The first table below looks at the demand for FreeBSD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FreeBSD over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FreeBSD
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing FreeBSD 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year
- +60.00%
All Operating Systems
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
293 193 321
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 25.32% 26.92% 30.20%
Number of salaries quoted 253 181 297
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 £26,550 £23,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £45,000 £53,900
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
FreeBSD
South East

FreeBSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent FreeBSD Jobs Demand Trend

FreeBSD
Salary Trend

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

Kent FreeBSD Salary Trend

FreeBSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) VRRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Squid
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source

FreeBSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) VRRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Squid
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware