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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 236 233 227
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Debian 7 14 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.097% 0.197% 0.102%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.380% 0.719% 0.440%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 7
Average salary £23,000 £40,750 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-43.55% +25.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,600 £35,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £30,800 £45,000 £35,800
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Operating Systems
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1840 1946 1591
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 25.61% 27.42% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1564 1702 1414
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £22,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Debian
England

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Debian across the North West region.

North West Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Salary Histogram

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

North West Debian Salary Histogram

Debian
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the North West 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
Manchester -16 4 £23,000 -45.88%
Merseyside +12 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £35,000 -
Debian
England

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) PHP
3 8 (57.14%) Apache
4 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 6 (42.86%) Windows
4 6 (42.86%) Ubuntu
5 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (35.71%) MySQL
5 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (35.71%) DNS
6 4 (28.57%) VMware
6 4 (28.57%) IIS
6 4 (28.57%) Bash shell
7 3 (21.43%) Plesk
7 3 (21.43%) CentOS
7 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (21.43%) SQL
7 3 (21.43%) ITIL
7 3 (21.43%) UNIX
7 3 (21.43%) Solaris
7 3 (21.43%) FTP
7 3 (21.43%) Fedora
7 3 (21.43%) Xen
8 2 (14.29%) Degree
8 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (14.29%) Nagios
8 2 (14.29%) DHCP
8 2 (14.29%) Python
8 2 (14.29%) Windows 2000

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (7.143%) jQuery
2 1 (7.143%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) Apache
2 4 (28.57%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) FTP
3 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (7.143%) Internet
4 1 (7.143%) HTTP
4 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
2 1 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
1 1 (7.143%) Subversion
General
1 1 (7.143%) Dutch Language
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Administrator
2 6 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (35.71%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (28.57%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (21.43%) Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Linux Support
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Support Officer
6 2 (14.29%) PHP Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
7 1 (7.143%) Junior
7 1 (7.143%) Web Applications Developer
7 1 (7.143%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (7.143%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (7.143%) Web Developer
7 1 (7.143%) Applications Developer
7 1 (7.143%) Java Developer
7 1 (7.143%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 1 (7.143%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Open Source
1 1 (7.143%) Mathematics
1 1 (7.143%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.143%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (21.43%) CentOS
4 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (21.43%) UNIX
4 3 (21.43%) Solaris
4 3 (21.43%) Fedora
5 2 (14.29%) Windows 2000
6 1 (7.143%) AIX
6 1 (7.143%) Mac OS X
6 1 (7.143%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.143%) Web Development
3 1 (7.143%) OO
3 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.143%) Time Management
3 1 (7.143%) E-business
3 1 (7.143%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PHP
2 4 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Perl
5 1 (7.143%) Java
5 1 (7.143%) VBScript
5 1 (7.143%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Xen
2 1 (7.143%) Squid
2 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Plesk
2 2 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.143%) IBM
4 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.143%) Sun
4 1 (7.143%) HP
4 1 (7.143%) EMC