
10 5 (5.208%) Spring MVC
10 5 (5.208%) REST
10 5 (5.208%) BlazeDS
10 5 (5.208%) JPA
11 3 (3.125%) Sphinx
11 3 (3.125%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 26 (27.08%) Apache
2 6 (6.250%) WebLogic
3 5 (5.208%) GlassFish
3 5 (5.208%) Confluence
4 1 (1.042%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (5.208%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.75%) LDAP
2 6 (6.250%) DNS
3 5 (5.208%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.208%) Firewall
4 4 (4.167%) VPN
4 4 (4.167%) VoIP
4 4 (4.167%) WAN
5 3 (3.125%) SAN
5 3 (3.125%) Internet
6 2 (2.083%) TELNET
6 2 (2.083%) POP3
6 2 (2.083%) SMTP
6 2 (2.083%) FTP
6 2 (2.083%) HTTP
6 2 (2.083%) SNMP
6 2 (2.083%) SSH
6 2 (2.083%) IMAP
6 2 (2.083%) NAS
7 1 (1.042%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.042%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (84.38%) MySQL
2 29 (30.21%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.375%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (3.125%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.125%) Redis
5 1 (1.042%) Ingres
5 1 (1.042%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Subversion
2 12 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 5 (5.208%) Artifactory
3 5 (5.208%) Maven
3 5 (5.208%) JIRA
3 5 (5.208%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 10 (10.42%) Billing
2 1 (1.042%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.042%) Finance
2 1 (1.042%) Aerospace
2 1 (1.042%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.042%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Developer
2 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (18.75%) Web Developer
3 18 (18.75%) Administrator
4 16 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 16 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
5 14 (14.58%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 9 (9.375%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (8.333%) PHP Developer
8 7 (7.292%) QA Engineer
9 6 (6.250%) PHP Web Developer
9 6 (6.250%) Analyst
9 6 (6.250%) Support Analyst
10 5 (5.208%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.208%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.208%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (5.208%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (5.208%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
11 4 (4.167%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.167%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.71%) Web 2.0
1 17 (17.71%) PaaS
2 8 (8.333%) IaaS
2 8 (8.333%) SaaS
3 2 (2.083%) Clustering
3 2 (2.083%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.042%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.042%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.042%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.042%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.042%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (38.54%) Windows
2 15 (15.63%) Ubuntu
2 15 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (12.50%) CentOS
4 9 (9.375%) UNIX
5 3 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.083%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.042%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.08%) MVC
2 23 (23.96%) Agile Software Development
3 21 (21.88%) Scrum
4 19 (19.79%) ITIL
5 17 (17.71%) TDD
6 16 (16.67%) OOP
7 15 (15.63%) Workflow
8 12 (12.50%) Information Security
9 10 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (10.42%) Project Management
10 9 (9.375%) Configuration Management
10 9 (9.375%) Web Development
10 9 (9.375%) Operations Management
10 9 (9.375%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (8.333%) Software Testing
12 7 (7.292%) Test Scripting
12 7 (7.292%) Extreme Programming
13 5 (5.208%) Process Management
13 5 (5.208%) SOA
14 3 (3.125%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 52 (54.17%) Perl
1 52 (54.17%) PHP
2 47 (48.96%) Python
2 47 (48.96%) Ruby
3 43 (44.79%) PowerShell
4 40 (41.67%) SQL
5 32 (33.33%) Java
6 20 (20.83%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.250%) Bash shell
8 5 (5.208%) ActionScript
9 4 (4.167%) C++
9 4 (4.167%) VBScript
10 3 (3.125%) C#
11 2 (2.083%) VB
11 2 (2.083%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.042%) C
12 1 (1.042%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.042%) XPath
12 1 (1.042%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Degree
2 6 (6.250%) ISEB
2 6 (6.250%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.125%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.083%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.083%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.083%) MCSA
5 1 (1.042%) CCNP
5 1 (1.042%) CCNA
5 1 (1.042%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.042%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.042%) MCITP
5 1 (1.042%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 32 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (31.25%) vSphere
3 10 (10.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.083%) vCloud
4 2 (2.083%) Nmap
5 1 (1.042%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.042%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 28 (29.17%) Nagios
1 28 (29.17%) AppManager
1 28 (29.17%) Opalis
1 28 (29.17%) SCCM
1 28 (29.17%) Puppet
2 1 (1.042%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 54 (56.25%) VMware
2 36 (37.50%) Oracle
3 28 (29.17%) NetIQ
3 28 (29.17%) SolarWinds
4 18 (18.75%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.250%) Cisco
6 3 (3.125%) NetApp
6 3 (3.125%) Zend
7 2 (2.083%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.083%) Intel
8 1 (1.042%) Juniper
8 1 (1.042%) JBoss
8 1 (1.042%) Dell
8 1 (1.042%) EMC
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