Livingston Linux Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Livingston region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Ascot Atherstone Aylesbury Baldock Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Gourock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Humberside Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Kendal Kent Kidlington Kings Langley Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlborough Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Rayleigh Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochford Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Tamworth Taunton Tayside Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tilbury Tonbridge Torquay Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Wareham Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	32
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	12.94 %	16.00 %
Salaries quoted	11	7
Average minimum salary	£31,727	£28,143
Average salary	£35,182	£29,214
% change on same period last year	+20.42 %
Average maximum salary	£38,636	£30,286
UK excluding London average salary	£36,725	£36,239
% change on same period last year	+1.34 %
Operating Systems Livingston
Matching permanent IT job ads	85	50
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.022 %
Salaries quoted	62	15
Average minimum salary	£33,850	£32,462
Average salary	£36,530	£34,410
% change on same period last year	+6.16 %
Average maximum salary	£39,210	£36,359
UK excluding London average salary	£34,285	£34,402
% change on same period last year	-0.34 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Livingston region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Livingston region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Livingston region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 22 (91.67 %) UNIX 2 17 (70.83 %) Java 3 11 (45.83 %) Windows 4 9 (37.50 %) J2EE 4 9 (37.50 %) Oracle 5 8 (33.33 %) Perl 6 7 (29.17 %) Degree 6 7 (29.17 %) WebSphere 7 5 (20.83 %) ESB 7 5 (20.83 %) Ant 7 5 (20.83 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 5 (20.83 %) JSP 7 5 (20.83 %) Shell Script 7 5 (20.83 %) LDAP 7 5 (20.83 %) Jython

7 5 (20.83 %) WPS 7 5 (20.83 %) Korn 8 4 (16.67 %) Software Engineering 8 4 (16.67 %) SCADA 9 3 (12.50 %) Pensions 9 3 (12.50 %) Data Management 9 3 (12.50 %) Clustering 9 3 (12.50 %) Education 9 3 (12.50 %) AIX 9 3 (12.50 %) HPUX 9 3 (12.50 %) C 9 3 (12.50 %) SQL 9 3 (12.50 %) VB 10 2 (8.333 %) MySQL 10 2 (8.333 %) PHP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 9 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 7 (29.17 %) WebSphere 3 5 (20.83 %) JSP 4 2 (8.333 %) SOAP 4 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 4 2 (8.333 %) XML 5 1 (4.167 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 5 (20.83 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 5 (20.83 %) WPS 1 5 (20.83 %) ESB 2 2 (8.333 %) WebLogic 2 2 (8.333 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 5 (20.83 %) LDAP 2 2 (8.333 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) MySQL 1 2 (8.333 %) PostgreSQL 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) Ant
General 1 3 (12.50 %) Education 1 3 (12.50 %) Pensions 2 2 (8.333 %) Health 2 2 (8.333 %) Games 3 1 (4.167 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Electric 3 1 (4.167 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 17 (70.83 %) Developer 2 9 (37.50 %) Software Developer 2 9 (37.50 %) J2EE Developer 3 5 (20.83 %) Perl Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) Graduate 4 3 (12.50 %) Project Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Junior 5 2 (8.333 %) Java Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) Technical Specialist 5 2 (8.333 %) UNIX Specialist 5 2 (8.333 %) Graduate Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) UNIX Technical Specialist 5 2 (8.333 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Graduate Java Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior Java Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior J2EE Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) SCADA 2 3 (12.50 %) Clustering 3 2 (8.333 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 22 (91.67 %) UNIX 2 11 (45.83 %) Windows 3 3 (12.50 %) AIX 3 3 (12.50 %) HPUX 4 2 (8.333 %) Solaris 5 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Software Engineering 2 3 (12.50 %) Data Management 3 2 (8.333 %) SOA 4 1 (4.167 %) Migration 4 1 (4.167 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 17 (70.83 %) Java 2 8 (33.33 %) Perl 3 5 (20.83 %) Shell Script 3 5 (20.83 %) Jython 3 5 (20.83 %) Korn 4 3 (12.50 %) SQL 4 3 (12.50 %) VB 4 3 (12.50 %) C 5 2 (8.333 %) PHP 6 1 (4.167 %) C++
Qualifications 1 7 (29.17 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) HND	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 9 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.333 %) IBM 2 2 (8.333 %) HP 3 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat 3 1 (4.167 %) Atos Origin