The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 55 32 28
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 5 28 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 1.370% 6.829% 6.643%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.757% 25.00% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 25 15
Average salary £28,500 £28,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.78% -25.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Operating Systems
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
74 112 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 20.27% 27.32% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 66 99 46
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% +12.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £22,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,250 £43,872
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Leicestershire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) MySQL
4 7 (28.00%) Oracle
4 7 (28.00%) PHP
4 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (28.00%) OOP
4 7 (28.00%) OO
4 7 (28.00%) VMware
4 7 (28.00%) jQuery
4 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (24.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (24.00%) Photoshop
6 5 (20.00%) SQL
6 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (20.00%) HP
6 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (16.00%) Open Source
7 4 (16.00%) IVR
7 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (16.00%) Avaya
7 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
7 4 (16.00%) Perl
7 4 (16.00%) MS Office
7 4 (16.00%) CSS
7 4 (16.00%) Web Services
7 4 (16.00%) HTML
7 4 (16.00%) UNIX
7 4 (16.00%) PBX

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 7 (28.00%) jQuery
2 4 (16.00%) CSS
2 4 (16.00%) Web Services
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) XHTML
3 3 (12.00%) XML
3 3 (12.00%) Ajax
3 3 (12.00%) Zend Framework
4 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.000%) .NET
4 1 (4.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (12.00%) CMS
1 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.000%) Joomla!
2 1 (4.000%) Drupal
2 1 (4.000%) SilverStripe
2 1 (4.000%) WordPress
2 1 (4.000%) Magento
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 6 (24.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (16.00%) MS Office
3 3 (12.00%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) PBX
1 4 (16.00%) VoIP
2 2 (8.000%) iSCSI
2 2 (8.000%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.000%) SAN
3 1 (4.000%) HTTP
3 1 (4.000%) VPN
3 1 (4.000%) Internet
3 1 (4.000%) MPLS
3 1 (4.000%) OSPF
3 1 (4.000%) BGP
3 1 (4.000%) Firewall
3 1 (4.000%) Wireless
3 1 (4.000%) FWSM
3 1 (4.000%) HSRP
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Dreamweaver
1 3 (12.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.000%) Marketing
3 1 (4.000%) Back Office
3 1 (4.000%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Avaya Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Telecoms Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Telecoms Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Server Specialist
4 2 (8.000%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (4.000%) Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) DBA
5 1 (4.000%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Software Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Open Source
1 4 (16.00%) IVR
2 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.000%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (16.00%) UNIX
4 2 (8.000%) SUSE
5 1 (4.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) OOP
1 7 (28.00%) OO
2 3 (12.00%) CRM
2 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (12.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (12.00%) Software Deployment
2 3 (12.00%) Test Management
2 3 (12.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (8.000%) Web Marketing
3 2 (8.000%) ITIL
4 1 (4.000%) OOD
4 1 (4.000%) UML
4 1 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.000%) Resource Management
4 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.000%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) PHP
1 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Perl
4 1 (4.000%) C
4 1 (4.000%) C#
4 1 (4.000%) C++
4 1 (4.000%) Embedded C
4 1 (4.000%) Embedded C++
4 1 (4.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) ISEB
2 2 (8.000%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.000%) VCP4
2 2 (8.000%) Degree
2 2 (8.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.000%) CCNP
3 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.000%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.000%) TickIT
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (8.000%) vSphere
5 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) Avaya
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.00%) Apple
5 3 (12.00%) Adobe
5 3 (12.00%) Zend
5 3 (12.00%) ProCurve
6 2 (8.000%) Cisco
6 2 (8.000%) Dell
6 2 (8.000%) Novell
7 1 (4.000%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.000%) Citrix
7 1 (4.000%) F5
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