The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Hertford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 17 17 6
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 12 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertford 14.63% 11.11% 13.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.00% 26.67% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 3
Average salary £32,000 £39,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.94% -13.33%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Hertford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
40 15 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertford 48.78% 41.67% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 39 15 9
Average salary £35,000 £28,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -36.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £20,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £39,300
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Hertfordshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertford 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 Hertford region.

Hertford Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Hertford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hertford Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertford 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 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Oracle
4 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (26.67%) Apache
6 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
6 3 (20.00%) IIS
6 3 (20.00%) SQL
6 3 (20.00%) MySQL
6 3 (20.00%) Java
6 3 (20.00%) Cisco
6 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (13.33%) vSphere
7 2 (13.33%) VirtualBox
7 2 (13.33%) Firewall
7 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
7 2 (13.33%) Juniper
7 2 (13.33%) SAN
7 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (13.33%) HTML
7 2 (13.33%) ASP
7 2 (13.33%) XML
7 2 (13.33%) HTTP
8 1 (6.667%) DNS
8 1 (6.667%) MS Office
8 1 (6.667%) Perl
8 1 (6.667%) PHP

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertford 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 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) ASP
1 2 (13.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (6.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
1 1 (6.667%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Systems Administrator
1 8 (53.33%) Administrator
2 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) IT Support
5 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) IT Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Applications Support
6 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Web Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.667%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (6.667%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
1 3 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.667%) Perl
3 1 (6.667%) PHP
3 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
2 2 (13.33%) VirtualBox
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper