The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 24 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 200 198 195
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 16 17 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.305% 0.307% 0.348%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.097% 1.186% 1.313%
Number of salaries quoted 16 10 19
Average salary £29,540 £40,250 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.60% +9.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £30,900 £24,950
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £45,000 £42,800
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
All Operating Systems
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1459 1433 1599
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 27.81% 25.89% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1305 1221 1379
Average salary £36,750 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
England

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CentOS across the South West region.

South West CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Bristol -11 6 £35,000 -12.50%
Wiltshire +11 5 £28,080 -25.61%
Devon - 4 £27,127 -
Dorset - 1 £32,500 -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (60.71%) Apache
2 17 (60.71%) Ubuntu
3 13 (46.43%) MySQL
4 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 12 (42.86%) PHP
4 12 (42.86%) Red Hat
5 11 (39.29%) XHTML
5 11 (39.29%) OOP
5 11 (39.29%) Subversion
5 11 (39.29%) Drupal
5 11 (39.29%) jQuery
5 11 (39.29%) HTML5
6 10 (35.71%) Selenium
6 10 (35.71%) Windows
6 10 (35.71%) Cisco
7 9 (32.14%) C
8 8 (28.57%) CSS
8 8 (28.57%) Solaris
8 8 (28.57%) Adobe
8 8 (28.57%) Mobile App
9 7 (25.00%) CSS3
9 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
9 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
9 7 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
9 7 (25.00%) Degree
9 7 (25.00%) PHP4
9 7 (25.00%) Adobe AIR
9 7 (25.00%) ExpressionEngine
9 7 (25.00%) Plesk

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (39.29%) XHTML
1 11 (39.29%) jQuery
1 11 (39.29%) HTML5
2 8 (28.57%) CSS
3 7 (25.00%) CSS3
3 7 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
3 7 (25.00%) Adobe AIR
4 6 (21.43%) HTML
5 1 (3.571%) Middleware
5 1 (3.571%) XML
5 1 (3.571%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 17 (60.71%) Apache
2 11 (39.29%) Drupal
3 7 (25.00%) ExpressionEngine
3 7 (25.00%) WordPress
3 7 (25.00%) Magento
4 5 (17.86%) MS Exchange
5 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.571%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (3.571%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.571%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (21.43%) DNS
3 5 (17.86%) DHCP
3 5 (17.86%) VLAN
4 4 (14.29%) Network Security
4 4 (14.29%) FTP
5 3 (10.71%) Firewall
6 1 (3.571%) SSL
6 1 (3.571%) LDAP
6 1 (3.571%) VPN
6 1 (3.571%) LAN
6 1 (3.571%) WAN
6 1 (3.571%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.571%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) MySQL
2 2 (7.143%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.571%) TOAD
3 1 (3.571%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Subversion
2 10 (35.71%) Selenium
3 1 (3.571%) JIRA
General
1 2 (7.143%) Multimedia
2 1 (3.571%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Advertising
2 1 (3.571%) Publishing
2 1 (3.571%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) PHP Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Drupal Developer
3 6 (21.43%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Linux Support
5 4 (14.29%) UNIX Specialist
5 4 (14.29%) Web Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Database Specialist
7 2 (7.143%) Senior PHP Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (7.143%) Administrator
7 2 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (7.143%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.571%) Junior
8 1 (3.571%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 4 (14.29%) Open Source
3 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.571%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (60.71%) Ubuntu
3 10 (35.71%) Windows
4 8 (28.57%) Solaris
5 5 (17.86%) UNIX
6 4 (14.29%) Mac OS
6 4 (14.29%) Fedora
7 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (3.571%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) OOP
2 4 (14.29%) Project Management
3 3 (10.71%) OO
3 3 (10.71%) MVC
3 3 (10.71%) Data Management
4 1 (3.571%) B2B
4 1 (3.571%) PRINCE
4 1 (3.571%) ITIL
4 1 (3.571%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
4 1 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.571%) Web Development
4 1 (3.571%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 12 (42.86%) PHP
2 9 (32.14%) C
3 7 (25.00%) PHP4
4 6 (21.43%) Perl
5 5 (17.86%) Python
6 4 (14.29%) Fortran
7 2 (7.143%) SQL
8 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.571%) VBScript
8 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) CCNA
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.571%) RHCE
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (21.43%) vSphere
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.86%) NFS
3 1 (3.571%) Postfix
3 1 (3.571%) VMware Server
3 1 (3.571%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Plesk
2 6 (21.43%) WSUS
3 5 (17.86%) Nagios
3 5 (17.86%) SCCM
3 5 (17.86%) McAfee ePO
4 4 (14.29%) Ganglia
5 1 (3.571%) Legato
5 1 (3.571%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 10 (35.71%) Cisco
3 8 (28.57%) Adobe
4 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (21.43%) VMware
5 6 (21.43%) Sophos
6 5 (17.86%) Juniper
6 5 (17.86%) Symantec
6 5 (17.86%) McAfee
7 4 (14.29%) Oracle
7 4 (14.29%) Sun
8 1 (3.571%) NetApp
8 1 (3.571%) Citrix
8 1 (3.571%) Sage
8 1 (3.571%) CheckPoint
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