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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 16 10 18
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 11 23 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrow 11.83% 20.18% 8.108%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.43% 56.10% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 9
Average salary £57,500 £45,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.37% -9.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Harrow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
35 41 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrow 37.63% 35.96% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 33 39 25
Average salary £36,500 £36,250 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.68% -23.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £50,250 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrow 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 Harrow region.

Harrow Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Harrow Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrow 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 15 (100.00%) MySQL
2 12 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 12 (80.00%) DNS
3 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (66.67%) Windows
3 10 (66.67%) Apache
3 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (60.00%) UNIX
5 8 (53.33%) Cisco
6 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
6 7 (46.67%) MS Excel
6 7 (46.67%) Nagios
6 7 (46.67%) Samba
6 7 (46.67%) CentOS
6 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (46.67%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (46.67%) Sendmail
6 7 (46.67%) Xen
6 7 (46.67%) Puppet
7 6 (40.00%) XenServer
8 5 (33.33%) SSL
8 5 (33.33%) SAN
9 3 (20.00%) SCSA
9 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
9 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (20.00%) Novell eDirectory
9 3 (20.00%) Open Source
9 3 (20.00%) HP SIM
9 3 (20.00%) Novell

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrow 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 Platforms
1 10 (66.67%) Apache
2 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (20.00%) GroupWise
2 3 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 12 (80.00%) DNS
2 7 (46.67%) OpenLDAP
3 5 (33.33%) SSL
3 5 (33.33%) SAN
4 3 (20.00%) LAN
4 3 (20.00%) WAN
4 3 (20.00%) SMTP
4 3 (20.00%) DHCP
4 3 (20.00%) FTP
4 3 (20.00%) HTTP
5 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
5 2 (13.33%) IPsec
5 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) MySQL
2 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) Informix
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (13.33%) Games
2 1 (6.667%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
1 7 (46.67%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) IT Security Manager
6 1 (6.667%) Security Manager
6 1 (6.667%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Open Source
1 3 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (13.33%) Firmware
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
1 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (60.00%) UNIX
3 7 (46.67%) CentOS
3 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (20.00%) SUSE
4 3 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) NetWare
5 2 (13.33%) AIX
5 2 (13.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Change Management
1 3 (20.00%) Migration
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) QMS
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SCSA
1 3 (20.00%) RHCE
2 1 (6.667%) MCITP
2 1 (6.667%) MCSE
2 1 (6.667%) MCSA
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO 9000
1 2 (13.33%) BS7799
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Samba
1 7 (46.67%) Sendmail
1 7 (46.67%) Xen
2 6 (40.00%) XenServer
3 3 (20.00%) Novell eDirectory
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (13.33%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Nagios
1 7 (46.67%) Puppet
2 3 (20.00%) HP SIM
2 3 (20.00%) ARCserve
2 3 (20.00%) ZENworks
2 3 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Novell
2 3 (20.00%) Veritas
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) Dell
2 3 (20.00%) EMC
2 3 (20.00%) Citrix