The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 6 1 11
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 11 23 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor 23.91% 40.35% 1.923%
As % of the Operating Systems category 91.67% 95.83% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 21 1
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
M4 Corridor
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
12 24 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor 26.09% 42.11% 3.846%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 2
Average salary £40,000 £45,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.56% +14.37%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
South East

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

M4 Corridor Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the M4 Corridor region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

M4 Corridor Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 26 (86.67%) UNIX
1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 25 (83.33%) Windows
3 21 (70.00%) Web Services
3 21 (70.00%) Apache
3 21 (70.00%) Oracle
3 21 (70.00%) SQL Server
3 21 (70.00%) IIS
3 21 (70.00%) CISSP
3 21 (70.00%) LAN
3 21 (70.00%) WAN
3 21 (70.00%) TCP/IP
3 21 (70.00%) CEH
3 21 (70.00%) Nmap
3 21 (70.00%) SaaS
3 21 (70.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 15 (50.00%) German Language
5 9 (30.00%) French Language
6 8 (26.67%) Perl
7 6 (20.00%) C
8 5 (16.67%) Sourcefire
8 5 (16.67%) Snort
8 5 (16.67%) Network Security
8 5 (16.67%) ArcSight
8 5 (16.67%) SIEM
8 5 (16.67%) Q1 Labs
8 5 (16.67%) Cisco
8 5 (16.67%) McAfee
9 4 (13.33%) Java
10 3 (10.00%) Python

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 21 (70.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 21 (70.00%) Apache
1 21 (70.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 21 (70.00%) LAN
2 21 (70.00%) WAN
2 21 (70.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (16.67%) Network Security
4 3 (10.00%) DNS
4 3 (10.00%) HTTPS
4 3 (10.00%) SSL
4 3 (10.00%) FTP
4 3 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (70.00%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (50.00%) German Language
2 9 (30.00%) French Language
3 1 (3.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Pre Sales Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (70.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 26 (86.67%) UNIX
2 25 (83.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (3.333%) OOP
3 1 (3.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Perl
2 6 (20.00%) C
3 4 (13.33%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.333%) C#
5 1 (3.333%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) CISSP
1 21 (70.00%) CEH
System Software
1 21 (70.00%) Nmap
2 5 (16.67%) Snort
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) Sourcefire
2 5 (16.67%) ArcSight
2 5 (16.67%) Q1 Labs
2 5 (16.67%) Cisco
2 5 (16.67%) McAfee
3 1 (3.333%) SAP