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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 7 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hayes 63.64% 20.00% 20.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 50.00% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 2
Average salary £45,000 £43,750 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +82.29%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Hayes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
7 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hayes 63.64% 40.00% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 3
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +77.08%
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 Hayes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Hayes 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 Hayes region.

Hayes Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hayes 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 12 (92.31%) Java
1 12 (92.31%) J2EE
1 12 (92.31%) JDBC
1 12 (92.31%) XML
1 12 (92.31%) UNIX
1 12 (92.31%) SOA
1 12 (92.31%) ESB
2 6 (46.15%) JPA
2 6 (46.15%) Sonic ESB
2 6 (46.15%) SonicMQ
2 6 (46.15%) UML
2 6 (46.15%) XSLT
2 6 (46.15%) JSP
2 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 6 (46.15%) Ant
2 6 (46.15%) JUnit
2 6 (46.15%) XML Schema
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) JMS
3 1 (7.692%) RHCT
3 1 (7.692%) SSH
3 1 (7.692%) Firewall
3 1 (7.692%) Clustering
3 1 (7.692%) SSL
3 1 (7.692%) RHCE
3 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.692%) MySQL
3 1 (7.692%) PHP
3 1 (7.692%) Apache
3 1 (7.692%) SMTP

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hayes 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 12 (92.31%) J2EE
1 12 (92.31%) JDBC
1 12 (92.31%) XML
2 6 (46.15%) JPA
2 6 (46.15%) XSLT
2 6 (46.15%) JSP
2 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 6 (46.15%) XML Schema
2 6 (46.15%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 12 (92.31%) ESB
2 6 (46.15%) Sonic ESB
2 6 (46.15%) SonicMQ
3 1 (7.692%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SSH
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
1 1 (7.692%) SSL
1 1 (7.692%) SMTP
1 1 (7.692%) FTP
1 1 (7.692%) VPN
1 1 (7.692%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Ant
1 6 (46.15%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Java/J2EE Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Junior Java Consultant
1 6 (46.15%) Junior
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Consultant
1 6 (46.15%) Junior Consultant
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
1 6 (46.15%) J2EE Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Consultant
1 6 (46.15%) J2EE Consultant
2 1 (7.692%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.692%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.692%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) SOA
2 6 (46.15%) UML
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) RHCT
1 1 (7.692%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) qmail
1 1 (7.692%) Postfix
1 1 (7.692%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
1 1 (7.692%) Rackspace
Hayes, Middlesex
Linux team... General knowledge (Networking, Hardware, software, DNS) RedHat Linux (RHCE level) MySQL Experience. System services (i.e., Apache, Mail transfer agents(sendmail, postfix, qmail), FTP, SSH and...
Rackspace
Posted: 29 April 2013
Hayes, Middlesex
In-depth working knowledge of network security technologies, specifically Cisco ASA, Juniper firewalls. Experience working with Load balancers, F5 and Brocade desirable... Minimum CCNP Security, CCIE desirable but...
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified COMPETITIVE
Posted: 21 May 2013