Linux Jobs in Kent
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 36 40 67
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +27
Permanent jobs citing Linux 60 34 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 5.181% 4.670% 3.558%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.48% 17.35% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 53 31 35
Average salary £37,250 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.66% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
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%
Linux
South East

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Kent Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Maidstone +8 16 £28,750 -23.33%
Tunbridge Wells +19 12 £45,000 +5.88%
Dartford +2 7 £30,000 -20.00%
Sevenoaks - 5 £30,000 -
Sittingbourne - 4 £28,250 -
Tonbridge -9 1 £42,500 +21.42%
Dover - 1 £62,500 -
West Malling - 1 - -
Linux
South East

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 72 (48.32%) MySQL
2 64 (42.95%) Windows
3 63 (42.28%) UNIX
4 58 (38.93%) PHP
5 41 (27.52%) Apache
6 28 (18.79%) Degree
7 27 (18.12%) Retail
8 26 (17.45%) E-Commerce
8 26 (17.45%) JavaScript
9 24 (16.11%) HTML
10 23 (15.44%) SQL
10 23 (15.44%) CSS
10 23 (15.44%) Cisco
10 23 (15.44%) jQuery
11 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
12 21 (14.09%) Java
12 21 (14.09%) OOP
13 20 (13.42%) Solaris
13 20 (13.42%) Ajax
14 19 (12.75%) VMware
14 19 (12.75%) C++
14 19 (12.75%) SQL Server
15 17 (11.41%) OO
15 17 (11.41%) VPN
15 17 (11.41%) Juniper
15 17 (11.41%) QA
16 16 (10.74%) Test Scripting
16 16 (10.74%) TCP/IP
17 15 (10.07%) Firewall
17 15 (10.07%) Finance

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 24 (16.11%) HTML
2 23 (15.44%) CSS
2 23 (15.44%) jQuery
3 20 (13.42%) Ajax
4 11 (7.383%) CodeIgniter
5 9 (6.040%) .NET
5 9 (6.040%) SOAP
6 7 (4.698%) Smarty
6 7 (4.698%) REST
7 6 (4.027%) Middleware
8 5 (3.356%) XML
9 4 (2.685%) Zend Framework
9 4 (2.685%) LAMP
10 3 (2.013%) Ruby on Rails
10 3 (2.013%) J2EE
10 3 (2.013%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (1.342%) Yii
11 2 (1.342%) CSS3
11 2 (1.342%) Modernizr
11 2 (1.342%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 41 (27.52%) Apache
2 8 (5.369%) MS Exchange
3 5 (3.356%) nginx
4 2 (1.342%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.671%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.671%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.671%) IIS
5 1 (0.671%) GlassFish
5 1 (0.671%) Drupal
5 1 (0.671%) Confluence
5 1 (0.671%) concrete5
5 1 (0.671%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (6.040%) Photoshop
2 7 (4.698%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.342%) Quicktime
3 2 (1.342%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.342%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.41%) VPN
2 16 (10.74%) TCP/IP
3 15 (10.07%) Firewall
4 14 (9.396%) SAN
5 10 (6.711%) VoIP
6 9 (6.040%) VLAN
6 9 (6.040%) WAN
6 9 (6.040%) DNS
7 7 (4.698%) NAS
8 6 (4.027%) Network Security
8 6 (4.027%) DSL
8 6 (4.027%) HTTP
9 5 (3.356%) LAN
9 5 (3.356%) Internet
10 4 (2.685%) OFDM
10 4 (2.685%) SMTP
11 3 (2.013%) DHCP
12 2 (1.342%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (1.342%) 4G
12 2 (1.342%) DLNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (48.32%) MySQL
2 19 (12.75%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.356%) Redis
4 2 (1.342%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.342%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.671%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.671%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.671%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.671%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) PHPUnit
2 12 (8.054%) Selenium
2 12 (8.054%) JIRA
3 7 (4.698%) WebDriver
4 6 (4.027%) Visual Studio
5 5 (3.356%) Subversion
5 5 (3.356%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.013%) Capistrano
6 3 (2.013%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.013%) RSpec
6 3 (2.013%) Phing
7 2 (1.342%) Trac
7 2 (1.342%) Git (software)
7 2 (1.342%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.671%) Maven
8 1 (0.671%) NetBeans
8 1 (0.671%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.671%) Ant
8 1 (0.671%) JUnit
8 1 (0.671%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 27 (18.12%) Retail
2 15 (10.07%) Finance
3 8 (5.369%) Marketing
3 8 (5.369%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.685%) Banking
4 4 (2.685%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.013%) Legal
6 2 (1.342%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.342%) Advertising
6 2 (1.342%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.671%) Local Government
7 1 (0.671%) Games
7 1 (0.671%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 33 (22.15%) Developer
2 19 (12.75%) PHP Developer
3 17 (11.41%) Analyst
4 13 (8.725%) Software Engineer
5 10 (6.711%) Administrator
5 10 (6.711%) Network Specialist
6 9 (6.040%) Programmer
6 9 (6.040%) Web Developer
6 9 (6.040%) Test Analyst
7 8 (5.369%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (4.698%) Linux Administrator
8 7 (4.698%) QA Engineer
8 7 (4.698%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.698%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.027%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.027%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (4.027%) PHP Web Developer
10 5 (3.356%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 5 (3.356%) Applications Support
11 4 (2.685%) Technical Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.040%) Open Source
2 6 (4.027%) SaaS
3 5 (3.356%) EPoS
3 5 (3.356%) Computer Science
4 3 (2.013%) AS400
5 2 (1.342%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.342%) Wiki
5 2 (1.342%) iSeries
5 2 (1.342%) EFT
5 2 (1.342%) EFTPOS
5 2 (1.342%) Smartcard
5 2 (1.342%) MPEG
5 2 (1.342%) Clustering
5 2 (1.342%) Streaming Video
5 2 (1.342%) Replication
6 1 (0.671%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 1 (0.671%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.671%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.671%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.671%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 64 (42.95%) Windows
2 63 (42.28%) UNIX
3 20 (13.42%) Solaris
4 12 (8.054%) CentOS
5 10 (6.711%) AIX
6 6 (4.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.027%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (4.027%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (4.027%) HPUX
6 6 (4.027%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.027%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (3.356%) Debian
7 5 (3.356%) Android
8 4 (2.685%) Windows 8
8 4 (2.685%) Mac OS
8 4 (2.685%) VMS
9 3 (2.013%) Gentoo
9 3 (2.013%) Windows XP
9 3 (2.013%) Mac OS X
9 3 (2.013%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.45%) E-Commerce
2 21 (14.09%) OOP
3 17 (11.41%) OO
4 16 (10.74%) Test Scripting
5 13 (8.725%) Information Security
6 10 (6.711%) Problem Management
6 10 (6.711%) Multithreading
6 10 (6.711%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (6.040%) Fault Management
7 9 (6.040%) Integration Testing
7 9 (6.040%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (5.369%) Online Marketing
8 8 (5.369%) UML
8 8 (5.369%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (5.369%) Scrum
8 8 (5.369%) Software Testing
9 7 (4.698%) Extreme Programming
9 7 (4.698%) Data Modelling
9 7 (4.698%) Configuration Management
9 7 (4.698%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.93%) PHP
2 26 (17.45%) JavaScript
3 23 (15.44%) SQL
4 21 (14.09%) Java
5 19 (12.75%) C++
6 12 (8.054%) Perl
7 9 (6.040%) C
8 7 (4.698%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.356%) Embedded C++
10 3 (2.013%) Ruby
11 2 (1.342%) VB
11 2 (1.342%) VBA
11 2 (1.342%) Python
12 1 (0.671%) XPath
12 1 (0.671%) Fortran
12 1 (0.671%) MUMPS
12 1 (0.671%) C#
12 1 (0.671%) COBOL
12 1 (0.671%) PHP5
12 1 (0.671%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 28 (18.79%) Degree
2 8 (5.369%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.027%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (4.027%) ISEB
4 5 (3.356%) CCNP
5 3 (2.013%) CCNA
6 2 (1.342%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.342%) CCSP
6 2 (1.342%) MCSE
7 1 (0.671%) MCITP
7 1 (0.671%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.671%) MCSA
7 1 (0.671%) CCIE
7 1 (0.671%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.41%) QA
2 3 (2.013%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.342%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.725%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.383%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.013%) vSphere
4 2 (1.342%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.342%) NFS
4 2 (1.342%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.342%) Squid
5 1 (0.671%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (2.685%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (2.013%) NetBackup
2 3 (2.013%) Puppet
3 2 (1.342%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (1.342%) Cacti
3 2 (1.342%) Legato
3 2 (1.342%) OpenView
4 1 (0.671%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.671%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (0.671%) SCCM
4 1 (0.671%) ServiceCenter
4 1 (0.671%) Splunk
Vendors
1 23 (15.44%) Cisco
2 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.75%) VMware
4 17 (11.41%) Juniper
5 11 (7.383%) HP
5 11 (7.383%) F5
6 7 (4.698%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.698%) Apple
7 6 (4.027%) Facebook
8 5 (3.356%) Citrix
8 5 (3.356%) WatchGuard
8 5 (3.356%) 3PAR
9 4 (2.685%) Zend
9 4 (2.685%) Symantec
9 4 (2.685%) Avaya
10 3 (2.013%) SAP
10 3 (2.013%) Oracle
10 3 (2.013%) IBM
10 3 (2.013%) NetApp
11 2 (1.342%) MobileIron
Python Developer
Margate, Kent
Python, SQL (MySQL, SQLLite, Postgres, Foxpro), Linux, Python Developer... Knowledge of Linux, FoxPro, SQL, MYSQL, SQLLite & Postgres would be also useful but you must have extensive experience in...
Edison Hill Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
PHP Developer
Maidstone, South East
If you are a PHP developer at any level we have multiple clients that need your skills in the Mid Kent area... Our client a highly successful, growing,...
1st Choice Jobs
Salary: £20,000 - £30,000 per year
Posted: 30 April 2013
PHP Developer
Maidstone, Kent
Our client a highly successful, growing, online marketing company... Experience and Skills required: Strong PHP and MySQL skills. Good knowledge of HTML & CSS with the use of Jquery/...
1st Choice Computer Appointments Ltd
Salary: From £20,000 to £40,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 16 May 2013
Systems Administrator
Chatham, Kent
Microsoft Certified. Desktop experience up to and including Windows 7 (8 a bonus) Server experience up to 2008 R2 (Linux a bonus) Hands on virtualisation - VMWare / Hyper V...
Konetic Limited
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Junior PHP developer Successful digital agency Kent
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
PHP, Javascript, SQL, XML, XSLT, PostgreSQL, CSS Jquery, backend php developer... PHP5. The developer will be proficient at PHP5, either commercially or academically... SQL... The SQL will be...
Acceler-IT
Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum +bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
Senior Linux Engineer - Redhat - UK
Kent
Linux - Redhat - Shell Scripting - Vmware... Red Hat enterprise Linux experience gained in a commercial environment. Redhat clustering experience. Excellent experience in scripting with Shell (bask, KSH), Perl and...
EarthStream Global
Salary: From £60,000 to £80,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Network Engineer
Westerham, Kent
ADSL, with newer Technology such as fibre, bonded Ethernet and satellite... Current CCNA/CCNP certification. Demonstrable knowledge of Cisco switches and routers... Network and Equipment management: VLAN/VPN...
Onwave UK Ltd
Salary: £Neg
Posted: 13 May 2013
Technical Support Engineer
Maidstone, South East
iPad, iPhone, HTC, Blackberry, etc. - AJAX, CSS, XML experience a plus - MAC OSX OS - Microsoft MCP/MCTS/MCSE qualifications preferableTechnical Support Engineer Useful Skills: - Experience with relational databases...
1st Choice Jobs
Salary: £0 - £25,000 per year
Posted: 14 May 2013
Technical Support Engineer
Maidstone, Kent
iPad, iPhone, HTC, Blackberry etc - AJAX , CSS, XML experience a plus - MAC OSX OS - Microsoft MCP/MCTS/MCSE qualifications preferable Useful Skills: - Experience with relational databases such as...
1st Choice Computer Appointments Ltd
Salary: Up to £25,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cisco Network Engineer (CCNA/CCNP) - Kent - Up to £40,000
Kent
Network and Equipment management: VLAN/VPN configuration, access control, Firewalls and VPN, analysing networks, and core connectivity... Valid UK driver's license Windows Server 2003 & 2008; Exchange and/...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits, training
Posted: 20 May 2013
Software Engineer: Embedded, C++, Linux
Dartford, Kent, South East
We are looking to recruit a C++ Embedded Software Engineer to work on an embedded Linux project. The applications are mainly written in C / C++ and so experience...
1st Choice Jobs
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 per year
Posted: 18 May 2013
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