The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Mansfield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Mansfield region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 10 10 8
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 6 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Mansfield 15.38% 24.00% 24.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.00% 66.67% 58.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 7
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 £20,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +95.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £31,500 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £40,000 £46,900
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Mansfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 9 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Mansfield 19.23% 36.00% 41.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 12
Average salary £28,500 £40,000 £20,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.75% +95.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £22,000 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £46,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Nottinghamshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mansfield 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 Mansfield region.

Mansfield Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Mansfield 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 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) EJB
1 2 (50.00%) JDBC
1 2 (50.00%) JSP
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Intranet
1 2 (50.00%) Extranet
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Mansfield 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 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) EJB
1 2 (50.00%) JDBC
1 2 (50.00%) JSP
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (50.00%) GWT
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss Seam
1 2 (50.00%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) Intranet
1 2 (50.00%) Extranet
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support
2 1 (25.00%) Network Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Mandriva Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) SUSE
2 1 (25.00%) Debian
2 1 (25.00%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Logistics
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) ProCurve