The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northwich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Northwich region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 5 19 3
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 13 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northwich 18.84% 5.769% 24.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.33% 13.64% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 6
Average salary £38,500 £27,500 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.00% -18.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £25,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £29,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Northwich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
30 22 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northwich 43.48% 42.31% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 6
Average salary £37,500 £25,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,000 £29,200
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £65,000 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Cheshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northwich 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 Northwich region.

Northwich Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northwich 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 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Nagios
4 6 (27.27%) MOM
4 6 (27.27%) pSOS
4 6 (27.27%) Cisco
4 6 (27.27%) IBM
4 6 (27.27%) HP
4 6 (27.27%) Avaya
4 6 (27.27%) SAN
4 6 (27.27%) VMware
4 6 (27.27%) STB
4 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 6 (27.27%) C
4 6 (27.27%) C++
4 6 (27.27%) HTML
4 6 (27.27%) CSS
4 6 (27.27%) ITIL
4 6 (27.27%) Windows
4 6 (27.27%) Apache
4 6 (27.27%) SharePoint
4 6 (27.27%) VoIP
4 6 (27.27%) DHCP
4 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 6 (27.27%) DNS
4 6 (27.27%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (22.73%) Open Source
5 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (22.73%) JSTL

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northwich 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 6 (27.27%) CSS
1 6 (27.27%) HTML
2 5 (22.73%) J2EE
2 5 (22.73%) Spring
2 5 (22.73%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (22.73%) Java EE
2 5 (22.73%) JSTL
2 5 (22.73%) jQuery
2 5 (22.73%) JDBC
2 5 (22.73%) Servlets
2 5 (22.73%) Struts
3 1 (4.545%) XML
3 1 (4.545%) RSS
3 1 (4.545%) XML-RPC
3 1 (4.545%) SOAP
3 1 (4.545%) Mason
3 1 (4.545%) JSON
3 1 (4.545%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) Apache
1 6 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (22.73%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (22.73%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DHCP
1 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
1 6 (27.27%) SAN
1 6 (27.27%) VoIP
2 1 (4.545%) WAN
2 1 (4.545%) LAN
2 1 (4.545%) Internet
2 1 (4.545%) Firewall
2 1 (4.545%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (4.545%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) OLTP
4 1 (4.545%) MySQL
4 1 (4.545%) Informix
4 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) JUnit
1 5 (22.73%) Subversion
1 5 (22.73%) Maven
General
1 2 (9.091%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Advertising
2 1 (4.545%) Games
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
2 1 (4.545%) Music
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Technical Manager
3 5 (22.73%) Technical Operations Manager
3 5 (22.73%) Embedded C Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) IT Operations Manager
3 5 (22.73%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Operations Manager
3 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Database Developer
4 3 (13.64%) DBA
5 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Perl Developer
5 1 (4.545%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) STB
2 5 (22.73%) Open Source
3 1 (4.545%) Streaming Music
3 1 (4.545%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
1 6 (27.27%) pSOS
1 6 (27.27%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (22.73%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce
2 5 (22.73%) Scrum
2 5 (22.73%) TDD
2 5 (22.73%) Kanban
2 5 (22.73%) Change Control
3 1 (4.545%) Analytics
3 1 (4.545%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) C
2 6 (27.27%) C++
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) Perl
3 5 (22.73%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Embedded C
3 5 (22.73%) Embedded C++
3 5 (22.73%) Ruby
4 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.545%) CCNA
2 1 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Nagios
2 6 (27.27%) MOM
3 1 (4.545%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Cisco
1 6 (27.27%) IBM
1 6 (27.27%) HP
1 6 (27.27%) Avaya
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
Northwich, Cheshire
Job Title: Database Administrator - DBA - PostgreSQL , PL/pgSQL, OLTP Skills: Cheshire, PostgreSQL Database Administrator, DBA, with ideally experience of PL/pgSQL, OLTP, PL/proxy, PgBouncer, Linux, Perl, PostgreSQL...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum + Pension+ Medical + Life Assurance
Posted: 17 May 2013
Northwich, North West
One of Cheshire's leading technical businesses are looking to further expand their IT team with a skilled Database Developer/ DBA who has the ability to play a...
JAM
Salary: £35000 - £42000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Northwich, Cheshire
One of Cheshire's leading technical businesses are looking to further expand their IT team with a skilled Database Developer/ DBA who has the ability to play a...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 16 May 2013