The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Harrogate region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 22 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 Harrogate region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 23 16 22
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 20 15 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 7.143% 9.554% 8.922%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.44% 44.12% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 5 14
Average salary £52,500 £42,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.52% +70.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,750 £37,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £40,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Harrogate
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
45 34 85
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 16.07% 21.66% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 33 19 57
Average salary £42,500 £39,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.97% +41.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,500 £20,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
North Yorkshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrogate 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 Harrogate region.

Harrogate Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Harrogate region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Harrogate Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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 17 (73.91%) ITIL
2 15 (65.22%) UNIX
3 14 (60.87%) TCP/IP
4 12 (52.17%) Firewall
4 12 (52.17%) Solaris
5 11 (47.83%) Cisco
6 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
6 10 (43.48%) CCDA
6 10 (43.48%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (43.48%) Juniper
6 10 (43.48%) Finance
6 10 (43.48%) Change Control
7 9 (39.13%) F5
7 9 (39.13%) CCNP
7 9 (39.13%) CCNA
7 9 (39.13%) PRINCE2
8 7 (30.43%) Windows
8 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
8 7 (30.43%) SSL
9 6 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (26.09%) Network Management
10 5 (21.74%) SQL
10 5 (21.74%) Oracle
10 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
11 4 (17.39%) Perl
11 4 (17.39%) IIS
11 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
11 4 (17.39%) AIX
11 4 (17.39%) Oracle 10g
11 4 (17.39%) Degree

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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 2 (8.696%) J2EE
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Streams
2 1 (4.348%) Spring
2 1 (4.348%) REST
2 1 (4.348%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.348%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) IIS
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.348%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.348%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) TCP/IP
2 12 (52.17%) Firewall
3 7 (30.43%) SSL
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) WAN
6 2 (8.696%) VoIP
6 2 (8.696%) VPN
6 2 (8.696%) SAN
7 1 (4.348%) Wireshark
7 1 (4.348%) Network Security
7 1 (4.348%) Internet
7 1 (4.348%) POP3
7 1 (4.348%) SMTP
7 1 (4.348%) FTP
7 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (8.696%) DB2
5 1 (4.348%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.348%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.348%) MySQL
5 1 (4.348%) Informix
5 1 (4.348%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.348%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Network Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Server Technician
4 3 (13.04%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (13.04%) DBA
5 2 (8.696%) Support Technician
5 2 (8.696%) Administrator
5 2 (8.696%) IT Support
5 2 (8.696%) IT Support Technician
6 1 (4.348%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Network Manager
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) IT Security Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Software Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Clustering
1 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.348%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) UNIX
2 12 (52.17%) Solaris
3 7 (30.43%) Windows
4 4 (17.39%) AIX
5 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (8.696%) Windows XP
6 2 (8.696%) Windows 7
6 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (8.696%) Windows Vista
7 1 (4.348%) SUSE
7 1 (4.348%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) ITIL
2 10 (43.48%) Change Control
3 9 (39.13%) PRINCE2
4 6 (26.09%) Network Management
5 3 (13.04%) Database Security
6 2 (8.696%) ERP
6 2 (8.696%) Project Management
6 2 (8.696%) Network Architecture
6 2 (8.696%) High Availability
6 2 (8.696%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.348%) Matrix Management
7 1 (4.348%) Information Security
7 1 (4.348%) Network Design
7 1 (4.348%) SIEM
7 1 (4.348%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Perl
2 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.348%) Korn
4 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
4 1 (4.348%) PHP
4 1 (4.348%) Java
4 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) CCDA
1 10 (43.48%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (39.13%) CCNP
2 9 (39.13%) CCNA
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
4 2 (8.696%) HND
5 1 (4.348%) CCDP
5 1 (4.348%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) QA
1 1 (4.348%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.348%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.348%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) HP SiteScope
1 2 (8.696%) Data Guard
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle Statspack
2 1 (4.348%) Nessus
2 1 (4.348%) Plesk
2 1 (4.348%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Cisco
2 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (43.48%) Juniper
3 9 (39.13%) F5
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
5 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.696%) HP
6 2 (8.696%) VMware
7 1 (4.348%) ArcSight
7 1 (4.348%) IBM
7 1 (4.348%) Sun