The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Rickmansworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Rickmansworth region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 8 12 6
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 18 12 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 15.93% 15.00% 17.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.73% 44.44% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 5
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £37,500 £29,100
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £71,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
All Operating Systems
Rickmansworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
55 27 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 48.67% 33.75% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 45 16 5
Average salary £37,500 £47,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +13.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £37,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,700 £72,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Hertfordshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Rickmansworth region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Rickmansworth Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 14 (51.85%) .NET
2 14 (51.85%) Windows
3 13 (48.15%) UNIX
3 13 (48.15%) TCP/IP
3 13 (48.15%) Oracle
4 12 (44.44%) Asset Management
5 11 (40.74%) ITIL
5 11 (40.74%) Solaris
5 11 (40.74%) Cisco
6 9 (33.33%) Finance
7 7 (25.93%) HP
7 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
8 6 (22.22%) LDAP
8 6 (22.22%) DNS
8 6 (22.22%) EMC
8 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 6 (22.22%) Sun
8 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
8 6 (22.22%) Sage
8 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (22.22%) Service Delivery
8 6 (22.22%) Project Management
8 6 (22.22%) Document Management
8 6 (22.22%) SSH
8 6 (22.22%) Taleo
9 5 (18.52%) Firewall
9 5 (18.52%) F5
9 5 (18.52%) Change Control
9 5 (18.52%) Cisco Nexus

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 14 (51.85%) .NET
2 2 (7.407%) CSS
2 2 (7.407%) HTML
2 2 (7.407%) HTML5
3 1 (3.704%) Web Services
3 1 (3.704%) XML
3 1 (3.704%) ASP
3 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) TCP/IP
2 6 (22.22%) DNS
2 6 (22.22%) LDAP
2 6 (22.22%) SSH
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (18.52%) SSL
3 5 (18.52%) Firewall
4 2 (7.407%) HTTP
5 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) OLAP
2 1 (3.704%) OLTP
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) UNIX Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Network Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Applications Support
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Applications Specialist
4 3 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Support Specialist
4 3 (11.11%) Applications Support Specialist
4 3 (11.11%) UNIX Support
4 3 (11.11%) Build Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Senior UNIX Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Testing Manager
5 2 (7.407%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) QA Manager
5 2 (7.407%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.704%) Tester
6 1 (3.704%) DBA
6 1 (3.704%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) Client/Server
1 2 (7.407%) Handset
1 2 (7.407%) Kindle
2 1 (3.704%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.704%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) UNIX
3 11 (40.74%) Solaris
4 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (14.81%) Windows 8
6 1 (3.704%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Asset Management
2 11 (40.74%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Project Management
3 6 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 6 (22.22%) Document Management
4 5 (18.52%) Change Control
4 5 (18.52%) PRINCE2
5 3 (11.11%) Validation
6 2 (7.407%) Performance Testing
6 2 (7.407%) Test Scripting
6 2 (7.407%) Regression Testing
6 2 (7.407%) MVC
7 1 (3.704%) Quality Management
7 1 (3.704%) OOP
7 1 (3.704%) OO
7 1 (3.704%) OOD
7 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.704%) Network Architecture
7 1 (3.704%) BDD
7 1 (3.704%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) Java
3 2 (7.407%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.407%) Perl
3 2 (7.407%) Python
3 2 (7.407%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.407%) Bourne shell
3 2 (7.407%) C-shell
4 1 (3.704%) VB6
4 1 (3.704%) VB
4 1 (3.704%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.704%) C
4 1 (3.704%) C#
4 1 (3.704%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) CCNP
1 5 (18.52%) CCNA
1 5 (18.52%) CCDA
1 5 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.407%) Degree
3 1 (3.704%) HND
3 1 (3.704%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.407%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (7.407%) VMware ESX
1 2 (7.407%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.407%) vSphere
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Oracle
2 11 (40.74%) Cisco
3 7 (25.93%) HP
4 6 (22.22%) EMC
4 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 6 (22.22%) Sun
4 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 6 (22.22%) Sage
5 5 (18.52%) Juniper
5 5 (18.52%) F5
6 2 (7.407%) VMware
7 1 (3.704%) VocaLink