The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 26 40 39
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 23 5 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 6.443% 1.613% 4.153%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.17% 8.475% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 20 4 7
Average salary £37,500 £20,250 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+85.18% -52.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £18,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £25,850 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
120 59 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 33.61% 19.03% 20.77%
Number of salaries quoted 112 57 43
Average salary £33,000 £24,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% -36.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £19,300 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,500 £42,300
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Cambridgeshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Peterborough region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Peterborough Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 12 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 12 (33.33%) MySQL
1 12 (33.33%) Windows
2 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Citrix
2 10 (27.78%) VMware
3 9 (25.00%) Apache
3 9 (25.00%) SQL
4 8 (22.22%) UNIX
4 8 (22.22%) IBM
4 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 8 (22.22%) HP
5 7 (19.44%) MS Excel
5 7 (19.44%) PHP
5 7 (19.44%) Degree
6 6 (16.67%) COM
7 5 (13.89%) DNS
7 5 (13.89%) Application Packaging
7 5 (13.89%) Subversion
7 5 (13.89%) Firewall
7 5 (13.89%) Web Development
8 4 (11.11%) Drupal
8 4 (11.11%) Wireless
8 4 (11.11%) LAMP
8 4 (11.11%) Internet
8 4 (11.11%) Python
8 4 (11.11%) C++
8 4 (11.11%) HTML
9 3 (8.333%) C
9 3 (8.333%) Perl

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 (16.67%) COM
2 5 (13.89%) Application Packaging
3 4 (11.11%) LAMP
3 4 (11.11%) HTML
4 3 (8.333%) CSS
5 2 (5.556%) .NET
6 1 (2.778%) MFC
6 1 (2.778%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.00%) Apache
2 4 (11.11%) Drupal
3 3 (8.333%) Tomcat
3 3 (8.333%) nginx
4 1 (2.778%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) DNS
1 5 (13.89%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) Wireless
2 4 (11.11%) Internet
3 3 (8.333%) VoIP
3 3 (8.333%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.333%) SAN
3 3 (8.333%) IP Telephony
3 3 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (5.556%) Network Security
4 2 (5.556%) SMTP
4 2 (5.556%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 12 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (8.333%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.333%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.333%) Redis
3 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (5.556%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.778%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Subversion
2 3 (8.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (8.333%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.556%) CruiseControl
3 2 (5.556%) Xcode
3 2 (5.556%) Eclipse
3 2 (5.556%) Ant
3 2 (5.556%) JUnit
3 2 (5.556%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.778%) Maven
4 1 (2.778%) GitHub
General
1 1 (2.778%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Analyst
2 10 (27.78%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (25.00%) Support Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Wintel Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Administrator
6 4 (11.11%) PHP Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (11.11%) Developer
7 3 (8.333%) Network Engineer
7 3 (8.333%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (8.333%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (8.333%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (8.333%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (8.333%) Drupal Developer
7 3 (8.333%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 3 (8.333%) IT Support
7 3 (8.333%) Senior IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.333%) Open Source
2 2 (5.556%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.556%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.778%) EPoS
3 1 (2.778%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) UNIX
3 3 (8.333%) Solaris
3 3 (8.333%) Tru64
3 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (8.333%) CentOS
4 2 (5.556%) SUSE
4 2 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.778%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.778%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.778%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.778%) Mac OS X Server
5 1 (2.778%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.89%) Web Development
2 3 (8.333%) E-Commerce
2 3 (8.333%) Configuration Management
3 2 (5.556%) Waterfall
4 1 (2.778%) OO
4 1 (2.778%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.778%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.778%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (2.778%) Software Engineering
4 1 (2.778%) Multithreading
4 1 (2.778%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (19.44%) PHP
3 4 (11.11%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) C++
4 3 (8.333%) C
4 3 (8.333%) Perl
4 3 (8.333%) Ruby
4 3 (8.333%) Bash shell
5 1 (2.778%) C#
5 1 (2.778%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 3 (8.333%) Postgraduate
2 3 (8.333%) MCSE
2 3 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.556%) MCSA
4 1 (2.778%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.778%) MCITP
4 1 (2.778%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.556%) XenApp
3 1 (2.778%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (8.333%) ZABBIX
1 3 (8.333%) Puppet
1 3 (8.333%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
1 10 (27.78%) Citrix
1 10 (27.78%) VMware
2 8 (22.22%) IBM
2 8 (22.22%) HP
3 3 (8.333%) JBoss
3 3 (8.333%) Cisco
3 3 (8.333%) Avaya
3 3 (8.333%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.333%) Barracuda Networks
3 3 (8.333%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.556%) Oracle
5 1 (2.778%) Apple
5 1 (2.778%) SonicWALL
5 1 (2.778%) Draytek
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
RDBMS: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Postgress - any of these... Infrastructure Engineer Linux, CentOS, Redhat, WIN, Cloud, Virtual, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, Ruby, Python, Perl, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, SQL, NoSQL,...
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Senior Support Analyst who has handson experience of windows and linux based production and development systems is required to join a leading support team based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
OSM Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + company benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
This is a varied and demanding role where your experience and technical skills will mean you are involved in: Supporting our infrastructure estate, which consists of Microsoft and...
BGL Group
Salary: £35k - £40k with discretionary company bonus scheme
Posted: 7 May 2013