The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Debian 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 191 174 166
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -8
Permanent jobs citing Debian 3 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.074% 0.028% 0.177%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.291% 0.102% 0.834%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
Average salary £23,000 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-45.88% +30.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1031 976 839
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 25.41% 26.92% 21.26%
Number of salaries quoted 910 835 778
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Debian
North West

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

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

Manchester Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) PHP
3 7 (70.00%) Apache
4 4 (40.00%) MySQL
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (30.00%) Xen
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (30.00%) CentOS
5 3 (30.00%) Plesk
5 3 (30.00%) IIS
5 3 (30.00%) FTP
5 3 (30.00%) DNS
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
6 2 (20.00%) E-business
6 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (20.00%) Subversion
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (20.00%) Replication
6 2 (20.00%) VMware
6 2 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (20.00%) CSS
6 2 (20.00%) Web Services
6 2 (20.00%) UNIX
6 2 (20.00%) HTML
6 2 (20.00%) JavaScript

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) FTP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (20.00%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (40.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (20.00%) Developer
5 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
1 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) CentOS
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
5 1 (10.00%) SUSE
5 1 (10.00%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) E-business
1 2 (20.00%) Web Development
1 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Xen
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft