The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 22 17 29
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 32 71 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 8.672% 14.12% 7.077%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.19% 42.26% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28 57 21
Average salary £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.70% -
90% offered a salary of more than £21,750 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
106 168 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 28.73% 33.40% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 86 150 77
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £55,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Merseyside

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Liverpool Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 43 (66.15%) Windows
2 26 (40.00%) SQL
3 22 (33.85%) Java
4 21 (32.31%) PHP
4 21 (32.31%) SQL Server
5 20 (30.77%) Oracle
5 20 (30.77%) Finance
5 20 (30.77%) Degree
6 18 (27.69%) Solaris
6 18 (27.69%) UNIX
7 17 (26.15%) Computer Science
8 16 (24.62%) .NET
8 16 (24.62%) IBM
9 15 (23.08%) Sun
9 15 (23.08%) Informix
9 15 (23.08%) ERP
9 15 (23.08%) DB2
9 15 (23.08%) AIX
9 15 (23.08%) HPUX
9 15 (23.08%) SAP
9 15 (23.08%) Project Management
9 15 (23.08%) Baan
9 15 (23.08%) JD Edwards
9 15 (23.08%) Process Management
9 15 (23.08%) Manufacturing
9 15 (23.08%) Resource Management
9 15 (23.08%) Dynamics AX
9 15 (23.08%) Business Analysis
9 15 (23.08%) Strategic Planning
10 14 (21.54%) ITIL

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 16 (24.62%) .NET
2 11 (16.92%) XML
3 9 (13.85%) Zend Framework
3 9 (13.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 9 (13.85%) Qt
3 9 (13.85%) XML Messaging
3 9 (13.85%) STL
3 9 (13.85%) Web Services
4 7 (10.77%) LAMP
4 7 (10.77%) HTML
5 6 (9.231%) CSS
5 6 (9.231%) jQuery
6 5 (7.692%) MFC
7 4 (6.154%) J2EE
7 4 (6.154%) Spring
8 3 (4.615%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.077%) XHTML
9 2 (3.077%) Flash
9 2 (3.077%) JSON
9 2 (3.077%) Guice
Application Platforms
1 13 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (3.077%) ESB
3 1 (1.538%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.538%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.538%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.538%) IIS
3 1 (1.538%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.538%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.154%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.615%) Firewall
2 2 (3.077%) DNS
3 1 (1.538%) NAS
3 1 (1.538%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.538%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.538%) SAN
3 1 (1.538%) VoIP
3 1 (1.538%) SNMP
3 1 (1.538%) VPN
3 1 (1.538%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) SQL Server
2 15 (23.08%) Informix
2 15 (23.08%) DB2
3 13 (20.00%) MySQL
3 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.154%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (1.538%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Subversion
2 7 (10.77%) Git (software)
3 5 (7.692%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.538%) Hudson
4 1 (1.538%) MyEclipse
4 1 (1.538%) Maven
4 1 (1.538%) JIRA
4 1 (1.538%) Xcode
4 1 (1.538%) Ant
4 1 (1.538%) JUnit
General
1 20 (30.77%) Finance
2 15 (23.08%) Manufacturing
3 8 (12.31%) Back Office
4 5 (7.692%) Retail
5 1 (1.538%) Banking
5 1 (1.538%) Marketing
5 1 (1.538%) Publishing
5 1 (1.538%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Developer
2 19 (29.23%) Analyst
3 15 (23.08%) Business Analyst
4 10 (15.38%) C++ Developer
4 10 (15.38%) PHP Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Support Technician
6 8 (12.31%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (12.31%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 6 (9.231%) Administrator
8 5 (7.692%) LAMP Developer
8 5 (7.692%) DBA
8 5 (7.692%) Software Developer
9 4 (6.154%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.615%) PHP MySQL Developer
10 3 (4.615%) MySQL Developer
10 3 (4.615%) PHP Web Developer
10 3 (4.615%) Security Analyst
10 3 (4.615%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.615%) Information Security Analyst
10 3 (4.615%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.154%) Clustering
2 4 (6.154%) Replication
3 3 (4.615%) Open Source
3 3 (4.615%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.538%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 43 (66.15%) Windows
2 18 (27.69%) Solaris
2 18 (27.69%) UNIX
3 15 (23.08%) AIX
3 15 (23.08%) HPUX
4 4 (6.154%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.615%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (4.615%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.077%) Windows 2000
6 2 (3.077%) Android
6 2 (3.077%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.538%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.538%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.538%) Fedora
7 1 (1.538%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.08%) ERP
1 15 (23.08%) Project Management
1 15 (23.08%) Process Management
1 15 (23.08%) Resource Management
1 15 (23.08%) Business Analysis
1 15 (23.08%) Strategic Planning
2 14 (21.54%) ITIL
2 14 (21.54%) OO
3 10 (15.38%) Multithreading
4 8 (12.31%) Data Management
5 7 (10.77%) TDD
6 6 (9.231%) E-Commerce
7 5 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (7.692%) Information Security
8 4 (6.154%) UML
8 4 (6.154%) Web Design
8 4 (6.154%) Web Development
8 4 (6.154%) Load Balancing
8 4 (6.154%) Database Security
9 3 (4.615%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) SQL
2 22 (33.85%) Java
3 21 (32.31%) PHP
4 10 (15.38%) Perl
4 10 (15.38%) C++
5 4 (6.154%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.615%) PHP5
7 2 (3.077%) Groovy
7 2 (3.077%) Ruby
7 2 (3.077%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.538%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.538%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.538%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (30.77%) Degree
2 8 (12.31%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (4.615%) ISSAP
3 3 (4.615%) ISSMP
3 3 (4.615%) CISM
3 3 (4.615%) CISSP
4 1 (1.538%) MCITP
4 1 (1.538%) CISA
4 1 (1.538%) MCSE
4 1 (1.538%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) QA
2 2 (3.077%) COBIT
3 1 (1.538%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.615%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.538%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.538%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (1.538%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.538%) Nagios
1 1 (1.538%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Oracle
2 16 (24.62%) IBM
3 15 (23.08%) Sun
3 15 (23.08%) SAP
3 15 (23.08%) Baan
3 15 (23.08%) JD Edwards
4 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
5 10 (15.38%) Zend
6 4 (6.154%) Cisco
7 3 (4.615%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.077%) HP
8 2 (3.077%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.077%) Apple
9 1 (1.538%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.538%) VMware
9 1 (1.538%) Siemens
9 1 (1.538%) Dell
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