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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 8 15 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing Linux 7 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincoln 9.333% 1.493% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.93% 7.692% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 0
Average salary £31,500 £65,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-51.53% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Lincoln
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27 13 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincoln 36.00% 19.40% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 26 11 8
Average salary £24,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £18,000 £27,500 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £32,100 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Lincolnshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lincoln 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 Lincoln region.

Lincoln Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Lincoln Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lincoln 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 8 (80.00%) MySQL
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (80.00%) jQuery
2 7 (70.00%) Zend
2 7 (70.00%) Zend Framework
2 7 (70.00%) PHP5
2 7 (70.00%) MVC
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) LAMP
2 7 (70.00%) Logistics
2 7 (70.00%) PHP
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) HP
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (20.00%) VoIP
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) ProCurve

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lincoln 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 8 (80.00%) jQuery
2 7 (70.00%) Zend Framework
2 7 (70.00%) LAMP
3 1 (10.00%) Ext JS
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Ajax
3 1 (10.00%) XHTML
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) ASP
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior PHP Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Network Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support
4 1 (10.00%) Network Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Mandriva Linux
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Fedora
3 1 (10.00%) SUSE
3 1 (10.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) MVC
1 7 (70.00%) Logistics
1 7 (70.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) PHP5
2 7 (70.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Zend
2 3 (30.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (10.00%) Google
Lincoln
Some of the products they develop are unique and often at the leading edge of development and sometimes they are tedious time consuming but still need to work...
I4 Rec
Salary: £15k - 22k per year + benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013