The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 121 99 102
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +3
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 2 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.108% 0.416% 0.308%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.426% 1.700% 1.385%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 3
Average salary £48,750 £36,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.48% +11.53%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
469 353 361
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 25.41% 24.48% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 413 308 334
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,332 £22,270
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Salary Histogram

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

Oxfordshire CentOS Salary Histogram

CentOS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -26 1 £55,000 -
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (87.50%) Ubuntu
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) IPsec
4 3 (37.50%) Debian
4 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) Fedora
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) VPN
4 3 (37.50%) Network Design
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco PIX
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (25.00%) UNIX
5 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 1 (12.50%) IBM
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (12.50%) HP
6 1 (12.50%) Dell
6 1 (12.50%) DNS
6 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (12.50%) PHP
6 1 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) IPsec
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco PIX
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Ubuntu
3 3 (37.50%) Debian
3 3 (37.50%) Fedora
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Network Design
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 1 (12.50%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Debian, Fedora, Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu - Linux Systems Administrator BIND - Apache - Tomcat - virtualisation - Web server - hosted environment - Databases (Oracle / MySQL / SQL Server) This progressive business who are heavily involved...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + great prospects
Posted: 23 May 2013
Didcot, Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East
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Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 20 May 2013