The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 19 June 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 182 162 160
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 5 14 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.119% 0.373% 0.125%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.125% 0.388% 0.131%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 5
Average salary £29,000 £30,000 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.33% +30.43%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +9.37%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4013 3607 3819
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.43% 95.98% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3458 3202 3491
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Linux Support
North West

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Linux Support Salary Trend

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Stockport -12 1 £29,000 -9.37%
Linux Support
North West

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (70.83%) UNIX
3 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
4 9 (37.50%) Windows
5 8 (33.33%) Java
5 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (29.17%) CentOS
6 7 (29.17%) SQL
6 7 (29.17%) Solaris
6 7 (29.17%) Apache
6 7 (29.17%) Tomcat
7 6 (25.00%) MySQL
7 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (20.83%) Windows 2000 Server
8 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
8 5 (20.83%) Client/Server
8 5 (20.83%) LAN
8 5 (20.83%) WAN
8 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
9 4 (16.67%) AIX
9 4 (16.67%) Bash shell
10 3 (12.50%) High Availability
10 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
10 3 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (12.50%) Veritas
10 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
10 3 (12.50%) Management Information System

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) Apache
1 7 (29.17%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) LAN
1 5 (20.83%) WAN
2 2 (8.333%) HTTP
2 2 (8.333%) DNS
3 1 (4.167%) FTP
3 1 (4.167%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) MySQL
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
General
1 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Financial Institution
2 1 (4.167%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (20.83%) Client/Server
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.333%) Handset
4 1 (4.167%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (70.83%) UNIX
3 9 (37.50%) Windows
4 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (29.17%) CentOS
5 7 (29.17%) Solaris
6 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (20.83%) Windows 2000 Server
8 4 (16.67%) AIX
9 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
9 3 (12.50%) Fedora
10 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
10 1 (4.167%) HPUX
10 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (4.167%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) High Availability
1 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
1 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (4.167%) ITIL
2 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
2 1 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Bash shell
4 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.167%) Perl
5 1 (4.167%) PHP
5 1 (4.167%) C
5 1 (4.167%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (4.167%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.50%) Veritas
3 2 (8.333%) Remedy
4 1 (4.167%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.167%) 3PAR
4 1 (4.167%) HP
4 1 (4.167%) Dell
4 1 (4.167%) EMC
4 1 (4.167%) Intel
4 1 (4.167%) NetApp
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle
4 1 (4.167%) VMware
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