The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Horsham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Horsham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 24 14 34
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 3 15 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Horsham 2.459% 11.90% 1.932%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.977% 60.00% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 4
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +12.67%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Horsham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
43 25 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Horsham 35.25% 19.84% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 40 25 32
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £29,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
West Sussex

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Horsham 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 Horsham region.

Horsham Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Horsham 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 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) C++
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) C
2 6 (60.00%) Games
2 6 (60.00%) Erlang
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (30.00%) MVC
3 3 (30.00%) CMS
4 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
4 2 (20.00%) MySQL
4 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) WordPress
4 2 (20.00%) Subversion
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) Joomla!
4 2 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (20.00%) Drupal
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) Git (software)
5 1 (10.00%) Liferay
5 1 (10.00%) Java EE
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Android
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Horsham 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 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) WinForms
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Java EE
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (30.00%) CMS
3 2 (20.00%) Joomla!
3 2 (20.00%) Drupal
3 2 (20.00%) WordPress
4 1 (10.00%) Liferay
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (60.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) MVC
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (10.00%) TDD
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) OOD
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C++
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Erlang
2 6 (60.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle