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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 34 14 29
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 10 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincolnshire 4.444% 7.018% 1.399%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.36% 22.86% 6.452%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 2
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -17.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,200 £33,300
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £47,000 £39,700
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Operating Systems
Lincolnshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
88 35 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincolnshire 39.11% 30.70% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 57 32 29
Average salary £28,500 £34,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.39% +25.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £27,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £38,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire region.

Lincolnshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Lincolnshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Lincoln +8 7 £31,500 +36.95% 2
Sleaford - 2 £28,500 -
Grantham - 2 £28,500 -
Stamford -1 1 £45,000 -
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 12 (60.00%) PHP
2 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (50.00%) MySQL
2 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) LAMP
3 8 (40.00%) jQuery
4 7 (35.00%) PHP5
4 7 (35.00%) Logistics
4 7 (35.00%) Zend
4 7 (35.00%) Zend Framework
4 7 (35.00%) MVC
4 7 (35.00%) Finance
4 7 (35.00%) HP
4 7 (35.00%) OO
5 6 (30.00%) UNIX
6 5 (25.00%) MS Exchange
6 5 (25.00%) VoIP
6 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
6 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (25.00%) VMware
6 5 (25.00%) VMware ESX
6 5 (25.00%) Software Deployment
6 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (25.00%) ProCurve
6 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (25.00%) Open Source
6 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 10 (50.00%) LAMP
2 8 (40.00%) jQuery
3 7 (35.00%) Zend Framework
4 4 (20.00%) .NET
5 3 (15.00%) HTML
5 3 (15.00%) ASP
5 3 (15.00%) XML
6 2 (10.00%) HTML5
7 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.000%) CSS
7 1 (5.000%) XHTML
7 1 (5.000%) Middleware
7 1 (5.000%) Ext JS
7 1 (5.000%) JSON
7 1 (5.000%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (15.00%) IIS
2 3 (15.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.000%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) VoIP
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) SSH
3 2 (10.00%) Internet
3 2 (10.00%) Broadband
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) FTP
3 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.00%) SQLPlus
4 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.000%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (5.000%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.000%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) PHP Developer
1 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Server Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Senior PHP Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Development Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Development Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (10.00%) E-Learning
3 1 (5.000%) Social Media
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) UNIX
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.000%) HPUX
5 1 (5.000%) SUSE
5 1 (5.000%) Debian
5 1 (5.000%) CentOS
5 1 (5.000%) Android
5 1 (5.000%) Fedora
5 1 (5.000%) Mandriva Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Logistics
1 7 (35.00%) MVC
1 7 (35.00%) OO
2 5 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (10.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (5.000%) Project Management
4 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.000%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) PHP
2 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) PHP5
4 3 (15.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (10.00%) MCP
1 2 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (5.000%) OCP
2 1 (5.000%) OCA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Zend
1 7 (35.00%) HP
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
2 5 (25.00%) ProCurve
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.000%) Google
Lincoln, East Midlands
The ideal candidate will have strong experience within Unix/Linux administration, scripting and good problem solving skills. Any experience with web application development and support including Apache, Java,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £27000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Negotiable on experience+Bens
Posted: 5 June 2013
Lincoln, East Midlands
The ideal candidate will have strong experience within Unix/Linux administration(Ideally HP-UX), scripting and good problem solving skills. Any experience with web application development and support...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £25000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Negotiable+Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Spalding, Lincolnshire
Windows - Vmware - MS Server 2008 - Exchange - Active Directory SQL Server 2005 / 2008 - Citrix - MCITP - TCP/IP This company are known for looking after both their clients and their...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £25000 - £28000 per annum + good benefits + training
Posted: 14 June 2013