The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 42 47 15
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -32
Permanent jobs citing Linux 17 17 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.462% 3.025% 12.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.83% 22.37% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 45
Average salary £32,500 £30,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.43% -19.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,250 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £44,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
101 76 114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 20.57% 13.52% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 86 71 102
Average salary £30,000 £28,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -25.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £17,030 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,600 £47,000 £43,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
North West

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Blackpool - 4 £32,500 -
Burnley -7 3 £25,000 -19.35%
Blackburn 0 1 £45,000 +20.00%
Darwen -1 1 £18,500 -30.18%
Preston - 1 £32,500 -
Chorley - 1 £50,000 -
Linux
North West

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 21 (60.00%) CSS
2 20 (57.14%) HTML
3 19 (54.29%) PHP
4 18 (51.43%) JavaScript
4 18 (51.43%) E-Commerce
5 13 (37.14%) Retail
6 11 (31.43%) LAMP
6 11 (31.43%) MySQL
6 11 (31.43%) PHP5
6 11 (31.43%) PHP4
7 10 (28.57%) jQuery
8 8 (22.86%) CSS3
8 8 (22.86%) UNIX
9 7 (20.00%) Windows
9 7 (20.00%) Java
10 5 (14.29%) Firewall
10 5 (14.29%) VMware
10 5 (14.29%) Oracle
10 5 (14.29%) Cisco
10 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
11 4 (11.43%) MS Excel
11 4 (11.43%) VoIP
11 4 (11.43%) SQL
11 4 (11.43%) J2EE
11 4 (11.43%) Web Services
11 4 (11.43%) Scrum
11 4 (11.43%) SAN
11 4 (11.43%) CodeIgniter
11 4 (11.43%) WordPress
11 4 (11.43%) SolarWinds

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 (60.00%) CSS
2 20 (57.14%) HTML
3 11 (31.43%) LAMP
4 10 (28.57%) jQuery
5 8 (22.86%) CSS3
6 4 (11.43%) J2EE
6 4 (11.43%) Web Services
6 4 (11.43%) CodeIgniter
7 3 (8.571%) XML
8 2 (5.714%) COM
8 2 (5.714%) WSDL
8 2 (5.714%) SOAP
8 2 (5.714%) WebSphere
8 2 (5.714%) Java EE
8 2 (5.714%) Django
8 2 (5.714%) Ajax
8 2 (5.714%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.714%) Spring
8 2 (5.714%) Underscore.js
9 1 (2.857%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) WordPress
2 3 (8.571%) IIS
2 3 (8.571%) MS Exchange
2 3 (8.571%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.714%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.714%) Apache
3 2 (5.714%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (5.714%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (5.714%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (5.714%) Lync
3 2 (5.714%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.857%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.857%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (2.857%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.857%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.857%) SAP xMII
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Firewall
2 4 (11.43%) VoIP
2 4 (11.43%) SAN
3 3 (8.571%) VLAN
3 3 (8.571%) Internet
3 3 (8.571%) Wireless
3 3 (8.571%) WAN
3 3 (8.571%) LAN
3 3 (8.571%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.571%) VPN
4 2 (5.714%) DNS
4 2 (5.714%) DHCP
5 1 (2.857%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.857%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.857%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (2.857%) NAS
5 1 (2.857%) WPA2
5 1 (2.857%) Openswan
5 1 (2.857%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (2.857%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) MySQL
2 2 (5.714%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.714%) DB2
2 2 (5.714%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.857%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.857%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.857%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Eclipse
1 2 (5.714%) WebDriver
1 2 (5.714%) Selenium
1 2 (5.714%) Jasmine
General
1 13 (37.14%) Retail
2 3 (8.571%) Finance
3 2 (5.714%) Automotive
4 1 (2.857%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (65.71%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) PHP Developer
3 8 (22.86%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior PHP Developer
6 3 (8.571%) Designer
6 3 (8.571%) Web Developer
6 3 (8.571%) Consultant
6 3 (8.571%) Web Designer
7 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.714%) Programmer
7 2 (5.714%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.714%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.714%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.857%) Java Analyst Developer
8 1 (2.857%) Implementation Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) SAP Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) Clustering
1 2 (5.714%) Replication
1 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (5.714%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.857%) Open Source
2 1 (2.857%) Celerra
2 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.857%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.857%) AS400
2 1 (2.857%) CLARiiON
2 1 (2.857%) EMC Centera
2 1 (2.857%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) UNIX
2 7 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (8.571%) Solaris
4 2 (5.714%) AIX
4 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.857%) CentOS
5 1 (2.857%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.857%) SUSE
5 1 (2.857%) HPUX
5 1 (2.857%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) E-Commerce
2 4 (11.43%) Scrum
3 3 (8.571%) Web Development
3 3 (8.571%) ITIL
4 2 (5.714%) UML
4 2 (5.714%) OO
4 2 (5.714%) Change Management
4 2 (5.714%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.714%) TDD
4 2 (5.714%) Kanban
4 2 (5.714%) Unit Testing
5 1 (2.857%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.857%) Multithreading
5 1 (2.857%) Communications Security
5 1 (2.857%) Network Management
5 1 (2.857%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.857%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.857%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.857%) Project Management
5 1 (2.857%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) PHP
2 18 (51.43%) JavaScript
3 11 (31.43%) PHP5
3 11 (31.43%) PHP4
4 7 (20.00%) Java
5 4 (11.43%) SQL
6 3 (8.571%) C
6 3 (8.571%) Python
7 2 (5.714%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.857%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.857%) AWK
8 1 (2.857%) Perl
8 1 (2.857%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (8.571%) Degree
2 1 (2.857%) CCNP
2 1 (2.857%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.857%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) SLA
2 1 (2.857%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.714%) XenApp
2 2 (5.714%) vSphere
2 2 (5.714%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (2.857%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (2.857%) Terminal Server
3 1 (2.857%) NFS
3 1 (2.857%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.714%) Nagios
1 2 (5.714%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (5.714%) HP SIM
1 2 (5.714%) SCCM
1 2 (5.714%) SCOM
2 1 (2.857%) Munin
2 1 (2.857%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.857%) ARCserve
2 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.857%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) VMware
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
1 5 (14.29%) Cisco
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) SolarWinds
3 3 (8.571%) Citrix
4 2 (5.714%) HP
4 2 (5.714%) Juniper
4 2 (5.714%) NetApp
4 2 (5.714%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.857%) Tripwire
5 1 (2.857%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.857%) SAP
5 1 (2.857%) Compuware
5 1 (2.857%) EMC
5 1 (2.857%) Avaya
Preston, Lancashire
Java Developer ( Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Spring )... You will need solid knowledge of Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SOAP, Spring/Hibernate framework and XML. Exposure to Eclipse, Tomcat, UNIX...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + DOE
Posted: 16 May 2013
Burnley, Lancashire
Essential skills: Good level of commercial PHP... MySQL. Good knowledge of Javascript... Familiar to Linux... Knowledge of other languages such as Perl, Python, C++. Knowledge of jQuery and...
NES Global Talent
Salary: £18k to £22k (doe) + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Lancashire, North West
Responsibilities * Ensure that live 24/7 services are monitored and kept up * Pro-actively maintain servers/services to prevent outages * Configuration of new machines/servers/networks * Provide out-...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £20000.00 - £28000.00 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 10 May 2013