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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 13 15 18
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 195 151 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 10.64% 10.26% 9.506%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.54% 41.60% 41.73%
Number of salaries quoted 162 129 140
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,332 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,500 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
481 363 369
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 26.24% 24.66% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 426 318 343
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 £27,500 £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%
Linux
South East

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +11 105 £45,000 +12.50%
Witney - 15 £48,000 -
Abingdon -3 13 £40,000 +8.84%
Banbury -2 6 £28,500 -26.92%
Carterton - 1 £23,500 -
Linux
South East

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

1 253 (50.40%) Windows
2 117 (23.31%) UNIX
3 99 (19.72%) SQL
4 96 (19.12%) C++
5 95 (18.92%) Microsoft
6 93 (18.53%) C
7 82 (16.33%) Apache
8 81 (16.14%) Python
9 77 (15.34%) Degree
10 71 (14.14%) JavaScript
11 70 (13.94%) Java
12 65 (12.95%) SQL Server
13 64 (12.75%) C#
14 62 (12.35%) MySQL
14 62 (12.35%) Oracle
15 55 (10.96%) .NET
16 51 (10.16%) SAN
17 48 (9.562%) Cisco
18 46 (9.163%) PHP
19 45 (8.964%) Disaster Recovery
20 44 (8.765%) Ruby
21 43 (8.566%) Red Hat
22 42 (8.367%) VMware
23 41 (8.167%) OO
24 37 (7.371%) CRM
25 35 (6.972%) Agile Software Development
25 35 (6.972%) NAS
26 34 (6.773%) LAMP
27 33 (6.574%) Solaris
27 33 (6.574%) WCF

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 55 (10.96%) .NET
2 34 (6.773%) LAMP
3 33 (6.574%) WCF
3 33 (6.574%) WPF
4 30 (5.976%) Web Services
5 29 (5.777%) HTML
5 29 (5.777%) .NET Framework
5 29 (5.777%) LINQ
6 25 (4.980%) CSS
7 23 (4.582%) Ajax
8 18 (3.586%) Qt
9 17 (3.386%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 16 (3.187%) STL
11 14 (2.789%) Hibernate
11 14 (2.789%) Spring
11 14 (2.789%) WebSphere
12 12 (2.390%) XML
13 10 (1.992%) jQuery
14 8 (1.594%) Java EE
15 5 (0.996%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 82 (16.33%) Apache
2 21 (4.183%) Tomcat
2 21 (4.183%) Amazon AWS
3 18 (3.586%) SharePoint
4 17 (3.386%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (2.590%) Drupal
6 11 (2.191%) SAS
6 11 (2.191%) CMS
7 10 (1.992%) WebLogic
8 8 (1.594%) ESB
9 7 (1.394%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.195%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (1.195%) Jetty
10 6 (1.195%) MS Exchange
11 5 (0.996%) nginx
11 5 (0.996%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.996%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (0.996%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.598%) Exchange Server 2007
13 2 (0.398%) Alfresco
Applications
1 32 (6.375%) MS Excel
2 12 (2.390%) MS Office
3 4 (0.797%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.598%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.398%) Simulink
6 1 (0.199%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 7 (1.394%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.394%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.16%) SAN
2 35 (6.972%) NAS
3 32 (6.375%) TCP/IP
4 31 (6.175%) AMQP
5 23 (4.582%) Firewall
5 23 (4.582%) DNS
6 21 (4.183%) Fibre Channel
7 18 (3.586%) Ethernet
7 18 (3.586%) IPsec
8 15 (2.988%) iSCSI
9 14 (2.789%) FCoE
9 14 (2.789%) VLAN
10 13 (2.590%) SMTP
10 13 (2.590%) HTTP
11 12 (2.390%) BGP
12 11 (2.191%) LAN
13 10 (1.992%) VPN
14 9 (1.793%) OSPF
15 8 (1.594%) LDAP
15 8 (1.594%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.95%) SQL Server
2 62 (12.35%) MySQL
3 21 (4.183%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (2.390%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.191%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.793%) RDBMS
6 9 (1.793%) Oracle 8/8i
7 7 (1.394%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.394%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.195%) MOLAP
8 6 (1.195%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.195%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.996%) Neo4j
9 5 (0.996%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 4 (0.797%) MarkLogic
10 4 (0.797%) SQL Server 2005
10 4 (0.797%) SQL Server 2000
11 3 (0.598%) QlikView
11 3 (0.598%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.398%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (3.785%) Subversion
2 12 (2.390%) Eclipse
3 11 (2.191%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.992%) LoadRunner
5 8 (1.594%) GCC
5 8 (1.594%) MSBuild
5 8 (1.594%) CMake
6 6 (1.195%) Eclipse RCP
6 6 (1.195%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.797%) Rational Robot
8 3 (0.598%) Git (software)
8 3 (0.598%) GDB
9 1 (0.199%) JIRA
9 1 (0.199%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.199%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.199%) RSpec
9 1 (0.199%) Hudson
9 1 (0.199%) MSI
9 1 (0.199%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.199%) JUnit
General
1 30 (5.976%) Finance
2 28 (5.578%) Games
3 23 (4.582%) Automotive
3 23 (4.582%) Electronics
4 15 (2.988%) Telecoms
5 13 (2.590%) Music
6 9 (1.793%) Publishing
7 8 (1.594%) Billing
8 6 (1.195%) Retail
9 5 (0.996%) Back Office
10 4 (0.797%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.797%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.598%) Legal
12 2 (0.398%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.398%) Banking
13 1 (0.199%) Advertising
13 1 (0.199%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.199%) Front Office
13 1 (0.199%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 103 (20.52%) Developer
2 93 (18.53%) Administrator
3 66 (13.15%) Software Engineer
4 65 (12.95%) Systems Administrator
5 56 (11.16%) Systems Engineer
6 55 (10.96%) Linux Administrator
7 38 (7.570%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 38 (7.570%) Linux Engineer
8 28 (5.578%) Senior Developer
9 24 (4.781%) Support Engineer
10 22 (4.382%) Analyst
11 21 (4.183%) .NET Developer
11 21 (4.183%) Storage Engineer
12 20 (3.984%) Java Developer
12 20 (3.984%) Architect
13 19 (3.785%) DBA
14 18 (3.586%) Software Developer
14 18 (3.586%) Web Developer
14 18 (3.586%) Server Administrator
15 15 (2.988%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.378%) Computer Science
2 25 (4.980%) Enterprise Storage
2 25 (4.980%) Replication
3 24 (4.781%) Clustering
4 19 (3.785%) Open Source
5 17 (3.386%) Online Games
5 17 (3.386%) MPEG
6 10 (1.992%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (1.793%) Device Driver
7 9 (1.793%) CLARiiON
7 9 (1.793%) Symmetrix
7 9 (1.793%) STB
8 8 (1.594%) Statistics
8 8 (1.594%) Mobile Games
8 8 (1.594%) Data Integration
9 7 (1.394%) Mathematics
9 7 (1.394%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.394%) Firmware
10 6 (1.195%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.996%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 253 (50.40%) Windows
2 117 (23.31%) UNIX
3 33 (6.574%) Solaris
4 22 (4.382%) Ubuntu
4 22 (4.382%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (3.984%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.984%) HPUX
6 16 (3.187%) Embedded Linux
7 14 (2.789%) Debian
7 14 (2.789%) Windows 7
7 14 (2.789%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (2.590%) AIX
9 10 (1.992%) Windows 2000 Server
10 8 (1.594%) CentOS
10 8 (1.594%) Windows XP
11 7 (1.394%) Windows 8
11 7 (1.394%) Mac OS X
12 6 (1.195%) VMS
12 6 (1.195%) Android
13 4 (0.797%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (8.964%) Disaster Recovery
2 41 (8.167%) OO
3 37 (7.371%) CRM
4 35 (6.972%) Agile Software Development
5 32 (6.375%) Configuration Management
6 31 (6.175%) Capacity Planning
7 28 (5.578%) Business Continuity
8 26 (5.179%) UML
9 25 (4.980%) Web Development
10 24 (4.781%) Investment Management
11 23 (4.582%) BCP
12 21 (4.183%) Load Balancing
13 19 (3.785%) Validation
14 17 (3.386%) TDD
15 16 (3.187%) ITIL
15 16 (3.187%) Business Intelligence
16 15 (2.988%) Project Management
16 15 (2.988%) ERP
16 15 (2.988%) Software Engineering
17 14 (2.789%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (19.72%) SQL
2 96 (19.12%) C++
3 93 (18.53%) C
4 81 (16.14%) Python
5 71 (14.14%) JavaScript
6 70 (13.94%) Java
7 64 (12.75%) C#
8 46 (9.163%) PHP
9 44 (8.765%) Ruby
10 32 (6.375%) Perl
11 30 (5.976%) T-SQL
12 18 (3.586%) Bash shell
13 17 (3.386%) Embedded C
14 15 (2.988%) Assembly Language
14 15 (2.988%) PL/SQL
15 11 (2.191%) Shell Script
15 11 (2.191%) Embedded C++
16 4 (0.797%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.398%) AWK
17 2 (0.398%) VB
Qualifications
1 77 (15.34%) Degree
2 25 (4.980%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.586%) CCNA
3 18 (3.586%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (3.386%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.187%) MCSE
6 14 (2.789%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.195%) RHCE
8 4 (0.797%) MCDST
8 4 (0.797%) HNC
8 4 (0.797%) HND
8 4 (0.797%) CISSP
9 3 (0.598%) ISEB
9 3 (0.598%) PhD
9 3 (0.598%) ISEB Practitioner
9 3 (0.598%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.398%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.398%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.398%) SAS Certification
11 1 (0.199%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.781%) QA
2 5 (0.996%) SLA
3 4 (0.797%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (0.797%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (5.378%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (4.781%) NFS
3 13 (2.590%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.390%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (1.394%) Xen
6 6 (1.195%) Samba
7 4 (0.797%) Postfix
8 3 (0.598%) VMware ESX
8 3 (0.598%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.398%) qmail
9 2 (0.398%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.398%) vSphere
10 1 (0.199%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.199%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.199%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 21 (4.183%) Puppet
2 16 (3.187%) Nagios
3 14 (2.789%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 9 (1.793%) NetBackup
5 8 (1.594%) Data Guard
6 5 (0.996%) Tivoli
7 4 (0.797%) HP SiteScope
8 3 (0.598%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 3 (0.598%) Cobbler
9 2 (0.398%) YUM
9 2 (0.398%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.398%) WSUS
9 2 (0.398%) SCCM
9 2 (0.398%) SCOM
10 1 (0.199%) Nessus
10 1 (0.199%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 95 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 62 (12.35%) Oracle
3 48 (9.562%) Cisco
4 43 (8.566%) Red Hat
5 42 (8.367%) VMware
6 22 (4.382%) EMC
7 19 (3.785%) IBM
8 14 (2.789%) Citrix
9 13 (2.590%) Apple
10 12 (2.390%) HP
10 12 (2.390%) Perforce
11 11 (2.191%) Brocade
12 10 (1.992%) JBoss
13 7 (1.394%) Cognos
13 7 (1.394%) Siebel
13 7 (1.394%) PeopleSoft
14 6 (1.195%) Veritas
15 5 (0.996%) Juniper
15 5 (0.996%) BMC
16 3 (0.598%) NetApp
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Salary: From £27,000 to £40,000 per annum Dep on Experience
Posted: 16 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Required skills: Expert familiarity with MySQL and PHP. Backend web development experience. Database design and SQL programming. Desirable Skills: Comfortable with asynchronous network programming, server frameworks, fault tolerance...
Datascope Recruitment
Salary: £40,000 per annum , Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
I am currently recruiting for a Senior System Administrator with expert level knowledge in Linux administration. You will work closely with the Infrastructure, Facilities, and IT Support teams...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 50,000 - 70,000 + excellent benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
This is a role that involves working closely with a team of like-minded engineers, where you'll quickly have the chance to influence how things are done...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 23 April 2013
Oxfordshire
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Big Red Recruitment
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
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CV Screen Ltd
Salary: £0 - 35k per year + On-call Allowance and Pension
Posted: 13 May 2013
Didcot, Oxfordshire
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Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension+ Medical + Life As
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Polar Recruitment
Salary: £32500 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Oxfordshire
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Banbury, Oxfordshire
The Application Support Analyst should be a keen “open source” technologist and should have a good understanding of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, (LAMP)... * Moodle... Skills and Experience:- *...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £24,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Oxfordshire
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SEC Recruitment Limited
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
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Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxfordshire
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JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
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EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 25000 - 35000
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
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EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 18000 - 22000
Posted: 14 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
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EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 40000 - 50000
Posted: 14 May 2013
Oxfordshire
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + + Bonus + Pension + Life
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Oxfordshire
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Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
Key skills include: LINUX Embedded Systems ARM Processors H.264 Video/Audio Compression Image Processing IP Protocols Video Streaming A good academic background is also highly desirable, you...
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Salary: £55000 - £75000 per annum + Benefits
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Oxfordshire, South East
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Salary: £45000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus + Healthcare
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