The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Debian 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 90 70 -
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -
Permanent jobs citing Debian 2 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.173% 0.549% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.683% 2.041% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
Average salary £43,750 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Operating Systems
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
293 196 316
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 25.30% 26.92% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 251 186 292
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £23,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £45,000 £53,800
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Debian
South East

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Debian across the Kent region.

Kent Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) CentOS
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) Internet
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (40.00%) Redis
4 2 (40.00%) nginx
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Memcached
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) SSL
4 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
4 2 (40.00%) SMTP
4 2 (40.00%) HTTP
4 2 (40.00%) Squid

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) SSL
3 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 2 (40.00%) HTTP
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) VRRP
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) CentOS
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
3 2 (40.00%) OpenBSD
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) Squid
3 1 (20.00%) Xen
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (20.00%) WatchGuard