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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 4 11 27
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 27 32 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 17.42% 17.78% 1.667%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.37% 48.48% 5.714%
Number of salaries quoted 26 32 2
Average salary £40,000 £39,000 £45,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.56% -13.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,750 £34,250
10% offered a salary of more than £56,250 £58,500 £56,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
57 66 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 36.77% 36.67% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 55 57 23
Average salary £42,500 £39,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.59% +1.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £35,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £46,000 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Cheshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Knutsford Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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.

1 104 (71.23%) AIX
2 85 (58.22%) UNIX
3 73 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 73 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 55 (37.67%) Finance
4 55 (37.67%) SAN
5 44 (30.14%) Solaris
6 40 (27.40%) IBM
7 35 (23.97%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 35 (23.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 34 (23.29%) Tivoli
9 31 (21.23%) PHP
10 28 (19.18%) HP
11 25 (17.12%) Windows
12 24 (16.44%) Oracle
12 24 (16.44%) SQL
13 23 (15.75%) Perl
13 23 (15.75%) C
14 22 (15.07%) Service Delivery
15 21 (14.38%) Configuration Management
15 21 (14.38%) HPUX
15 21 (14.38%) Problem Management
15 21 (14.38%) WebSphere
16 20 (13.70%) Brocade
16 20 (13.70%) EMC NetWorker
16 20 (13.70%) Clustering
16 20 (13.70%) High Availability
16 20 (13.70%) EMC
16 20 (13.70%) WebSphere MQ
16 20 (13.70%) Replication

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 21 (14.38%) WebSphere
2 9 (6.164%) Software Packaging
2 9 (6.164%) CSS
2 9 (6.164%) XML
2 9 (6.164%) HTML
3 3 (2.055%) Middleware
3 3 (2.055%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 20 (13.70%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (2.055%) Gentran
2 3 (2.055%) Apache
3 1 (0.685%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (37.67%) SAN
2 15 (10.27%) NAS
3 12 (8.219%) HTTP
4 3 (2.055%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.055%) MySQL
2 1 (0.685%) DB2
General
1 55 (37.67%) Finance
2 3 (2.055%) Banking
2 3 (2.055%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 36 (24.66%) Administrator
1 36 (24.66%) Systems Administrator
2 35 (23.97%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 35 (23.97%) Linux Administrator
3 25 (17.12%) Analyst
4 24 (16.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 19 (13.01%) Team Leader
6 18 (12.33%) Storage Consultant
6 18 (12.33%) Consultant
7 15 (10.27%) Tivoli Consultant
7 15 (10.27%) Storage Manager
7 15 (10.27%) Backup Consultant
8 12 (8.219%) UNIX Administrator
8 12 (8.219%) UNIX Team Leader
8 12 (8.219%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 9 (6.164%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.479%) Infrastructure Manager
11 6 (4.110%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.055%) PHP Developer
12 3 (2.055%) Middleware Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.70%) Clustering
1 20 (13.70%) Replication
2 6 (4.110%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.685%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 104 (71.23%) AIX
2 85 (58.22%) UNIX
3 73 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (30.14%) Solaris
5 25 (17.12%) Windows
6 21 (14.38%) HPUX
7 8 (5.479%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.97%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (15.07%) Service Delivery
3 21 (14.38%) Configuration Management
3 21 (14.38%) Problem Management
4 20 (13.70%) High Availability
5 19 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (11.64%) ITIL
7 15 (10.27%) Project Management
7 15 (10.27%) Migration
8 12 (8.219%) Performance Management
9 10 (6.849%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (6.164%) MVC
10 9 (6.164%) Benchmarking
11 8 (5.479%) Incident Management
12 6 (4.110%) OO
13 5 (3.425%) TDD
14 1 (0.685%) Release Management
14 1 (0.685%) Continuous Integration
14 1 (0.685%) Build Automation
14 1 (0.685%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.23%) PHP
2 24 (16.44%) SQL
3 23 (15.75%) Perl
3 23 (15.75%) C
4 9 (6.164%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.164%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.370%) Java
6 1 (0.685%) COBOL
6 1 (0.685%) JCL
Qualifications
1 7 (4.795%) Degree
2 2 (1.370%) OCP
2 2 (1.370%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (0.685%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.219%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.164%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (1.370%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (1.370%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 35 (23.97%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 34 (23.29%) Tivoli
3 20 (13.70%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (1.370%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 73 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 40 (27.40%) IBM
3 28 (19.18%) HP
4 24 (16.44%) Oracle
5 20 (13.70%) Brocade
5 20 (13.70%) EMC
6 9 (6.164%) Sun
6 9 (6.164%) Intel
6 9 (6.164%) Veritas
7 4 (2.740%) Zend
8 3 (2.055%) Axway
9 1 (0.685%) Citrix
Knutsford, Cheshire
You will have a working awareness of enterprise IT environments and some level of awareness of middleware technologies such as Websphere, web servers, Unix, Linux, SSL encryption etc.
Reed Technology
Salary: £42000 - £50000 per annum + Flexible bens package
Posted: 22 May 2013