Linux Jobs in the North East
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 10 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 98 78 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 14.20% 9.059% 8.470%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.55% 29.21% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 88 67 49
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £23,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £40,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
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All Operating Systems
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 183 267 200
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 26.52% 31.01% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 163 228 168
Average salary £33,000 £28,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.85% -13.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,600 £22,500 £23,450
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North East Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Tyne and Wear +11 81 £40,000 +6.66%
Durham -2 15 £33,000 +17.85%
Linux
England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 57 (38.51%) Cisco
2 52 (35.14%) TCP/IP
3 47 (31.76%) MySQL
4 46 (31.08%) Red Hat
5 42 (28.38%) Telecoms
6 40 (27.03%) HP
7 39 (26.35%) Internet
8 38 (25.68%) Wireless
8 38 (25.68%) Firewall
8 38 (25.68%) Apache
9 37 (25.00%) CentOS
10 36 (24.32%) Citrix
11 34 (22.97%) DNS
11 34 (22.97%) DHCP
12 33 (22.30%) QA
13 32 (21.62%) Degree
14 30 (20.27%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (19.59%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (18.92%) VLAN
16 28 (18.92%) OSPF
16 28 (18.92%) Windows
16 28 (18.92%) C
17 27 (18.24%) LDAP
18 25 (16.89%) SQL
19 24 (16.22%) XenServer
20 23 (15.54%) UNIX
21 21 (14.19%) Agile Software Development
22 20 (13.51%) Scrum
22 20 (13.51%) Nagios
23 18 (12.16%) SAN

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 14 (9.459%) .NET
2 12 (8.108%) SOAP
3 11 (7.432%) HTML
4 9 (6.081%) Qt
5 8 (5.405%) CSS
6 7 (4.730%) MFC
6 7 (4.730%) soapUI
7 6 (4.054%) ASP
7 6 (4.054%) XML
8 4 (2.703%) JSP
8 4 (2.703%) J2EE
9 2 (1.351%) JSON
10 1 (0.676%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.676%) XSLT
10 1 (0.676%) Web Services
10 1 (0.676%) XHTML
10 1 (0.676%) Django
10 1 (0.676%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.676%) CherryPy
10 1 (0.676%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 38 (25.68%) Apache
2 6 (4.054%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (4.054%) Exchange Server 2003
2 6 (4.054%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (4.054%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.676%) IIS
3 1 (0.676%) SAS
3 1 (0.676%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (0.676%) Windows Azure
3 1 (0.676%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.081%) MS Excel
2 8 (5.405%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.351%) MS Project
3 2 (1.351%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.676%) Cognos Controller
Communications & Networking
1 52 (35.14%) TCP/IP
2 39 (26.35%) Internet
3 38 (25.68%) Wireless
3 38 (25.68%) Firewall
4 34 (22.97%) DNS
4 34 (22.97%) DHCP
5 28 (18.92%) VLAN
5 28 (18.92%) OSPF
6 27 (18.24%) LDAP
7 18 (12.16%) SAN
8 17 (11.49%) BGP
9 14 (9.459%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (9.459%) HSRP
10 8 (5.405%) VPN
11 7 (4.730%) Ethernet
11 7 (4.730%) NAS
12 6 (4.054%) iSCSI
12 6 (4.054%) VoIP
13 5 (3.378%) IPsec
14 4 (2.703%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.76%) MySQL
2 8 (5.405%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.676%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.676%) Redis
3 1 (0.676%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.676%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.676%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.676%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 11 (7.432%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 11 (7.432%) Subversion
2 10 (6.757%) Selenium
3 4 (2.703%) PHPUnit
4 3 (2.027%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.676%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (28.38%) Telecoms
2 7 (4.730%) Finance
2 7 (4.730%) Marketing
3 6 (4.054%) German Language
3 6 (4.054%) Manufacturing
3 6 (4.054%) Electronics
4 5 (3.378%) Games
5 4 (2.703%) French Language
5 4 (2.703%) Italian Language
5 4 (2.703%) Back Office
6 1 (0.676%) Spanish Language
6 1 (0.676%) Hebrew Language
Job Titles
1 49 (33.11%) Administrator
2 30 (20.27%) Systems Administrator
3 29 (19.59%) Linux Administrator
4 21 (14.19%) QA Manager
5 19 (12.84%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 16 (10.81%) Software Engineer
7 15 (10.14%) Support Engineer
7 15 (10.14%) Network Administrator
8 13 (8.784%) Developer
8 13 (8.784%) Senior Linux Administrator
9 12 (8.108%) Test Engineer
10 11 (7.432%) Senior Network Administrator
11 10 (6.757%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.730%) Test Manager
12 7 (4.730%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.730%) QA Test Manager
13 6 (4.054%) QA Engineer
13 6 (4.054%) Field Service Engineer
13 6 (4.054%) Field Engineer
14 5 (3.378%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.432%) Open Source
2 7 (4.730%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (3.378%) 3D Graphics
3 5 (3.378%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.703%) Firmware
5 3 (2.027%) Clustering
6 2 (1.351%) Derivative
6 2 (1.351%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.351%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.351%) Replication
7 1 (0.676%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.00%) CentOS
2 28 (18.92%) Windows
3 23 (15.54%) UNIX
4 8 (5.405%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.405%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (4.730%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.703%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.703%) SUSE
7 3 (2.027%) Solaris
8 2 (1.351%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.351%) Fedora
9 1 (0.676%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.27%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (14.19%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (13.51%) Scrum
4 14 (9.459%) Software Testing
5 12 (8.108%) Multithreading
6 11 (7.432%) RAD
6 11 (7.432%) Configuration Management
6 11 (7.432%) Automation Testing
7 9 (6.081%) OOP
7 9 (6.081%) Test Management
8 8 (5.405%) Problem Management
8 8 (5.405%) Validation
9 7 (4.730%) Identity Management
9 7 (4.730%) Refactoring
10 6 (4.054%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (4.054%) Web Testing
10 6 (4.054%) Network Management
11 5 (3.378%) OOD
11 5 (3.378%) Unit Testing
11 5 (3.378%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.92%) C
2 25 (16.89%) SQL
3 18 (12.16%) Java
4 17 (11.49%) C++
5 12 (8.108%) PHP
5 12 (8.108%) Python
6 11 (7.432%) C#
7 8 (5.405%) Perl
8 7 (4.730%) ECMAScript
8 7 (4.730%) VC++
9 4 (2.703%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.703%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.703%) Assembly Language
9 4 (2.703%) Embedded C
9 4 (2.703%) Embedded C++
10 3 (2.027%) Bash shell
11 2 (1.351%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.676%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (21.62%) Degree
2 29 (19.59%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (10.14%) CCNA
4 14 (9.459%) CCNP
4 14 (9.459%) RHCE
5 11 (7.432%) ISTQB
6 8 (5.405%) HND
7 6 (4.054%) MCDST
7 6 (4.054%) MCSE
7 6 (4.054%) HNC
7 6 (4.054%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.378%) PhD
9 2 (1.351%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.30%) QA
2 12 (8.108%) SLA
3 2 (1.351%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 24 (16.22%) XenServer
2 10 (6.757%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.730%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.054%) NFS
4 6 (4.054%) VMware ESX
5 3 (2.027%) Xen
6 1 (0.676%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.676%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 20 (13.51%) Nagios
2 1 (0.676%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.676%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 57 (38.51%) Cisco
2 46 (31.08%) Red Hat
3 40 (27.03%) HP
4 36 (24.32%) Citrix
5 11 (7.432%) Oracle
6 10 (6.757%) VMware
7 8 (5.405%) Microsoft
8 7 (4.730%) Symantec
9 1 (0.676%) Lotus
9 1 (0.676%) Sun
9 1 (0.676%) IBM
9 1 (0.676%) Cognos
9 1 (0.676%) Axway
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