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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 13 3 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow 19.70% 4.918% 12.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.63% 13.04% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 10
Average salary £65,000 £42,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.94% -19.04%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Hounslow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
32 23 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow 48.48% 37.70% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 23
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £37,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
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 Hounslow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Hounslow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hounslow Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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 (44.44%) UNIX
2 10 (37.04%) DNS
3 9 (33.33%) MySQL
4 8 (29.63%) LAN
4 8 (29.63%) WAN
4 8 (29.63%) FTP
4 8 (29.63%) Apache
4 8 (29.63%) LAMP
4 8 (29.63%) SSH
4 8 (29.63%) Degree
4 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (22.22%) SUSE
5 6 (22.22%) VMware
5 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 6 (22.22%) SQL
6 5 (18.52%) ITIL
6 5 (18.52%) Solaris
6 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
6 5 (18.52%) SAN
6 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (18.52%) Rackspace
7 4 (14.81%) vSphere
7 4 (14.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (14.81%) Systems Analysis
7 4 (14.81%) Games
7 4 (14.81%) VMware ESX
7 4 (14.81%) CCNA
7 4 (14.81%) HP
7 4 (14.81%) EMC
7 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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 8 (29.63%) LAMP
2 4 (14.81%) J2EE
3 1 (3.704%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (29.63%) Apache
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (7.407%) Rackspace Cloud
3 2 (7.407%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.704%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.704%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) DNS
2 8 (29.63%) SSH
2 8 (29.63%) LAN
2 8 (29.63%) WAN
2 8 (29.63%) FTP
3 5 (18.52%) SAN
4 4 (14.81%) VPN
5 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Subversion
General
1 4 (14.81%) Games
2 3 (11.11%) Italian Language
3 2 (7.407%) Finance
4 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.704%) Marketing
4 1 (3.704%) Spanish Language
4 1 (3.704%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (18.52%) Administrator
2 4 (14.81%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 4 (14.81%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.407%) Systems Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (7.407%) UNIX Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Data Centre Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Product Manager
5 1 (3.704%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (3.704%) Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.407%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (7.407%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.704%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.704%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) UNIX
2 6 (22.22%) SUSE
3 5 (18.52%) Solaris
4 4 (14.81%) HPUX
4 4 (14.81%) Windows
5 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (7.407%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.704%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (3.704%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (18.52%) ITIL
2 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
3 4 (14.81%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (11.11%) CRM
5 2 (7.407%) Service Management
5 2 (7.407%) Capacity Management
6 1 (3.704%) Product Marketing
6 1 (3.704%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.704%) Product Management
6 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.704%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.704%) ERP
6 1 (3.704%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) VC++
2 4 (14.81%) C
2 4 (14.81%) C#
2 4 (14.81%) C++
2 4 (14.81%) Java
2 4 (14.81%) PHP
3 2 (7.407%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) CCNA
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.81%) RHCE
2 4 (14.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.407%) MCSA
5 1 (3.704%) MCP
5 1 (3.704%) HNC
5 1 (3.704%) HND
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.81%) vSphere
2 4 (14.81%) VMware ESX
3 1 (3.704%) Xen
3 1 (3.704%) vCloud
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
1 6 (22.22%) VMware
2 5 (18.52%) Rackspace
3 4 (14.81%) HP
3 4 (14.81%) EMC
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle
4 2 (7.407%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.704%) Sun
5 1 (3.704%) SAP
5 1 (3.704%) Cisco
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