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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 12 30 30
Rank change year-on-year
+18 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 26 13 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 15.76% 6.701% 9.036%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.83% 23.21% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26 13 15
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £27,700 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Kingston Upon Thames
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
58 56 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 35.15% 28.87% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 58 55 54
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £53,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Kingston Upon Thames region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Kingston Upon Thames Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 27 (52.94%) E-Commerce
2 23 (45.10%) PHP
3 22 (43.14%) Configuration Management
3 22 (43.14%) JIRA
4 20 (39.22%) CSS
4 20 (39.22%) Windows
5 19 (37.25%) XML
6 18 (35.29%) HTML
7 17 (33.33%) Web Services
7 17 (33.33%) QA
8 16 (31.37%) Apache
8 16 (31.37%) SQL
8 16 (31.37%) Oracle
9 15 (29.41%) SOAP
9 15 (29.41%) Java
9 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
9 15 (29.41%) UNIX
9 15 (29.41%) MS Exchange
9 15 (29.41%) Firewall
9 15 (29.41%) Degree
9 15 (29.41%) Hudson
10 14 (27.45%) Cisco
10 14 (27.45%) IBM
11 13 (25.49%) TOAD
11 13 (25.49%) ISEB
11 13 (25.49%) Project Management
11 13 (25.49%) Scrum
11 13 (25.49%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (25.49%) Automated Testing
11 13 (25.49%) AppScan

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 20 (39.22%) CSS
2 19 (37.25%) XML
3 18 (35.29%) HTML
4 17 (33.33%) Web Services
5 15 (29.41%) SOAP
6 13 (25.49%) Ajax
6 13 (25.49%) soapUI
6 13 (25.49%) jQuery
7 2 (3.922%) Sass
7 2 (3.922%) SCSS
7 2 (3.922%) FastCGI
7 2 (3.922%) Mason
7 2 (3.922%) JSON
7 2 (3.922%) CPAN
8 1 (1.961%) CGI
8 1 (1.961%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 16 (31.37%) Apache
2 15 (29.41%) MS Exchange
3 6 (11.76%) Drupal
4 5 (9.804%) CMS
5 2 (3.922%) Liferay
5 2 (3.922%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.961%) IIS
6 1 (1.961%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.961%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (29.41%) Firewall
2 11 (21.57%) SAN
3 10 (19.61%) DNS
4 9 (17.65%) IKE
4 9 (17.65%) Cisco PIX
4 9 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (15.69%) DHCP
6 6 (11.76%) VPN
6 6 (11.76%) LAN
6 6 (11.76%) WAN
6 6 (11.76%) SMTP
7 4 (7.843%) NAS
7 4 (7.843%) Internet
7 4 (7.843%) HTTP
8 3 (5.882%) FTP
8 3 (5.882%) LDAP
8 3 (5.882%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.922%) SSH
9 2 (3.922%) SNMP
9 2 (3.922%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) TOAD
2 11 (21.57%) MySQL
3 2 (3.922%) Big Data
3 2 (3.922%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.922%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.961%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (1.961%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.961%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 22 (43.14%) JIRA
2 15 (29.41%) Hudson
3 13 (25.49%) AppScan
3 13 (25.49%) WebDriver
3 13 (25.49%) Selenium
4 5 (9.804%) Git (software)
5 4 (7.843%) GitHub
6 2 (3.922%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.922%) Subversion
General
1 9 (17.65%) Retail
2 2 (3.922%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Analyst
1 13 (25.49%) Test Analyst
1 13 (25.49%) Web Analyst
1 13 (25.49%) Agile Test Analyst
1 13 (25.49%) Web Test Analyst
2 10 (19.61%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Web Developer
5 5 (9.804%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) DBA
6 3 (5.882%) Head of Infrastructure
7 2 (3.922%) Test Leader
7 2 (3.922%) QA Leader
7 2 (3.922%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.922%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.922%) Administrator
7 2 (3.922%) Tester
7 2 (3.922%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 2 (3.922%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (3.922%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.843%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.922%) Open Source
2 2 (3.922%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (3.922%) Social Network
2 2 (3.922%) Firmware
3 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.961%) Clustering
3 1 (1.961%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.961%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (39.22%) Windows
2 15 (29.41%) UNIX
3 9 (17.65%) CentOS
4 7 (13.73%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.922%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.922%) SUSE
5 2 (3.922%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.961%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.961%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) E-Commerce
2 22 (43.14%) Configuration Management
3 13 (25.49%) Project Management
3 13 (25.49%) Scrum
3 13 (25.49%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (25.49%) Automated Testing
3 13 (25.49%) Agile Testing
3 13 (25.49%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (25.49%) Security Testing
3 13 (25.49%) Web Testing
3 13 (25.49%) Manual Testing
4 8 (15.69%) Web Development
5 6 (11.76%) Systems Analysis
5 6 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (9.804%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (7.843%) Analytics
7 4 (7.843%) Project Planning
7 4 (7.843%) SEO
8 3 (5.882%) OO
9 2 (3.922%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) PHP
2 16 (31.37%) SQL
3 15 (29.41%) Java
3 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.73%) Perl
5 4 (7.843%) PHP5
5 4 (7.843%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.922%) Bash shell
6 2 (3.922%) PHP4
6 2 (3.922%) C#
6 2 (3.922%) C++
7 1 (1.961%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.961%) AWK
7 1 (1.961%) sed
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Degree
2 13 (25.49%) ISEB
3 8 (15.69%) RHCE
4 7 (13.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.922%) MCSE
5 2 (3.922%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.961%) CCNA
6 1 (1.961%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.961%) MCITP
6 1 (1.961%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.922%) Postfix
3 2 (3.922%) Squid
3 2 (3.922%) NFS
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.961%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.961%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.961%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Nagios
2 9 (17.65%) Zenoss
3 2 (3.922%) Puppet
4 1 (1.961%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.961%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.961%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Oracle
2 14 (27.45%) Cisco
2 14 (27.45%) IBM
3 11 (21.57%) VMware
4 9 (17.65%) Symantec
4 9 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 9 (17.65%) JBoss
5 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.843%) NetApp
6 4 (7.843%) EMC
7 2 (3.922%) Remedy
7 2 (3.922%) SAP
7 2 (3.922%) Citrix
7 2 (3.922%) HP
7 2 (3.922%) Dell
8 1 (1.961%) Veritas
8 1 (1.961%) Sybase
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