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

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 20 12 37
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Linux 40 41 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 11.87% 15.07% 5.316%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.04% 45.56% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 40 34 16
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% +10.16%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
All Operating Systems
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
111 90 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 32.94% 33.09% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 108 77 49
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +18.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Suffolk

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Ipswich Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 46 (74.19%) Windows
2 31 (50.00%) Web Services
3 29 (46.77%) Java
4 24 (38.71%) Degree
5 22 (35.48%) Finance
6 20 (32.26%) TDD
6 20 (32.26%) SOAP
6 20 (32.26%) Computer Science
6 20 (32.26%) REST
7 19 (30.65%) JSON
8 18 (29.03%) Agile Software Development
8 18 (29.03%) JBoss
8 18 (29.03%) JavaScript
9 17 (27.42%) J2EE
9 17 (27.42%) UML
9 17 (27.42%) Tomcat
9 17 (27.42%) XML
9 17 (27.42%) Spring
9 17 (27.42%) Ajax
9 17 (27.42%) jQuery
10 16 (25.81%) SQL Server
11 15 (24.19%) Firewall
12 13 (20.97%) TCP/IP
12 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
12 13 (20.97%) Active Directory
13 12 (19.35%) MySQL
13 12 (19.35%) Oracle
13 12 (19.35%) ITIL
14 11 (17.74%) UNIX
14 11 (17.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 31 (50.00%) Web Services
2 20 (32.26%) SOAP
2 20 (32.26%) REST
3 19 (30.65%) JSON
4 17 (27.42%) jQuery
4 17 (27.42%) J2EE
4 17 (27.42%) XML
4 17 (27.42%) Spring
4 17 (27.42%) Ajax
5 9 (14.52%) .NET
6 1 (1.613%) CSS
6 1 (1.613%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 17 (27.42%) Tomcat
2 11 (17.74%) Amazon AWS
3 9 (14.52%) Apache
4 8 (12.90%) MS Exchange
5 3 (4.839%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (4.839%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.613%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.452%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.613%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (24.19%) Firewall
2 13 (20.97%) TCP/IP
3 10 (16.13%) DNS
4 9 (14.52%) DHCP
5 7 (11.29%) LAN
5 7 (11.29%) VoIP
5 7 (11.29%) WAN
5 7 (11.29%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (9.677%) Internet
7 4 (6.452%) 3G
7 4 (6.452%) 4G
8 2 (3.226%) OSPF
8 2 (3.226%) BGP
8 2 (3.226%) SNMP
8 2 (3.226%) IPv6
9 1 (1.613%) SAN
9 1 (1.613%) VPN
9 1 (1.613%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (19.35%) MySQL
3 9 (14.52%) Oracle 8/8i
3 9 (14.52%) Big Data
4 8 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (12.90%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (9.677%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Eclipse
2 4 (6.452%) Subversion
General
1 22 (35.48%) Finance
2 1 (1.613%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 25 (40.32%) Developer
2 20 (32.26%) Java Developer
3 18 (29.03%) Software Developer
4 17 (27.42%) Analyst
4 17 (27.42%) Java Software Developer
5 10 (16.13%) Support Analyst
6 8 (12.90%) Applications Support
7 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 7 (11.29%) Graduate
7 7 (11.29%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (9.677%) Graduate Software Developer
8 6 (9.677%) Graduate Developer
8 6 (9.677%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (9.677%) Graduate Java Developer
9 5 (8.065%) Junior Java Software Developer
9 5 (8.065%) Junior
9 5 (8.065%) Junior Java Developer
9 5 (8.065%) Junior Software Developer
9 5 (8.065%) Junior Developer
10 3 (4.839%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.26%) Computer Science
2 9 (14.52%) Mobile App
2 9 (14.52%) Speech Recognition
3 4 (6.452%) Blackberry
4 2 (3.226%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (74.19%) Windows
2 11 (17.74%) UNIX
2 11 (17.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (9.677%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (8.065%) Debian
6 4 (6.452%) Android
6 4 (6.452%) Apple iOS
6 4 (6.452%) Windows 8
7 3 (4.839%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) TDD
2 18 (29.03%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (27.42%) UML
4 12 (19.35%) ITIL
5 9 (14.52%) Analytics
6 3 (4.839%) Software Engineering
6 3 (4.839%) Incident Management
6 3 (4.839%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (3.226%) Project Management
7 2 (3.226%) Data Mapping
8 1 (1.613%) Network Architecture
8 1 (1.613%) Load Balancing
8 1 (1.613%) TOGAF
8 1 (1.613%) Service Management
8 1 (1.613%) Change Management
8 1 (1.613%) Configuration Management
8 1 (1.613%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) Java
2 18 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.52%) C
4 8 (12.90%) PHP
5 7 (11.29%) PHP5
6 6 (9.677%) SQL
7 3 (4.839%) Perl
7 3 (4.839%) Objective-C
7 3 (4.839%) Bash shell
8 2 (3.226%) Ruby
8 2 (3.226%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.226%) Python
8 2 (3.226%) C++
8 2 (3.226%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.613%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.613%) C#
9 1 (1.613%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.613%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (38.71%) Degree
2 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (9.677%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.452%) CCNP
4 4 (6.452%) CCNA
5 2 (3.226%) OCP
5 2 (3.226%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.613%) RHCE
6 1 (1.613%) CCSA
6 1 (1.613%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.613%) MCTS
6 1 (1.613%) MCP
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.065%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.452%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.839%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.839%) vSphere
5 1 (1.613%) XenServer
5 1 (1.613%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.226%) Nagios
1 2 (3.226%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.613%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) JBoss
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 12 (19.35%) Oracle
4 9 (14.52%) Cisco
5 6 (9.677%) Red Hat
6 5 (8.065%) VMware
7 3 (4.839%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.226%) IBM
9 1 (1.613%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.613%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (1.613%) Dell
9 1 (1.613%) EMC
9 1 (1.613%) Citrix
9 1 (1.613%) Twitter