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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 15 11 5
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 7.407% 4.348% 15.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 20.00% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 3
Average salary £27,127 £22,500 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.56% -23.72%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Plymouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10 5 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 18.52% 21.74% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 5
Average salary £27,127 £34,000 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.21% +54.54%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Devon

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Plymouth 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 Plymouth region.

Plymouth Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 6 (66.67%) Perl
1 6 (66.67%) Apache
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) MS Exchange
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
2 5 (55.56%) VLAN
2 5 (55.56%) CentOS
3 4 (44.44%) NFS
3 4 (44.44%) Mac OS
3 4 (44.44%) Ganglia
3 4 (44.44%) Nagios
3 4 (44.44%) Fedora
3 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
3 4 (44.44%) Fortran
3 4 (44.44%) DHCP
3 4 (44.44%) FTP
3 4 (44.44%) Solaris
3 4 (44.44%) MS Office
3 4 (44.44%) C
4 3 (33.33%) MySQL
4 3 (33.33%) PHP
4 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (22.22%) Web Development
5 2 (22.22%) LAMP
5 2 (22.22%) HTTP
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 2 (22.22%) LAMP
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Apache
2 5 (55.56%) MS Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) VLAN
2 4 (44.44%) DHCP
2 4 (44.44%) FTP
3 2 (22.22%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (22.22%) Riak
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Back Office
1 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Support
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) CentOS
2 4 (44.44%) Mac OS
2 4 (44.44%) Fedora
2 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
2 4 (44.44%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Web Development
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (11.11%) Web Design
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Perl
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Fortran
2 4 (44.44%) C
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VBScript
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Server
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ganglia
1 4 (44.44%) Nagios
2 2 (22.22%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) NetApp
2 1 (11.11%) Sophos
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
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