Staffordshire Linux Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Staffordshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Atherstone Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Brixham Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Ringwood Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Rutland Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Shaftesbury Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thornton Heath Tonbridge Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walton-on-Thames Wareham Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	42
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	18	19
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	20.69 %	16.81 %
Salaries quoted	18	15
Average minimum salary	£24,222	£26,667
Average salary	£29,583	£28,400
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum salary	£34,944	£30,133
UK excluding London average salary	£36,466	£35,677
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Operating Systems Staffordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	87	113
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.050 %
Salaries quoted	85	104
Average minimum salary	£26,243	£28,192
Average salary	£29,088	£29,892
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Average maximum salary	£31,934	£31,593
UK excluding London average salary	£34,390	£34,262
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Linux West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Staffordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tamworth	+12	7	£31,786	+13.52 %
Stafford	-	3	£25,000	-
Burton-upon-Trent	-	1	£33,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 22 (68.75 %) MySQL 2 20 (62.50 %) PHP 3 13 (40.63 %) UNIX 4 11 (34.38 %) Perl 5 10 (31.25 %) Oracle 6 9 (28.13 %) C 7 8 (25.00 %) Windows 7 8 (25.00 %) FreeBSD 8 7 (21.88 %) XML 8 7 (21.88 %) Pensions 8 7 (21.88 %) Red Hat Linux 8 7 (21.88 %) Red Hat 9 6 (18.75 %) Health 9 6 (18.75 %) Solaris 10 5 (15.63 %) Apache

10 5 (15.63 %) SQL 10 5 (15.63 %) Shell Script 11 4 (12.50 %) Middleware 11 4 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS 11 4 (12.50 %) Hyperion 11 4 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS R12 11 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 10gAS 11 4 (12.50 %) Java 11 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 11 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 11 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 11i 11 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 11 4 (12.50 %) SMTP 12 3 (9.375 %) TCP/IP 12 3 (9.375 %) LAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (21.88 %) XML 2 4 (12.50 %) Middleware 3 3 (9.375 %) XHTML 3 3 (9.375 %) .NET 3 3 (9.375 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 5 (15.63 %) Apache 2 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 4 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS 1 4 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS R12 1 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.50 %) SMTP 2 3 (9.375 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (9.375 %) LAN 2 3 (9.375 %) WAN 3 1 (3.125 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (68.75 %) MySQL 2 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 2 4 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (3.125 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 7 (21.88 %) Pensions 2 6 (18.75 %) Health 3 1 (3.125 %) Education
Job Titles 1 19 (59.38 %) Developer 2 12 (37.50 %) PHP Developer 3 6 (18.75 %) Perl Developer 4 5 (15.63 %) Web Developer 5 4 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (12.50 %) Administrator 5 4 (12.50 %) IT Support Engineer 5 4 (12.50 %) Linux Administrator 6 3 (9.375 %) PHP Web Developer 6 3 (9.375 %) Field Engineer 6 3 (9.375 %) Project Manager 7 1 (3.125 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Programmer 7 1 (3.125 %) Technical Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) Senior Perl Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Perl Web Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) PHP Programmer 7 1 (3.125 %) C Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Senior C Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.125 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 13 (40.63 %) UNIX 2 8 (25.00 %) Windows 2 8 (25.00 %) FreeBSD 3 7 (21.88 %) Red Hat Linux 4 6 (18.75 %) Solaris 5 3 (9.375 %) Debian 6 2 (6.250 %) AIX 7 1 (3.125 %) HPUX 7 1 (3.125 %) Fedora	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.375 %) Project Management 2 1 (3.125 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (3.125 %) OO 2 1 (3.125 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (62.50 %) PHP 2 11 (34.38 %) Perl 3 9 (28.13 %) C 4 5 (15.63 %) SQL 4 5 (15.63 %) Shell Script 5 4 (12.50 %) Java 6 1 (3.125 %) C++	System Software 1 3 (9.375 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 10 (31.25 %) Oracle 2 7 (21.88 %) Red Hat 3 4 (12.50 %) Hyperion 4 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft 5 1 (3.125 %) HP