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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 27 24 27
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1 3 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 1.190% 2.419% 7.097%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.857% 15.00% 22.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 8
Average salary £36,500 £20,000 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+82.50% -13.04%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Huddersfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
35 20 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 41.67% 16.13% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 30 12 40
Average salary £27,500 £22,500 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £17,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £46,250 £34,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
West Yorkshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Huddersfield 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 Huddersfield region.

Huddersfield Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) PHP5
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Celerra
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PHP5
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Twitter