The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 165 167 156
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -11
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 16 10 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.463% 0.261% 0.358%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.408% 0.862% 1.287%
Number of salaries quoted 15 10 13
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,400 £24,750 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £41,450 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
All Operating Systems
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1136 1160 1010
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 32.91% 30.23% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 958 1072 858
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £49,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CentOS across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire CentOS Salary Histogram

CentOS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Farnborough - 7 £35,000 -
Basingstoke -8 2 £26,000 -48.00%
Fareham - 2 £31,750 -
Liphook - 1 £32,500 -
Petersfield - 1 £30,000 -
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 32 (68.09%) MySQL
3 28 (59.57%) PHP
4 26 (55.32%) Red Hat
5 25 (53.19%) Apache
6 21 (44.68%) Windows
7 20 (42.55%) VMware
8 19 (40.43%) Ubuntu
8 19 (40.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (36.17%) UNIX
10 16 (34.04%) VMware Infrastructure
10 16 (34.04%) Software Testing
11 15 (31.91%) Shell Script
12 14 (29.79%) Oracle
13 11 (23.40%) SQL
13 11 (23.40%) Perl
14 10 (21.28%) RHCE
14 10 (21.28%) SSL
14 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
14 10 (21.28%) Degree
15 9 (19.15%) jQuery
15 9 (19.15%) Derivative
15 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
15 9 (19.15%) Security Management
15 9 (19.15%) HP
15 9 (19.15%) Solaris
15 9 (19.15%) ITIL
15 9 (19.15%) CSS
15 9 (19.15%) SOAP
15 9 (19.15%) HTML

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 9 (19.15%) jQuery
1 9 (19.15%) CSS
1 9 (19.15%) SOAP
1 9 (19.15%) HTML
1 9 (19.15%) XHTML
2 7 (14.89%) LAMP
3 5 (10.64%) HTML5
3 5 (10.64%) .NET
4 4 (8.511%) CakePHP
4 4 (8.511%) REST
4 4 (8.511%) Node.js
5 3 (6.383%) CSS3
5 3 (6.383%) Highcharts JS
5 3 (6.383%) Web Services
5 3 (6.383%) XML
6 2 (4.255%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (4.255%) Twitter Bootstrap
Application Platforms
1 25 (53.19%) Apache
2 6 (12.77%) IIS
3 2 (4.255%) nginx
4 1 (2.128%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.128%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.383%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) SSL
2 8 (17.02%) HTTP
3 7 (14.89%) DNS
3 7 (14.89%) Firewall
4 6 (12.77%) Internet
5 5 (10.64%) POP3
5 5 (10.64%) SMTP
5 5 (10.64%) FTP
5 5 (10.64%) VPN
5 5 (10.64%) SSH
5 5 (10.64%) IMAP
6 4 (8.511%) TELNET
7 2 (4.255%) SNMP
8 1 (2.128%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (68.09%) MySQL
2 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.255%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 4 (8.511%) NetBeans
2 3 (6.383%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.255%) Subversion
4 1 (2.128%) Xcode
General
1 6 (12.77%) Retail
1 6 (12.77%) Back Office
2 3 (6.383%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (53.19%) Systems Administrator
1 25 (53.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 25 (53.19%) Linux Administrator
2 23 (48.94%) Administrator
3 9 (19.15%) Developer
4 7 (14.89%) QA Engineer
5 4 (8.511%) PHP Developer
6 3 (6.383%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.383%) Web Developer
6 3 (6.383%) Consultant
6 3 (6.383%) Linux Consultant
6 3 (6.383%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.383%) Linux Support
6 3 (6.383%) Linux Support Engineer
7 2 (4.255%) Graduate
7 2 (4.255%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.255%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.255%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 1 (2.128%) Junior Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.128%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Derivative
2 6 (12.77%) Open Source
2 6 (12.77%) Social Media
3 3 (6.383%) Mathematics
3 3 (6.383%) Physics
3 3 (6.383%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.255%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.255%) IaaS
4 2 (4.255%) SaaS
4 2 (4.255%) PaaS
5 1 (2.128%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (44.68%) Windows
3 19 (40.43%) Ubuntu
3 19 (40.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (36.17%) UNIX
5 9 (19.15%) Solaris
5 9 (19.15%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (6.383%) HPUX
6 3 (6.383%) SUSE
7 2 (4.255%) Debian
8 1 (2.128%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Software Testing
2 9 (19.15%) Security Management
2 9 (19.15%) ITIL
2 9 (19.15%) ITIL V3
3 7 (14.89%) E-Commerce
3 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
3 7 (14.89%) Scrum
3 7 (14.89%) Extreme Programming
3 7 (14.89%) Information Security
3 7 (14.89%) Test Scripting
4 6 (12.77%) Web Development
5 5 (10.64%) OO
6 4 (8.511%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (6.383%) Configuration Management
7 3 (6.383%) Change Management
7 3 (6.383%) OOP
7 3 (6.383%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.383%) Content Management
7 3 (6.383%) Software Engineering
8 2 (4.255%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) PHP
2 15 (31.91%) Shell Script
3 11 (23.40%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) Perl
4 7 (14.89%) PHP5
5 5 (10.64%) Java
5 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.64%) Python
5 5 (10.64%) Ruby
6 2 (4.255%) Bash shell
7 1 (2.128%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) RHCE
1 10 (21.28%) Degree
2 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.77%) ISEB
5 2 (4.255%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.255%) MCP
5 2 (4.255%) MCSE
5 2 (4.255%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 2 (4.255%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.128%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.383%) qmail
2 3 (6.383%) Sendmail
2 3 (6.383%) VMware Server
3 2 (4.255%) Nmap
3 2 (4.255%) Samba
3 2 (4.255%) NFS
3 2 (4.255%) Varnish
3 2 (4.255%) vSphere
4 1 (2.128%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (2.128%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.128%) Squid
4 1 (2.128%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (8.511%) Opalis
1 4 (8.511%) SCCM
1 4 (8.511%) Nagios
1 4 (8.511%) AppManager
1 4 (8.511%) Puppet
2 3 (6.383%) Splunk
3 2 (4.255%) Plesk
3 2 (4.255%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 26 (55.32%) Red Hat
2 20 (42.55%) VMware
3 14 (29.79%) Oracle
4 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
5 9 (19.15%) HP
6 5 (10.64%) Intel
7 4 (8.511%) SolarWinds
7 4 (8.511%) NetIQ
8 2 (4.255%) Twitter
9 1 (2.128%) Nimsoft
9 1 (2.128%) Cisco
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits
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Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
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