The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 31 35 34
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 35 24 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 5.538% 4.979% 5.243%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.14% 26.37% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 32 20 27
Average salary £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.70% +30.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,550 £24,750 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Operating Systems
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
145 91 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 22.94% 18.88% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 137 84 119
Average salary £30,750 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £24,200 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
South West

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Somerset Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bath +7 16 £29,250 -26.87% 15
Bridgwater - 9 £50,000 - 7
Yeovil +1 3 £48,500 -3.00%
Taunton - 2 £27,000 - 1
Linux
South West

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 37 (44.05%) Windows
2 32 (38.10%) C
3 31 (36.90%) MySQL
4 29 (34.52%) Java
5 25 (29.76%) JavaScript
5 25 (29.76%) SQL
5 25 (29.76%) Python
5 25 (29.76%) TCP/IP
6 24 (28.57%) XML
7 21 (25.00%) HTML
7 21 (25.00%) VMware
8 20 (23.81%) PHP
8 20 (23.81%) OO
9 19 (22.62%) C++
9 19 (22.62%) CSS
9 19 (22.62%) jQuery
10 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
11 17 (20.24%) SOAP
11 17 (20.24%) Firewall
12 16 (19.05%) Cisco
12 16 (19.05%) Oracle
12 16 (19.05%) Ruby
13 15 (17.86%) UNIX
14 14 (16.67%) RDBMS
14 14 (16.67%) Web Development
15 13 (15.48%) Degree
15 13 (15.48%) Zend
15 13 (15.48%) Open Source
15 13 (15.48%) Internet
16 12 (14.29%) MVC

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 24 (28.57%) XML
2 21 (25.00%) HTML
3 19 (22.62%) CSS
3 19 (22.62%) jQuery
4 17 (20.24%) SOAP
5 12 (14.29%) CakePHP
6 11 (13.10%) XML-RPC
6 11 (13.10%) JSON
6 11 (13.10%) Symfony
6 11 (13.10%) XHTML
7 7 (8.333%) Ajax
7 7 (8.333%) Zend Framework
7 7 (8.333%) Google Maps API
7 7 (8.333%) Web Services
8 6 (7.143%) Middleware
8 6 (7.143%) XML Schema
8 6 (7.143%) JSP
8 6 (7.143%) Ext JS
8 6 (7.143%) JSTL
8 6 (7.143%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (10.71%) MS Exchange
2 8 (9.524%) Apache
3 4 (4.762%) nginx
4 3 (3.571%) Gunicorn
5 2 (2.381%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (2.381%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.381%) WordPress
5 2 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.190%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.190%) Magento
6 1 (1.190%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.190%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.190%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (1.190%) Drupal
6 1 (1.190%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.190%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (10.71%) SAP LE
2 1 (1.190%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (29.76%) TCP/IP
2 17 (20.24%) Firewall
3 13 (15.48%) Internet
4 12 (14.29%) VPN
5 11 (13.10%) SAN
6 8 (9.524%) Network Security
6 8 (9.524%) IGMP
7 7 (8.333%) VoIP
8 6 (7.143%) DNS
8 6 (7.143%) LAN
8 6 (7.143%) WAN
9 5 (5.952%) DHCP
10 3 (3.571%) VLAN
10 3 (3.571%) Wireless
11 2 (2.381%) BGP
11 2 (2.381%) MPLS
11 2 (2.381%) OSPF
11 2 (2.381%) Ethernet
11 2 (2.381%) SNMP
11 2 (2.381%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.90%) MySQL
2 14 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 6 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.571%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.571%) GIS
5 1 (1.190%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.190%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.190%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.190%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Subversion
2 11 (13.10%) Git (software)
3 6 (7.143%) Ant
3 6 (7.143%) JUnit
3 6 (7.143%) jMock
3 6 (7.143%) Hudson
4 2 (2.381%) Talend Open Studio
4 2 (2.381%) JIRA
General
1 7 (8.333%) Finance
2 6 (7.143%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.952%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.762%) Back Office
5 3 (3.571%) Retail
6 2 (2.381%) Marketing
7 1 (1.190%) Electronics
7 1 (1.190%) Law
7 1 (1.190%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (32.14%) Developer
2 21 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) PHP Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Administrator
4 11 (13.10%) Web Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Systems Administrator
5 10 (11.90%) PHP Web Developer
6 8 (9.524%) Software Developer
6 8 (9.524%) Tester
6 8 (9.524%) Junior
6 8 (9.524%) Software Tester
6 8 (9.524%) Test Engineer
6 8 (9.524%) Software Test Engineer
7 7 (8.333%) Web Applications Developer
7 7 (8.333%) Junior Developer
7 7 (8.333%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (8.333%) Applications Developer
7 7 (8.333%) Support Engineer
8 6 (7.143%) Analyst
8 6 (7.143%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Open Source
2 10 (11.90%) Computer Science
3 6 (7.143%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.762%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.762%) Clustering
5 3 (3.571%) SaaS
6 2 (2.381%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.381%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.190%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.190%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.190%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.190%) Replication
7 1 (1.190%) STB
7 1 (1.190%) IPTV
7 1 (1.190%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 37 (44.05%) Windows
2 15 (17.86%) UNIX
3 11 (13.10%) Ubuntu
4 10 (11.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (5.952%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.952%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (4.762%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.571%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.571%) AIX
8 1 (1.190%) Windows XP
8 1 (1.190%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.81%) OO
2 14 (16.67%) Web Development
3 12 (14.29%) MVC
3 12 (14.29%) ITIL
4 9 (10.71%) Automated Testing
5 8 (9.524%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (9.524%) Test Automation
5 8 (9.524%) Waterfall
6 7 (8.333%) UML
6 7 (8.333%) Data Modelling
6 7 (8.333%) Risk Management
7 6 (7.143%) Unit Testing
7 6 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (7.143%) TDD
8 5 (5.952%) Systems Analysis
8 5 (5.952%) SysML
8 5 (5.952%) Signal Processing
9 4 (4.762%) Project Management
10 3 (3.571%) Analytics
10 3 (3.571%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) C
2 29 (34.52%) Java
3 25 (29.76%) JavaScript
3 25 (29.76%) SQL
3 25 (29.76%) Python
4 20 (23.81%) PHP
5 19 (22.62%) C++
6 16 (19.05%) Ruby
7 12 (14.29%) Bash shell
8 11 (13.10%) Perl
9 10 (11.90%) ECMAScript
10 8 (9.524%) Tcl
11 7 (8.333%) Embedded C
12 5 (5.952%) PowerShell
12 5 (5.952%) VBScript
12 5 (5.952%) C#
12 5 (5.952%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.190%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Degree
2 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (11.90%) MCSE
4 9 (10.71%) CNA
4 9 (10.71%) Novell Certification
5 6 (7.143%) HND
5 6 (7.143%) MCITP
6 5 (5.952%) MCSA
7 4 (4.762%) HNC
7 4 (4.762%) MCDST
8 3 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (2.381%) RHCE
9 2 (2.381%) CCNP
9 2 (2.381%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.381%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (1.190%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.190%) MCTS
10 1 (1.190%) Security Cleared
10 1 (1.190%) CCNA
10 1 (1.190%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.524%) QA
2 2 (2.381%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.952%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.952%) vSphere
4 2 (2.381%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (2.381%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 7 (8.333%) Backup Exec
2 6 (7.143%) WSUS
3 5 (5.952%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (2.381%) Puppet
5 1 (1.190%) Munin
5 1 (1.190%) SCCM
5 1 (1.190%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) VMware
2 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 16 (19.05%) Cisco
3 16 (19.05%) Oracle
4 13 (15.48%) Zend
5 12 (14.29%) Citrix
6 8 (9.524%) JBoss
7 7 (8.333%) Google
7 7 (8.333%) Symantec
8 6 (7.143%) Trapeze
9 5 (5.952%) Veeam
9 5 (5.952%) Atmel
9 5 (5.952%) WatchGuard
9 5 (5.952%) Red Hat
10 4 (4.762%) CheckPoint
10 4 (4.762%) Riverbed
11 3 (3.571%) Veritas
12 2 (2.381%) CA
12 2 (2.381%) NetApp
12 2 (2.381%) Novell
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