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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 7 3 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Royston 5.000% 23.53% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 50.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
Average salary £50,000 £33,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.51% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Royston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Royston 25.00% 47.06% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 2
Average salary £25,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.24% +1.53%
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 Royston region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Royston 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 Royston region.

Royston Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Royston 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 (92.31%) UNIX
2 7 (53.85%) C++
2 7 (53.85%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) Ant
2 7 (53.85%) XML
2 7 (53.85%) Shell Script
2 7 (53.85%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (53.85%) JMeter
2 7 (53.85%) Scrum
2 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (53.85%) Automated Testing
2 7 (53.85%) Ruby
2 7 (53.85%) QA
2 7 (53.85%) V-Model
2 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Waterfall
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco
3 6 (46.15%) Solaris
4 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
4 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.692%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (7.692%) Release Management
5 1 (7.692%) Sun
5 1 (7.692%) Juniper
5 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.692%) Apache
5 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Royston 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 7 (53.85%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Apache
1 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Ant
1 7 (53.85%) JMeter
General
1 7 (53.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Test Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Senior Test Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Service Manager
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) UNIX
2 6 (46.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Scrum
1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (53.85%) Automated Testing
1 7 (53.85%) V-Model
1 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
1 7 (53.85%) Waterfall
2 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (7.692%) Release Management
3 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C++
1 7 (53.85%) Java
1 7 (53.85%) Shell Script
1 7 (53.85%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 1 (7.692%) Sun
2 1 (7.692%) Juniper
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
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