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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 23.53% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £30,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Sevenoaks
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 23.53% 25.00% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 2
Average salary £30,000 £18,250 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+64.38% -37.06%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Kent

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks region.

Sevenoaks Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Sevenoaks Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks 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 13 (86.67%) Information Security
2 12 (80.00%) MySQL
3 9 (60.00%) Degree
3 9 (60.00%) QA
4 7 (46.67%) Software Testing
4 7 (46.67%) Test Scripting
4 7 (46.67%) CentOS
4 7 (46.67%) PHP
4 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 7 (46.67%) Scrum
4 7 (46.67%) Extreme Programming
5 6 (40.00%) ISEB
5 6 (40.00%) UNIX
5 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (40.00%) Perl
6 5 (33.33%) VoIP
7 4 (26.67%) WAN
7 4 (26.67%) DNS
8 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X Server
8 2 (13.33%) Google
8 2 (13.33%) ProCurve
8 2 (13.33%) Kerio
8 2 (13.33%) vSphere
8 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (13.33%) NAS
8 2 (13.33%) MobileIron
8 2 (13.33%) VMware
8 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
8 2 (13.33%) HP
8 2 (13.33%) SAN

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks 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 1 (6.667%) XML
1 1 (6.667%) DOM
1 1 (6.667%) LAMP
1 1 (6.667%) RESTful
1 1 (6.667%) Kohana
1 1 (6.667%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (33.33%) VoIP
3 4 (26.67%) WAN
3 4 (26.67%) DNS
4 2 (13.33%) NAS
4 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 1 (6.667%) VPN
5 1 (6.667%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) QA Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Network Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) QA Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) CentOS
2 6 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X Server
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Information Security
2 7 (46.67%) Software Testing
2 7 (46.67%) Test Scripting
2 7 (46.67%) Scrum
2 7 (46.67%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) MVC
3 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PHP
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) VB
4 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
4 1 (6.667%) XPath
4 1 (6.667%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) ISEB
3 1 (6.667%) CCNP
3 1 (6.667%) CCNA
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) ProCurve
1 2 (13.33%) Kerio
1 2 (13.33%) MobileIron
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
1 2 (13.33%) HP
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (13.33%) Apple
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco