The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 24 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 41 51 49
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 20 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.132% 0.222% 0.242%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.18% 0.917% 1.075%
Number of salaries quoted 18 1 1
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +70.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
All Operating Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
141 109 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 29.13% 24.17% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 127 82 82
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,500 £21,750
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £38,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
Tyne and Wear

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CentOS across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CentOS across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne CentOS Salary Histogram

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 34 (100.00%) Linux
1 34 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 33 (97.06%) Apache
3 32 (94.12%) MySQL
4 31 (91.18%) Cisco
5 30 (88.24%) HP
5 30 (88.24%) Firewall
6 28 (82.35%) DNS
6 28 (82.35%) DHCP
7 27 (79.41%) LDAP
8 24 (70.59%) Citrix
9 21 (61.76%) Internet
10 20 (58.82%) Wireless
10 20 (58.82%) Telecoms
10 20 (58.82%) XenServer
11 17 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (50.00%) OSPF
11 17 (50.00%) BGP
12 16 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (44.12%) VLAN
14 14 (41.18%) RHCE
15 13 (38.24%) Degree
16 12 (35.29%) CCNA
17 10 (29.41%) Nagios
18 8 (23.53%) SAN
18 8 (23.53%) VPN
19 6 (17.65%) MS Visio
19 6 (17.65%) Identity Management
19 6 (17.65%) Validation
20 4 (11.76%) Change Control

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.941%) Node.js
1 1 (2.941%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.941%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (2.941%) .NET
1 1 (2.941%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 33 (97.06%) Apache
2 1 (2.941%) nginx
2 1 (2.941%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 30 (88.24%) Firewall
2 28 (82.35%) DNS
2 28 (82.35%) DHCP
3 27 (79.41%) LDAP
4 21 (61.76%) Internet
5 20 (58.82%) Wireless
6 17 (50.00%) OSPF
6 17 (50.00%) BGP
7 15 (44.12%) VLAN
8 8 (23.53%) SAN
8 8 (23.53%) VPN
9 3 (8.824%) IPsec
9 3 (8.824%) HSRP
9 3 (8.824%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (2.941%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (2.941%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (94.12%) MySQL
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (58.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (88.24%) Administrator
2 27 (79.41%) Linux Administrator
3 21 (61.76%) Systems Administrator
4 17 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 13 (38.24%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 5 (14.71%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 3 (8.824%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Cisco Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Network Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Network Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.882%) Ubuntu
2 2 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.941%) UNIX
3 1 (2.941%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (17.65%) Identity Management
2 6 (17.65%) Validation
3 4 (11.76%) Change Control
4 2 (5.882%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.941%) Ruby
1 1 (2.941%) PHP
1 1 (2.941%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (41.18%) RHCE
3 13 (38.24%) Degree
4 12 (35.29%) CCNA
5 4 (11.76%) CCNP
System Software
1 20 (58.82%) XenServer
2 1 (2.941%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 31 (91.18%) Cisco
3 30 (88.24%) HP
4 24 (70.59%) Citrix
5 1 (2.941%) VMware