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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 2 15 18
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 98 46 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 19.07% 8.967% 9.615%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.22% 34.59% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 60 37 39
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,450 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Operating Systems
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
148 133 203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 28.79% 25.93% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 105 117 143
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +4.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £60,000 £58,500
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Middlesex Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 70 (46.67%) Windows
2 59 (39.33%) UNIX
3 39 (26.00%) Apache
3 39 (26.00%) Multithreading
4 38 (25.33%) Degree
5 37 (24.67%) MySQL
6 36 (24.00%) C++
7 34 (22.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (21.33%) Red Hat
9 31 (20.67%) C
10 29 (19.33%) ITIL
10 29 (19.33%) Security Cleared
11 28 (18.67%) Java
11 28 (18.67%) DNS
12 26 (17.33%) SQL
13 24 (16.00%) Oracle
13 24 (16.00%) OO
13 24 (16.00%) Validation
14 23 (15.33%) Broadband
15 22 (14.67%) UML
16 21 (14.00%) TCP/IP
16 21 (14.00%) XML
17 19 (12.67%) Cisco
17 19 (12.67%) CentOS
18 18 (12.00%) Nagios
18 18 (12.00%) Wireless
19 17 (11.33%) VMware
19 17 (11.33%) Solaris
20 16 (10.67%) Perl
20 16 (10.67%) HTML

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 (14.00%) XML
2 16 (10.67%) HTML
3 11 (7.333%) CSS
4 8 (5.333%) Web Services
5 7 (4.667%) HTML5
5 7 (4.667%) J2EE
5 7 (4.667%) JSON
6 6 (4.000%) ASP
7 5 (3.333%) jQuery
7 5 (3.333%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.667%) LAMP
9 2 (1.333%) Spring MVC
9 2 (1.333%) Ajax
9 2 (1.333%) Spring
9 2 (1.333%) XML Schema
9 2 (1.333%) OpenGL
9 2 (1.333%) SonicMQ
9 2 (1.333%) JMS
9 2 (1.333%) JDBC
9 2 (1.333%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 39 (26.00%) Apache
2 13 (8.667%) nginx
3 11 (7.333%) MS Exchange
4 8 (5.333%) Tomcat
4 8 (5.333%) IIS
5 7 (4.667%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (4.000%) Lync
7 5 (3.333%) CMS
8 3 (2.000%) OpenStack
8 3 (2.000%) Rackspace Cloud
9 2 (1.333%) ESB
9 2 (1.333%) SharePoint
9 2 (1.333%) Sonic ESB
10 1 (0.667%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.667%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.667%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 9 (6.000%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 28 (18.67%) DNS
2 23 (15.33%) Broadband
3 21 (14.00%) TCP/IP
4 18 (12.00%) Wireless
5 15 (10.00%) SAN
5 15 (10.00%) Firewall
6 12 (8.000%) WAN
6 12 (8.000%) LAN
7 10 (6.667%) SSH
8 9 (6.000%) OpenLDAP
9 8 (5.333%) FTP
10 7 (4.667%) VPN
11 6 (4.000%) NAS
12 5 (3.333%) HTTP
12 5 (3.333%) SNMP
12 5 (3.333%) SSL
12 5 (3.333%) Intranet
12 5 (3.333%) Internet
13 4 (2.667%) BIG-IP
13 4 (2.667%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (24.67%) MySQL
2 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.000%) Big Data
4 5 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (2.000%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.333%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.333%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.667%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.667%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (0.667%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.667%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.667%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.667%) HBase
7 1 (0.667%) Mahout
7 1 (0.667%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.667%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.667%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.667%) Git (software)
2 5 (3.333%) Selenium
2 5 (3.333%) WebDriver
2 5 (3.333%) JUnit
2 5 (3.333%) Subversion
2 5 (3.333%) JIRA
3 4 (2.667%) JMeter
4 2 (1.333%) AppScan
4 2 (1.333%) Ant
5 1 (0.667%) Mockito
5 1 (0.667%) EasyMock
5 1 (0.667%) Hudson
5 1 (0.667%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.667%) HttpUnit
General
1 14 (9.333%) Multimedia
2 11 (7.333%) Finance
3 10 (6.667%) Electronics
4 6 (4.000%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.000%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.333%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.000%) Marketing
7 2 (1.333%) Law
7 2 (1.333%) Advertising
8 1 (0.667%) Automotive
8 1 (0.667%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 48 (32.00%) Software Engineer
2 35 (23.33%) Administrator
3 28 (18.67%) Developer
4 27 (18.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 23 (15.33%) Systems Administrator
6 22 (14.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 22 (14.67%) Linux Administrator
7 18 (12.00%) Software Developer
8 15 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 13 (8.667%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 13 (8.667%) Architect
10 12 (8.000%) Server Administrator
11 11 (7.333%) Infrastructure Architect
12 10 (6.667%) Consultant
13 7 (4.667%) Support Engineer
13 7 (4.667%) Team Leader
13 7 (4.667%) UNIX Team Leader
14 6 (4.000%) Infrastructure Manager
14 6 (4.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 5 (3.333%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.333%) Open Source
2 12 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 12 (8.000%) STB
3 10 (6.667%) Clustering
4 9 (6.000%) SaaS
4 9 (6.000%) PaaS
4 9 (6.000%) IaaS
5 6 (4.000%) Firmware
5 6 (4.000%) Client/Server
5 6 (4.000%) Mathematics
6 5 (3.333%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (3.333%) Replication
7 4 (2.667%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.667%) Video on Demand
8 3 (2.000%) Digital Media
8 3 (2.000%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.000%) AS400
9 1 (0.667%) GPGPU
9 1 (0.667%) Inversion of Control
9 1 (0.667%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 70 (46.67%) Windows
2 59 (39.33%) UNIX
3 34 (22.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (12.67%) CentOS
5 17 (11.33%) Solaris
6 11 (7.333%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (4.667%) Windows 7
7 7 (4.667%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (4.000%) AIX
8 6 (4.000%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (3.333%) SUSE
10 4 (2.667%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (2.000%) Fedora
12 2 (1.333%) Ubuntu
12 2 (1.333%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.333%) Android
13 1 (0.667%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.667%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.00%) Multithreading
2 29 (19.33%) ITIL
3 24 (16.00%) OO
3 24 (16.00%) Validation
4 22 (14.67%) UML
5 16 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
7 13 (8.667%) Service Management
8 12 (8.000%) Risk Analysis
8 12 (8.000%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (7.333%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (6.667%) Release Management
11 7 (4.667%) Project Management
12 6 (4.000%) Web Development
12 6 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
13 5 (3.333%) Test Automation
13 5 (3.333%) Analytics
14 4 (2.667%) Requirements Analysis
14 4 (2.667%) Automated Testing
14 4 (2.667%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.00%) C++
2 31 (20.67%) C
3 28 (18.67%) Java
4 26 (17.33%) SQL
5 16 (10.67%) Perl
6 14 (9.333%) Ruby
6 14 (9.333%) PHP
7 13 (8.667%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.667%) Python
9 9 (6.000%) Bash shell
10 8 (5.333%) Embedded C
10 8 (5.333%) Embedded C++
11 6 (4.000%) Shell Script
11 6 (4.000%) VBScript
11 6 (4.000%) PowerShell
12 5 (3.333%) C#
13 4 (2.667%) AWK
13 4 (2.667%) MATLAB
13 4 (2.667%) sed
14 2 (1.333%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (25.33%) Degree
2 29 (19.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.333%) MCSE
3 5 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.333%) RHCE
3 5 (3.333%) RHCA
3 5 (3.333%) LPIC
4 3 (2.000%) CISSP
5 1 (0.667%) MCP
5 1 (0.667%) HND
5 1 (0.667%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.667%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.000%) SLA
2 3 (2.000%) QA
3 2 (1.333%) COBIT
3 2 (1.333%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (9.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (9.333%) Sendmail
2 12 (8.000%) vSphere
3 11 (7.333%) Xen
4 10 (6.667%) Active Directory
5 9 (6.000%) vCloud
5 9 (6.000%) Samba
6 8 (5.333%) qmail
6 8 (5.333%) Postfix
6 8 (5.333%) XenServer
7 6 (4.000%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.667%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.667%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (12.00%) Nagios
2 9 (6.000%) NetBackup
3 8 (5.333%) Puppet
4 5 (3.333%) SCOM
4 5 (3.333%) HP SIM
5 4 (2.667%) Cacti
5 4 (2.667%) Munin
6 1 (0.667%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.667%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 32 (21.33%) Red Hat
2 24 (16.00%) Oracle
3 19 (12.67%) Cisco
4 17 (11.33%) VMware
5 15 (10.00%) HP
6 12 (8.000%) Microsoft
7 11 (7.333%) NetApp
8 10 (6.667%) Sun
9 9 (6.000%) 3PAR
9 9 (6.000%) IBM
10 8 (5.333%) Rackspace
11 7 (4.667%) Brocade
12 6 (4.000%) Citrix
13 5 (3.333%) CheckPoint
14 4 (2.667%) JBoss
14 4 (2.667%) F5
15 3 (2.000%) Intel
15 3 (2.000%) Dell
15 3 (2.000%) Fortinet
16 2 (1.333%) Tripwire
Middlesex
Using various Open Source toolsets and technologies such as Nagios, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP & Perl... Knowledge in one or more of: PHP, XML, JSON, AJAX, Ruby, XJS, JQuery,...
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Posted: 6 June 2013