The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Support in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 566 580 587
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 43 60 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.099% 0.112% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.106% 0.119% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 30 47 44
Average salary £48,000 £35,000 £42,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.14% -18.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,750 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £34,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+8.69% +7.81%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40744 50505 53832
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.86% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34331 43869 45250
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Linux Support
England

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Support across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support
Salary Trend

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

London Linux Support Salary Trend

Linux Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Support across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Linux Support Salary Histogram

Linux Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +11 19 £37,000 +34.54%
Croydon - 2 £49,000 -
Ealing - 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 £52,500 -
Linux Support
England

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title.

1 86 (100.00%) Linux
2 44 (51.16%) Windows
3 39 (45.35%) Red Hat
4 34 (39.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (32.56%) DNS
6 27 (31.40%) TCP/IP
7 25 (29.07%) Windows Server 2008
8 24 (27.91%) Active Directory
9 23 (26.74%) UNIX
10 22 (25.58%) Bash shell
11 20 (23.26%) Degree
12 19 (22.09%) Perl
12 19 (22.09%) MySQL
13 18 (20.93%) Apache
14 17 (19.77%) DHCP
14 17 (19.77%) Computer Science
15 16 (18.60%) Finance
15 16 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
15 16 (18.60%) Python
15 16 (18.60%) ITIL
15 16 (18.60%) Oracle
16 15 (17.44%) PHP
16 15 (17.44%) RHCE
16 15 (17.44%) E-Commerce
17 13 (15.12%) VMware
17 13 (15.12%) Linux+ Certification
17 13 (15.12%) LAMP
17 13 (15.12%) IBM
18 11 (12.79%) Tivoli
18 11 (12.79%) Java

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (15.12%) LAMP
2 10 (11.63%) WebSphere
3 9 (10.47%) J2EE
4 8 (9.302%) .NET
5 7 (8.140%) Middleware
6 6 (6.977%) ASP.NET
6 6 (6.977%) Web Services
6 6 (6.977%) XML
7 4 (4.651%) JMS
7 4 (4.651%) JMX
7 4 (4.651%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.326%) Java EE
9 1 (1.163%) JSP
9 1 (1.163%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 18 (20.93%) Apache
2 10 (11.63%) Tomcat
3 8 (9.302%) IIS
3 8 (9.302%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (2.326%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.163%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.163%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 28 (32.56%) DNS
2 27 (31.40%) TCP/IP
3 17 (19.77%) DHCP
4 9 (10.47%) SAN
5 6 (6.977%) NAS
6 5 (5.814%) Firewall
6 5 (5.814%) VPN
7 4 (4.651%) HTTP
7 4 (4.651%) BIG-IP
7 4 (4.651%) NetScaler
8 3 (3.488%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (3.488%) Wireless
8 3 (3.488%) SNMP
8 3 (3.488%) LDAP
8 3 (3.488%) Broadband
8 3 (3.488%) MPLS
8 3 (3.488%) OSPF
8 3 (3.488%) TELNET
9 2 (2.326%) Intranet
9 2 (2.326%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) MySQL
2 6 (6.977%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.977%) DB2
3 3 (3.488%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 16 (18.60%) Finance
2 5 (5.814%) Banking
3 3 (3.488%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.163%) Retail
4 1 (1.163%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Computer Science
2 6 (6.977%) Open Source
3 4 (4.651%) CLARiiON
3 4 (4.651%) EMC Centera
3 4 (4.651%) Grid Computing
4 2 (2.326%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.326%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.163%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.163%) Replication
5 1 (1.163%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 86 (100.00%) Linux
2 44 (51.16%) Windows
3 34 (39.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (29.07%) Windows Server 2008
5 23 (26.74%) UNIX
6 16 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (10.47%) Solaris
7 9 (10.47%) CentOS
8 3 (3.488%) SUSE
8 3 (3.488%) Debian
8 3 (3.488%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.326%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.163%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.163%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.163%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.60%) ITIL
2 15 (17.44%) E-Commerce
3 8 (9.302%) Problem Management
4 7 (8.140%) Content Management
5 6 (6.977%) Statistical Analysis
5 6 (6.977%) Service Delivery
6 4 (4.651%) Configuration Management
6 4 (4.651%) Asset Management
6 4 (4.651%) Budget Control
7 3 (3.488%) Network Management
7 3 (3.488%) Change Control
8 2 (2.326%) System Testing
8 2 (2.326%) Information Security
8 2 (2.326%) Operations Management
8 2 (2.326%) Load Balancing
8 2 (2.326%) Change Management
9 1 (1.163%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (1.163%) Scrum
9 1 (1.163%) B2B
9 1 (1.163%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.58%) Bash shell
2 19 (22.09%) Perl
3 16 (18.60%) Python
4 15 (17.44%) PHP
5 11 (12.79%) Java
6 9 (10.47%) Ruby
7 6 (6.977%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.977%) AWK
7 6 (6.977%) SQL
8 4 (4.651%) sed
9 1 (1.163%) VBScript
9 1 (1.163%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (23.26%) Degree
2 15 (17.44%) RHCE
3 13 (15.12%) Linux+ Certification
4 3 (3.488%) CCNP
4 3 (3.488%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.488%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.163%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.651%) SLA
2 3 (3.488%) COBIT
System Software
1 24 (27.91%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.140%) NFS
3 6 (6.977%) vSphere
4 5 (5.814%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.814%) Samba
5 4 (4.651%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.163%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (1.163%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (1.163%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 11 (12.79%) Tivoli
2 7 (8.140%) Puppet
3 6 (6.977%) Cacti
3 6 (6.977%) Nagios
4 4 (4.651%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 4 (4.651%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.163%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (1.163%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 39 (45.35%) Red Hat
2 16 (18.60%) Oracle
3 13 (15.12%) IBM
3 13 (15.12%) VMware
4 9 (10.47%) JBoss
5 6 (6.977%) Cisco
5 6 (6.977%) EMC
5 6 (6.977%) F5
6 5 (5.814%) Juniper
7 4 (4.651%) Citrix
8 3 (3.488%) Veritas
8 3 (3.488%) Brocade
8 3 (3.488%) Foundry
9 2 (2.326%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.163%) NetIQ
10 1 (1.163%) Remedy
10 1 (1.163%) BMC
10 1 (1.163%) Intel
10 1 (1.163%) Sun
10 1 (1.163%) HP
City, London
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